José Manuel Soares

A portuguese entrepreneur, radialist, owner of the record store "Contraste", very well known at that time by the metal, indie and dance community, where they can find some rare and difficult to find stuff from the worldwide. Was also collaborator with the mitical fanzine "O Portuga" and for it's own fanzine "EnCanto Lusitano", both related to the portuguese underground 80's music scene (also known as "musica moderna portuguesa"). All this before his weekly radioshow "Filhos da Pátria" in Rádio Clube da Covilhã with his partner Rogério Costa. Also collaborated with "Ritual" a portuguese 90's magazine focused in the indie pop/rock portuguese scene. In 1993 he founded the portuguese labels Global, to release the compilations "Portugal Rebelde", but was forced to change to Titanica, after an issue with a portuguese insurance company with the same name, to avoid a legal dispute. He is also the founder of the metal record label Danger Records (3) that release some metal albuns in the ninetees from bands like D.A.B., Malevolence,... In the 2000s was also the responsable to bring the spanish magazine Hip Hop Nation (2) Magazine to Portugal, with the founder Miguel Pedregal, He had another store&mailorder called "Skool", in Lisbon, related with all spectrum of urban culture and recently also founded a new label called "Siglo". He stills very actively connected with music, urban culture, merchandising and so on...