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...
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...
Multo
Allan Lumba has been writing and recording music sporadically under the name Multo since 2006. Multo songs are heavily in love with 1970s/1980s radio pop and Pacific Northwest indie-rock. Releases Upon Returning / Hallelujah and All Those Things (Single) (released February 22, 2012) Footnote to Youth (EP) (released April 14, 2011) Links...
Big Hat Gang
Big Hat Gang is the solo project of Mario Consunji, who also plays guitars for the band Musical O. He is currently working on a split album with Plant a Tree. + Facebook + MySpace Number Line Releases: Big Hat Gang (EP) (released July 13,...
Love in Athens
Love in Athens was started in 2008 by Francis Maria as a way of coping with a long-distance relationship. After several roster changes and an extended period of inactivity, Love in Athens is returning as part of Number Line Records and with a brighter take on the hazy, lovelorn sound of its earlier inception. ...
Manuel Nicolas Alvero
STONER-FOLK / SURF-NOISE Number Line Releases: Tender Baal / Pious Kiss (single) (released May 21, 2011) Other Releases: So Much Excelsior EP (via Group Hug Records) Grand Finale by Number LineGrand Finale (bandcamp | mediafire) Slow Dance by Number LineSlow Dance (bandcamp |...
Modulogeek
Multi-instrumentalist Joon Guillen has been part of Manila-based bands Outerhope, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, We Kick Ass for the Lord, and the jazz band Fish Trio (in addition to his previous bedroom project, A Shortcut to Mushrooms). He moved to Hong Kong in 2007, where he found himself without a band and...
Outerhope
Outerhope began in the summer of 2004 when siblings Michael and Micaela Benedicto sat down to create melodies with a guitar and a piano. Inspired by the decade of their childhood, they wrote about lost youth, forgotten plans, and imagined places. They debuted with the album Strangely Paired in 2005, followed by A Day for...
Plant a Tree
Plant a Tree is the solo project of Pat Sarabia of the band Wilderness. + Facebook Number Line Releases: Jumbngle (EP) (released August 24, 2011) Free Tracks: kidsvskids by Number Linekidsvskids (bandcamp | mediafire) William S. Burroughs by Number LineWilliam S. Burroughs (bandcamp | mediafire) Videos:...
Similar Objects
Jorge Wieneke used to sing for a punk band, but was inspired by minimalism, abstract art, and hiphop to create beats and produce more art-driven music. He released some of this material under the name “milkriddles” (www.myspace.com/milkriddles). More recently, Jorge has been using a matryoshka doll as point of meditation and focusing on the relationship...
Slow Hello
Slow Hello is Selena Salang. She started writing in 2008. Most of her songs are conversations she wants to have with other people, real or imagined, and with herself. She also sings and writes for indie rock band Ang Bandang Shirley. Number Line Releases: Minty Fresh (single) (released June 1, 2011) ...
Tarsius
Manila-based duo Tarsius, composed of Diego Mapa and Jay Gapasin, combines electronic music and live instrumentation to produce psychedelic-electronic dance tracks influenced by hip hop, big beat, house, jungle, and indie/alternative dance. Mapa, who fronts riot-inducing indie rock outfit Pedicab, and Gapasin, who plays drums for the critically acclaimed jazz band Radioactive Sago Project, met...
