Number Line Records is an independent music label based in Manila, Philippines. It was established in 2011 as a collective platform for like-minded Filipino artists to distribute music locally and globally. Number Line Records specializes in free digital releases. For inquiries, email numberlinerecords@gmail.com.
Third World Summer, "Displaced Voices" / Love in Athens, "Old Houses" (Split)

Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” / Love in Athens, “Old Houses” (Split)

The split single, “Displaced Voices / Old Houses,” is the debut Number Line Records release from Third World Summer and Love in Athens. While these two artists take different approaches to electronic music, both tracks on this release traffic in a sense of movement, switching from uptempo beats that evoke...
Modulogeek, Pipes and Palindromes (EP)

Modulogeek, Pipes and Palindromes (EP)

Following his remix of Outerhope’s “The Man with the Pipes,” monome artist Joon Guillen—aka Modulogeek—wrote five other tracks around it, each shifting in mood and key. The result is Pipes and Palindromes, a conceptual EP loosely structured to flow like the score of a musical, with reprises and recurring themes....
Multo, Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things

Multo, Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things

“Upon Returning/Hallelujah and All Those Things” is the second release under Number Line Records by Allan Lumba, a.k.a. Multo. While representing a bit of a departure from the stripped-down, guitar-based pop of his earlier work, they are similarly characterized by carefully considered words and beguiling tunes. “There really isn’t anything...
Similar Objects, Finding Astral Lovers (album)

Similar Objects, Finding Astral Lovers (album)

Beat producer Similar Objects (Jorge Wieneke) has been experimenting with meditation and astral travel. The result is Finding Astral Lovers, an otherworldly album that uses ambient beats and both small and lush soundscapes to evoke out-of-body-experiences. Written as a kind of dream journal, the album’s eleven tracks chronicle what Wieneke...
N/ Compilation Volume 2

N/ Compilation Volume 2

We’ve put together a new free sampler, a compilation of some of our favorite releases so far and new material from some of the artists in our collective. The sampler also comes with alternate covers by Poklong Anading, Louie Cordero, Nicole Coson, Dan Matutina, and Luis Antonio Santos. Stream and...
Tarsius, Primate (LP)

Tarsius, Primate (LP)

Primate is the debut album from laptop and drums duo Tarsius, comprised of wunderkind Diego Mapa (Pedicab, The Diegos, among others) and Jay Gapasin (The Radioactive Sago Project). Combining samples, electronic tracks, live drum tracks, as well as vocals from several collaborators, Primate is an eclectic collection that moves from...
Some Gorgeous Accident, Imaginary Lines (EP)

Some Gorgeous Accident, Imaginary Lines (EP)

Imaginary Lines is the first Number Line Records release from Some Gorgeous Accident, a California-based dream-pop and shoegaze project named after a Blueboy EP. D, the artist behind Some Gorgeous Accident, describes the making of Imaginary Lines as a process influenced by his tendency to analyze sound textures. He calls...
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Third World Summer, "Displaced Voices" (Preview)

Third World Summer, “Displaced Voices” (Preview)

A preview video for Third World Summer, the new electronic project from Allan Lumba. Video by Marty Mellway. Edited for Number Line Records by Bobby B.
Third World Summer

Third World Summer

Third World Summer is the new electronic project of Seattle-based artist, Allan Lumba. Created during a year spent in Manila, Third World Summer emerged out of Lumba’s renewed interest in electronic dance music, particularly in the use of repetition in records such as Caribou’s Swim and Four Tet’s There Is Love in You. The resulting...
N/WSK x Similar Objects Album Launch

N/WSK x Similar Objects Album Launch

Number Line Records and electronic and experimental sonic art festival Fete dela WSK are teaming up to put on a show on December 15, 2011 at Saguijo (7612 Guijo Street, Makati Ciyt). The show’s line-up includes Number Line Records artists Similar Objects, Outerhope, Slow Hello, and Manuel Nicolas Alvero, plus Gentle Universe, The Strangeness, Wilderness,...
Last October Weekend

Last October Weekend

A Halloween show from Number Line Records and Attraction! Reaction! featuring Outerhope, Similar Objects, Mount Analogue, Ang Bandang Shirley, Ciudad, The Purplechickens, and Once More with Feeling. October 29, 2011 9PM at Saguijo Event page here.  
Some Gorgeous Accident

Some Gorgeous Accident

In 2008, somewhere between Berkshire and the Pacific, D started Some Gorgeous Accident, a shoegaze-dream pop solo project named after a Blueboy EP and the first line of its third track, “Stephanie”. The band’s first release was the cassette EP Winter Watercolors released by Italian label Best Kept Secret. Some Gorgeous Accident returned early this...
Plant a Tree, Jumbngle (EP)

Plant a Tree, Jumbngle (EP)

Jumbngle is the first Number Line Records release from Plant a Tree, the solo project of drummer Pat Sarabia. Best described as a series of sound collages, Jumbngle includes eight genre-defying, sample-based tracks that experiment with odd time signatures and abrupt and subtle progressions. Unlike the now familiar ‘mashup’, however, Jumbngle makes use of 0.5-3...
Multo (Last Manila Show)

Multo (Last Manila Show)

Multo is heading back to Seattle. Catch him one last time in Manila! Plus a massive line-up of guest artists: Outerhope Tarsius Slow Hello Manuel Nicolas Alvero Eyedress Wilderness The Strangeness Mount Analogue Hannah + Gabi This is happening on July 30 (Saturday) at Big Sky Mind (E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue cor. Broadway Avenue cor....
Big Hat Gang (EP)

Big Hat Gang (EP)

The self-titled EP of Big Hat Gang, aka Mario Consunji, is a deeply layered introduction to the forthcoming split album with Plant a Tree and a play on images of space, place and movement. “Celestial Spomenik,” an epic track Consunji describes as a “soundtrack for space launches” evokes both the sense of turbulence and awe...
Slow Hello, "Minty Fresh" (Digital 7")

Slow Hello, “Minty Fresh” (Digital 7″)

Selena Salang, the writer and musician behind Slow Hello, wrote these two songs as opposite sides of the same situation, a failed connection. The first track, “Minty Fresh,” is a happy acceptance of what was, an appreciation of a connection in its short existence. “Cold Turkey” presents a sense of frustration; Salang describes it as...
Manuel Nicolas Alvero: Tender Baal/Pious Kiss (Single)

Manuel Nicolas Alvero: Tender Baal/Pious Kiss (Single)

Two closed-mouth songs, a soundtrack for the rapture.  
Similar Objects: ambgqty (album)

Similar Objects: ambgqty (album)

Ambiguity or in this case ambgqty refers to a certain deceptiveness or doubtfulness of meaning; not everything that makes perfect sense to someone can mean as much to another individual because of the unique and intricate system of understanding all of us human beings possess. Ambgqty is a collection of sound spaces inspired by confusion,...
N/ COMPILATION

N/ COMPILATION

To introduce the artists and projects that make up Number Line Records, we’ve put together a special compilation/sampler, which you can stream and download for free below. We’ve also printed limited edition physical copies featuring alternate covers by artists Bea Camacho, Mariano Ching, Dex Fernandez, Marcushiro Nada, and Tof Zapanta (above). These copies were given...