I went to my first festival, EDC Vegas in 2014, and felt like I was given permission to play like a child again — with a bunch of other grown children, no judgement, just pure joy. It was the first time I wasn’t too embarrassed to move my body to music in public.

For the next 8 years, life got in the way. I consumed years of recorded sets, aftermovies, and festival trailers, fully feeling the fomo until I could get back to that feeling.

In April 2022 I met Gracie in Austin on her birthday. She had never been to a rave. I knew from the moment we met she was the one who’d dance like a kid with me until the end.

Two months later we were at Tomorrowland in Belgium. I proposed behind the Rose Garden dragon on the waterfront. She said yes. The next year we held our wedding ceremony there too.

Since then we’ve raved everywhere — every genre, big and small festivals, mainstream and underground. Beach clubs in Thailand. Techno dungeons in Germany. Techno is to us what dubstep is to our friends Nick and Nicki.

More than anything, we love the love at these events. No matter how big or small, we can always find our tribe there — people who let down their walls, go back to their childhood, and just dance.

But the industry has cliques, gatekeeping, and fragmentation. There are no reliable voices that really “get it” across countries, cities, venues, genres, audiences. Hunting down the vibe in a new city is harder than it should be.

If we could spend every waking moment on a dance floor, dressed like freaks, surrounded by other ravers dressed like freaks — that’s exactly what we’d do. Since that’s not realistic, we’ll build RAVE.FM instead.