Appropriately named after a traditional Filipino kids game, BuwanBuwan Collective aims to be the playground for all those bedroom producers that don’t fit into the commercial standards of electronic music in Manila. Comprised of nearly twenty young producers and DJs, thanks to their perseverance they have built a self-sustained musical scene where they produce their […]
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Eyedress
The slinky, stoned funk of Eyedress may sound low-key, but the Filipino artist isn’t afraid to take on some of the big issues currently facing his country and its controversial president Rodrigo Duterte. Take the cover art of his latest album Manila Ice for instance, which depicts in lurid felt-tip the bloody fate of drug […]
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similarobjects
This isn’t the first time the sounds of the digital realm have been used as the building blocks with which to build electronic landscapes, but Manila’s similarobjects does it pretty well on this tune. He used a built-in microphone to capture sounds of a Facebook user typing and an app to record the sounds from […]
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BuwanBuwan Collective is providing a playground for Filipino producers
Appropriately named after a traditional Filipino kids game, BuwanBuwan Collective aims to be the playground for all those bedroom producers that don’t fit into the commercial standards of electronic music in Manila. Comprised of nearly twenty young producers and DJs, thanks to their perseverance they have built a self-sustained musical scene where they produce their …

Eyedress
The slinky, stoned funk of Eyedress may sound low-key, but the Filipino artist isn’t afraid to take on some of the big issues currently facing his country and its controversial president Rodrigo Duterte. Take the cover art of his latest album Manila Ice for instance, which depicts in lurid felt-tip the bloody fate of drug […]