The "Boom Book" was a project carried out during 2007 as a commemoration of Portugal's Boom Festival's 10th anniversary. The goal was is to independently release a book about Boom but also to highlight its main contribution to today's world - as leader in incorporating novel approaches to entertainment and providing experiences lived through a festival which can pioneer new perceptions and visions, enhancing all of us and our relationship with the world we live in.

This book is a collaborative project put together by anthropologists, journalists, designers, illustrators, poets, musicologists, and photographers to capture the essence of the Boom Festival. The Boom Book includes essays, interviews, visionary art by Alex Grey, Robert Venosa or Android, and innovative texts about psy-trance. It is a cultural record of striking importance, capturing the beauty of Boom and also the role of subcultures in a modern world.

visit http://www.boomfestival.org/boombook/ for information about the Boom Book, or http://www.boomfestival.org/ for details about the festival.
the 2008 Boom Festival will be held from 11-18th August. you can virtually visit the Boom Festival location in google earth.

home of psytrance artists and parties collective Gi'iwa Productions. artists include SATTEL BATTLE (Israel), SIENIS (Sweden), NEUR0N COMPOST (Brisbane - Australia), HiREd Go0Nz (Brisbane - Australia), GHETTAFUNKT (Nth NSW - Australia), AZz / CONTRA COUP (Brisbane - Australia), DISCO TRASH / HIRED GOONS (Brisbane - Australia), REALITY PIXIE (Brisbane - Australia)

OVER 150 ACTS, OVER 11 PLAYGROUNDS!!!

earthcore's annual global carnival brings you a three day bush odyessey of music, dancing, performances, art, local designer and food markets and much more. A place where love, new friendships and creative inspiration blossom! An alternative music and lifestyle celebration outdoors in the beautiful Australian bush landscape, the way mother nature intended! Featuring over 150 artists, including over 30 international and over 100 local/interstate artsists from all corners of the globe - electro, trance, hard dance, techno, breaks, psychedelic, downbeat – across seven stages - no stone will be left un-turned!

Read more or visit http://www.earthcore.com.au for more details

2nd annual
earthcore global carnival
queensland
1st - 3rd December, 2006
@ Cruiser Park, Jimna, Sunshine Coast
supported by triple j's Mix-Up

You're invited to kick off your summer in style at the biggest and best dance party experience of the summer when Earthcore's Annual Global Carnival hits Cruiser Park on the Sunshine Coast 1st - 3rd December, 2006! To be held in Queensland for the second time ever after over 13 years of festivals in country Victoria, the weekend of music, arts and dancing promises something special to be remembered.

Full international line up includes DJ Krush (hip-hop/Sony/Japan), John 00 Fleming (hard-dance/trance/JOOF/UK), Michael Mayer (electro/Kompakt/Germany), Nick Sentience (hard-dance/trance/Nukleuz/UK), Raja Ram (trance/1200 Mics/Shpongle/TIP World/UK), GMS (trance/live/Spun/Ibiza), DJ Lucas (breaks/10kilo/UK), Phony Orphants (progressive/live/Iboga/Denmark), Emok (prog/Phony Orphants/Iboga/Denmark) and Jeppe (Phony Orphants/Iboga/Denmark) across four stages.

The Monster Mainfloor features everything from dub and hip-hop, to hard dance, psy trance, breaks, electro and more with locals Slot Machine (live/Byron Bay), AB Didgeridoo (live/Byron Bay), D-Ko (live), Hired Goonz (live/Gi'iwa), Drew-id (live/Dada-Stream), Paul Abad (Subterran), CY (Zenon/Polysonic) and Cosmo Cater.

The collective energies of some of Brisbane's burgeoning techno and electro nights over the last five years, Drop and liquidBASS bring you everything from mantric tribal techno rhythms, raw jacking funky house, deep hypnotic minimal house, to breaks, broken beats, acid, glitch and booty with Scott Walker (DROP), Orinoko (liquidBASS, Melt, 4zzz ,Electronic Goodness), Fuzion (Melt), Shadrach (liquidBASS, acidfever), Nick Taylor vs Jet More a.k.a. Jet Taylor Experience (Byron Bay), Dave Basek (Junkbeats/20for7/Tza Dynasty/Byron Bay), Murray Antill (live), Si Clone (Submerged Bay Fm/Byron Bay), Fergus Alexander (Logic/BPM), G-Money (The Goodness), Valli Lee (The Goodness/liquidBASS/4ZzZ Electronic Goodness) and Schoolyard Dope Fiends.

Brisbane's leading drum & bass posse Rudebwoyz go head to head with Virus crew for three days of broken beats, electro, progressive and hard trance / dance madness with courtesy of lowkey + nude (live), Baby Gee (Family), Tranceducer (Virus), Operon vs Erther (Rude Bwoyz), Anarchy (Majex/Resonate/Mayhem), Michael Redfern (Logic), Majex (live), Sektile vs Shards (generation2K- PLEXUS/!113g@1 v@1u3), Sammy Gee (Gold Coast), De la Haye (Junglettes), Kosha D (Phat alBeats), JT Effect, Angus Gibbons and Justus.

Polysonic bring you an array of psychedelic delicacies from around the world and beyond (Friday only) including Hexadecimal (live/Brisbane), Jole (Loony Tunez/Nthrn NSW), Amaranth (Zenon), Mesq (Gi'iwa/Polysonic/Reality Pixie), Chaotic Eternal vs Tantrum (Nthrn NSW), Kaneda (Polysonic), Senoi vs Karmacuetical (Harmonize Records), Solatek (Domo Rec/Psytek/Cairns) and Dr Zaius (DadaStream).

