{ "name": "Psytrance crews, festivals and labels in Aotearoa New Zealand", "description": "New Zealand crews with a dated listing in 2025 or 2026, the record labels a database search returns, and the artists with a documented catalogue.", "licence": "CC BY 4.0", "attribution": "Cyberculture — cyberculture.co.nz", "verified": "2026-09-04", "crews": [ { "id": "aum", "name": "AUM", "city": "South Head", "region": "Auckland", "status": "active", "kind": "Festival and club series", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "aum.co.nz", "url": "https://www.aum.co.nz/" }, { "label": "Tickets (Flicket)", "url": "https://aumfestival.flicket.co.nz/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "AUM Winter Series 2026", "when": "25 September 2026, Auckland — address released the night before", "listing": "https://www.aum.co.nz/tickets/aum-winter-series-2026-psytrance/" }, { "name": "AUM New Year's Festival 2026", "when": "from 30 December 2026, Leightons Farm, South Head", "listing": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/101856/AUM-New-Years-Festival-2026.utr" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "aum-site", "title": "AUM New Year's Festival", "publisher": "AUM", "url": "https://www.aum.co.nz/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-03" }, { "key": "aum-stages", "title": "AUM — festival stages", "publisher": "AUM", "url": "https://www.aum.co.nz/festival-stages/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "aum-winter26", "title": "AUM Winter Series 2026 — psytrance", "publisher": "AUM", "url": "https://www.aum.co.nz/tickets/aum-winter-series-2026-psytrance/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "utr-aum-2026", "title": "AUM New Year's Festival 2026", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/101856/AUM-New-Years-Festival-2026.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "ra-aum-2025", "title": "AUM New Year's Festival 2025", "publisher": "Resident Advisor", "url": "https://ra.co/events/2213242", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "twisted-frequency", "name": "Twisted Frequency", "city": "Tākaka", "region": "Golden Bay", "status": "active", "kind": "Five-day festival", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "twistedfrequency.nz", "url": "https://twistedfrequency.nz" }, { "label": "Tickets", "url": "https://tickets.twistedfrequency.nz/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Twisted Frequency 2027", "when": "30 December 2026 – 3 January 2027, Cobb Valley, Tākaka", "listing": "https://tickets.twistedfrequency.nz/en/Twisted-Frequency-2027-1017" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "twisted-site", "title": "Twisted Frequency — official site", "publisher": "Twisted Frequency", "url": "https://twistedfrequency.nz", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "twisted-tickets", "title": "Twisted Frequency 2027 — tickets", "publisher": "Twisted Frequency", "url": "https://tickets.twistedfrequency.nz/en/Twisted-Frequency-2027-1017", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "rnz-waste", "title": "Music festivals on mission to cut landfill waste", "publisher": "RNZ", "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/406307/music-festivals-on-mission-to-cut-landfill-waste", "kind": "press", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "dimension", "name": "Dimension Festival", "city": "Waimatenui", "region": "Northland", "status": "active", "kind": "Festival", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "dimension.nz", "url": "https://www.dimension.nz/" }, { "label": "Tickets", "url": "https://www.dimension.nz/tickets" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Dimension Festival 2027 — Origins", "when": "5–9 February 2027, Waimatenui East Road, Northland", "listing": "https://www.dimension.nz/tickets" } ], "caveat": "Three sources give the site address three different ways. We use the wording on the festival's own ticket page.", "sources": [ { "key": "dimension-site", "title": "Dimension Festival", "publisher": "Dimension", "url": "https://www.dimension.nz/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-03" }, { "key": "dimension-tickets", "title": "Dimension Festival 2027 — Origins", "publisher": "Dimension Festival", "url": "https://www.dimension.nz/tickets", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "yatra", "name": "Yatra Festival", "city": "Tākaka", "region": "Golden Bay", "status": "active", "kind": "Festival", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "yatrafestival.co.nz", "url": "https://www.yatrafestival.co.nz/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Yatra Festival '26 in ritual with MO:DEM", "when": "27 February – 2 March 2026, Cobb Valley Road, Tākaka", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/festival/yatra-festival-26-in-ritual-with-modem/115403" } ], "caveat": "We found no 2027 edition announced on any page we could