What is Boom?
Seated in a chai shop, a couple in their 30’s speak in a freestyle manner, recreating themselves with the game of word association, they laugh. Around them people are happy with that special joy of living something for the first time. Indeed they were living it: it was the Boom Festival. It was not just men, women and children that were experiencing something new, the festival organization - Good Mood Productions - moved by the idealism of joining the worldwide trance communities under the same sky, was also on the adventure of walking down an unknown path.
Founded by Diogo Ruivo and Pedro Carvalho, Good Mood and the Boom Festival were visions shared by these two young people and their closest friends. Supported by dozens of unknown activists, they began to build a collaborative event platform to create and develop new ideas envisioned by people from different artistic and cultural backgrounds. This special confluence of ideas, art and culture transformed Boom into more than just a music festival over the years. In 1997 Boom was an electronic music event, featuring Goa Trance to be precise.
The festival was small, occupying an area of 5 hectares in Herdade do Zambujal – an agriculture farm amidst a forest 60 kilometers south from Lisbon.
