Photographs
None of these photographs are ours. They are here because their authors published them under licences that allow reuse, and each carries the credit and licence that reuse requires. If you took one of them and want it gone, write to us and it goes the same day.
| Image | Author | Date | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2022-04-05 | CC BY-SA 4.0 · file |
| Boom Festival seen from the Being Fields, 2018, Idanha-a-Nova. | Racheland Deckard | 2022-04-05 | CC BY-SA 4.0 · file |
| The Dance Temple, Boom Festival 2012. | Serialslb | 2012-07-31 | CC BY-SA 3.0 · file |
| Boom Festival 2006, Idanha-a-Nova — the first decade, already at the lakeside site. | Ismael Olea | 2006-08-05 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| Structures and décor, Boom Festival 2006. | Ismael Olea | 2006-08-05 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| The site by day, Boom Festival 2006. | Ismael Olea | 2006-08-06 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| The crowd, Boom Festival 2006. | Ismael Olea | 2006-08-09 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| Boom Festival 2008. | Igor Domsac from Madrid, Spain | 2008-08-16 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| Camping at the edge of the Idanha-a-Nova reservoir, Boom Festival 2004. | Andy Weisner | 2005-11-18 | CC BY-SA 2.0 · file |
| Idanha-a-Nova, Castelo Branco — the municipality where Boom settled from 2002. | Hipersyl | 2015-06-03 | CC BY-SA 4.0 · file |
| Idanha-a-Velha, with Monsanto behind, 2008. | Quistnix at Dutch Wikipedia | 2008-07-14 | CC BY-SA 2.5 · file |
| A psytrance party at Ashwem, Goa, 2025. The Goa scene is still running — it is not only history. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2025-03-04 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Ashwem, Goa, 2025. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2025-03-04 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| The VJ matters as much as the DJ. Ashwem, Goa, 2025. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2025-03-04 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Fire dancing, Morjim beach, Goa, 2025. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2025-02-15 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Projected visuals, Goa, 2025 — now generated live by software. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2025-02-23 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Vagator, Goa, 2010. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2010-12-25 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| A daytime party at Vagator, Goa, 2010 — the direct inheritance of the beach parties. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2010-12-25 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Anjuna, Goa, 2010. Curlies, opened in the late 1980s, is the oldest of the beach shacks. | Vyacheslav Argenberg | 2010-12-21 | CC BY 4.0 · file |
| Anjuna, Goa, 2008 — the beach where the music started changing its name. | Fredericknoronha | 2008-12-23 | CC BY-SA 4.0 · file |
| Kazantip, Crimea, 2006 — the psychedelic scene of eastern Europe. | Vyacheslav Argenberg from Seattle, WA, USA | 2006-08-03 | CC BY 2.0 · file |
| Karangahape Road, Auckland — the street where Cyberculture opened in 1993. | Ingolfson at English Wikipedia (Original text: Own picture.) | 29 Decembe | Public domain · file |
| K Road between Queen Street and Pitt Street, Auckland, 2008. | Ingolfson | 2008 | Public domain · file |
| 327 Karangahape Road, Auckland, 2026. The street kept its architecture; the shops all changed. | Paora | 2026-03-19 | CC0 · file |
| K Road, Auckland, 2021. | L Maule | 2021-08-12 | CC BY-SA 4.0 · file |
Films
We host no video. Each film plays from the channel of whoever made it, and only after you press play — before that, YouTube receives nothing from you.
- Boom Festival 20 Years (1997–2017) — Boom Festival Official Page (2018)The organisation's own documentary on the first twenty years. It is published on Boom's own films site.
- 30 Years of Boom — Microfilm 1: The Genesis of Boom in 1997 — Boom Festival Official Page (2026)The first chapter of the official history series, on 1997. It is the organisation's own account of the origins.
- Telúrica — a sensorial film about Boom Festival 2018 — Boom Festival Official Page (2019)The official film of the 2018 edition, also published on Boom's films site.
- ZNA Gathering 2022 — official movie — ZNA Gathering (2022)The official film of the 2022 edition, rescheduled from 2021, on the organisation's own channel.
- ZNA Gathering 2019 — ZNA Gathering (2019)The official 2019 film.
- The Gathering 97/98 — documentary — The Gathering Archives (1998)The documentary of the New Year festival at Canaan Downs, Golden Bay — New Zealand's equivalent of Portugal's 1997 moment. It is published on the festival's own archive site.
- Music Is My Drug: Psychedelic Trance (1995) — Martin Meissonnier (1995)A 1995 documentary for Canal+, filmed in Goa, Israel, the UK and Japan, published by its own diretor.
What is ours
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Sounds
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