The wind turbines in Graminhais, the Marconi antenna, the Space Station in Santa Maria, and the PMDS electronics (the duo Filipe Caetano and Pedro Sousa), complement each other to give the Azores a dystopian eco-futuristic scenario. And it is precisely a dystopian feeling that Filipe Caetano, who told us these episodes, craves: between playing for 12 hours straight or modulating one of the most virtuous Viola da Terra players, FLIP (stage name) shows that synthesizers and pickup trucks sometimes can complement each other:

«To play at Tremor, you need to have a lot of strength to adapt to any situation that might occur. In 2021, Tremor Todo-o-Terreno was made up of six sessions and all of them were different. Right at the first one, a farmer appeared with a water tank, one of those used for cows, and we had to wait for the man to fill the tank before starting. During the most epic session of all, three lumberjacks with axes strapped to their backs stopped by, trying to figure out what we were doing. Even worse was when the whole organization came, and the generator just died. But this ability to adapt to overcome also has positive aspects. For example, in 2018, Rafael Carvalho and I opened the festival with a concert on a Tuesday. Cristóvão Ferreira recorded the concert on the soundboard, we sent the file directly for mastering and soon after to Lisbon Cutters, who managed to cut a vinyl from Tuesday to Thursday. On Thursday, Pedro Sousa came from Lisbon with the vinyl in his hand. It's unheard of to be able to have a concert album released 48 hours after it happened. I offered a vinyl to each of the programmers, and they didn’t even understand what it was.»