DETAILS

Date:

2010-08-18

Lieu:

Lake of IDANHA-A-NOVA - Portugal [world]

Durée:

de 00H00 à 00H00

Prix:

Prélocs euro 130
Sur place euro 180

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Dance Floor
Play a vibration in the rhythm of the universe, Play a vibration in the rhythm of dreaming.

Karlheinz Stockhausen



Boom is above all a psychedelic festival. Being that it has the duty of ever expanding its horizons. Long gone are the days when everybody was dancing goa trance on the dance floor, like in Boom 1997. Since then we’ve been assimilating the music mutations for more than a decade keeping present our main axis: psychedelic music within trance heritage.



That’s why we are surprised with some of the developments of the social awareness of psychedelic music over the years. People have become increasingly pigeonholed, fundamentalist and orthodox. On the other hand, quantity overcame quality, “superstar” live acts and pop ideology overshadowed underground music and cross-pollination. Psychedelic means “mind expanding”, surpassing boundaries, breakthroughs, non-conformist attitude and getting to know new (music) worlds.



Looking back psychedelic is the most diverse genre in contemporary music: the psy-cosmic jazz of Sun Ra. The acid rock of The Greatful Dead or Jimi Hendrix. The prog from Pink Floyd, King Crimson or Hawkind. The amazing dub producers Lee Perry, Mad Professor or Kung Tubby helped the emergence of psychedelic funk with, of course, Funkadelic or Sly And Robbie.



In Germany, kraut rock with Neu!, Can or Popol Vuh are extremely psychedelic and were the background for a generation in the 80s to develop psychedelia into the realms of synth pop (say Cabaret Voltaire) or dance rock with Primal Scream or Ozric Tentacles.



In the same decade, acid house came through and the rest is history: Aphex Twin, The Orb, Squarepusher, Future Sound of London, Juno Reactor, Kox Box, Doof, X-Dream, Harthouse, Dragonfly, Goa trance, psychedelic trance. Psychedelic music is a wide universe and modern psy-trance is a branch of this cosmic tree where boundaries are limitless.



On the Boom 2010 dance floor we want to be active agents in putting more love and new meaning into psy-trance. The dance floor will have three themes:



Psy-Trance and Beyond



We invite DJs and live acts that represent the full spectrum of contemporary psy-trance: full-on, psy, melodic, neo full-on, experimental, suomi, dark, tribal, techy, progressive, and fusion. All these styles performed together to scale the heights of our fantasy and for allowing imaginative processes to take place.



Goa Trance



For those who were there, the goa trance era is unforgettable. For those who were not there, we thought that they should experience the good old music on a proper dance floor through a decent sound system! Before midnight one DJ and one live act play the old tunes that inspired a whole generation of people to dance in forests, beaches, lakes, deserts, away from the daily routine. Only music mattered, even if the DJs didn’t mix with those old-school DAT players! We don’t want to be revivalists. But somehow we feel that reviving the spirit, the musicality, the amazing synths, the cosmic imaginary, will help us to enhance the mood and put some more ideas into modern psy-trance. Go back to a step forward with amazing artists…



Live Soundtracks



For the first time ever in the history of psy-trance, cinema and a live concert is performed together. We all know the cinematic potential of psychedelic trance. We all know that we need to add more concepts to the style we love in order to keep the evolution going. So, we invited a live act, we gave it a movie and the output is presented live at the Boom dance floor in one monumental session at the beginning of the night. Do not miss it!

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Festival goa du 18 au 26 Aout 2010 au Portugal!!!

While travelling the world all members of our team faced an inspirational pulse towards water. Not only the physical element itself, but also the symbolism and that which is invisible in water. It’s amazing adaptation to external conditions and continuous cycles. How its energy is directed downwards in connection to the Sacred Earth. For 2010 we decided to pay homage to water.

Water is essential for all dimensions of life. The water we use today has been around for hundreds of millions of years, and the amount available probably hasn’t changed very much. Water moves around the world, changes forms, is taken in by plants and animals, but never really disappears. It travels in a large, continuous cycle. In this sense water stands for a continuous reusing and recycling, a metaphor for one of Boom’s paradigms, the sustainable ethos.

Philosophically, the watercourse-way is an expression that alludes perfectly to what Taoism describes as appropriate behaviour. This “way” is wonderfully described in the Book of Change:

“The water endlessly flows and fills, up to a certain limit, the corners it is flowing through; Under all circumstances, it remains equal to its nature.”

According to Tao belief, water is that which gives life to all and asks nothing in return. The Chinese made from water the residence of the dragon, since all living beings come alive from water. In Chinese medicine, water is an energy that is directed downward to the earth thus connecting to it.

In Hermeticism, water is Nun, the substance of which all gods come from in the first Ennead. Among the Vedas, the water is called mâtriatamâh (primal mother), because, in the beginning, everything was like a sea without light. In India, it is generally considered that the water element keeps life that flows through all nature in the form of rain, sap, milk and blood. Unlimited and immortal, water is at the beginning and end of all things.

In its apparent formlessness, in ancient cultures we found the distinction between the upper waters and the down waters. The former symbolize the possibilities of virtual creation, the latter correspond to the completion of nature. The fire element acts, in this case, as the modifier of water and, therefore, the sun (spirit) makes the water from the sea evaporate (subliming life).

The water condenses into clouds and returns to earth as fertilizing rain. This double virtue derives from both its aquatic and celestial nature. Lao-Tzu paid great attention to this phenomenon of rotating water, both physical and spiritual, and said:

“The water does not stop day or night. If it circulates on the heights, it leads the rain and fog. If it circulates underneath, it forms the streams and rivers. The water stands for doing good. If a dike is opposed to it it holds up. If you open a pathway, it runs along it. That’s why we say that water does not fight. However, nothing compares to it to break the strong and the tough.”

The alchemists called water the mercury in the first stage of transformation and, by analogy, the fluid body of mankind. Current psychology interprets it as a symbol of the universal unconscious where all symbols come from.

The theme for Boom 2010 is an embodyment of the concept of immersion in water. It symbolizes a return to the pre-formal, with a sense of rebirth and new movement, as immersion multiplies the potential of life. The symbolism of baptism, always related to water, is central in Christianity or Hinduism. When he dives into the water the old man is completely immersed. When he leaves the water, the new man suddenly appears.

The Water On the Planet We Have Today

Since the Industrial Revolution, most of our world’s rivers have been treated unwisely as a convenient way of transporting waste to sea, affecting the biodiversity of thousands of kilometers of waterways, harming human health, and in the end polluting coastal and marine waters.

Of all the trends to watch, James Lovelock maintains sea level rise is the most important. Given the complexity of the millions of interactions within the Gaia system, Lovelock argues it is best to ignore year-to-year temperature fluctuations and instead watch the oceans. The seas, he says, are the lone trustworthy indicator of the earth’s heat balance. “Sea level rise is the best available measure of the heat absorbed by the earth because it comes from only two things. These are the melting of the glaciers and the expansion of water as it warms. Sea level is the thermometer that indicates true global heating.”

Lovelock argues that oceans will expand fuelled by feedback loops such as loss of reflective ice cover, replaced by heat absorvent dark water; the death of carbon-eating algae as oceans warm and acidify. These cycles will explode in the coming decades, and we must stop the fashionable rhetoric about sustainable development and “weave the sound of the alarm clock into our dreams. We will need to respond more like the inhabitants of a city threatened by a flood. We have to stop pretending there is a way back to that comfortable and beautiful Earth we left behind in the 20th century”