Boom Festival 2008 Portugal

“If people can dance together they can live together”
Mel Cherren

“I believe that if you put your ego in front of the music, then the people trying to listen to the music can’t hear it, they just listen to your ego”
‘Mad’ Mike Banks (Underground Resistance)



Music-wise Boom is an underground festival. Since 1997 the major concern has been to clash unknown artists with popular names. We don’t like to do line ups based on a small groups of artists that travel all around the world. Instead at Boom the main concern has been to show other artists, different ideas and more sub-genres. We know that if we’d put a few more popular names it would be easier commercially. But we wouldn’t be doing our best to enrich the music culture of psy-trance and to widen its horizons.

The 2008 edition line up is not based on a monoculture perspective. It’s based on a strong conviction that we must show the underground side of psy-trance as opposed to the dominant culture of the trance scene nowadays of big names in big line ups (repeating the mistakes that all other dance music genres made years ago, reducing the choices of the audience and emphasizing quantity as opposed of quality).

Our concept is to show the underground and to create a dance floor where all sub-genres of psy-trance are represented. Some people will like it and some others won’t. However one thing is for sure: if you want to get in touch with the diversity that is still around you’ll have the dance floor. Be open-minded, from full-on psy-trance, dark, progressive to experimental, tribal and acoustic trance, techy or suomi, neo-goa trance and classic psy-trance: all tribes are represented. No monoculture, just diversity. Be open-minded in a dancefloor powered by a Funktion One sound system!


>> Special Opening Acts

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* Gocoo (Japan)
Tjak (Swing Music Agency – PT)
Wild Marmalade (AUS)
The Peaking Goddess (Peak Records – CH)
Star Sounds Orchestra (Ger.)
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>> Live Acts

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* Ajja (Peak Records – CH)
Antagon (Interzone.PA – Ger.)
Artifakt (Time Code - SA)
Behind Blue Eyes (Iboga – Denm.)
Burn In Noise (Alchemy Records – Br.)
Concept (3D Vision – Fr.)
Cosmo (Noise Poison - Slo.)
Ecliptic (Mex.)
Error Corrective (Wild Things Records - UK)
Fearsome Engine aka Tristan & Laughing Buddha (gb)
Hyper Frequencies (Syncronize Recs, Mechanik Recs. – Fr.)
Irgum Burgum (Psybaba Records – Hungary)
Khopat (Shiva Space Technology – PT)
Laughing Buddha (Nano Records – UK)
Menog (Spectral Records – PT)
N.A.S.A (Iboga Records – Denm.)
Neelix (Ger.)
Ocelot (Dropout Productions – USA)
Parus (AuraQuake Music - USA/Latvia)
Phonic Request (Mahogany Records – Fr.)
Procs (Manic Dragon - Swe.)
Psynema and Phoenix Fire Dancers (Ger.)
Rastaliens (Phar Psyde – CH)
Shadow Fx (Zenon Records – Australia)
Subconcious Mind (Fiin Records - CH)
Tetrameth (Zenon Records – Australia)
Texas Faggot (Exogenic Records – Fin.)
The First Stone (Br.)
Tristan (Nano Records – UK)
Zaraus (Swing Music Agency – PT)
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>> DJ's

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* Anneli (Phantasm Records – Swe.)
Artifakt (Time Code - SA)
Atyss (Sonic Motion Records - Fr)
Back to Mars (Cytopia Records – BR/Hol.)
Beardy (Wild Thing Records – UK)
Bedouin & Hamish (Furthur Recordings – UK)
Dica (Doof Records)
Don Ziggy (Stardust Creations/Peak Records – Aust.)
Fiuzz (Spectral Records – PT/Sp.)
Hopi (gb)
Hyper Frequencies (Syncronize Recs, Mechanik Recs. – Fr.)
Jahbo (Parvati Records – Denm.)
Kristian (Transient Records/Dejavoo – UK)
Martin (Mikrokosmos Records – Switz.)
Migas 🇵🇹
Mubali 🇺🇸
Nem (Oxygen Records – Czech Republic/Spain)
Nick (Shivlink – India)
Olowanpi (Dropout Productions – CH)
P_Mac (Boom Festival – PT)
Plurgrim (Cocoon Project – PT)
Regan (Nano Records – South Africa)
Shane Gobi (Alchemy - South Africa/UK)
Surya Namaskar (SwingAgency/Magnetika/TranceKarma - PT)
Swarup (Universo Paralello – BR.)
U-Recken (DoofLex – Isr.)
Vazik (Sounds of Earth – Mex.)
Zen (Holanda)
Zirkin (Doof Records – Isr.)
Zosma (Spintwist – Ger.)

