Here’s an energetic playlist that will keep you awake, and grooving in your seat while focusing on your next to-do item. Featuring electronica artists from the Philippines, most from the QED Records netlabel.
Author: Acid42
Track: Music for the EverTrue Salon Video
How I assembled a recent project for a client video, from rough project brief and an audio peg to final product.
3 Ways 808 State Made Me Love Dance Music
How psy-trance artists 808 State got me hooked on producing electronic music because of one album, Gorgeous.
The Last 4 Tracks from My Dead Workhorse Laptop
My workhorse laptop from 2002 is now dead. Thanks to my stupidity. But it served me well. And much longer than I thought it would. Here are the last 4 tracks I ever made on that machine.
Track: Remix for Bukas Palad’s “All Shall Be Well”
My Ethnic Mix for the Bukas Palad track “All Shall Be Well,” which is a little world music, a little drum & bass, a little acid jazz. And all groovy.
Acid42 Interviewed by Ethnic Tunog Revisited, a Manila-based College Radio Show
I was interviewed by a college radio show in Manila called Ethnic Tunog (ET) Revisited, and talked about the process of creating music that pushes the Philippine identity.
How Synchronicity Delivered Me Projects, But I Dropped the Ball
How once I decided I wanted to create more music, I suddenly got handed two remix projects, but then… I dropped the ball. Epic fail? Nah. I still learned good lessons.
Album: Auris Cibum (2015)
This 2015 album is 9 tracks and 41 minutes of emotive melodies, harsh synthetic textures and IDM. Ambient experimental electronica.
Stuck in a Creative Hole for 3 Years
It’s been a long time.Probably about three years (or more) since I last produced a new Acid42 track.Here’s how circumstance and collaborators brought me out of the creative hole I was languishing in.
Mixtape: Electronic Manila Midnight
One hour of house, EDM, electronica, hip hop, and even downtempo tracks by Philippine artists, remixers, and producers. On 8tracks.com