Electric Dreams — festival guide
TBA, Johannesburg, South Africa18–20 Nov 2026 · 3 days30 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 18–20 Nov 2026 (3 days)
- Location
- TBA, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Sound
- Psytrance · Progressive psytrance
- Tickets
- €75 · 1 tier tracked
- Venue type
- Natural site
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Electric Dreams is an underground electronic music festival held over three days in the Tankwa Karoo of South Africa, specifically at Rooidakkies. Limited to just 200 attendees, it focuses on a curated lineup and the immersive festival experience in a natural setting. The festival aims to strip away the distractions of larger commercial events, fostering a genuine connection among attendees through music and community-driven experiences.
Electric Dreams is a 3-day psytrance, progressive psytrance festival at TBA in Johannesburg, South Africa. The November 2026 edition runs 18–20 Nov 2026.
Expect stages split between Psytrance and Progressive psytrance.
Everything happens at TBA, in Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.
Electric Dreams keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Johannesburg are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.
- Limited to 200 attendees
- Psytrance and progressive psytrance lineup
- Three-day festival format
- Natural setting in the Tankwa Karoo
- Community-driven atmosphere
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Natural site
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€75
Return transport
€1,064
air · 15h 37m each way
Place to stay
€96
Hostel / camping · 3 nights
Total door to door
€1,235
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Electric Dreams works out at roughly €1,235 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 6% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.
Cheapest travel we price is air · 15h 37m each way, at €1,064 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Electric Dreams are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
- 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Electric Dreams on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Electric Dreams yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
18–20 Nov 2025 (approx.)
2024
18–20 Nov 2024 (approx.)
2023
18–20 Nov 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is TBA, in Johannesburg.
- Book a bed in Johannesburg early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air15h 37m · €1,064