load.", "sources": [ { "key": "yatra-site", "title": "Yatra Festival — official site", "publisher": "Yatra NZ", "url": "https://www.yatrafestival.co.nz/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "goabase-yatra26", "title": "Yatra Festival '26 in ritual with MO:DEM", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/festival/yatra-festival-26-in-ritual-with-modem/115403", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "audio-art", "name": "Audio Art", "city": "Te Arai", "region": "Auckland / Northland", "status": "active", "kind": "Collective and sound system", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "Tickets (7am.events)", "url": "https://audio-art.7am.events/en/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Octoblast", "when": "23–25 October 2026, 186 Atkins Road, Te Arai / Mangawhai", "listing": "https://allevents.in/mangawhai/octoblast26/200030034508147" }, { "name": "Mystic Realms", "when": "17–19 April 2026, 186 Atkins Road, Te Arai — sold out", "listing": "https://ra.co/events/2372744" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "audioart-tickets", "title": "Mystic Realms 2026 — ticket page", "publisher": "Audio Art", "url": "https://audio-art.7am.events/en/MYSTIC-REALMS-2026-TE-ARAI-17-19-April-1085", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "audioart-mystic", "title": "Mystic Realms 2026 — Te Arai", "publisher": "Resident Advisor", "url": "https://ra.co/events/2372744", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "audioart-octoblast", "title": "Octoblast — Te Arai, 23–25 October 2026", "publisher": "AllEvents", "url": "https://allevents.in/mangawhai/octoblast26/200030034508147", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "goabase-octoblast25", "title": "Octoblast 2025", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/festival/octoblast/115863", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "team-moksha", "name": "Team Moksha", "city": "Wellington", "region": "Wellington", "status": "active", "kind": "Club nights and open airs", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "Tickets (Humanitix)", "url": "https://events.humanitix.com/host/team-moksha" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Moksha — 5 Year Anniversary Gathering", "when": "8 August 2026, Valhalla, 154 Vivian Street, Wellington", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/party/moksha-5-year-anniversary-gathering-at-valhalla/117802" }, { "name": "Moksha's AARANYA", "when": "25–27 October 2025, Wellington, open air", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/party/mokshas-aaranya/115314" } ], "caveat": null, "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-moksha5", "title": "Moksha — 5 Year Anniversary Gathering at Valhalla", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/moksha-5-year-anniversary-gathering-at-valhalla/117802", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "goabase-aaranya", "title": "Moksha's AARANYA", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/mokshas-aaranya/115314", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "humanitix-organica6", "title": "Orgánica VI", "publisher": "Humanitix", "url": "https://events.humanitix.com/organica-vi", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "inpsyde-out", "name": "Inpsyde Out Productions", "city": "Wellington", "region": "Wellington", "status": "active", "kind": "Club nights", "summary": "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.", "channels": [], "dates": [ { "name": "Gumboot Gamut", "when": "4 July 2026, Otto Champagneria, 125 Featherston Street, Wellington", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/party/gumboot-gamut-a-night-of-psychedelic-trance/117762" }, { "name": "Gumboot Gamut — Psilo's Birthday Bash", "when": "20 December 2025, Otto Champagneria, Wellington", "listing": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/show/SID/100161/N/Gumboot-Gamut---Psilos-Birthday-Bash.utr" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-gumboot26", "title": "Gumboot Gamut — a night of psychedelic trance", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/gumboot-gamut-a-night-of-psychedelic-trance/117762", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "utr-gumboot25", "title": "Gumboot Gamut — Psilo's Birthday Bash", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/show/SID/100161/N/Gumboot-Gamut---Psilos-Birthday-Bash.