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:

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!

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!

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:

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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):

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!