OPPOSITES ATTRACT

The idea was simple; Launch a QR code, one of the most innovative technologies of the XXI century, made by Portuguese cobblestones, one of the most ancient Portuguese traditions.
From the fusion between technology and historical traditions a new and innovative way was born to promote Portugal abroad and to provide relevant cultural content for tourists visiting Chiado. 

I'VE SEEN THE LIGHT

“This mix ended up being a lot of different things. They are mainly influences of mine, but arranged in a way that would flow. After a night out, the last thing I want to hear is more noise. These are my favorite sparse, moody and beautiful songs. This is what I’d want to listen to on a drive home"

André Allen Anjos, founder of RAC

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TRACKLIST:
Toro Y Moi - Divina
Air - Playground Love
The Stepkids - Legend In My Own Mind
Michael Kiwanuka - I'll Get Along
Beck - The Golden Age
Cass McCombs - County Line
Kindness - House
Hot Chip - In The Privacy Of Our Love
Chromatics - Into The Black
Os Mutantes - O Relógio
Gal Costa / Caetano Veloso - Baby
Peter Bjorn & John - Stay This Way
António Carlos Jobim - Wave
Brazilian Girls - L'Interprete
Peter Sarstedt - Boulevard
Surfer Blood - Drinking Problem
Rivers Cuomo - Ooh
Cornelius - Like A Rolling Stone
Vangelis - Love Theme

BRING ME BACK TO 1972

In this post the best thing i can do is to quote the comment Rythm Droid wrote on youtube. He's a electronic music genius and we just love him.

No matter how hard people try nowadays to make forward leaps in technologically enhanced audio-visual art, so many creators miss something.
This film has that something: aesthetic value and pleasing qualities. Call me old-fashioned but I get so agitated by art that is 100% experimental with no regard for the human hearts that are witnessing it.

Graphics programming by Dean Anschultz
Music by Terry Riley

KEEPING UP

If get asked about who the father of personal computers is, most of people may probably name Conrad Zuse, or Bill Gates and his early mentor Ed Roberts. Well if we focus on the word "personal", they could be wrong.

Yesterday Jack Tramiel, The Polish-born American businessman best known for founding Commodore International passed away at the age of 83, and he's probably the one who we should point our finger at. His life is an extraordinary example of initiative, commitment and work ethic.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 his family was transported by German occupiers to the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, where he worked in a garment factory. When the ghettos were liquidated his family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

In November 1947, Tramiel emigrated to the United States. He soon joined the U.S. Army, where he learned how to repair office equipment, including typewriters.

In 1955, Tramiel signed a deal with a Czechoslovak company to assemble and sell their typewriters in North America. However, as Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact, they could not be imported directly into the U.S., so Tramiel set up Commodore Business Machines in Toronto. Tramiel wanted a military-style name for his company, but names like Admiral and General were already taken, so he settled on the Commodore name.

When Commodore released its first calculators, combining an LED display from Bowmar and an integrated circuit from Texas Instruments it found a ready market, but one day their lead designer, Chuck Peddle, told Tramiel that calculators were a dead end and computers were the future, so he was told to build one to prove the point.

Peddle responded with the Commodore PET, based on his company's MOS Technology 6502 processor. It was nothing but an instant success.

As prices dropped and the market matured, the monochrome (green text on black screen) PET was at a disadvantage in the market when compared to machines like the Apple II and Atari 800, which offered color graphics, and could be hooked to a television as an inexpensive display. Commodore responded with the VIC-20, the first personal computer to sell one million units, and then with the Commodore 64, which with several million units sold would go on to be the best-selling home computer of all time. It was during this time period that Tramiel coined the famous phrase, "We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes."

Thank you Jack.

DRAGON LOVE

How good does it feel when you find someone with your same taste for something? Well usually it feels quite heart-warming, especially when 98% of the people around you are like from another planet.

Dramatically groovy arpeggios, uplifiting melodies and that retro drum that todays dubstep hipsters could never get: Dragon Suplex from Zürich (Switzerland) are producing a lot of extraordinary dreamy synth tunes and a few classy house tracks to go along with it. No matter the genre, their sound is sublime, and it automatically brings out those early 80's feelings. Freaking awesome throwback videos top it up with extra flavour, here's their latest one featuring Ponch & John as special guest stars.