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "nz-psytribe", "name": "NZ Psytribe", "city": "Northland", "region": "Northland / Auckland", "status": "active", "kind": "Forest festival", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "Tickets (7am.events)", "url": "https://nz-psytribe.7am.events/en/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Lost in Paradise", "when": "2–5 January 2026, Auckland region", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/festival/lost-in-paradise/115533" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-lostinparadise", "title": "Lost in Paradise 2026", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/festival/lost-in-paradise/115533", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "psytribe-tickets", "title": "Lost in Paradise — ticket page", "publisher": "NZ Psytribe", "url": "https://nz-psytribe.7am.events/en/Lost-in-Paradise-318", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "voodoo-people", "name": "Voodoo People Sound System", "city": "Raglan", "region": "Waikato", "status": "active", "kind": "Sound system and free-party culture", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "Tickets (Prizmatix)", "url": "https://www.prizmatix.nz/events/circutopia-2026-201" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Circutopia 2026", "when": "4–6 December 2026, Raglan", "listing": "https://www.prizmatix.nz/events/circutopia-2026-201" } ], "caveat": "We found no website or social channel for the sound system itself — only the ticket page. If you run it, send us the link.", "sources": [ { "key": "prizmatix-circutopia", "title": "Circutopia 2026", "publisher": "Prizmatix", "url": "https://www.prizmatix.nz/events/circutopia-2026-201", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "sharkra", "name": "Sharkra", "city": "Queenstown", "region": "Otago", "status": "active", "kind": "Club nights", "summary": "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.", "channels": [], "dates": [ { "name": "Mycelia", "when": "4 October 2025, Bungalow, 26 Camp Street, Queenstown", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/party/mycelia/115779" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-mycelia", "title": "Mycelia", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/mycelia/115779", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "trancevaders", "name": "Trancevaders", "city": "Auckland", "region": "Auckland", "status": "active", "kind": "Club nights and boat parties", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "Eventbrite", "url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/o/trancevaders-27300117415" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Trancevaders — Double Whammy Edition", "when": "14 August 2025, St Kevin's Arcade, Karangahape Road, Auckland", "listing": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/97530/Trancevaders-Double-Whammy-Edition.utr" } ], "caveat": "We found no event announced after August 2025. Their Eventbrite page loads but lists nothing.", "sources": [ { "key": "utr-trancevaders", "title": "Trancevaders — Double Whammy edition", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/97530/Trancevaders-Double-Whammy-Edition.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "agape-nation", "name": "Agape_Nation", "city": "Auckland", "region": "Auckland", "status": "active", "kind": "Club nights", "summary": "The name recorded against Happiness Projekt at Cassette Nine in Auckland, an immersive electronic night listed in the psytrance party database.", "channels": [], "dates": [ { "name": "Happiness Projekt", "when": "21 February 2026, Cassette Nine, Auckland", "listing": "https://www.goabase.net/party/happiness-projekt/116738" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-happiness", "title": "Happiness Projekt", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/happiness-projekt/116738", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "dubz-audio", "name": "Dubz Audio", "city": "Wellington", "region": "Wellington", "status": "unknown", "kind": "Sound system", "summary": "A Wellington sound system that ran Raveyard with Harmonic Affairs in November 2025 — psytrance, forest, prog and darkpsy — before taking the rig on a South Island tour.", "channels": [], "dates": [ { "name": "Raveyard — Psytrance At The Graveyard", "when": "21 November 2025, Wellington", "listing": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99490/Raveyard-Psytrance-At-The-Graveyard.utr" } ], "caveat": "We found nothing after November 2025 and no channel of their own.", "sources": [ { "key": "utr-raveyard", "title": "Raveyard — psytrance at The Graveyard", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/99490/Raveyard-Psytrance-At-The-Graveyard.