Smogada Records

11/11/2022

We've moved!

08/11/2022

Smogada Records is leaving the Funk Hole, which has been its studio for more than four years.*

The Ortigas-based studio got its name from its bunker-like structure as well as from a section in its shelves dedicated to Sly and the Family Stone records.

The Funk Hole housed the production, mixing, and mastering sessions of the Ortigas Excursions EP. Its windowless walls have also witnessed the demo-making of Kristian Dalao's The Love Tracks, an in-progress album whose mixing and mastering we are doing in the mountains.

On this note, we say so long to Ortigas Center, our place of exile (and excursions) for more than a decade.

*A belated post

18/05/2022

The New Steady According to Julia Vargas

Watch a video of "The New Steady" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iDkf-Z8BEPE

Keep on pushing."The New Steady"Written, produced, mixed, and mastered by Kristian Abe L. DalaoMore audio track details on https://soundcloud.com/smogada-rec...

03/01/2022

Listen to Smogada's New Year track: Kristian Dalao's "The New Steady," an homage to homies who have been keeping on in these troubled times. Happy New Year!

https://soundcloud.com/smogada-records/kristian-dalao-the-new-steady

An homage to homies who have been keeping on in these troubled times For noncommercial purposes Written, produced, mixed, and mastered by Kristian Abe L. Dalao Contains an extract from Miriam Makeb

14/12/2021

Happy anniv, OEx!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqYDFUCj18U

Track 1 of the Komura; grant—winning EP/EP–zine* Ortigas Excursions, which was released on December 14, 2019, at BLTX 9Written, produced, mixed, and mastere...

22/10/2021

Kristian Dalao has cut eight demo tracks for the EP tentatively titled Loverkind.

It is the follow-up to Ortigas Excursions (OEx) and is supposed to be an ode of sorts to loverhood.

Dalao's OEx conspirators Marren Adan and Jeba Angeles are writing the fiction and creating the illustrations, respectively, in another music-literature-art affair in the form of an EP–zine joint. It should be out next year.

(Image: One of Angeles' studies for the illustration of the EP's title track and Adan's corresponding story Pusakal)

19/03/2021

Watch Marren Araña Adan and Jeba Angeles, of the collective marren + kristian + jeba, talk about the creative process behind the group's EP–zine Ortigas Excursions (OEx) and about their post-OEx works produced during the lockdown, at TULOY PO KAYO: The Cultural Center of the Philippines Online Multi-Arts Open Community Festival (dubbed "the very first and the biggest online multi-arts festival in the country") on March 21, 2021, 1:30–2:00 PM, in the Tanghalang Huseng Batute Zoom Room: https://www.tuloypokayo.com/thb/.

TULOY PO KAYO!Palihan. Palabas. Palitan(The CCP Online Multi-Arts Open Community Festival)Tuloy ang PaglikhaPRESENTED BY:Cultural Center of the Philippines,D...

01/03/2021

27/02/2021

Ortigas Excursions is among the works featured in the Kwago exhibition at Printed Matter, Inc.'s Virtual Art Book Fair, which showcases art books from 43 countries, from February 25 to 28, 2021:

https://payhip.com/b/1kzb

25/02/2021

A couple of OEx EP "hard copies" deposited at the National Library

08/12/2020

Listen to, download Kristian Dalao's "Isang Bukas na Xmas Card para kay Jose Mari Chan"—Smogada's soundtrack for the ending / closing credits of 2020 (click on the link or image below):

https://soundcloud.com/smogada-records/isang-bukas-na-xmas-card-para-kay-jose-mari-chan

Smogada's soundtrack for the ending / closing credits of the movie called 2020 Written & produced by Kristian Abe L. Dalao Mixed by Crook Ed Fingus & mastered by Padma "Pajama" Rainey at the Funk Ho

17/10/2020

Southbound Dozen

Off to ZineZoned20/20: Iloilo Zine Fest. Right on gid!

08/10/2020

marren + kristian + jeba's Metamorposis / "Good Night, Guadix" Featured on Vox Populi PH

(The illustration [Metamorpossessed if you will] accompanying the flash fiction and the audio track is by Jeba Angeles, not Smogada Records.)

Dagli mula kina Marren, Kristian, at Jeba

05/08/2020

Listen to This Remastered Version of "Good Night, Guadix"

"Good Night, Guadix" is the fifth track of the EP Ortigas Excursions. In the collaborative EP–zine with the same title, the track comes with Marren Araña Adan's flash fiction piece Metamorposis and Jeba Angeles' accompanying illustration.

"Good Night, Guadix" is the fifth track of the EP Ortigas Excursions. In the collaborative EP–zine with the same title, the track comes with Marren Araña Adan's flash fiction Metamorposis and Jeba Ang

05/08/2020

Streaming Soon

28/07/2020

An OEx+ Collab Piece on InqPOP!

The following entry was submitted by Marren Araña Adan. Together with his colleagues Kristian Dalao and Jeba Angeles, they made a collaborative project during the quarantine period that discusses the “necessity to sustain personal relations while providing some ounce of relief to oth...

17/07/2020

Listen to "Talahimay" & Download It for Free on Soundcloud

"Talahimay" is a mash-up of Excursions in Ugong's "Hinay Himay (Closed-Down Factory Spring Night)" (from Drum Machine Elegies EP) and Kristian Dalao's "Isang Malawak na Talahiban Daw ang Ortigas Noon" (from Ortigas Excursions EP aka OEx). It comes out with Marren Araña Adan's flash fic piece Ang Musa Kung Hatinggabi and Jeba Angeles' illustration loosely called Ang Talahimaw.

Enjoy.

