“Dance with Me” is the debut single from No Rome, the dance-pop project of teenage wonder Rome Gomez. An expertly crafted introduction to Number Line Records’ newest addition, “Dance with Me” brings together simple yet infectious beats, triffling piano riffs, and impeccably timed breaks that will nudge even the most reluctant listeners towards the dance floor. The accompanying b-side, “United We Are,” trades the more organic piano sounds of “Dance with Me” for more glimmery tones, topped with a surprising synth solo that brings No Rome closer to synthwave territory. While the two homespun, synth-driven tracks were written a couple of years apart (Gomez wrote and recorded “Dance with Me” when he was fifteen), they both highlight Gomez’s undeniable pop sensibility, as well as his prodigious ability to craft sun-drenched, attention-grabbing pop songs made for repeat listening.

Photo by Slideshow Bruce. Design by New Geometry.

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01 Dance with Me
02 United We Are

Preview video for No Rome’s single “Dance with Me” released Feb 2013 by Number Line Records

Animation by MIKE WINKELMANN (BEEPLE)
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Quiet Places, the latest release from Allan Lumba (aka Multo), is a collection of older, original material, plus covers of songs by indie rock band, The Clarendon Hills, and folk singer, Kath Bloom.

The EP departs from the distorted guitars and infectious beats that defined Lumba’s previous work in Footnote to Youth and from his brief foray into electronic music through his Third World Summer project. Lumba describes the tracks on Quiet Places as “practices in structure and repetition, but also just in the aesthetics of simplicity.” Still, despite the various methods he uses to strip down Multo’s sound to its most organic form, Lumba’s melodic sensibilities remain intact throughout the EP’s nine tracks.

The opening track, “Don’t Wait to Call Me” begins by zooming past a synthesized static sound and then escapes into haunting classical Spanish guitar riffs and percussion. “Swimming Santiago”, “From Autumn Seeds”, and “Until Death Starts” sound like Lumba personally playing tunes for you right before hitting the studio or before making any decisions to overlay the tracks with an onslaught of instrumentation. The orchestral inclination that we first heard in “Hallelujah and All Those Things” is revisited in “Summer Scarves,” where single notes plucked from a guitar are echoed by an entire string section. The cover songs towards the end of the EP are reinvented in a similar fashion, with the indie rock elements of “Syracuse” replaced with Lumba’s trademark backing vocals and the quiet folk song, “Come Here” made even more lulling by reverb-laden vocals and the absence of additional instruments.

Lumba describes the overall tone of Quiet Places as reflecting “slower moments, like introspective breathing spaces in this world of constant social mediation.”

View Multo’s full interview here.

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01 Don’t Wait to Call Me
02 Swimming Santiago
03 Caught in a Current
04 From Autumn Seeds
05 Until Death Starts
06 Summer Scarves
07 Syracuse [The Clarendon Hills Cover]
08 Reverie
09 Come Here [Kath Bloom Cover]

Credits:

Directed, Shot and Edited by JUDD FIGUERRES
Starring MEI BASTES and SEAN SAYAT
Styling by PROUDRACE, BTS, EDRIC CHEN, and JAMES GO
Production Manager MITZI CABRERA

To kick off 2013, we’re releasing our third label sampler, featuring choice releases from the previous year. As with the prior compilations, this third installment comes with alternate covers by some of our favorite Filipino visual artists. This edition’s covers were made by Zean Cabangis, Ernest Concepcion, Gary Ross Pastrana, and MM Yu.

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Number Line Records is very excited to release this special remix EP from Similar Objects, Tarsius, and Modulogeek. Fresh from their triple-header show in Hong Kong, the three electronic acts have taken turns deconstructing and reinventing each other’s work. The resulting EP, The Hong Kong Remixes, features three hybrid edits: Modulogeek’s “Walking” re-imagined through the cosmic sensibilities of Similar Objects; “Padmini Dhoop,” the Similar Objects collaboration with Rh Xanders, darkened with Tarsius’ rolling beats; and the Tarsius hit “Deathless Gods,” reintroduced with Modulogeek’s trademark sense of play and then reworked into a euphoric, electro-influenced dancefloor filler.

(Album cover photo by R. Wollstadt)

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01 Modulogeek – Walking
(Similar Objects Remix)
02 Similar Objects – Padmini Dhoop
(Tarsius Remix)
03 Tarsius – Deathless Gods
(Modulogeek Remix)

Half Awake in the Morning Haze is the latest release from Francis Maria Regalado’s synthpop project, Love in Athens. Francis’ recent move to Manila influenced the overall sound of this release, which he describes as “a restless account of a change in scenery, the surge of traffic, and the low mechanical hum of the capital’s railways”. The theme is evident throughout this collection of songs, from the compelling opener “Shell Canvas”, a track awash in lush, atmospheric guitar lines and unrelenting, to-and-fro shifts in part and rhythm, to the hazy, infinite swooning of the ending track “Closure”.

Francis describes Love in Athens as “an endeavor subject to the wills and desires of my own emotions. I have no say in the matter. It happens by itself.”

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Half Japanese is the debut Number Line Records release from, the solo project of Bee Eyes guitarist Idris Vicuña. Born in the nineties but raised on eighties new wave, Vicuña’s turn as Eyedress is a melancholic synthpop take on themes of post-adolescent love and loss. Typically written as beats first and then layered with spare melodies and drowned out vocal arrangements, the songs on Half Japanese produce a sense of diaristic nostalgia. Together they provide a retro-futurist account of romance, a loose, mood-driven narrative that begins with the wide-eyed, unsuspecting opener, “Mountbatten” and summery standout, “Teen Spirits,” and which closes with the darker themes of yearning and distrust in “Tokyo Ghost” and “Death Bed” (featuring Cat Cortes of Arigato, Hato!).

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This new release from Love in Athens arrives hot on the heels of his split release with Third World Summer. Featuring a reworked version of “Soft Pinnacles,” which first appeared in the Number Line Records volume 2 sampler, and a brand new b-side, “Maid in Splendour,” this two-track release serves as a prelude to the new, dramatic synthpop sound of Francis Maria Regalado’s once obscure (and much loved) post-rock/shoegaze project. A follow-up EP, Half-awake in the Morning Haze, is set to drop this August 2012.

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