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "luminate", "name": "Luminate Festival", "city": "Canaan Downs", "region": "Golden Bay", "status": "active", "kind": "Gathering", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "luminatefestival.co.nz", "url": "https://luminatefestival.co.nz/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Freedom to Flourish", "when": "January 2026, Canaan Downs, Golden Bay", "listing": "https://luminatefestival.co.nz/" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "luminate-site", "title": "Luminate Festival", "publisher": "Luminate Festival Educational and Spiritual Trust", "url": "https://luminatefestival.co.nz/luminate-festival/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-03" } ] }, { "id": "kiwiburn", "name": "Kiwiburn", "city": "Hunterville", "region": "Rangitīkei", "status": "active", "kind": "Participatory event", "summary": "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.", "channels": [ { "label": "kiwiburn.com", "url": "https://kiwiburn.com/" } ], "dates": [ { "name": "Kiwiburn 2027 — Moss & Microchips", "when": "27 January – 1 February 2027, The Paddock, Hunterville", "listing": "https://kiwiburn.com/" } ], "caveat": "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.", "sources": [ { "key": "kiwiburn-site", "title": "Kiwiburn — official site", "publisher": "Kiwiburn Inc", "url": "https://kiwiburn.com/", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "canaan-downs", "name": "Canaan Downs Festival", "city": "Tākaka Hill", "region": "Golden Bay", "status": "historical", "kind": "Festival (historical)", "summary": "A New Year festival on Takaka Hill with a dedicated Trance Zone among its stages, running over the 2007/08 New Year with four stages and more than a hundred artists. Its organiser was named as Callam Mitchell.", "channels": [ { "label": "Press release (Scoop, 2007)", "url": "https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0711/S00159.htm" } ], "dates": [], "caveat": "We could not find any source recording when or why it stopped. The land is now the site of Luminate.", "sources": [ { "key": "utr-canaan-2007", "title": "Canaan Downs Festival", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/show/SID/2975/N/Canaan-Downs-Festival.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "scoop-canaan", "title": "Canaan Downs Festival, Takaka Hill, Nelson Bays", "publisher": "Scoop", "url": "https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0711/S00159.htm", "kind": "press", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "lubble", "name": "Lubble", "city": "Whangārei", "region": "Northland", "status": "historical", "kind": "Open air (historical)", "summary": "An open-air party about thirty minutes east of Whangārei, named for the feeling of being in a love bubble, documented in 2018 and 2019.", "channels": [], "dates": [], "caveat": "Listings titled Lubble 2023 appear in search results on a New Zealand events directory we could not load. We record it as historical because nothing after 2019 loaded for us — not because we know it ended.", "sources": [ { "key": "goabase-lubble", "title": "Lubble", "publisher": "Goabase", "url": "https://www.goabase.net/party/lubble/101227", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "spectrum", "name": "Spectrum", "city": "Te Arai", "region": "Auckland / Northland", "status": "historical", "kind": "Festival (historical)", "summary": "A two-stage festival at 186 Atkins Road, Te Arai — the same site Audio Art now uses — with its Yang stage given over to psychedelic, progressive and dub. Documented in 2022 and 2023.", "channels": [], "dates": [], "caveat": "No promoter is named on the listing, and we found no edition after 2023.", "sources": [ { "key": "utr-spectrum", "title": "Spectrum Festival 2023", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/gig/86108/Spectrum-Festival-2023.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "prana", "name": "Prana Festival", "city": "Opoutere", "region": "Coromandel", "status": "unknown", "kind": "Festival (status unconfirmed)", "summary": "Recorded as a venue at the Prana Eco Retreat, Opoutere, on the Coromandel. A Facebook page titled “Prana Festivals 1994-2015” appears in search results, which would make it one of the longest-running, but we could not open it.", "channels": [], "dates": [], "caveat": "The events directory that lists it as a venue has no events recorded against it, past or upcoming. We can neither confirm it is still running nor say that it ended.", "sources": [ { "key": "utr-prana", "title": "Prana Festival — venue record", "publisher": "UnderTheRadar", "url": "https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/venue/917/Prana-Festival.utr", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] } ], "labels": [ { "id": "manta", "name": "Manta Recordings", "city": "Auckland", "founded": null, "status": "historical", "summary": "A progressive psytrance label whose contact address on Discogs is 151 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland, and whose listed website was cyberculture.co.nz. Its first release, in 2001, was The Pylon EP — Pylon being an alias of Antix, the Auckland duo Barton and Hayden Strom.", "caveat": "151 Karangahape Road is the address AudioCulture gives for the Cyberculture record shop, opened in basement premises there in 1993. We have found no published source stating that the shop ran the label. What is documented is the shared address and the shared domain, and that is all we assert.", "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-manta", "title": "Manta