Ang Musa Kung Hatinggabi by Marren Araña Adan Tuwing hindi makakatulog agad sa gabi, naaabutan ko ang marahan na paglapag ng Katahimikan—isang walang ingay na telon na nagkukumot sa buong sansinukob

01/07/2020

Works in Prog

The collective marren + kristian + jeba will be sharing Ortigas Excursions (OEx) EP mashups, outtakes, etc. and supplementary quarantine flash fiction and illustrations now and again in the coming months while the group is working on the follow-up to OEx.

We'll keep you in the loop!

18/05/2020

Isang Malawak na Talahiban Daw ang Ortigas Noon

Watch a video of OEx EP track 6 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bC6SKTrZW6o.

"Isang Malawak na Talahiban Daw ang Ortigas Noon" is the last track in Ortigas Excursions EP by Kristian Dalao. The EP is part of the Komura; Creators Grant ...

08/04/2020

Excursion Circa Quarantine

Watch a video of "An Excursion in Ugong" off the OEx EP on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z-WcgEMgPI.

A drive around Ortigas, Pasig, circa enhanced community quarantine "An Excursion in Ugong" is track 2 of the Ortigas Excursions (OEx) EP. The ff. is the corr...

07/03/2020

Noong Pagbalik ng Kwago

Marren Adan, Jeba Angeles, and Kristian Dalao reading, showing, and playing their s**t on leap day at the Komura; grant talk about/launch of the EP–zine Ortigas Excursions (OEx) in Kwago's new home, where OEx copies are now available (photos courtesy of Melancholy Mess)

25/02/2020

Habang Tayo'y Nagugutom

Watch a video of Ortigas Excursions EP track 3 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WgWnoY8IbIw.

Ortigas Excursions (OEx) EP track 3 Corresponding fiction story and illustration in the OEx EP–zine by marren + kristian + jeba: McDonald's Balloons Video by...

25/02/2020

A Rough Guide to Ugong

This flash(ing/y) drive contains Ortigas Excursions (OEx) EP—all six original audio tracks—in both FLAC and MP3.

The EP, with the OEx zine (corresponding fiction stories and illustrations, and a socio-political map of Ortigas Center), provides a sort of rough guide to this so-called central business district.

Limited copies of this "guide" are available at the OEx launch as Komura; Creators Grant Winner on February 29, 2020, from 1:30 PM onward at Where is Kwago?

Kudos to Komura; for seeing/helping realize the potential of the project in all its rawness.

01/01/2020

Twenty Ways to Jumpstart 2020

31/12/2019

One OEx for Oldie / Happy New Year

23/12/2019

¡Felicitaciones a los tres bastardos! De tu familia Smogada.

It's official! We are excited to announce that Marren Adan & Val Angeles & Kristian Dalao won this year's Komura; Creators Grant with their zine entitled "ORTIGAS EXCURSIONS Katha + Sounds."

Summary of Zine: The creators of this zine comprise of three individuals working for the same company in Ortigas. One wrote the stories, one created a soundtrack for the collection, and one will provide the lay-out, design, and illustrations.

Since the overarching concept of this zine is to map-out Ortigas in the perspective of a working class through words, sounds, and illustrations, we are planning to take actual shots of pertinent sites in Ortigas (Pasig City) where each story in the collection happens. Each shot will be rendered as black-and-white sketch by our artist and will be placed at the bottom page of each story. We are still conceptualizing how the lay-out can be more inspired by maps— that is, if one actually puts all the illustrations from different pages together, one can actually create a map of Ortigas (since we are also fans of maps!) The zine includes a cd for the stories’ sounds. Each story has a sound element so the reader can either experience what the character hears in the story or heighten the perception of the narrative through listening to these sounds too!

Congratulations to this talented collective!

Thank you to everyone who submitted their crazy zine ideas to us this year! This award is dedicated to the vibrant DIY and independent publishing community that inspire us to keep creating despite issues and problems like funding and other resources.

We hope to see more of others' brilliant ideas come to life. Stay tuned for our next Creators Grant! Stay tuned for the official launch early next year!

14/12/2019

Ortigas Excursions EP track list

1. Sakayan
2. An Excursion in Ugong
3. Habang Tayo'y Nagugutom
4. Improvisation on a Found Piano No. 4
5. Good Night, Guadix
6. Isang Malawak na Talahiban Daw ang Ortigas Noon

Running time approx. 19 minutes

For corresponding titles of stories/illustrations in the accompanying zine/CD booklet, check out this post: https://facebook.com/Smogada-Records-114008200031599/activity_feed/?type=mention&ref=bookmarks&target_story=S%3A_I100000895354565%3A2929919933714490¬if_t=page_photo_tag¬if_id=1575547450171561

Limited copies of the Ortigas Excursions zine/EP are available at the BLTX 9 event tonight. See you there!

(Photo courtesy of The Virtual Lab)

24/11/2019

Hi. Welcome to Smogada (population: between mono and 10,000).

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An Original Photocopy Project (with Sound)

Kristian Dalao (aka Dalao) is working in collaboration with fictionist Marren Adan and artist Jeba Angeles on an original photocopy project (with sound!) for this year's Better Living Through Xeroxography (BLTX).

The EP/zine project Ortigas Excursions is to feature six Dalao audio tracks, which are "influenced by and created within Ortigas Center and intermixed with samples of field recordings/found sounds made in different areas of the district." Adan pens "one corresponding flash fiction for each track using a working class’ lens" while Angeles provides corresponding illustrations about his perception of the tracks and the stories.

Ortigas Excursions is out on December 14, 2019, at BLTX Manila IX, 305 Tomas Morato Avenue, QC, from 7PM to 1AM (EP [CD format] on Smogada Records).

(Photo: Approaching Ortigas Center by stereo - inside Smogada Records mobile unit during a monitoring session of Ortigas Excursions tracks)