Netlabels are everywhere. There are so many, it's getting tough to stand out in the crowd. And yet, there is some amazing music to be had for free from these organizations that give out free music. This is what prompted me to start an online record label for electronic music by Philippine produc
Read Full StoryI just released an intrumental downtempo album from my electronic duo CLONE, which was recorded in 2004 and lost in the archives till now. The album is entitled CLONE - Live at Brazil Brazil [qd-4261] and is 1.25 hours of impromptu downtempo music created on the fly, and which mixes bossanova rh
Read Full StorySo here finally, is my first music video. This is a track named "Midnight Monologue" which wound up becoming the title track from my 2007 E.P. entitled Logue (download it for free from QED RECORDS). Way back in November 17, 2006, I performed at a gig and listened to a bunch of goth bands wh
Read Full StoryAs a composer and a musical arranger over the years, I've had to use software to create musical pieces. Software is neat, it's archive-able (unlike my yellowed, dilapidated music notebooks), it outputs to PDF, and it's easily editable. The problem is music notation software tends to be huge, blo
Read Full StoryListening to Orbital's music taught me three important things that influenced my electronic music production. The British dance music duo of Phil and Paul Hartnoll, who came to be known as Orbital, were critically and commercially successful in the dance music movement of the 1990s -- and famed fo
Read Full StoryOn May 25, 2010 I posted this on my social media channels: "If the bass doesn't match the key of your melody, what you have is DISCORDANT, DISSONANT, CHAOTIC. And frankly, amateurish. Sorry art rockers." I had been listening to some amateurish Middle Eastern electronic music borrowed
Read Full Story"Everything Will Be OK" is a gloomy little tune that spouts optimistic lyrics -- but has nothing bright or sparkly supporting any of the vocals. Even the melody is in a minor key. The vocal melody line is taken straight from a dream I had back in 2007. I woke up with the tune in my head and
Read Full StoryTributary is basically a house music track done with some jazzy percussion, latin keyboard and bass parts and mixed in with some floating pads and ethnic male chants. Composed using Reason software. I imagine a raindance in the middle of a busy urban area. But that's just me. This track has been
Read Full StoryI've decided to take a look at some of the tracks and music that helped shape my musical taste and style. This category of posts will be called Influences. First up, the melodic new age instrumentals of Suzanne Ciani, which can be summed up in this one track: "Mosaic." Mosaic is one of th
Read Full Story"Bahay Kubo" (Nipa Hut) is one of those Filipino folk songs that every elementary child in the Philippines used to learn early on since it was a lesson in naming your vegetables set to a catchy tune. I'm no longer sure if this is still the case. Nevertheless, I used the folk song as inspiration
Read Full StoryLast February 2010, I joined and completed one of the craziest community challenges the internet has ever conceived: the Record Producing Month also known as the RPM challenge. I've known about it for three years now, and even signed up for it last year, but I never actually pushed myself to complet
Read Full Story[audio: qd-4223-porta-loser_acid42remix.mp3] Back in January 2005, QED Records released a short, alternative rock/industrial EP called "Porta" by the band called Porta -- one half of the band was guitarist-vocalist Rann Golamco and the other was electronic producer Emorej. I decided to try creati
Read Full StoryHere's an '80s-inspired synthpop tune made entirely in Propellerheads Reason which mixes a typical pop beat with some ethnic instrumentation and a lot of soaring synth pads. The result is a bouncy, positive, feel-good theme for a Friday morning. I dug this one out of a backup DVR I created fo
Read Full StoryBack in 2006 (I think), I put together a remix of Christina Aguilera's "Aint No Other Man (Acid42Mix)" The acapella track was well done, inspiring me to sequence some bouncy beats and semi-aggressive synth lines. I put the mp3 up on Imeem a while back but since Imeem's been bought by MySpace, the p
Read Full StoryHere's a remix I made for Jemex's track "Palma." Combining some of the piano melody with a big, booming breakbeat, this remix tried to create a gritty, urban atmosphere to the ambient, melodic parts in the original track. I did this for a remix contest, wanting to flex my muscles on Acid Pro 7, b
Read Full StoryHere's a big beat remix for Kylie Minogue's smash hit of 2005(?) "Slow." Created it using Acid Pro 5, and a whole buncha loops and VSTi's. Always had an affection for her music. Possibly it's the beats in her tracks, but also it's the perky personality of the singer. Gotta love someone with the pana
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Here’s a morose introspection in A-minor, quickly escalating into frenzy. Influenced by musical acts: Air and Plone. This is the soundtrack of a cold, conflicting, melancholic Northern California. It is also the name of a real, honest-to-goodness street in the city I live in. ...
Presenting the Hymn of De La Salle -College of Saint Benilde, given an electropop/hiphop spin by yours truly (with a touch of neo-classical in the bridge). Of course you realize all these genre labels sound cool, but that I’m really just making those terms up, right? Hahahahaha!!!! ...
A full night of music and an Acid42 performance at the Cubao-X venue in Quezon City, Philippines. ...
Collaboration with Filipino MC and rapper Syke. The ends result? A hip hop / world music track with doses of electronic yumminess. ...
So, a few months back, an editor friend emailed me asking if he could interview me via email for the cover story he was doing on Stuff Magazine Philippines’ August 2005 issue. He wanted me to talk about mp3s, QED Records and the future of music. I was game. Answered all the questions, (rather lengthily), ... ...
I believe going back to our roots musically, is what can and will put Philippine music on the map, and in turn influence other cultures ...
Subhead: UNLOCKING THE MUSIC-MAKING MACHINE IN YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER by Lionel Valdellon from Fast Forward Magazine, Philippines. 2004 You like music, you have a PC, and you’ve heard that people use these contraptions nowadays to make music. People are writing and printing sheet music using software. Some put together songs from scratch using on...
The July 2004 issue of T3 magazine Philippines finally came out, and they did a piece on Philippine electronica musicians and their favorite pieces of gear. Several of us from Electronica Manila were featured quite nicely. the article was written by Karlo Samson, and each of us featured had a little sidebar with a quick ... ...
I have always loved the Catholic Mass. Always. Even when, for a while, I was subjected to celebrant priests who obviously lacked charisma and communication skills and I ventured to other churches and other faiths to simply find where I belonged. I ended up back with the massively historical and tradition-filled Catholicism I grew up ... ...
1. Each of us is being called to serve in his or her capacity. Which means I’m not being asked to give up my knowledge and skill in producing electronic music in favor of more traditional pop- and folk-styled praise music. Rather, I am being called to use what I have and what I know ... ...
The event was a success. On the basis of sheer attendance alone, not to mention the audience feedback. People loved the show, and they loved the idea even more. I played an electronic jazz set for over 2 hours. What happened was this: the Metropolitan Theater Guild (the Met for short) staged three little excerpts ... ...
My poet friend Nerisa del Carmen Guevarra whom I got to know back when I was a session musician for Grace Nono and Bob Aves, decided sometime last year to throw caution to the wind and produce a book of her own poetry with an accompanying CD of the poems set to music. The idea ... ...
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