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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
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The sound of body fluids |
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Drip lets the music flow
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Drip is an esteemed pioneer of the trip-hop
genre with its acid jazz grooves, hip-hop loops and femme fatale
vocals. Twisted yet whimsical, sensual yet shady. They don’t label
themselves as trip-hop but embrace its essence nonetheless.
“That’s the thing we’re dealing with right now, like we
don’t want to be into the label of trip-hop because we do play
drum and bass, electro, like all sorts of music. We use all sorts of
electronic software and hard wares and what not. We can actually
create any kind of flavors,” they say.
Drip is composed of four gifted individuals:
Beng Calma with her evocative songwriting and sensuous vocals gives
the band her heart and soul, Ian Morse Magbanua supplying the beat
and the mixes, Malek Lopez with his precise sound engineering
provides the melody and Caliph8 with his phenomenal turntable
improvisations giving the group its funky grooves.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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ALBUM REVIEW
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Uh oh, it’s a musical abduction
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Beginnings of a New Kind by Taken by Cars
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Tired of same old distorted feel of rock music?
Do you want to hear something more than a growling vocal? Or maybe
stop the jumping and start the swaying? Take a hold of yourself and
prepare to be taken as a new band takes on a different beat that
will surely catch your innate fantasies of escape.
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Drip, up close and personal
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The band creates trip-hop with heart and soul on
Identity Theft
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On their sophomore album, Drip goes beyond the
cool and pretense of trip-hop. This time, they get confessional and
intimate. This is electronica with a heart’s beat.
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Your next favorite plaything
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The music of Toi
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Toi is the brainchild of singer/writer/host, Pauline Diaz;
musician/sound engineer/producer, Patrick Tirano, and interior
designer/visual artist, Mei Tayengco who likes to call it a
“plaything created by three minds.”
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MAN
ON THE SIDE
By Paul John Caña
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A new chapter
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Rico Blanco couldn’t have chosen a more fitting day to launch his
debut single as a solo artist than last Thursday, Independence Day.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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The brain versus the
heart
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It is the head that must discipline the feelings of love. Too many
people think that love is right because it is love. Not true. More
hurt, physical, emotional and all sorts of unfairness have been done
in the name of love—all this in the name of love.
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