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Twisted Decennium Sessions - First Show Announced!
As we approach our ten year anniversary we are bringing you a series of events that will serve as testimony for what is to come.
Volunteer Sunday Shoutout
We want to throw the spotlight on the unsung heroes, the heartbeat of our events - The volunteers!
Introducing: The Twisted Olympics!
Compete for a chance at Twisted glory by participating in this esteemed annual event.
The Green Room Sunday Shoutout
This crew have been a leading part of Aotearoa’s music scene since the early days of electronica in NZ.
Roll up, roll up! The circus is here!
This New Year’s the Twisted Circus are bringing all their circus toys, a healthy supply of fire fuel, and are inviting you to come play, learn new tricks and spin some FIRE!
HAVEN Sunday Shoutout
Hear from HAVEN ahead of their stage takeover at this year's Twisted!
Anke Richter at Twisted 2024
We're very excited to announce this guest
Citadel Records Sunday Shoutout!
We’re back again to throw the spotlight on another amazing crew that has been making waves across the motu.
Speed Networking at Twisted!
These meetings are intended to break the ice and introduce ourselves to new people, so we can take these connections out into the big wide world and do some cool stuff!
Wozer = Shit Skaters
Big love to our friends at Wozer.
Foodcourt Sunday Shoutout
Hear the stories, passion, and vision of Foodcourt as they take us on a mini-journey through their inner workings.
GOT BARS?
Call out for MCs, vocalists, and lyricists!
TRASHPALACE Sunday Shoutout
Expect an oasis of chillness and all things weird and wonderful. Keep reading to hear straight from the minds of TRASHPALACE.
Kahurangi National Park
The second largest of Aotearoa's national parks.
BigBada BOOM Sunday Shoutout!!
Hear from DJ PUNCH - The creator of BigBada Boom!
Mokomoko - Kahurangi Skink
Check out some of the amazing things Anna Zrinyi-Morgan is getting up to.
Welcome to Nowhere Sunday Shoutout
Shoutouts to Welcome to Nowhere!
Tub's Audio Sunday Shoutout!
Its Sunday Shoutout season yo!
20 Years of Zenon Records tour comes to Aotearoa!
Since it was founded in 2003 by Sensient, Zenon Records has gone on to become an absolute powerhouse in its field, representing a stunning line up of international producers and performers and firmly securing its place on the world stage of underground electronica.
NEW RECIPE, SAME GREAT TASTE: Bass Taster 2022
After a brief hiatus due to some slight global pandemic issues, we are excited to once again bring this annual throwdown of bass music to whet your bassbuds for our main event!
GROUCH + GROUCH IN DUB SHOW ANNOUNCED!
First gig back of the year and its gonna be a SCHTONKER!
TICKET SALE DATE ANNOUNCED
Last year these flew off the shelves in record time! Make sure you and your crew are ready if you want to catch an early bird ticket!
Now we FEAST!
Bass Taster reservations open! As we get closer to summer we are once again bringing you a series of events to whet your whistle and get you warmed up for new years. Bass taster has become somewhat of a tradition in Twisted Frequency Lore, A sonic feast crossing a variety of bass flavours. The menu has been crafted to satisfy all manner of audiophile, a smorgasbord of scrumptious noise.
Ticket launch party announced!
Tickets to Twisted Frequency Festival 2022 go on sale from 5pm on the 26th of June! To mark this occasion we are bringing another stellar lineup of Kiwi and international producers and djs, showcasing a fierce range of talent and skill and as always an enormous dose of lush psychedelic trance and techno from the underground.
Dusty Comedy Kickons
Dusty Comedy Kickons serves up the chill afternoon giggles for those in need of a quick break from the dance floor.
TWISTED X NEPTUNE
We're teaming up with Neptune Collective to bring you a series of parties around the bay with some live bands from Te Whanganui-a-tara
THE WAR AGAINST NATURE IS OVER
Toothfish is a fictional environmental activist cum street artist who uses posters to raise awareness of environmental/political issues which affect you. Toothfish are also a species of deep water fish which live in the Southern Ocean and around the continent of Antarctica.
Consent
Ask every time. Listen every time. And respect the answer every time.
Look after your body
We’ve laid out some helpful tips to ensure you’re ready to dive straight in.
River Care
Do you part. Conserve our unique awa, as well as the flora and fauna that were here long before us.
Dancefloor Etiquitte
Whether you’ve been hitting dancefloors for decades, or you’re new to the scene, it’s important to have a think about what we bring to any dance floor and being considerate of other peoples space and experience.
CONSENT
Although we all hope that this sort of thing doesn’t happen in our communities, unfortunately it is all too common. It is up to all of us to check ourselves and our mates, look out for one another and make our communities safer, together <3
Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series – Article 1: Camping Waste
This article explores the effects of camping waste on our beautiful land and all its amazing little critters, and offers some ideas on how to minimise the generation of avoidable waste while camping.
Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series – Article 2: Waterways
This article looks at the effect camping can have on our rivers and lakes, and all the creatures that live in them. We’ve also got some suggestions on how to lessen our impact on these resources while camping.
Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series – Article 3: Fire
This article is about the very scary threat that fire poses to our natural environments. We strongly urge that you think very carefully before ever lighting a fire while spending time outdoors.
Concluding – the Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series!
This is the conclusion of our Mindful Camping series, and contains our takeaway thoughts from the series. Thanks for reading, we hope you’ve enjoyed the series!
Twisted Frequency Harm Reduction Series – Article 1: Physical Harm Reduction
This article series discusses how the different factors of a festival environment can impact your body in mind in different ways from everyday life. We want to use our platform to make sure that everyone has the tools to keep themselves safe and happy in a festival environment! This article introduces the series and offers us some festival-specific physical harm reduction tips.
Twisted Frequency Harm Reduction Series – Article 2: Mental Harm Reduction
It's not just your physical body you need to think about taking care of in a festival environment - your mind needs some TLC as well! This concluding article contains some tips about looking after your mental health and that of those around you, and information about the awesome resources that Twisted Frequency offers to best look after everyone at our events.
Psy-Care & Keeping Safe at Festivals
Psy-Care is a collective of passionate volunteers focused on harm reduction, drug education, and consent culture. They have been attending festivals around Aotearoa since 2015 providing a space for people in need of care, and have grown into an integral part of event production and safety in the area.
Introducing – the Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series!
We love our natural environment and spending time outdoors - and we know you do too! We’ve put together a series of articles to discuss the ways that camping can affect our environment, and small steps we can collectively take to minimise our impact.
Reducing our doofprint
The summer season is fast approaching and the dance floors are patiently awaiting the impending stomps. As we begin to get our festival rig sorted, lets take a little time to think about tangible ways that we can ALL decrease the impact we leave at our favourite places, and the surrounding eco-system.
WE <3 KEAS
During the build out here we have been absolutely loving hearing the SKRAAARK of the Keas swirling above us, Wild Kea only exist in the South Island of NZ in and around alpine areas. It is another daily reminder of the precious whenua we are priviliged enough to be running a festival on.
DOJO
In collaboration with The Third Eye Hi Fi soundsystem, The Dojo is a queer-led space with a passion for gimungous bass and banging parties, providing a platform for underground and experimental artists across a diverse range of disciplines.
Twisted Half Pipe
This year we've got a half pipe set up, with a competition to be held of the 1st of January. Show us what you got!
Sacral Sound
We’re stoked to introduce you to a couple of the epic crews who bring pumping vibes to the Cobb Valley for Twisted Frequency, year in, year out. First up we have Sacral Sound, they’ve been involved with Twisted Frequency since day one.
Third Eye Hi-fi
We’re showcasing some of the epic crews who are involved in this year's festival. Although Third Eye Hi-Fi only just joined the fold last year, we can see a very long and happy future with this wonderful gang of bass fiends! We’ll let you hear it from the crew themselves - have a read of their story from Chris, AKA Intec.
Psy-Care NZ
The folks at Psy-Care NZ have been an integral part of shaping culture and practice of underground outdoor festivals in NZ,and will return to Twisted Frequency 2023. We have seen this beautiful crew grow and evolve at an astounding rate and never stray from their mission of making parties safer and offering their love and support for anyone who comes their way. Here they tell us the story of how Psy-Care came to be.
Universal Tribe Records
We have some stonking artists coming to Twisted Frequency this year repping Australian record label Universal Tribe Records. We reckon UTR are due a Sunday Shout Out for all their hard work in the doof scene! Amidst a busy schedule of music releases and festivals, Luke from Universal Tribe Records spilled the deets on where they’ve come from, some favourite memories and what it’s all about.
Froth Entertainment
With a passion for bringing you distinctive music experiences, this Sunday Shout Out goes to Froth Entertainment. The Froth crew are taking over Twisted’s Chillery stage this New Year’s Eve, Here they give ya the lowdown on what gets them frothing to make things happen, and what’s coming up next!
Know Your Stuff NZ
KnowYourStuffNZ are the truly legendary folks we want to give a massive Shout Out to, returning to this year's festival. They do absolutely crucial work and we are so grateful for their huge contribution looking after festival/gig communities.
Ngā Kaitiaki
Nga Kaitiaki is without a doubt a hugely important contributor to safety and harm minimisation in the wider NZ underground scene ❤ We are deeply thankful for all of the difficult but essential mahi these legends have been doing.
Twisted Frequency Mindful Camping Series – Article 1: Camping Waste
This article explores the effects of camping waste on our beautiful land and all its amazing little critters, and offers some ideas on how to minimise the generation of avoidable waste while camping.
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