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Bibliography and digital sources
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What Are the Roots of Boom?
Boom Festival / Good Mood Lda
Origin at Herdade do Zambujal, Águas de Moura, Setúbal.
An interview published on the institute's blog — not a peer-reviewed article, and cited here as what it is. Useful on transnational history and the cassette and DAT culture from Goa onward.
Flying Away: Electronic Dance Music, Dance Culture, Psytrance and New Sounds in Portugal
Paula Guerra · in Exploring Psychedelic Trance and Electronic Dance Music in Modern Culture, ed. Emília Simão, Armando Malheiro da Silva e Sérgio Tenreiro de Magalhães (IGI Global, 2015), pp. 307–334
Peer-reviewed chapter, DOI 10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch013. Academia.edu's automatic citation credits the wrong person as the book's editor; the reference above is the correct one. It gives the academic framing for the growth and practices of the Portuguese scene.
The Cyberdeck plays real recordings, not just synthesis. They come from Freesound under Creative Commons licences — most CC0 (public domain) and two under attribution, credited below. The engine, the patterns and the code are ours and stay CC0. The kick, bass and acid are synthesised live in the browser; the shouts, whistles, horns, percussion and crowd are real people.
CC0 1.0: public domain, no credit required — we credit anyway because it is right. CC BY: free to use, commercially included, with credit to the author, which is here and in the file.
Corrections
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DOI 10.4018/978-1-4666-8665-6.ch013. Note: the automatic citation on Academia.edu misattributes the book's editor — the editors are Simão, Malheiro da Silva and Tenreiro de Magalhães.
DOI 10.12801/1947-5403.2009.01.01.03. Fieldwork at Boom 2006 and 2008. Its statement that the 1997 edition was held at Idanha-a-Nova is contradicted by Boom's own record and by Pereira et al. (2023) — see the corrections log.
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 — A wrong citation is an archival error even when the fact it supports is right. And presenting a blog interview as academic literature inflates the weight of the evidence. see the log →
2026-09-03 — An exact figure without its definition is a half-truth. see the log →
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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
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