I‘m going to throw Nibirii into the mix. Great location and the Unreal stage set up was just something else this year.

Boomtown

Hard Rave? Surely Defqon.1 Festival.

Boom ZNA Modem

Boomtown 💃

Are you going to a commercial "rave", a club night, a small underground event, or a multi-day free party? These are all very different things.

If you are a US raver, don’t go expecting the American scene as far as outfits and such. With my experiences I felt that aspect was much more subdued.

Legal night or actual rave?

Quite different beasts in the UK. 

The prime time is 1am-4am. Everything earlier sucks, everything after is fading. Try to adjust your energy and drugs peak to the prime time and it will be amazing

A lot of American rave culture is heavily laden with Parmesan

Where are you from? It largely depends on the city. Regardless, I don’t think the bigger the share of locals the better. Locals tend to overvalue themselves. There is a healthy amount of non-regulars and foreigners that bring some fresh air to the gig. Not too many, but definitely not zero.

Don’t use daft acronyms like plur & edm cus people won’t know what you’re on about

Berlin

Not exhaustive, though fairly complete for the Netherlands. But Partyflock is the central hub for hardcore events online. Just check by genre and see what's out there.

If you want recommendations for U.K, core wars (Liverpool), ditchsplitter (leeds), corefusion (London), varispeed (Bristol)

Portland representing 🤘

I experienced Let it roll in 4 different places and I loved this last one the most. The view of the lake, hills, and castle was beautiful and with the sunset was unforgettable. People don't like changes, and this place was challenging because it wasn't used as a festival place before. There were complaints about the size of the festival compared to the airport but personally, I don't mind. I didn't even have time to go through it all. And I didn't like the half-hour walk from the camp to the festival area in the airport. Here was everything closer. If we have nice weather next year, it will be amazing and I can’t wait for the swimming and parties at the lake. So I recommend Let it roll for 100% ❤️

Liquicity is probably the nicest experience, it is very well run. But depends what sort of dnb you like,it is mostly liquid/rollers with a lot of big dancefloor names.

I went this year and it was incredible!

My sister was there and she said the same😅 she’s been to rampage 3 times and this was her first let it roll.

• LIR didn’t have very good guide signs where was everything and it was hard to navigate at the festival/camping area when she first got there • NOWHERE had it said that you had to go activate/personalize/get your festival bracelet before going through security. She got that info on some whatsapp group (could be an error on her end tho🤣) • In the tent there was the THINNEST sleeping mat you could ever imagine. I saw a video of it and it was pathetic. Rampage has proper air mattresses. (Both pre-setup tents i’m talking about) • Rampage has wooden floors on the stages and LIR did have not. When it rained at LIR, the ground turned muddy af. It was really slippery and made it harder to dance. • There wasn’t really lights at the festival area so when it got dark, it was really hard to see the mud ponds and where you were stepping. Rampage doesn’t have this issue. • She thought that ppl vibed and were more ”hyped” at Rampage. She found it a little harder to find new nice rave buddies at LIR. That’s all the complaints I heard about😂😅 I’m glad she went to test that festival so i don’t ever need to. I’m sticking with Rampage🐲 (i think liquicity would be nice to experience)

Depending on whether you prefer Neuro or Liquid - Let it Roll or Sun and Bass

Let It Roll, Rampage/ Open Air, Liquicity or Darkshire

Nope. Absolutely definitely nothing like this in Dubrovnik. There is one night club that is open on a Friday and Saturday that has big name commercial house and sometimes business techno DJ's playing. Everywhere else closes at 01.00am, and I mean everywhere.

There may be a Hard Style / Raw Style night on in Zagreb like once a year or something, but you are in completely the wrong place for anything like this. You will see this as soon as you get there.

You could take look at this Party for next year

Its two stages in one hall, seperated by big stage curtains. (and a third in a sideroom, unsure if that one still exists) 

The hardstyle stage experiences a bunch of soundbleed from the hardcore stage, while the hardcore stage was always uncomfortably full. The curtains mainly block the airflow in the venue, making it very uncomfortable compared to the other hard dance event held there (Apex, usually in february).  Smoking wasn't discouraged inside either, turns me the fuck off. 

Granted, ive not been since the last edition before corona, but for a few years previously nothing fucking changed so. 

If you are anyways between Faceless and REBELLiON in that area, I would add D-Block & S-te-Fan 20 years. It's at the same tent location as REBELLiON.

Maybe you could go for Halloween to Sub Zero Project, that's in Antwerp.

Hardstyle DNA Indoor on November 8th in Norway if you wanna visit another country! Radical Redemption, Dimitri K and Noisecontrollers have been announced so far

MOH Switzerland has monstrous line-up but you'd have to come a month early, on the 27th of September

Can't say i can recommend toxicator honestly. Live kinda close by so Ive been a few times, but Ive never actually had a good time lmao

Sana Duri in Sweden 25th October

Catch a Rupture event if you can. Premium top shelf dnb night. Doesn’t get better.

Do you mean an actual rave or a club event? 

Either way, Bristol.

Go to bristol (lakota? Motion?) or maybe brighton (volks) and go to a reasonably big name or an artist who plays the genre of dnb that resonates with you. Immerse yourself, make friends, pull big frowny faces to the person nect to you, option to scream when you like what the dj is doing. Go for the music. 

There's always enough good stuff to pick in LDN on the dates you're in, just check Resident Advisor for listings of the sound you're after..

..my only suggestion for an authentic UK experience is to have a drink at 'spoons before you go in

Sun and bass but it’s in Sardinia

Det finns. Det är en nästa helg ute i skogen, men den är privat anordnad så behöver bli inbjuden.

Annars så anordnas det ibland techno fester på Kappa Bars undervåning. Där hänger det folk som brukar hålla i fester runtom i staden, så det kan vara ett bra ställe att hålla öga på och knyta kontakter.

Vi hade en del bra, men polisen sa rave=knark och det blev mer eller mindre utrotat. :(

Electric forest for the most PLUR vibes, Lost Lands for the Heaviest music, maybe EDC for the best lights and production

Imo the best vibes are going to be at a camping festival, not something enormous like EDC.

For heavier music I would look into Lost Lands or Dancefestopia! DFT is a little bit smaller(only 2 or 3 stages) but the vibes are immaculate 🤩🥳

Goto edc vegas.

Its the pinnacle of “American rave culture” the good and the bad

Tons of stages, tons of ppl dressed up in silly outfits, music all night, lots of music variety, hardtech, psytrance, dnb all represented

EDC is like adult raver Disneyland. You come for the music, but the happiness comes from those firework shows.

Lightning In a Bottle, 5 days if you do the full event, camping, multiple bass stages, endless side quests (things to explore at all hours of the day/night), roaming art cars, renegade dj sets. It's basically a smaller burning man.