Lighting and visual delights by Mark Hemmant (EFX Lighting), Ampt Productions, Squiffyvision, Pi-rate and OE World, roving performances by All Star Fish and aural delights by J&S Audio.

Earlybird tickets SOLD OUT. Second release $85 til end September, third release $90 til end October.

Full pre-sale tickets $99 from 1st November.

. Camping is included in your ticket price! Tickets can be purchased from www.earthcore.com.au, Gooble Warming, Rocking Horse Records, Central Station, Skinny's Music, Butter Beat, Music Mania Southport, Sunflower Music Broadbeach, Toomba Records Gold Coast, All Music & Vision, Fairy Floss and Music Shop Byron Bay, Music Bizarre Lismore, Red Zoo Maroochydore and Phat Al Beats Noosa.

http://www.earthcore.com.au

[via phreakin news list]

organik magik, sat 11th

DIRTY DISCO BALLS PRODUCTIONS & 11:11

PRESENT

ORGANIK MAGIK 11/11

Join us for a magical weekend @ Opoeia November 10-12. We'll be indulging in a full LIVE ORGANIC TRIBAL FUSION gathering the sorts of which we've not been able to enjoy for some time. Come join us in recognition of the energy building towards 2012. Lots more info to come...

http://www.opoeia.com.au

incantations, fri 10th

ACE MORNING BAR 10th NOV ft. The guys and girls on the list below. $10 Entry. Kicks off @ 9pm.

The masters of madness are back to churn out Demonic wraith and the Angelic Bliss in the form of excrutiatingly pumiling Psytrance. This should be a Magical event with some of the most ferocious acts available. So come on down and help us twist the dimensions of space and time and energise the bar
yet again! See Ya' There!

Genki Music Proudly Presents : TRIBAL DISCO III - Our third installment of genre transcending, mind bending, chakra mending disco beats.... Featuring Australia's finest: Jet More (Brainwash), Schwa (Tribal Vision/Beef), suncontrolspecies (Iboga), Jack Unit (Monotremes/Semi Retired), Andrew Haig (PBS/Nocturnal/Global Eyes). 11pm onwards Saturday May 20th @ Brown Alley. $15 Members (sign up for free at http://www.genkimusic.com) - $20 On the door

About Subterran

Subterran is a work in progress. We are an events and music organisation based in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, S.E.Qld, primarily involved in outdoor music events with an environmental focus. Subterran aims to push the outdoor party format deeper. Our belief is that to stay true to the original intention of outdoor dance parties: earth reconnection and exploration of fringe electronic music, the culture needs to start connecting and giving back to the earth in action, not just intention, and to be able to reinvent itself to match the high pace of evolution of electronic music. Subterran is committed to pushing environmental and community intentions to the forefront, and also to showcasing exciting new music.

For the first time ever, Australia's largest dance music and lifestyle festival will be coming to QLD in full outdoor tour mode. Many of you have been making the Victorian pilgrimage to attend this annual event, but now it is scheduled to happen in our own backyard! fusing brisbane and earthcore presents.. EARTHCORE QLD - OUTDOOR :: 24 HR :: OPEN AIR FESTIVAL - SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER. The thunder from down under brings it monster martian death ray to Brisbane! Earthcore's main floor will unleash an open-air all star international lineup from dusk till later than dawn...... Internationals on the lineup so far include : The Amorphous Adrodgynous (Future Sound of London

Demon Tea is a producer and distributor of music by independant artists exploring boundaries in the Psychedelic Trance scene.

Artists like Loopus In Fabula, PeLinPaLa, James Reipas, Odd Harmonic,Weird Alchemy and many others are represented here.

The Digital Psionics conception was formed in Dec 1998 by Luna Orbit and Luke Psywalker. This complimentary musical partnership was inspired to start a label, with the intentions of sharing the artistic integrity of electronic psy-trance with the wider global community. The duo offer an exquisite collection of quality music through Digital Psionics.

The Psionic mission has always been not to follow a particular style. Digital Psionics prides itself on releasing music that works on the dance floor, whilst at the same time supporting new and innovative artists in Australia and abroad. Digital Psionics represents a creative platform for global psy-trance artists to express their musical ingenuity and has established a reputation for sourcing quality cutting edge sounds.

psytrance and similar music from Byron Bay label

Native & Exotic Ethnobotanical Seeds, Plants, Herbs & more

Seraphic is one of Australia's newest electronic music labels. We are 100% independent and hope that our releases will represent the best electronic music that Australia has to offer. Our way of thinking is not confined to particular genres or musical styles and this is evidenced by the eclectic nature of our releases to date. We hope that you will find our releases to be engaging aural pleasures. Home of psytrance outfit Halo Produkshuns, Steve Law and Voiteck

Celebrating the rebirth of psychedelic futurism - lots of great articles and links. great thinking material

a DIY sub-cultural-portable-independent-electronic-music -moving imagery-label+outfit

freeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor - AliaK

AliaK spoke with Graham St John regarding his new book about Australian electronic music community, travelling sound systems and DiY party culture.

GRAHAM ST JOHN : EDITOR AND COMPILER OF "freeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor" @ FRIGID (HOPETOUN HOTEL, SYDNEY)
SUNDAY 17 MARCH

"freeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor" is a book about music - electronic music, the sounds, and methods of creating and sharing these sounds with other likeminded individuals. It`s about people, the passionate people who live on the fringe of society celebrating electronic music with their DiY ideals and also the spiritualistic insights that music can bring. It`s about technology, and how technology can be used to spread ideas and keep people informed. It`s about information, information that cannot be suppressed by traditional media. And it`s about history, the history of one sector of the Australian electronic music community, which to this day,