NTS: You’re pretty committed to the physicalization of this distinctly digital music – can you talk about the design and the visuals on the label?
Pedro Gomes: It’s all done by Márcio, who’s a co-founder of the label, and is probably our favourite poster-artist in Lisbon at the moment, and the most requested one – everybody just loves Márcio, as they should. In his artwork, as in his DJing, he’s incredibly intuitive. He just does shit that just works, people get it. His two most commonly used words are “hot” and “power” – he’s a monosyllabical demon. He’s a guy from a volcanic island off the atlantic coast of Portugal – there’s a volcano, and a lot of ocean. And granite.
What he does, you could call it iconographical work. He works with icons, 700 year old icons, 3000 year old icons, two year old icons…the work he’s been doing for Príncipe deals with our contemporary culture, with Portugal processing our imperialist phase dealing with it postcolonially (or not dealing with it). Márcio is also an urban interventionist, if you can call it that – he’s a very experienced stencil artist. Everybody just falls in love with his artwork. We outlined everything very carefully before we started – we’re trying to do the artwork in a way in which all the records look like they came from us, and hopefully they’re gonna get more and more wonderful, and when you’ve owned sixty or seventy Príncipe records hopefully they’ll be a glorious little package. Márcio does all our artwork for us, including the artwork for our club nights, and the logo which is crazy, I love the logo. It’s the face of everybody, the face of nobody – everybody and nobody’s king. Or queen.
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