AOTEAROA / WHO PUTS IT ON
The crews, festivals and labels of Aotearoa.
Fourteen crews and festivals with a dated listing in 2025 or 2026, five record labels, and the people who stopped. Every entry links straight out to whoever runs it — we sell no tickets, take no commission and put on no parties of our own.
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01
Festival and club series
AUM
South Head · Auckland
A three-day New Year festival at Leightons Farm, South Head, north of Auckland, across four stages. Its psytrance stage, The Hill, is curated by Science of Sound. AUM also runs a winter series of one-night psytrance shows in Auckland warehouses.
NEXT AUM Winter Series 2026 — 25 September 2026, Auckland — address released the night before
Sources give the end date of the 2026 New Year edition differently — one lists only the 30 December start, two others run it to 2 January 2027. We publish the start date, which they agree on. Resident Advisor records the promoter as Aum Productions Ltd.
02
Five-day festival
Twisted Frequency
Tākaka · Golden Bay
Five days in the Cobb Valley on the edge of Kahurangi National Park, spanning psychedelic trance, dubstep, folk, metal and techno alongside visual art, circus and workshops. Its own site says the festival may be opening its gates for the last time.
NEXT Twisted Frequency 2027 — 30 December 2026 – 3 January 2027, Cobb Valley, Tākaka
The site describes the festival as both “a decade of underground culture” and eleven years old on different pages, and states it is facing financial difficulty. RNZ reported it in 2019 as a Nelson festival of 1,500 to 2,000 people.
03
Festival
Dimension Festival
Waimatenui · Northland
A festival in a remote valley beside the Mangakahia river in Northland, with more than 140 electronic artists across four stages covering psytrance, progressive, drum and bass, house, techno and ambient.
NEXT Dimension Festival 2027 — Origins — 5–9 February 2027, Waimatenui East Road, Northland
Three sources give the site address three different ways. We use the wording on the festival's own ticket page.
04
Festival
Yatra Festival
Tākaka · Golden Bay
A gathering in the Cobb Valley, Golden Bay, describing itself as a community-driven artistic revolution built around electronic music and art. The 2026 edition was held in collaboration with Mo:Dem Festival of Croatia.
NEXT Yatra Festival '26 in ritual with MO:DEM — 27 February – 2 March 2026, Cobb Valley Road, Tākaka
We found no 2027 edition announced on any page we could load.
05
Collective and sound system
Audio Art
Te Arai · Auckland / Northland
The collective behind Mystic Realms and Octoblast at Te Arai, north of Auckland. Their events run three stages — techno, psytrance and bass — on the Opus sound system, with a UV dance floor, workshops, markets and a zero-waste policy.
NEXT Octoblast — 23–25 October 2026, 186 Atkins Road, Te Arai / Mangawhai
One aggregator gives the Octoblast dates as 22–25 October; the organiser's own listing says 23–25 and that is what we publish. We could not confirm a website or social channel of their own beyond the ticket platform.
06
Club nights and open airs
Team Moksha
Wellington
A Wellington crew running the Moksha and Orgánica nights at Valhalla and Bliss Bar, plus open-air events, across psytech, forest, prog and dark prog. They marked five years in August 2026.
NEXT Moksha — 5 Year Anniversary Gathering — 8 August 2026, Valhalla, 154 Vivian Street, Wellington
07
Club nights
Inpsyde Out Productions
Wellington
The crew behind the Gumboot Gamut psytrance nights in Wellington, run with Galactic Frequencies Collective and presented by Ristafunk of Trancebum Productions. Their December 2025 night was billed as the freshest psychedelic trance in a full UV environment on a Void Acoustics rig.
NEXT Gumboot Gamut — 4 July 2026, Otto Champagneria, 125 Featherston Street, Wellington
We could not find a website or social channel of their own that we can link with confidence. If you are part of the crew, send us the link and it goes here.
08
Forest festival
NZ Psytribe
Northland · Northland / Auckland
The crew behind Lost in Paradise, a three-day forest festival with psytrance and techno on an Opus sound system, free camping, artwork and stage visuals.
NEXT Lost in Paradise — 2–5 January 2026, Auckland region
The website listed for them elsewhere, nzpsytribe.co.nz, returns a 404 — we do not link it. One aggregator gives the 2026 dates as 2–6 January against the listing's 2–5; we publish the listing's.
09
Sound system and free-party culture
Voodoo People Sound System
Raglan · Waikato
The sound system behind Circutopia at Raglan, run with crews from the South Island, Wellington, Northland and Raglan. The ticket page states the event is not run for profit and describes underground tekno and psytrance across three days of stage design and projection mapping.
NEXT Circutopia 2026 — 4–6 December 2026, Raglan
We found no website or social channel for the sound system itself — only the ticket page. If you run it, send us the link.
10
Club nights
Sharkra
Queenstown · Otago
The name behind the Mycelia and State of Euphoria nights at Bungalow in Queenstown, across psytrance, forest and bass. Sharkra also appears on AUM line-ups as an artist.
NEXT Mycelia — 4 October 2025, Bungalow, 26 Camp Street, Queenstown
Sharkra is the name recorded in the listing's organiser field, which on this database is often a personal handle rather than a crew name. We found no 2026 event and no channel of their own.
11
Club nights and boat parties
Trancevaders
Auckland
An Auckland crew running psytrance and psy-tech nights, including at Double Whammy in St Kevin's Arcade on Karangahape Road, and Halloween boat parties on the harbour.
NEXT Trancevaders — Double Whammy Edition — 14 August 2025, St Kevin's Arcade, Karangahape Road, Auckland
We found no event announced after August 2025. Their Eventbrite page loads but lists nothing.
12
Club nights
Agape_Nation
Auckland
The name recorded against Happiness Projekt at Cassette Nine in Auckland, an immersive electronic night listed in the psytrance party database.
NEXT Happiness Projekt — 21 February 2026, Cassette Nine, Auckland
The genre is asserted by the party database's categorisation. The ticket page itself does not say psytrance, and we are not going to claim it does.
13
Gathering
Luminate Festival
Canaan Downs · Golden Bay
A gathering at Canaan Downs, Pikikirunga, on the land where The Gathering was held — music, arts and ecology, alcohol-free and family-friendly, run by a charitable trust. Its artist pages carry psychedelic-trance acts including Maia, OOOD and Neurorythmic.
NEXT Freedom to Flourish — January 2026, Canaan Downs, Golden Bay
Luminate is not a psytrance festival and does not describe itself as one. It is here because it runs on the Canaan Downs land and books psytrance artists.
14
Participatory event
Kiwiburn
Hunterville · Rangitīkei
New Zealand's regional Burning Man event, at a site called The Paddock near Hunterville: no headline acts, a gift economy, no cash transactions, and sound camps built by participants.
NEXT Kiwiburn 2027 — Moss & Microchips — 27 January – 1 February 2027, The Paddock, Hunterville
Kiwiburn does not describe itself as a psytrance event and we are not calling it one. It is listed because its sound camps are part of the same outdoor-party culture.