presents
they're already in the room. shoot them. the lion is worth five.they're already in the room. tap to shoot. the lion is worth five.
⛧ and a door at 1 AM we have not told you about
Halloween is the one night of the year a whole city goes looking for a room that has gone properly wrong.
Most of Goa answers that with a costume rail and a playlist. We are building the other thing: a hand-built six-scoop stack pushed to the weight it was made for, a bill of the country's heaviest jungle and dubstep selectors, and a cast of Butoh dancers and theatre artists suspended in the crowd for seven hours.
Five hundred people, one hard cap, and nowhere in the building to get away from the bass.
the whole point is that nobody leaves describing it as a party
A women-only lineup, booked for weight. The countesses take the decks while Dracula works up an appetite for blood, and every one of them plays the two things this room is built for: jungle at the front of the beat, dubstep with the bottom left in.
KHXDEEJ
Pia ColladaKHXDEEJ is Goa-based by way of Surat, drawn to off-centre rhythms and dub-leaning, textured club music, and a regular on Rinse FM. Pia Collada is a Worldwide FM resident and founder of BASS WAV, the femme-forward platform, with Glastonbury, Shambala and Magnetic Fields behind her. Together they take the middle of the night.
Mumbai-based, and one of India's first female turntablist DJs. Raised in Dehradun, mentored by DJ Uri, and an old-school hand on the decks. Old and nu skool hip hop, grime, future beats and bass, cut hard and built for the floor. Boxout.fm, NH7 Weekender.
press a ▶ and the page will show you roughly what each slot sounds like. turn it up.
When the main floor closes at 1 AM, it opens. Behind it is a room a fraction of the size of the arena, and the last hour of the night.
A second room, opened at 1 AM, capped well under the 500. Benkii plays it. What else happens down there is the surprise, and we are not telling you in advance.
Low ceiling, no stage, crowd and selector on the same floor. Nothing like the main arena except for the weight.
Bengaluru-based, Boiler Room: Bengaluru, and one of the sharpest bass and breaks selectors in the country. What joins her down there stays unannounced.
Access is capped well under the 500. How it gets handed out is announced in the run-up, so follow the page and you will know before the room does.
if you are reading this, you are early. that is the only advantage anyone gets.
Most rooms in this state run a rig that has had the bottom taken out of it so nobody complains. This one is built the other way around.
A scoop is a folded horn, a cabinet built so the low end travels as pressure rather than noise. Six of them, hand-made, tuned by the people who made them. That is the difference between hearing a bassline and standing inside one, and it is why this bill said yes.
One stack, one stage, and nowhere in the venue where the music is background.
headphones on. this is roughly the shape of it.
This is the part we are least willing to compromise on.
Butoh, or ankoku butō, is the post-war Japanese form built on white body paint, very slow contortion and a refusal to look human. Here it is performed at head height above a moving crowd, on rigging, in rotation across the night.
Trained scare-actors and physical theatre performers working inside the crowd rather than on a stage. They turn up at the edge of your vision, hold eye contact slightly too long, and are gone before anyone gets a photo. It is choreographed against the set times, so the room turns when the music turns.
The venue is built into the piece rather than decorated over. Lighting leaves most of the space genuinely dark, haze makes the rigging read, and there is one lit path in. People end up photographing the thing that just frightened them, which is the whole marketing plan.
Five hundred people, and something moving above all of them.the haunting · 7 PM to 2 AM, in rotation
Seven hours, built as one curve. Nothing peaks before 10 PM, and the last hour happens somewhere most of the room will not get into.
The stack ticking over on roots and steppers, the paint room open, light still going out of the sky. This is the friendliest the night ever gets.
The Butoh rotation starts and the first theatre artists enter the floor. Lighting drops to its night state. The room works out what it has walked into.
Tempo up, haze thick, figures at their lowest. From here on the stack does not come back down.
The sound system lineup closes and a door opens somewhere else in the building. Special guests, limited numbers, no announcement on the night.
Music off at 2 AM sharp, no encore, no negotiation. Everyone out into a Sunday morning wondering what that was.
The full set times are behind the hunt. Things are flying across this page all night. Shoot thirteen of them, claim their souls, and this opens.
you opened it. the rest of the page is still hunting you.
The hunt runs on every page of this site, and it runs for real at the bar on the 31st. Claim souls, climb the ladder, screenshot your code and show it at the bar.
screenshot the code. one per person, while stock lasts.
The cap is a creative decision before it is a commercial one. At 500 the stack reaches everybody, the suspended cast can actually work the floor, and the night stays the thing we described.
Not a soft target. The door shuts at 500 and stays shut, which is also how the room stays safe with performers overhead.
A single flat ticket. No tiers, no tables, no list that gets you in cheaper than the person next to you.
7 PM to 2 AM, in one room, one stack, nowhere to hide from it.
Licensed security, medical on site all night, and a strict no-touch policy for every performer in the crowd. There is a lit way off the floor visible from anywhere in the room, and a steward will walk you out the moment you ask. Full safety and licensing documentation is available to partners and the venue on request.
Five hundred tickets, one stack, four of the heaviest selectors in the country, and a door at 1 AM most people will not get through.
Limited to 500 · on sale on Scenes
Brand, bar or crew who wants in? Partnerships, paid and FOC, are open below. See what's available →
Your name in front of the event name, and your lion loose in the room for seven hours. This is the activation, running live below. Drag it around.
The cash goes on stage and screen: the rig, the rigging, the Butoh and theatre cast, and the film crew. Stock pours the bar from doors to curfew.
One number, one line of product. There is no rate card underneath it.
Full photo and video set of the lion in the room, delivered within 5 days.
One directed short, 60 to 90 seconds, delivered within 10 days.
Cross-posted across every artist and event account on the bill, not just your own.
The night is the peak, not the whole plan. Here is how the name works before, during and after 31 October.
the lion gets fangs for one night only. nobody else can be given that.
