Film, photography, flyers, directories, audio, machines, catalogues and stories. Every item keeps its origin and creator rights visible.
CATÁLOGO V0.210 PORTAS DE ENTRADADIREITOS PRESERVADOSACESSO EM EXPANSÃO
First indexed items
At this stage we do not copy third-party files into the archive. We link to the official source or identified holder, record metadata and open a path to authorised preservation.
2026
30 Years of Boom — Microfilm 1
PT-FILM-001 · FILM
The first chapter in Boom’s official historical film series.
The flyer image reproduced in a 2016 Trancentral article, captioned only “Boom Festival first edition flyer – 1997”. It gives no dates, producers or line-up; a legible original is still to be located.
Read on 3 September 2026: 21 imprints and 122 releases. Three of the entries belong to one organisation, so the count of organisations is 19. Its coverage stops around 2009.
Fluorescent colour and fractals are only the surface. A flyer preserves the whole network: promoters, ticket shops, hotline numbers, directions, buses, prices, warnings, artists, décor crews and the language used before feeds existed. That is why we catalogue front, back, dimensions, print method, approximate date, provenance and rights—not just a pretty image.
Cyberculture’s interface uses that grammar—grid, stamps, catalogue numbers, tape and signal colour—without reproducing third-party art as decoration.
Portuguese label index
Below is the first editorial sample. The complete catalogue will connect entities, releases, artists, years and project relationships.
01
Flow Records
Founded by DJ Pena; progressive house and (psy)trance.
200034 catalogadas02
Crystal Matrix
Portuguese label and promoter tied to the full-on wave of the 2000s.
200313 catalogadas03
Ketuh Records
Part of the Portuguese label map documented in discographic databases.
2000s12 catalogadas04
Spectral Records
Portuguese psytrance label present in the international discographic record.
2000s9 catalogadas05
Quest4Goa Records
Label arm of the Portuguese collective Quest4Goa.
2000s2 catalogadas06
Good Mood Records
Linked to the core that seeded Boom and Portugal’s party culture.
1990s1 catalogada
VISUAL ARCHIVE
What the scene looks like
Freely licensed photographs, each with its author and licence. Where the date is known, it is stated.
Boom Festival, 2017. The original file is catalogued as “1997”, but the uploader's own description says 2017 — we use the author's date.Racheland Deckard · CC BY-SA 4.0Boom Festival seen from the Being Fields, 2018, Idanha-a-Nova.Racheland Deckard · CC BY-SA 4.0The Dance Temple, Boom Festival 2012.Serialslb · CC BY-SA 3.0Structures and décor, Boom Festival 2006.Ismael Olea · CC BY-SA 2.0Boom Festival 2008.Igor Domsac from Madrid, Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0Camping at the edge of the Idanha-a-Nova reservoir, Boom Festival 2004.Andy Weisner · CC BY-SA 2.0Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco — the municipality where Boom settled from 2002.Hipersyl · CC BY-SA 4.0Fire dancing, Morjim beach, Goa, 2025.Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0A psytrance party at Ashwem, Goa, 2025. The Goa scene is still running — it is not only history.Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0The VJ matters as much as the DJ. Ashwem, Goa, 2025.Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0Projected visuals, Goa, 2025 — now generated live by software.Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0Karangahape Road, Auckland — the street where Cyberculture opened in 1993.Ingolfson at English Wikipedia (Original text: Own picture.) · Public domain
Read 3 September 2026: 21 labels, 122 releases. Three of the 21 are one organisation (Flow Records, Flow Vinyl, Hyperflow Records), so the figure counts imprints, not companies.
Reproduces the 1997 flyer image, captioned only 'Boom Festival first edition flyer – 1997'. It does not state the August dates or name the producers; an earlier version of this page cited it for both, which was wrong — see the corrections log.
Read 2026-09-03
CORRECTED ON THIS PAGE
2026-09-03 — An exact figure without its definition is a half-truth. see the log →
2026-09-03 — The description claimed more than its source supports — this was the link behind the fabricated production company corrected in 2026-09-03-01. An archive index has to describe the document that exists, not the document we would like to hold. see the log →
2026-09-03 — The date on an archive record is the date of the document. A 2026 read of a database is not an artefact of the 2000s, and the figure only means anything alongside the date it was read. see the log →
A claim without a source does not stand on this page as fact. Where the evidence does not exist, we say so. If you find an error, write to us through the Contribute page — we fix it and log the correction with its date.
DROP001Nº ___
DROP 001 / OBJECTS FROM THE RECORD / SIGNAL FIRST
A piece of the record, in your hand.
A small, numbered edition of physical objects made from the archive, by hand, between Portugal and Aotearoa. The Signal hears first: one email, one transmission when it is ready, your number on the list.
EDITION
Numbered by hand
MADE
Portugal ↔ Aotearoa
FUNDS
The archive · history stays free
ACCESS
The Signal first
You do not need to give an email to use any of this: the archive is open, the machine plays without signing up, and the 24-pattern MIDI pack is public domain.
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