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In celebration of the New Year and a recent phone upgrade, I'm posting 35 photos from the archive formatted for the E62's 320x240 screen. I'm also releasing 2 new ringtones I created in mp3 format. »click here

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Siyempre alam ng mga kabarkada ko noong college na paborito ko ang Eraserheads. Incidentally, isa sa mga kanta nila dati "Tindahan
ni Aling Nena" ay tungkol sa isang binata na napa-ibig sa isang dalagang lalakad ng Canada sa loob ng tatlong araw.

Noon namang high school, no doubt "The Dawn" ang paborito namin. Sobrang kaunti pa lang kasi ng mga banda noon di tulad ngayon. A few years later, siguro nasa college na rin kami, ni-release nila ang "Talaga Naman".

Isa ata sa mga pinaka-madalas na tema sa musika ng mga Pinoy ang pakikipag-sapalaran sa ibang bansa. Hindi nakakapagtaka na may sinulat rin ang Yano sa topic na ito. Coincidentally, wala na ata ako sa Pilipinas nang lumabas ang pangalawang album nila "Tara" so hindi ko alam kung sumikat ito (upbeat ang rhythm pero malungkot ang istorya) ...

Paalam Sampaguita
Yano

Chorus:

Natatawa ako kahapon at napakinggan ko ang isa sa mga paborito naming album noon sa college, ang debut album ng Yano. Hindi lang yun, Two albums in one pa at ni-redesign ng batikang si Arnold Arre ang cover. Napabili na rin tuloy ako ng Color it Red (Fool's Circle + Hand Painted Sky) atsaka FrancisM's (FreeMan + FreeMan 2). Ni-rip ko na rin agad sa iTunes Apple Lossless Format.

Solb na solb. Mabuhay ang Iskolar ng Bayan.

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KAMUSTA NA
written by Dong Abay and Eric Gancio

Kumusta na, ayos pa ba
Ang buhay natin, kaya pa ba
Eh kung hinde, paano na
Ewan mo ba, bahala na?

Napanood kita sa tibi, sumama ka sa rali
Kasama ang mga madre, pinigilan mga tangke
Umiiyak ka pa sa harap ng mga sundalo
Namigay ka pa ng rosas na nabili mo sa kanto.

Repeat Chorus

Dala-dala mo pa, estatwa ni Sto. Nino
Eskapularyo't Bibliya, sangkatutak na rosaryo
At sa gitna ng EDSA, lumuhod ka't nagdasal pa

Currently listening to "Jazz Vocalists: Hear & Now" (Concord Jazz, 2006) and there's this cute track by Tommy Wolf sung by Kitty Margolis "I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco". What can I say? I think you're going to agree. Here's the full lyrics:

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I'm always drunk in San Francisco;
I always stay out of my mind.
But if you've been to San Francisco,
they say that things like this go on all the time.

It never happens nowhere else,
maybe it's the air;
Can't really seem to help myself;
And, what's more, I don't care.

I'm always drunk in San Francisco;
I'm never feeling any pain.
But tell me, why does San Francisco,
just like a lover's kiss, go straight to my brain?

I guess it's just the mood I'm in
that acts like al - co - hol;
Because I'm drunk in San Francisco,
and I don't drink at all.
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It's a nice album by the way, featuring Ray Charles, Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Madeleine Peyroux among many other great vocalists.

Here's my latest track "Trip To You" (128kb mp3 format). As always, send comments. Thanks!

This track is also available for listening here.

Made this chilled-out track today: Chilled Fridays (mp3, 8mb).

comments/critiques are welcome...

enjoy!

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Download the mp3 now!

Entitled "One", the first Electronica Manila online album is released by Astig Records. Check out all the Filipino-made electronic music here. My song "Kem-Bot" is featured using the artist name Sinistral Monk. Enjoy!

Here's a couple of mp3 tracks available for free download only in Barangay Amerika.

My latest track is called "Mystified". Warning: Turn down your volume first. Then turn it up gradually. It might blow your speakers.

My other track is "Kem-Bot". In case you do not understand the robotoid vocalist, the lyrics goes like this:

Baywang ikot
Baywang ikot
Baywang ikot
Pakembot-kembot

Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy!

These tracks are also available for listening here.

Check out "trust" by Filipino electronica artist g.no from Tampa, FL. The killer stutter effects (ala BT) is pretty cool! I wanna learn how to do that.

Ableton is currently hosting a remix contest featuring Coldcut's "Everything Is Under Control". I downloaded the files here and loaded it in Ableton Live 5.

Here's the result: "Everything Is Under Control [Coup D'etat Mix]". 6.6mb MP3 format.

Rock on!

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I'm venturing in electronica music composition. Got some "raw" tracks in www.soundclick.com/sinistralmonk. Feedback greatly appreciated. Vote in soundclick if the tracks are "hot" or "flop". Please vote "hot", hehe... Thanks!

listening to arizona energy fm station lately. they play dance music. heard this song called "it's all vain" by magnolia... dunno if i can post a link to a video here, but here it goes...

http://www.MusicVideoCodes.com/?song=3238

07-09-2006
UPDATE: Above link does not work anymore, but I found the video in youtube.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEjrMhHD-FU&search=Vain

enjoy!

New house track "Beach House" in MP3 format (4.4mb).

MTV has a cool new site (OK, I only freakin realized this was out since April today but to me it is still NEW) called MTV Overdrive. Windows Media Center users should find it under Online Spotlight. Although it requires a broadband connection and the latest Macromedia Flash plugin, the user interface is pretty intuitive and works nicely inside the Media Center environment. The web version (see link above) looks a little different. Here's a screenshot:

They got a pretty big library of music videos up online and I actually found several from New Order (one of my faves as you can see). They even got one of Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris's pet project a.k.a. "The Other Two" as well as Bernard Sumner's Electronic:

Got a new breakbeat track here:
Living Methods [4.3mb, Apple AAC; or 6.5mb MP3 @192kbps]. You can use iTunes or Quicktime to listen to it.

Update: I noticed that the mastering (or lack thereof) probably made the levels in the audio a little weak. I run the raw wav file again through Nero WaveEdit hopefully to kick it up a notch.

San Francisco based Faisal Sultan founded FriskyRadio in 2001, one of my frequently listened podcasts/streaming radio on iTunes playing mostly progressive house. He also happens to run the visually stimulating photoblog at friskypics.com. Sweet.

And speaking of electronica, digital music and other gizmos. M-Audio invades the Bomb Shelter, home of the dynamic breakbeat duo Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland better known as The Crystal Method in a short featurette titled "From Stage to Studio".

The number one downloaded tune in iTunes today is the song from Nickelback entitled Photograph.

Inspired by the song, today I brought forth in this world the ipod playlist that I will simply call Photograph. This list shall contain songs that deal with Photography.

And here is the entire lyrics of the flagship tune:

Photograph-Nickelback