MATÉRIAPRIMA

Matéria Prima is the worldwide distributor of the following labels:

CRÓNICA is a media-label based in Porto, Portugal, Europe.With a strong emphasis towards electronic and experimental music and its intertwining with all forms of time-based audiovisual media, CRÓNICA embraces the digital domain and its explorers, as the perfect context for the flowing of data and for processes that enable the maximization of a full intermedia experience.CRÓNICA\'s publishing strategy and its range of activities, encompass a variety of actions and events that seriously aim at the dissemination of electronic culture. The establishment of high quality standards in the endorsement of specific artists\' work, points to the caring creation of a meaningful catalogue with international resonance.

Creative Sources [PT]

Extremo Ocidente [PT]

Sirr [PT]

Lisbon based, this label catalogue includes some of the most relevant artists of abstract electronics.
Under direction of Paulo Raposo , each release it’s like a pass into a forgotten landscape.

Variz [PT]

VARIZ.ORG is a Portuguese record label based on both poles of the Lisbon-Porto axis since 2001. Its aim
is to bring the newest generation of media-art projects and producers into acknowledgement by a wider
audience.
The label's roster includes: @C, Discmen, Expander, João Castro Pinto, Lolly and Brains, Migso, Nova Huta,
Producers, Stapletape, TAM, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp!, among others...; and it has welcome contributions from
the following visual artists: Alexandre Estrela, Dora Sousa Santos, Hugo Oliveira, Lia, Luis Alegre, Miguel
Soares, Miguel Sá and Rev Design.