CONCRETA 002 - Matéria Prima - Hugo by Concreta Sala published on 2018-06-21T18:05:17Z “For my participation at CONCRETA, I made a sixty-minute-long mix with "out of the box" Portuguese music. The mixtape goes through a period of more than forty years, starting in 1976 and ending in 2017, showing a side of the most restless Portuguese music and the balance between the poetry of sound and words.” Hugo Oliveira holds a degree in Fine Arts and Sound Arts and uses his talents as a painter and illustrator to explore the concept of representation. He prefers the countryside to the beach, sweets to savory, and likes punctuality, politeness, Pompei, sparkling water, whiskey, books, and, of course, records. He lives in Porto, Portugal and has been working for Matéria Prima for over ten years. Matéria Prima began its commercial activities as a collaborative adventure between three people, aiming to provide listeners seeking experimental sonorities with records often hard to come by during the 90s in Portugal. In addition to operating a record shop in Porto, they organize concerts and provide consulting services to festivals across Portugal. The actual team consists of four people -- Paulo, Cristina, Hugo, and Carlos – all actively involved in the selection of titles displayed in the store. Matéria Prima celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015. Technical Information Episode 002 made use of one Technics SL-1210 MK2 turntable, a Numark DM1001x mixer and a MacBook running Audacity and GarageBand. It was recorded in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018. Cover by Richard Vergez, based on artwork by Cristina Regadas (Cúspides, 2018) Genre Ambient Comment by john moore tracklist?? 2020-08-29T18:08:24Z Comment by DA MATTA YES! 2018-08-06T18:47:15Z