HEROES OF SOUND #1 - MELLE MEL

Melvin Glover was the first rapper ever to call himself "MC" (Master of Ceremony). Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) & Cowboy (Keith Wiggins). While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term "hip-hop" while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five began recording for Enjoy Records and released "Superrappin'" in 1979. They later moved on to Sugarhill Records and were popular on the R&B charts with party songs, like "Freedom" and The Birthday Party". They released numerous singles, gaining a gold disc for "Freedom," and also toured. In 1982 Melle Mel began to turn to more socially aware subject matter, in particular the Reagan administration's economic (Reaganomics) and drug policies, and their effect on the black community. A song entitled "The Message" became an instant classic and one of the first glimmers of conscious hip-hop. Mel recorded a rap over session musician Duke Bootee's instrumental track "The Jungle". Some of Mel's lyrics on "The Message" were taken directly from "Supperrappin'". Other than Melle Mel, no members of the Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five actually appear on the record. Bootee also contributed vocals (Rahiem was to later lip-sync Bootee's parts in the music video). "The Message" went platinum in less than a month and went on to become arguably the greatest record in hip-hop history. It was the first hip-hop record ever to be added to the United States National Archive of Historic Recordings. Mel would also go on to write songs about struggling life in New York City ("New York, New York"), and making it through life in general ("Survival (The Message 2)"). Grandmaster Flash split from the group after contract disputes between Mele Mel and their promoter Sylvia Robinson in regard to royalties for "The Message". When Flash filed a lawsuit against Sugar Hill Records, their label, the factions of The Furious Five parted.

Mel became known as "Grandmaster Melle Mel" and the leader of the Furious Five. The group went on to produce the anti-drug song "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" (the unofficial music video starred up-and-coming actor Laurence Fishburne and was directed by then unknown film student Spike Lee). The record was falsely credited to "Grandmaster + Melle Mel" by Sugarhill Records in order to fool the public into thinking Grandmaster Flash had participated on the record. Mel then gained higher success appearing in the movie Beat Street, with a song based on the movie's title. He became the first rap artist ever to win a Grammy award for "Record of the Year" after performing a memorable rap on Chaka Khan's smash hit song "I Feel for You" which introduced hip-hop to the mainstream R&B audience. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five had further hits with "Step Off", "Pump Me Up", "King of the Streets", "Jesse", and "Vice", the latter being released on the soundtrack to the TV show Miami Vice. "Jesse" was a highly political song which urged people to vote for then presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.

In 1988, after an almost 4 year layoff, Mel and Flash reunited and released the album "On The Strength", but with up-and-coming new school artists such as Eric B. & Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, and Big Daddy Kane dominating the hip-hop market, the album failed miserably. Mel performed with The King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew on "King Holiday" aimed at having Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday declared a national holiday. Mel also performed with Artists United Against Apartheid on the anti-apartheid song Sun City aimed at discouraging other artists from performing in South Africa until that government ended its policy of apartheid. Mel ended the decade by winning two more Grammy awards for his work on Quincy Jones "Back On The Block" & "Q - The Autobiography of Quincy Jones" albums...

source: wikipedia

FPT

Today a new gaming genre is born: The First person tetris, also known as FPT-

*WARNING: the following content may cause eye bleeds or death.

KEEP ON SMOKIN'

Today one of the last true heres left us. I'm going to say one thing out loud: I've always been of the Frazier side.

That's because before being a boxing legend he was such a great humang being, incredibly humble despite of his legacy, incredibly classy both in victory and defeat. Out of the ring, thanks to his self confidence and his soothing, placid temperament he always kept his composure, staying away from all that useless showboating and ridicolous cocky behaviour of his opponents. Hey... just keep on smokin' up there tough guy.

THE PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS MAN

If you weren't skating pools in the seventies and you don't have a clue about who Tony Alva is, go get your copy of the Dogtown and Z-Boys documentay. Watch it and than you should understand why this video is so touching and why this man is my hero.