PORTISHEAD INFO:
According to this Guardian Article: [click here for link]

The first track starts with some words in Portuguese spoken by “…Claudio Campos, a Capoeira master who teaches in Bristol. But he crackles out of the gloom like a dire warning from an old film score, the kind so beloved of Portishead when they first emerged back in 1994.”

“In English, the Threefold Law goes something like this: ‘Heed and beware the Rule of Three: three times thy acts return to thee’. It’s an old Wiccan precept about reaping what you sow”

Grandmaster Flash and the Smithsonian’s new hip-hop collection.

DJs, like curators, are collectors, so when Grandmaster Flash and other hip-hop luminaries met up with some officials from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History the other day, there was some serious collecting to discuss. To begin with, museum director Brent Glass described his institution’s grand undertaking: “It’s the only museum in the world that has the mission of telling the whole of American history,” he said. It’s a tall order, but the museum’s holdings—nearly three million objects, which include a Pac-Man gumball bank, a bag of brown rice, and over a hundred pieces of Tupperware—give the impression that the curators cast a wide net. Now alongside the S. Newman Darby Windsurfing Collection, the museum will maintain an archive entitled “Hip-Hop Won’t Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life.”

Read Full Article by Austin Kelley – March 3rd, 2006.