Pure Substance Records first release of 2010 marks the beginning of special projects involving Asia artistes and live acts. Presenting Drip of Manila, Phillipines, with their track, Morning After, taken from their album Identity Theft. Drip is an electronic music trio composed of Beng Calma-Alcazaren on vocals, Caliph8 on turntables, and Ian 'morse' Magbanua on beats and loops. The diverse musical backgrounds of each member, from rock, hiphop, to drum n' bass, has made Drip what it is today: a group that bridges varied musical genres into one solid electronic music act.
The band has come a long way since its conception in 2003. To date, Drip has released 2 full-length albums, Far Side of the World in 2005 and Identity Theft in 2008, and has done varied collaborations: soundtracks of Filipino films, scored German Silent Movies, did a compilation album for the World Wildlife Fund, and a tribute album for an iconic Filipino group, the Apo Hiking Society.
They have also garnered several Awards and citations namely:
MYX Music awards 2009 (Nominated) Favorite Independent Artist
QLE Awards 2008 - Best Album Of The Year (Awardee, for Identity Theft)
JunkSounds Awards 2008 - Best Electronic Music/ Fusion Act (Awardee)
NU107 Rock Awards 2008 (Nominated) Best Music Video
MTV Pilipinas 2006 (Awardee) Best Independent Music Video
For this project, we lined up the likes of Xplore, Python and Yura Popov to do the remixes. Each of them have delivers a different approach to the original track. Romania based Xplore delivers 3 mixes with Night Watch Mix, Night Stare Mix and Night Stare Dub. Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Mix and Dub and Python with his Dark Dancing Mix.
Feedback
Hernan Cattaneo - Really like 4 (Xplore Night Stare Dub Mix) and 5 (Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Remix)
Paul Sidoli / Sasha - Waves for Python & Xplore.
Laurent Garnier - Really like the Python Dark Dancing Mix , as well as the original DnB mix - will play. Many thanks!
M.O.D.E. - Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Remix is a killer dude. On the laptop for our Oz tour.
Djuma Soundsystem - Pure Substance keep on spoiling us with deep, trippy and hypnotic prog!!
Hans Tavera - OriginalMix 5/5 & XploreNightWatchMix 4/5. XploreNightWatchMix already in my case! Thank you!
Matt Black - Really like the Xplore dub of Morning After, reminds me of the old epic house sound that people like Blue Amazon used to do, just building and building, nice! In his January chart.
Eric J - Xplore Night Watch Mix, Xplore Night Stare Mix & Dub are all really great. Really feeling the vibe with these mixes. Will support! - (4/5)
Darin Epsilon - Hey wow, I wasn't expecting to hear some jazzy drum and bass on Pure Substance. Original mix and Xplore Night Watch Mix are my two favorites here. Nice soothing vocals.
Tomi Chair - Xplore Night Stare Dub Mix for me! really nice!
Sasha Le Monnier (C.O.U. Muzik) - Super Pack here, will be supporting this and charting, especially like the Xplore remixes.
Kevin O'Keeffe - Nice tracks!
Xaric - Love this acid bass!! great remix. (Xplore Night Stare Mix)
Distant Fragment - Interesting ep man. I like the Xplore Night Watch Mix especially.
Eddie Niguel (Get Physical) - Liking the Yurov Popov Romantic Dusk Mix here!
Jovan Gligorov (Relaxator, USB) - Wow!!! This release is a killer! Definitely in my folder for the next
compilations. More of this please.
Johan Nilsson (di.fm) - Enjoying the Xplore mixes and will support them in our progresssive channel.
Chris Sterio - Good set of mixes. 8/10
Ad Brown / Maxi Valvona - The Xplore nightwatch watch mix is wicked!!!!
Jacco@Work - The Xplore and Python remixes are straight ACE’s. Both have done a remarkable job here. Thumbs up. Full support.
Praveen Achary - Love the original, great d'n'b feel & sounds like a great band! As for the remixes, the 'Xplore Night Watch Mix' & 'Python's Dark Dancing Mix' do it for me.
Samer Salhab aka Dj Samer - Xplore's remixes are very very good. Python turns in an honorable mention as well. Thanks.
Roger Palmerin - Xplore Night Watch Mix, Like the atmosphere this track takes me too. Nice track to get people into a trance.
Tom Beltor - Xplore Night Watch Mix, Great Track and Remix!
Edge Howk - Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Mix, Wow !! what a track love it!!
Josh Abrams - Xplore night watch mix for me.
Ingo Vogelmann - Python Dark Dancing Mix, BOMB. Xplore Night Watch Mix, HUGE! Xplore Night Stare Mix, Classy as the complete release!
Mert Onat - Xplore Night Watch Mix, Very good deep & melodic track. I'm supporting.
HypnoticDuo - Python Dark Dancing Mix, nice one.
AlterImage (Ian Resler) Pacha NYC - Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Mix, nice stuff here, great feel.
Greg Desty - Supporting Yura Popov Romantic Dusk Mix & Python Dark Dancing Mix.