Editorial rule
Historical facts require a published source or at least two identified, independent witnesses. Oral memory can enter the archive as testimony before it is treated as fact. Event dates always carry a verification date and source link.
Bibliography and digital sources
What Are the Roots of Boom?
Boom Festival / Good Mood Lda
Origin at Herdade do Zambujal, Águas de Moura, Setúbal.
Boom 1997 Gallery
Boom Festival
Official visual record of the first edition.
Boom Festival 2027
Boom Festival
Official dates and location of the 30-year edition.
30 Years of Boom Festival: Microfilm 1
Boom Festival
Oral history and moving images published by the organisation.
ZNA Gathering 2026
ZNA Gathering
Mission, location and the official retro-futurist edition.
Lost record stores of inner Auckland — Cyberculture
AudioCulture / Iwi Waiata
Documented history of Cyberculture on Karangahape Road, 1993–97.
Portugal — Psytrance Labels
PsyDB
21 Portuguese labels and 122 releases indexed.
Crystal Matrix Records
Discogs
Founded in 2003; catalogue of the Portuguese label.
Psycultures: The Globalization of Goatrance
Institute of Network Cultures
Transnational history and the cassette/DAT culture from Goa onward.
Flying Away: dance culture, psytrance and new sounds in Portugal
Paula Guerra, Universidade do Porto
Academic context on the growth and practices of the Portuguese scene.
Trance events in Lisbon
Shotgun
Current event listings; every entry must be confirmed with the promoter.
Upcoming Events — Portugal
Goabase
International database of Goa/psytrance parties and festivals.
Flow Group — About
Flow Records
Founded in 2000 by João Garcia (Pena); the label’s evolution.
Flow Records — catalogue
PsyDB
34 releases documented between 2000 and 2009.
Digital Oracle Records — catalogue
PsyDB
Five CDs associated with the Portuguese label.
Boom Festival — 1997 flyer reproduction
Trancentral
Dates, promoters, line-up and the graphic language of the first flyer.
New Zealand electronic-music directory
Hyperreal
Contemporary record of Cyberculture’s Auckland address and contacts.
Introduction to Psytrance Cultures
Graham St John / Dancecult
Academic history of Goa trance culture and its global circulation.
Fungi Records Label Party — 27 June 2008
Goabase
Historical record with line-up, location and directions.
Psybertech Festival 2008
Last.fm archive
Event trace with date, venue, promoter, décor and line-up.
Cyberdeck sounds
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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