Monday, July 4, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
A Must for Performing Artists...
All too often, we find ourselves in a mess plugging in our cables and worse, wallwarts. We tend to then need either long ones plugged sideways or some sockets left unused coz some won't fit. This is where I find this very interesting and needed by most live PA acts. I actually got this shared by one Live PA as well. It makes things easier and by the shape of it, it's really easy to bring out to shows.
http://www.quirky.com/products/44-Pivot-Power-Flexible-Power-Strip
Now if only it were available locally...
Cy
photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wowcool/3329581857/
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
UK label press release for my single :)
From the press release of the label
"Silverfilter ‘Disko Dive’ including remixes from Anarchy Rice and ACADA. Support from Far Too Loud, Access Denied, Ben & Lex, Hexadecimal, General MIDI, B Phreak, Neurodriver, Kickflip and more."Click here to preview and buy now:https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/con ... disko-diveHailing from the Philippines, Silverfilter has been given the nod with his track ‘Disko Dive’. Dirty ‘Flat Eric’ bass grooves cut against some deliciously soft focus synth layering. Fat breaks and euphoric fluffs galore. On remix duties, Anarchy Rice cranks up the squelch factor with a bullish cut of leftfield breaks. Colossally thick bass revs garnished with a generous topping of bleeps, zaps and claps that’ll have your brain bouncing off the walls.Completing the trio, The Sonic Deviant and Perpetual Present team up to form a new collaborative moniker – ACADA – and serve up a devilishly floor-crunching cocktail of tech-breaks, low slung rock plated basslines and a devious hit of heavy portamento at the last.AP“Wow. anarchy rice remix is total win!!!!” Far Too Loud“Wow…flat beat bass, i like it! original and anarchy rice remix for me!” Access Denied“Reeeeealy like this release. Proper fat chunky breaks action. Full support!! DISCO!!” Ben & Lex“Very nice!” General MIDI“I like the original mix, nice, will get some plays from me!” Hexadecimal“Good trio of tracks here, nice one! Hard to pick a favourite…” Neurodriver“Nice work on the Anarchy Rice remix!” Kickflip
Monday, June 27, 2011
My 1st International Chillout Track on Needwant Records UK
I sent a demo to them and they liked it and so begins the story... I sent my tune out without any idea where it will go and now it's gaining momentum towards the release. It'll be available all over the world and there'll be a CD of the compilation too! I'm just so excited about it. I would've been quite happy actually just to be released digitally but a vinyl and CD release was way more than I expected... such a blessing indeed!
This is one of the nicest reviews I've read of my track on the compilation... heck, it's nice to know people dig my original tunes :)
http://www.thecouchsessions.com/2011/06/review-future-balearica-vol-2-a-new-w...
Here's the announcement on Resident Advisor
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=14169
Hope you can check it out once it comes out! I can't wait to get my copy of the CD from the label!!!
Cy
silverfilter live PA remix set Fete De La Musique 2011
This was my set at Fete De La Musique 2011.
But I wanna talk more about how I got to making this.
I call it my best compromise for now because as much as I want to play out original stuff I've done, it's hard getting gigs locally as a live PA. I decided it would be fun to "sandwich" stuff I made as well as play around with some known tunes and have plain fun doing it. This is how I came up with this set of mine. It's a work in progress but I'm enjoying doing this now. I am hoping to improve on it more in the coming weeks :) All are live remixes I've done of the tunes you'll hear since it's a short set but for long sets, I'll have more original tunes of mine in between the remixes.
I have used Propellerhead Reason/Record to produce my lines and rearranged them for live use in Ableton live. I play out with an APC40, KP3 and a Pioneer EFX500. I'd integrate Maschine in the picture eventually but I'm still preparing that side of the set. Trying out this software hybrid set for now since I'm enjoying it now. Been doing all hardware for almost a decade so I'm having fun with the change at the moment until I save up for some Elektrons :)
Enjoy the music!
Cy
Sharing Is Fun...
I've decided to up my post count not to do "quantity" but to up the "quality" of what you guys get over here t my blog. I realized that I don't get to post that often and when I do, I forget the little things that I discover along the way, which I feel that a lot of you guys and gals may find interesting or important so from now on, I'll be posting more random stuff that I've discovered while searching for stuff or things not as random, that I purposely needed to find out and want to share the info along :)
Enjoy learning!
Cy
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Silver Switch Live - Singleeyeperspective
I recently did the very first Silver Switch Live show and I must say it was a real success!
Silver Switch Live is a new thing that I wanna add onto my YouTube Channel shows as well as something to add into the website where I invite acts and I record them perform live. My first performer is known as Singleeyeperspective or Pupiliris depending on which style of his you're exposed to. We did a few tracks live and a separate segment was done for an actual interview as well as a walkthrough into his live set, which I'm sure a lot of you guys might be interested in.
Recorded in true singleeyeperspective fashion, we shot him on the floor with all his gear spread out. Really nice and relaxed setup if I may say. You guys should try it! I tried performing once on the floor at an event and it turned out to be really fun. Brings you back to childhood like when we were simply playing lego or matchboxes :)
Here are some photos from that night. I'm still finishing the videos so stay tuned!
Thanks!
Cy
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Single I'm Really Excited to Release!
Hi Guys and Gals,
After months, I can finally formally announce my latest single Disko Dive.
This is a breaks tune that I am happy to say really sounds different. It was initially done to have some vocals in some parts but due to a lack of time, I wasn't able to but it turned out better than I expected.
I sent it out to labels and was favored to be picked up by UK label Acidphonic Records! I was really excited about that and with this single, the plus on top was that I got to be remixed by Anarchy Rice and ACADA! Who would've thought that one day, I'd get to release a UK single with artists from Europe remixing my tunes, right? It really is a blessing!
The release is a full on trio of pumping breaks tracks with my original mix plus the 2 remixes, which is currently a Beatport exclusive so get yours now!
With that, I present Disko Dive.
Get it here :)
https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/382458/Disko%20Dive
Enjoy!
Thanks and God bless!
Cy
Life Begins at 40!
[[posterous-content:pid___0]]This time around, it's my first ever American Strat. It's a Fender Strat Plus 40th anniv model.
I love this guitar to bits coz it was my first Fender. It sounds awesome as well. Having this along with Johnny gives me 2 totally different sounds. This one is cleaner for recording though coz it has Fender Lace Sensor Gold's. One thing I was excited about it before was it's the same pups on Claptons early sig model hehe And finally, you gotta admit, the sunburst really gets you. Ever since I was a kid, strats on my mind were always sunburst and I've loved it even before I was into playing music so when the time came that this was being sold, I grabbed the chance and have been smiling since :)
Cy
Monday, June 13, 2011
Debbie...
I don't really name my guitars but for the sake of the post, I figured it would be fun to name her Debbie. I think it's pretty self explanatory if you're a kid from the 80s having an older sister hehe
I'm really a strat guy so I don't see myself adding anoth LP to the stable at all. Another Gibson, yes... probably an explorer. But no more LPs for me :)
Cy
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