Subterran is an events organisation based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, S.E.Qld, primarily involved in outdoor music events with an environmental focus. Subterran aims to push the outdoor party format deeper. Our belief is that to stay true to the original intention of outdoor dance parties: earth reconnection and exploration of fringe electronic music, the culture needs to start connecting and giving back to the earth in action, not just intention, and to be able to reinvent itself to match the high pace of evolution of electronic music. Subterran is committed to pushing environmental and community intentions to the forefront, and not being content with established matrixes for outdoor parties, but instead using these gatherings as oppourtunites to experiment with music from the cutting edge.

Subterran events are not-for-profit, community orientated outdoor gatherings. We put our events together with diversity in mind rather than catering fully to any one particular scene. The intention is to create an accessible outdoor party space where many different cultural niches can come together in shared space. Our events have covered psytrance, dub, electronica, progressive, breakbeats, bush techno, glitch, ambient/chill and other interesting musical forms, but within this variety, the emphasis is still on working with organic/outdoor sensibilities and creating a smooth flow between styles. Individual events may be planned on a specific concept and the lineup and flow will be diverse but focussed on exploring that particular tangent in depth. Subterran has no genre loyalties, we're much more interested in seeing different tribes play together.

All of our outdoor events include a landcare or environmental component, and we have begun fostering links between the outdoor party scene and community and environmental groups. Previous events have included weed clearing and tree plants at a range of sites in S.E.Qld, and activites such as educational forest walks and deep ecology workshops.

We are also dedicated to the legitimisation of outdoor party culture in the eyes of others by developing a responsible approach to organsing these events, maintaining a constant devotion to the positive environmental outcomes of our events, exploring avenues for building sustainable community spaces and creating working relationships with local community/environmental organisations. We are a non-profit organisation. All money made from our work goes straight back in to preparing more and better community events. We also support environmental protection charities. $1 from every entry is donated to the Wilderness Society.

Subterran is an open format. We appreciate your input and perspective. Get involved.