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Araknidus + aLJar3d - Disturbanz (qd-4255) album cover

Artists: Araknidus & aLJar3d | Release: Disturbanz (qd-4255)

Two drum&bass masters team up to dish out an aggressive laser volley of tracks that proclaim the supremacy of two-step and jungle — even in 2009. Araknidus and aLJar3d both litter their music with speech samples and distorted synthlines, with tough beats and a love of sci-fi. Welcome to dystopia, enemy aliens, evil warlords, and mutant clones.

Araknidus is the dubstep artist alias for Mike Madriaga (aka Evo Evolver) whose releases are on QED Records. Meanwhile, aLJar3d is a Bacolod City-based musician who has been travelling the Philippines bringing his DNB music everywhere.

Keywords: dubstep, 2-step, drum&bass, dnb, sci-fi
Notes: 8 MP3s encoded at 128 to 192 kbps (VBR) 44.1kHz stereo.
Total running time: 41:43

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March 14th, 2009 | Tags: aLJar3d, Araknidus, drum & bass, evo evolver | Category: Album, QED Releases | Comments (3)

arthaus* -Going Places (qd-4254) cover

Artist: arthaus* | Release: Going Places | (qd-4254)

Sometimes all that’s needed to get to places you’ve never seen is a sountrack consisting of abstract melodic ambient music by the likes of an artist such as arthaus* (aka Tomi Uysingco). Going Places is a 3-song EP of somber ambient that uses patterns to draw you into robotic lands of mystery and angst.

arthaus* is a member of the Puro Ka Indie collective of independent Philippine musicians. They are all over the web. Find and collect all variants.

Keywords: ambient, abstract, motifs, downtempo
Notes: 3 MP3s encoded at 128kbps 44.1 kHz stereo.
Total Running Time: 10:49

Download the EP in one zip file  VBR ZIP (10 MB).

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March 14th, 2009 | Tags: ambient, arthaus, downtempo | Category: EP, QED Releases | Leave a comment

Email interview with Emorej. September 6, 2008.

In his secret identity, Emorej wears business attire and goes to an office from 9 to 5, for a company that sells scales and panels for construction. When the day is over however, he retreats to his den and fires up the software that has turned this mild-mannered businessman into an aggressive, one-person, tune-making and marketing machine.  He started making music in 2001 using a program called ACID PRO and entering remix contests on the AcidPlanet community of Acid Pro users. Today, he still cannot play any instrument in the traditional sense, opting instead to craft songs using samples, virtual instruments, and his computer. This is one artist who refuses to play live. Just because it’s not his cup of tea.

Emorej is too shy for the camera. Instead of his photo, here is his keyboard, the Creative Prodikeys.

Your last release on QED was the Potpourri album and your contribution to Acid42’s Nykto EP, what have you been up to since then?
I’m still making music. And uploading it to my pages on Amiestreet or Soundclick.

In what directions are your current tracks going?
As with before, it still goes in all directions. Whatever sounds nice. Although currently I’m doing more electronic pop than usual.

You are one of the most prolific producers in the scene, releasing a track a week almost, and announcing it immediately to the Electronica Manila mailing list. What keeps you going?
Red bull. Energizer batteries?

And how do you do it?
I work with loops. The hardest part in song making is the lyrics, those vocal tracks. The backing instrumentals rarely are problematic except when doing instrumental solo parts.

Is there a specific work method or formula that you use to keep creating tracks so consistently?
I just write down ideas immediately, and go back when I have more ideas.

Do you wait for inspiration?
Rarely. Because most of my songs are built on others’ inspiration since I use a lot of samples. I just improve on those ideas and finish them.

What new gear / software are you having fun using in the studio?
Not much gear. It’s all software except for my Creative ProdiKeys. I also enjoy using plugins and software by Hypersonic, Izotope, and Waves.

So why do you make music?
Because I can! Before all the software, I wasn’t able to do that. But now I can. Thank God for computers!

Finally, excluding your own solo albums, what’s your favorite QED release so far and why?
Morse. Cool music. ‘Nuff said!

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: emorej, interview | Category: QED News | Leave a comment

In 2007, an independent Philippine band named Bagetsafonik put together an album called Travelogue which fused indiepop with electronica. One year later, they got fellow artists and producers to reinterpret those tracks. This is the result.

Travel Agents: Bagetsafonik Travelogue Detours is a 12-track album containing reinterpretations of each of the tracks on Bagetsafonik’s debut album. So enjoy the ride. Feel free to share this journey. We’ve reserved a seat for you.

Artists/Producers: Caliph8, MoodJunkie, PaoChec, FluxusSyndrom, DJ Ponga, Names Are For Tombstones, Squid9, Spazzkid, Waking Up The Sunrise, Eggboy feat. Analog MC, Rlyn & Big Daddy J-Dibbs, N:ua, M.A.

Mastering: Allan Confiado

Track Details: 12 MP3s encoded at 192 kbps, 44.1 kHz stereo.

Download all files in a VBR zip (71 MB).

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December 8th, 2008 | Tags: cocolulu, drum & bass, gothic, house, IDM, names are for tombstones, synthpop, techno | Category: Album, QED Releases | Comments (2)

[qd-4252] Silverfilter - Around You (Remixes)

“Around You (Remixes)” is six banging electronic remixes plus the original track by Philippine electronic music producer Silverfilter. Remix artists coming from the roster of the ElectronicaManila collective, include: Spintech, Destro, Chec, and Funk Avy. A tasty buffet of differing perspectives from the same source material. Mabuhay ang remix!

Seven MP3s encoded in 256 kbps VBR 44.1 khz stereo.

Running Time: 38:06

(18 MB) 64Kbps MP3 ZIP
(73 MB) VBR ZIP
All Files: HTTP

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November 1st, 2008 | Tags: breakbeat, chec, destro, funk avy, house, silverfilter, techno | Category: Album, QED Releases | Comments (2)

Email interview with Demolee. September 10, 2008.

Where do you find the next generation of downtempo music producers in the Philippines? In I.T. companies apparently. One of them just happens to be Franco Madrid, also known as Demolee, a product specialist who sweats and breathes chillout music.  Though he won’t tell us what product he masters, we do know that in his free time, he’s mastering tracks for his solo project Demolee and his live group Flavours and Caffeine (FNC). The best part is, even before he learned how to make electronic music, he was already downloading from QED Records. Which is a nice way of showing that web 2.0 is making producers out of all consumers — though not all of us are as talented as this guy.

Demolee playing live at the Fashion Art Gallery opening. Photo by JC.

Read the entire interview after the jump.

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October 3rd, 2008 | Tags: demolee, interview | Category: QED News | Comments (5)