Space Safari at a glance
Space Safari began in May 2016 at Beekse Bergen near Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands as a Lost Theory crew production. The festival returned to Beekse Bergen in July 2017, then moved into the Belgian Ardennes chapter at Domaine de Massembre by 2018. The modern festival is intentionally broader than a single Psytrance floor.
Its current programme divides music across several environments, while the Supernova stage is explicitly dedicated to Psytrance and Goa Trance. Other stages cover acid, techno, tekno, dub, live music and house, making the festival a broad psychedelic multi-stage gathering , not a single-genre event. Space Safari remains active.
The 4–7 September 2026 edition at Domaine de Massembre, Hastière, and EVENTIM identifies CVBA Future Media as the current legal promoter.
How Space Safari evolved
The first Space Safari took place 13–15 May 2016 at Beekse Bergen, Hilvarenbeek, under the Lost Theory crew banner. A second Dutch edition followed in July 2017. The Domaine de Massembre chapter continued through at least 2025 and 2026.
The woodland, rivers and ponds is integral to the setting and asks attendees to minimise impact, recycle and leave no trace.
Music, programming & dancefloors
The strongest stable identity is Psytrance plus Goa Trance. Historical programmes also ranged into darker psychedelic music and other electronic styles. Full-On and Progressive Psytrance are not stable festival-wide identities.
Darker programming appears historically, but the festival does not specifically define it as Darkpsy.
Role in psytrance festival culture
Space Safari extends the Lost Theory scene network into a woodland festival format built around psychedelic staging, camping, art and community as well as music. Its cosmic stage vocabulary and the contrast between the dedicated psychedelic Supernova floor and alternative electronic/live stages show how Psytrance can sit at the centre of a deliberately eclectic festival. The relocation from a Dutch leisure-site setting to Domaine de Massembre also became part of its identity, foregrounding the Ardennes forest, rivers and ponds as a shared environment instead of merely a backdrop.
Place, setting & atmosphere
Current guidance frames Domaine de Massembre as a sensitive woodland environment and explicitly asks attendees to clean up, recycle, avoid using nature as a toilet and leave no trace. These are operational expectations, not an independently audited sustainability certification.
What sets Space Safari apart
Founded in 2016 by/through the Lost Theory crew; 2016 and 2017 editions at Beekse Bergen, Netherlands; moved to Domaine de Massembre, Belgian Ardennes by 2018; chronology conflict over Trancentral’s “Belgium for the 3rd year” wording; current promoter CVBA Future Media; dedicated Psytrance/Goa Supernova stage; broader acid/techno, dub/live and house programming; active 2026 edition.
Festivals with related scenes or programming
Antaris Project
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Apsara Festival
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Boom Festival
Founded in Portugal in 1997 as a Goa Trance gathering, Boom Festival evolved into a major multidisciplinary psychedelic culture festival based at Boomland near Idanha-a-Nova.
Earthcore
Earthcore was a pioneering Australian outdoor electronic festival founded in the early 1990s, with Psytrance and Goa artists central to important phases of its long Victorian history.
Eclipse Festival
Eclipse Festival is a long-running Quebec psychedelic gathering that began as an indoor event in 1999 and developed into an outdoor festival centred on Psytrance, techno and ambient culture.
Fractalfest
Fractalfest is a New England psychedelic festival created by Fractaltribe, growing from a 2012 event into an outdoor Psytrance and visionary-arts gathering from 2013.
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