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New Zealand’s Twisted Frequency Festival has cancelled Israeli progressive psytrance producer Dekel, and the psytrance scene is arguing about it.

Festival organizers Frequency Forest have released a public statement via Instagram addressing the cancellation of their September events, following an alleged campaign of threats and property damage. The post was captioned as “a transparent and important update” for their community.

A popular outdoor techno event in northern Switzerland turned tragic early Sunday morning when gunfire broke out, leaving one person dead and five others wounded.

More than two weeks after 21-year-old Bence Szolnoki vanished from Hungary’s Ozora Festival, he remains missing – and on Tuesday, the search entered a new phase as civilian volunteers joined police in a coordinated ground search.

An Israeli man who survived the Hamas assault on the Nova music festival has died by suicide at the graveside of his girlfriend, who was killed in the same 2023 attack, according to Israeli media reports.

Just days after a stabbing and a wave of drug arrests made headlines Ozora Festival has confirmed two further tragic incidents, both fatal, that took place on site yesterday.

Ozora Festival, one of Europe’s largest psychedelic trance and arts gatherings, is underway in Igar-Vámszőlőhegy, Hungary, and running until 4 August.

Rocking the Daisies, one of South Africa’s longest-running music and lifestyle festivals, will not take place in 2026. The organisers, Steyn Entertainment, confirmed the cancellation in an official statement posted to the festival’s Instagram account, just months before the event was due to return to Cloof Wine Estate in Darling from October 2-4.

Sizigia Eclipse 2026 festival, planned for the shores of the La Sotonera reservoir in Huesca province, will not receive the environmental authorization it needs before its scheduled dates, after Aragón’s environmental agency, INAGA, ordered the project into a lengthier “ordinary” impact assessment that cannot be completed in time.

The underground psychedelic trance scene is reeling after the sudden death of Dasha, known to fans as DashAlien and by her dark psy alias Dazura – a rising artist who had only just performed her final set at the Back in the Mountains Festival in Kaos.

David Christman — known to the global rave community as Shiki — passed away on 30 May 2026 following a stroke, blood infection, and fatal heart attack. He was 80 years old.

The Portuguese psychedelic music community is mourning the loss of DJ Paulo Lopes, a foundational figure in the country’s psy scene whose influence helped shape one of Europe’s most celebrated underground music cultures during the 1990s. Boom Festival, the internationally renowned Portuguese psychedelic festival that grew directly out of that era, confirmed the news on their official page, describing Lopes as a DJ who was pivotal to the 1990s psy scene in Portugal. Portugal occupies

German events organisation Waldfrieden-Events GmbH has filed for insolvency, bringing an end to decades of operation from one of the country’s most beloved underground culture venues. The filing, confirmed at the end of last week, follows a turbulent period for the organisation — most recently the collapse of their Hai in den Mai festival earlier this year, which failed to go ahead after authorities indicated that a preliminary species protection assessment may be sufficient, only

She went to her tent expecting to sleep off what she thought was appendicitis. She emerged a mother. The extraordinary, harrowing story of a cryptic pregnancy and the community rallying to catch her.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board has pulled the plug on two of the coast’s most popular party spots, ordering a two-month shutdown after repeated noise violations brought the hammer down on what was supposed to be peak season for Goa’s legendary nightlife scene. HillTop in Vagator and Salud Kitchen and Lounge in Ozran, Anjuna, have had their licences yanked after noise levels blew past legal limits on multiple occasions. The board slapped HillTop with

Decision follows community petition citing consent culture concerns.

A recently circulated petition titled “Psytrance in Solidarity” has gained momentum within the global psytrance community, with dozens of artists, promoters, and festival organizers signing on.

Anta Gathering, an international music and arts event scheduled to begin this week in Portugal, was cancelled at the last moment following an intense campaign led by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

A devastating fire and multiple explosions hit the Ozora Festival in Hungary on July 25, as the event was just getting underway.

With less than two weeks to go, anticipation is at a high with tens of thousands of travellers, artists, and seekers prepare to descend on the sacred shores of Idanha-a-Nova for Boom Festival 2025.

The psychedelic dream that was Psy-Fi Festival has come to a crashing halt. In a heart-wrenching announcement this week, the organisers of the once-iconic psytrance gathering confirmed the cancellation of Psy-Fi 2025, citing poor ticket sales and insurmountable financial strain. After more than a decade of shaping the global psytrance landscape – with six unforgettable years in the Netherlands and a turbulent string of attempted revivals – the Psy-Fi flame has finally flickered out. “We