Recordings", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/17450", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "discogs-antix-artist", "title": "Antix", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/37190", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "audioculture-stores", "title": "Lost record stores of inner Auckland", "publisher": "Simon Grigg — AudioCulture (published 3 January 2015, updated 4 May 2023)", "url": "https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/lost-record-stores-of-inner-auckland", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-03" } ] }, { "id": "cosmic-conspiracy", "name": "Cosmic Conspiracy Records", "city": "Nelson", "founded": "2003", "status": "historical", "summary": "A progressive psytrance label and party organisation with twenty-one releases catalogued between 2004 and 2014, including the compilations Tall Poppy Syndrome (2008) and Cryptozoology (2012).", "caveat": "Its two sources disagree about where it is and who runs it: Discogs says New Zealand, created in 2003 by Aviel Peru, with a Nelson postal address; the label's own Bandcamp says Australia, founded by Tripinstumble. We publish both and resolve neither.", "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-cosmic", "title": "Cosmic Conspiracy Records", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/30016", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" }, { "key": "bandcamp-cosmic", "title": "Cosmic Conspiracy Records", "publisher": "Bandcamp", "url": "https://cosmicconspiracyrecords.bandcamp.com/music", "kind": "primary", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "kog", "name": "Kog Transmissions", "city": "Auckland", "founded": null, "status": "active", "summary": "An electronic label and studio, now owned by Chris Chetland, with more than 150 releases. Its 1998 compilation Transmit carries psy-trance and goa trance among its styles, and it released Pitch Black's Electronomicon in 2000.", "caveat": "Not a psytrance label as such — it is the label that carried much of the New Zealand material catalogued as psytrance.", "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-kog", "title": "Kog Transmissions", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/339", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "estuary", "name": "Estuary Records", "city": "Christchurch", "founded": null, "status": "historical", "summary": "A Christchurch music company with three catalogued releases; Garden Spores (SPOR001, 2009) is filed under psy-trance.", "caveat": "Not to be confused with Estuary Recording Facility, a studio in Austin, Texas.", "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-estuary", "title": "Estuary Records", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/170971", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "id": "mental-mekanix", "name": "Mental Mekanix Records", "city": "New Zealand", "founded": null, "status": "historical", "summary": "Described on Discogs as a psy-trance label from New Zealand. One release is catalogued: Cerebral Overload, MMRCD 001, March 2008.", "caveat": null, "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-mentalmekanix", "title": "Mental Mekanix Records", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/label/111090", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] } ], "artists": [ { "name": "Antix", "city": "Auckland", "summary": "A progressive trance and house duo of two brothers, Barton and Hayden Strom, working from Slow Burning Studios. They record as Pylon, Fiord, NE1 and Strom Brothers, and have released on Iboga Records since 2005.", "caveat": "Catalogues sometimes file Antix as Danish because their album Twin Coast Discovery was released on the Danish label Iboga, and because at least five unrelated acts share the name — including a second, different New Zealand band from Christchurch.", "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-antix-artist", "title": "Antix", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/37190", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "name": "Grouch", "city": "New Zealand", "summary": "Oscar Allison, described by Discogs as a psychedelic music project from New Zealand, with more than a hundred catalogued items and releases on Iboga, Zenon and Enig'matik. He also records as Grouch In Dub.", "caveat": null, "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-grouch", "title": "Grouch", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/607844", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] }, { "name": "Cusp", "city": "Auckland", "summary": "Ashley Kirk, a progressive psychedelic trance producer based in Auckland. His catalogued output is thin — the Expander EP, self-released in 2006.", "caveat": null, "sources": [ { "key": "discogs-cusp", "title": "Cusp", "publisher": "Discogs", "url": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1705602", "kind": "database", "accessed": "2026-09-04" } ] } ] }