Brian was happy and
was able to prove to his DJ friends his capability of producing
high-class dance music with the proper guidance and production.
"Song writing is still essential and I encouraged my DJ
friends to work with musicians and producers," he adds.
Further reward came from Warner Music Philippines who signed
him up to produce an the debut album released later in the year
for a new Filipino artist Nancy Jane, who is being packaged
as "an Asian Kylie-Samantha James hybrid" and to think
this all happened from learning to play the piano as a child.
"I was made to attend piano lessons along with my sister,"
he starts. "But I turned out to be the better one,"
he adds laughing. "When I reached my junior year in high
school I found that I could play the piano by ear. Everything
started from there."
Piano or organ fulfilments were made at various functions. Persuaded
by a close friend, who would later become his business partner,
Brian began dabbling in sequencing and arranging songs. This
would eventually lead him to arranging work for karaoke albums.
"Copying Top 40 stuff was also good training for my ear
and it exposed me to a lot of musical styles."
After growing up listening to his uncle's vinyl and mixtapes
of 70's disco, 80's new wave in high school and 90's American
dance music in my early working years he became a musician,
composer, and producer working on albums, TV ads and musicals
and set up his own company, 'Hit Productions' which services
the big local ad agencies in the Philippines. "It's basically
my bread and butter now," he adds smiling.
When he first started out, Brian was listening to a lot of French
producers like Daft Punk, Alex Gopher, Cassius etc. >> |
