Dance Temple

2.ArtsCulture_2.7.2.DanceFloor

“By allowing ourselves to let go of the world that we have to be part of every day, and to surrender to another kind of world, we’re allowing imaginative processes to take place.”
Brian Eno

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 Grateful Dead or Jimi Hendrix. The prog from Pink Floyd, King Crimson or Hawkind. The amazing dub producers Lee Perry, Mad Professor or King Tubby helped the emergence of psychedelic funk with, of course, Funkadelic or Sly And Robbie or even cosmic disco by Daniele Baldelli.

In Germany, kraut rock with Neu!, Can or Popol Vuh put psychedelic on a new scale and were the background for a generation in the 80s to develop psychedelia into the realms of synth pop (say Cabaret Voltaire) or acidic rock with Primal Scream, Ozric Tentacles – ancestors of modern psychedelia in rock as played by the always interesting Animal Collective.

In the 1980s, acid house came through and the rest is history throughout the 90s and 2000s: 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:

OPENING CEREMONY

We are bringing the African ceremonies to connect us with the Sacred Earth. Based on traditional, ritualistic and ceremonial dances, one ensemble from Angola is spreading the knowledge on how percussive rhythms touch our hearts and connect our spirits with something higher. A full percussive and acoustic sacred dance ritual on August 19th sunset.

Kilandukilu (ANG)

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 – or the new-school goa – 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…

Anders Tillman (SWE)
Filteria (SWE) http://www.myspace.com/filteria
Green Nuns of the Revolution (UK) http://www.myspace.com/greennunsoftherevolution
Gus Till (AUS) http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2010/2009/10/the-aliens-are-back
Johan Bley (GER) http://www.myspace.com/johannbley1
Joti Sidhu (UK) http://www.myspace.com/jotisidhu
Man With No Name (UK) http://www.myspace.com/martinfreeland
Psychopod (DK) http://www.discogs.com/artist/Saiko-Pod
Random Mode (PT – Ajnagroove Records) http://www.myspace.com/randomode
Sam@Chaishop.com & Roberdo (GER – Chaishop)
Sandman (ISR – Matsuri) http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sandman+(2)
Shiva Joerg (GER – Shiva Space Technology) http://www.myspace.com/shivajoerg

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, twisted, techy, progressive, or fusion. All these styles performed together to scale the heights of our fantasy and for allowing imaginative processes to take place.

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!

OOOD (UK) http://www.myspace.com/oood

We are screening an activist animation movie done by one independent director. Awaken your mind with the ethereal world of conscious animation

Anita Shukla http://www.anitashukla.com

VISUAL CONCEPT AND DECORATION

Mind expanding our senses, we are bringing the cutting-edge of psychedelia, taking our perception deep into the realms of imagination. Connecting with the symbols of collective unsconcious and in sync with the magic of ancient futurism, the visual concept of the dance floor is tunning us with the soul of technology and the alma matter of the Sacred Earth.

Android Jones http://androidjones.viewbook.com/

SOUND SYSTEM

Keeping the tradition of last editions, Boom is teaming up once again with the fattest bass and the clearer sound system specially developed for electronic dance music.

Funktion One http://www.funktion-one.com/

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“By allowing ourselves to let go of the world that we have to be part of every day, and to surrender to another kind of world, we’re allowing imaginative processes to take place.”
Brian Eno

Play a vibration in the rhythm of the universe, Play a vibration in the rhythm of dreaming.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Dance Temple

“By allowing ourselves to let go of the world that we have to be part of every day, and to surrender to another kind of world, we’re allowing imaginative processes to take place.” Brian Eno

Play a vibration in the rhythm of the universe, Play a vibration in the rhythm of dreaming. Karlheinz Stockhausen

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“By allowing ourselves to let go of the world that we have to be part of every day, and to surrender to another kind of world, we’re allowing imaginative processes to take place.”
Brian Eno

Play a vibration in the rhythm of the universe, Play a vibration in the rhythm of dreaming.
Karlheinz Stockhausen