New Hope For Attrition Covers

Just when I was thinking that there was no hope for my Attrition covers, I received an email from Mr. Martin Bowes himself saying that he liked both covers that I did of his songs "Lip Sync" and "This Great Design". I think he was particularly more interested in my cover of "This Great Design" because it had more or less the same feel as the original according to him. It was truly an honor for me to have received good comments from 'the man' himself as I was afraid that I would not be able to do his songs justice.

Nothing is written in stone just yet though as there are still no official announcements as to who's going to make it to the Attrition cover compilation. I'm sure Mr. Bowes will go through tonnes of covers - many of which I'm sure will be coming from well-known and respected artists - before he can decide. I just feel honored enough that mine is being considered. But I do hope I make it to the final list of artists. Right now the only thing I can do I guess is hope and pray that I make the cut.

Halogen

Bagetsafonik has a new music video for "Halogen", one of my favorite tracks off their debut album "Travelogue". Catch it on (dare I say) mtv asia or check it out on YouTube.

Birthday

It's the eve of my birthday today, and a Friday at that. So I decided to stay up late and do some updates on my websites and profiles. Nothing fancy, just my band [Fluxu§yndrom]'s home page plus a couple of others.

Swallow

I think I'm done with my interpretation of "Swallow". I'm pretty sure that I'd be adding more to it in the next couple of weeks (or take out stuff, depends on my mood really). But as of now I'm giving it a few "rounds" on my player.

Kaziotone

I have been working on a track called "Swallow" for beat poet Kaz's album tentatively titled "Kaziotone". It features Kaz's poems interpreted mostly by electronic artists from Manila such as squid9, silverfilter and what is probably one of the last tracks ever worked on by wolfmann.

Unlike my previous work covering Attrition's "Lip Sync" and "This Great Design" (featuring great performances by Kaz) which geared toward electro and darkwave, "Swallow" is more old school industrial with elements of musique concrete. This was unintentional and came to be as I pondered upon Kaz's lyrics. I think it works great - the music reflecting the words and the juxtaposition of Kaz's voice against the harsh, eerie music.