Groovy Beach - Lineup
Synthesizing new music, melting pot imaginary and a detached mind, Boom strikes with a new music area. And no, it’s not alternative; it’s a major music floor!



Music is changing every second fuelled by the digital factor, be it the Internet, the DVJ, the MP3, or the digital DJing. Tastes and genres are moving towards syncretism, never in the history of mankind so much music has been produced, released and listened to by so many people.

Capturing the current trajectory of music, Boom has a new music area. The spirit is one of crossover. In Groovy Beach music styles are showcased as a mirror of present trends in the music scene with a particular forward thinking ethos. There’s plenty of room for experimentation and fun, an attitude of feeding the music scene by clashing sounds and influences in the same place.

From 3pm to 9pm there’s funk, reggae, dub and funky-mash up-beats. At 9pm dubstep will rule the place with a massive bass music and dense melodies. Breakbeat will get in full swing at midnight with some of the coolest artists around. At 2am breaks will turn into other beats. From this time straight to the morning you can listen to deep techno, minimal, tech-house, deep house, neo-trance, and fresh and innovative four-to-the-floor music by talented DJs and live acts. The Groovy Beach is a freestyle place and a playfully inventive music zone. As we love.



>> DJ's


Alex Tolstei (Russia)
Alquimix (Brazil)

Anti (Sweden)

Bad Boe (Denmark )

Bart Cruz (Portugal)

Basement Freaks (Greece )

Das Nevez (Portugal)

DJ Ride (Portugal)

DJ Slim (gb)

Dr. Ki (Portugal)

Duvar (Germany)

Expander (Portugal)

General MIDI(UK)

Chicco Aquino (Brazil)

Henry Saiz (Spain)

Hyper (gb)

Johnny (Portugal)

Kaesar (Portugal)

Kasey Taylor (Australia)

RMA (Portugal)

Manu (Portugal)

Matt Black (gb)

Mike Stellar (Portugal)

Mr. Cheeks (Portugal)

Myagi (Canada)

Nelson Flip (Portugal)

Parker (gb)

Patrick Zigon (Germany)

Pedro Seph (Portugal)

Pena (Portugal)

Phara (Brasil)

Satta B (gb)

Scuba (gb)

SpaceBoys SS (Portugal)

Stereo Addiction (Portugal)

Tati (Brasil)

Tes La Rok (Finland)

Tom Real (gb)

Tuffist 🇺🇸

Unidade Sonora (Portugal)

Wash (Brazil)

Yoel (Belgium)

Zamali (Belgium)





>> Live Acts


Billy d’Allessandro 🇺🇸

Boxcutter (Ireland)

Click Box (Brazil)

Deestant Rockers (Portugal)

Exercise One (Germany)

Extrawelt (Germany)

Far Too Loud (gb)

GothTrad (Japan)

Internal Sync (Portugal)

JazzStepPaz (gb)

Kanio (gb)

Loopus in Fabula (Italy)

Lunar Sounds (Mexico)

Marc Antona (France)

Monkey Steak (gb)

Mr. Gasparov (Portugal)

Octapush (Portugal)

Paul Ritch (France)

Portable (South Africa)

Rocky Marsiano (Portugal)

Straightflash (Brazil)

Zentex (Finland)