Journeys.

Two ways to travel the atlas. Expeditions are day-by-day itineraries you can follow. Routes stitch a handful of rooms into one story: read one, then open the rooms it links, each with when to go and how to get there.

5 expeditions · 8 routes · 19 different rooms on the routes

Routes: read one, then go

Crowds lying and sitting on the floor of a large brick warehouse hall at Basilica Hudson

Route · 4 rooms

Desert to Warehouse: A Music Route

Three days in the Black Rock Desert, then a long flight east, then forty-eight hours in a Brooklyn warehouse and a Hudson iron foundry. The same energy, two different rooms.

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The pale concrete facade of Berghain seen from a fenced path

Route · 5 rooms

Europe After Midnight: A Music Route

Berghain doors open at midnight. Lux Frágil in Lisbon goes until ten. Sunwaves, until it left Romania in 2025, ran for days on end on Mamaia beach.

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The white domed corner facade of KOKO in Camden

Route · 3 rooms

The Industrial Revival Route

Berlin and the long heritage of post-industrial sound. Berghain's 18-metre concrete ceilings, Loftas in a Vilnius factory, KOKO restored from a Camden palace.

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The Blue Note Tokyo street front in Minami-Aoyama, with musician silhouettes over the entrance

Route · 3 rooms

The Japanese Listening-Bar Pilgrimage

Tokyo's listening-bar lineage runs from the post-war jazz kissaten to the modern hi-fi rooms where conversation is rationed and the sound system does the talking. Bar Martha is the canon.

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A large crowd in front of the stage at Cova Santa at night

Route · 2 rooms

The Mediterranean Route

Ibiza's cave restaurants and runway-side terraces, where sunset becomes a programme and the Mediterranean is part of the sound system. Cova Santa, DC-10, and the long road home.

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Eldborg hall at Harpa seen from the stalls, with tiers of red balconies around the stage

Route · 2 rooms

The Nordic Light Route

Iceland and Sweden, where the architecture is the weather. Harpa's glass scales reflect the aurora; the Ice Hotel rebuilds its concert hall from the Torne River every winter.

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A packed dancefloor at Lux Frágil under blue and magenta light

Route · 5 rooms

Seven Days of Brutalist Techno: A Music Route

Brutalism and techno share an architectural philosophy. Truth to materials. No ornament. The structure is the music.

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Lava fountaining from Stromboli's crater at night

Route · 3 rooms

The Volcanic Ambient Route

Stromboli erupts every twenty minutes. Iceland's geothermal plumes hiss under the orchestra. The Hoggar plateau hums at night. Three rooms whose acoustic includes the planet.

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