SALAHILO (tagalog - stubborn, hardheaded, unyielding)

New Jersey-based Filipino-American artist WILHELMINA introduces SALAHILO—a project that fuses East-Coast club music with both traditional and electronic sounds and genres from Southeast Asia. Across six tracks, WILHELMINA crafts a sexy and percussive club sound designed for the dancefloor.

SALAHILO channels the raw energy of club music, blending it with the playful rhythms and high-energy styles of budots and kulintang from the Philippines, Thaibeat from Thailand, and Indobounce from Indonesia. Throughout these tracks, WILHELMINA weaves in elements of hard drum, gqom, jersey club, and brazilian funk.

WILHELMINA also seeks to highlight gongs as a recurring element in this release. Gongs have a special place throughout the traditional music of Southeast Asia. "Mahiwagang Sandata" "Speaking in Tongues" and "Sarunay Rhythm" feature gong elements drawn from Kulintang (PH) and Gamelan (ID). This project highlights the hypnotic, mystic, and meditative timbres of the instrument and how they fit in a dance track.


Shake the Alarma & VICIADO: Elements of east-coast club music, jersey club, brazilian funk, and thaibeat.

Mahiwagang Sandata (english: Magic/Mystic Weapon) is heavily influenced by Kulintang music from the Southern Philippines. It features live recorded samples of my personal sarunay, a set of metal gongs that are part of Kulintang. Sarunay are usually used for practicing for kulintang pieces. This track combines elements of kulintang, jersey club, and gqom.

Speaking in Tongues: Elements of indobounce, club, and gongs.

Work It: An original budots track with 90s rave elements.

Sarunay Rhythm: A house track featuring gongs.

Big shout out to DJ Love from Davao City, Philippines for pioneering the budots genre and bringing it to a worldwide stage. https://easternmargins.bandcamp.com/album/budots-world-reloaded

Many thanks to House of Gongs for giving me the opportunity as well to learn about traditional kulintang music and more from culture bearers from the Philippines. Thank you for passing your ancestral knowledge to me:

Jenny Bawer-Young 
Sata Egal Abdullah
Farid Guinomla
Joel Ganlal
Datu Waway Saway
Balugto

Thank you as well to Esengo, XQZ ME, LAUL, LAZA, and Ovid for invaluable feedback during production.

Thank you all for your continued support of my music. Much love.

Maraming salamat/Sukran. MABUHAY!

Bandcamp Link

SALAHILO

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M.I.A. - Double Trouble (JAVASCRIPT Edit)

A blend I made with a baile drumline and the vocals from “in this darkness” 
Enjoyyy

***Will find proper credits asap!

#baile #dance #fun

iN THIS BAILE

4 drum-driven club tracks blending elements from hard drum, guaracha, brazilian funk, bouyon, gqom, and techno.

Fall under the spell and enter the dance ritual.


Lovely Cover Art by @joy_kisss_
https://www.instagram.com/joy_kisss_/

Bandcamp

RITUAL DO FUNK RAVE

Sarunay Rhythm (deep Groove)

Werk It (Budots Mix)

Speaking in Tongues

VICIADO

Mahiwagang Sandata

Shake the Alarma

hero (id)

Absolutely no reason at all for me making an extremely long version of this original track 👀

High Volume Load (Tantric Remix)

Inspired by the Kush Jones original and a throwback dancehall song i grew up on by Louchie Lou and Michie One- Rich Girl

Support  the original here 
https://soundcloud.com/topbillinmusic/kush-jones-drum-track

Featured on Fact Mag w/ other dope creatives
http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/07/for-club-use-only-shyboi-jlin/

Download

DrumTrack x RichGirl (KalaBtz Edit)

http://asemanual.bandcamp.com/album/fuji-club-music

Ase Manual - Eat It Up [fuji Club Music]

Kelela - Enemy (Estoc & Venganza Remix)

Upcoming Dates:

4/25: bunkr @ Newark
5/3: Gongsters Paradise [Kulintang Festival] @ San Francisco
5/8: Bossa Nova Civic Club, NYC (TBA)
5/27: Earthly Delights, NYC (TBA)
5/29: Sucia @ Mood Ring, NYC
6/6: Houston, TX
6/21: El Paso, TX

Between his original productions and live DJ sets, WILHELMINA crafts a sultry, energetic, and percussion-forward take on east-coast and global club music that welds together elements of jersey club, hard drum, techno, references to his Filipino heritage, and more.

Speaking in Tongues

WILHELMINA

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