In His Self Titled Album: Ken Chan

Young good looking guy Ken Chan launches album!

I've met Ken Chan in a charity event several months ago. During that time, I didn't know who he was, what he did or what he wanted to do with his career. A little background check and I've learned he's already a pro in commercials, he joined the stable of German Moreno in his late night show "Walang Tulugan" (No Sleep) together with other teens. Later on, he joined the cast of Tween Hearts which was a huge break. That might have stretched his teen years a little and broaden his fan base. He's done several shows later on, the most recent one of which is the top billing "Ang Dalawang Mrs. Real" (The two Mrs. Real's). Then now it's another feather to his hat as he begins his recording career with a self titled album "Ken Chan".

One of the greatest entertainers in the Philippines, legendary Father to the stars German Moreno.

 German Moreno himself was in the album launch to give support to the young artist. He also mentioned how they will continue to support and give recognition to artists who excel in their craft especially those who are good at it. He also heads the Philippine "Walk of Fame" that's found in Eastwood City and he mentioned a number of people that will be immortalized there pretty soon. Ken as he said works pretty hard and he hopes to find him fulfill his dreams the soonest.

Ken Chan also treated us with some songs on his album. The first one was "The Boyfriends" original song "Nais Kong Malaman Mo" (I want you to know) then an original called "Paikot-ikot" written by Kiko Salazar (Spinning) which is another OPM song in the track list. He's also got "Dahil Ikaw", Born For You, Tulog Na and Sumayaw Sumunod plus its equivalent instrumentals which completes his album's 12 tracks. It's also available on iTunes so there's no excuse for people abroad to purchase it.

I got the vibe that Ken's very thankful about those who have helped him to make this album possible. When asked about what's next for him, he told me that he's taking it day by day. Whatever opportunities arise, he'll be grateful and will try his best to grab it. He's also glad that he found his purpose in life and he's looking forward to more projects where his abilities to sing, dance and act would be utilized in its fullest potential. He wants to entertain more people and I'm sure he'll get there. Congratulations Ken! You deserve each and every bit of your success. I hope to see you achieve more than you wish for, because you are a really good person inside and out!

Make sure you get his album which is out now on leading record bars nationwide!

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COLDPLAY Live 2012! - Available Now on CD+DVD!

Stadiums filled with people, albums selling like hotcakes, men oozing sexiness just like me. Nostalgia, that's one word to describe it but I almost cried seeing this. I was invited with a few people to a private viewing of COLDPLAY's concert DVD. It's slated to be released this Friday, that's November 30, 2012. Roughly around 100 minutes++ of unadulterated, pure music, lights and exhilarating concert experience made special because the band members had a say on it. They designed the whole thing with the people in mind so in turn they become a part of it. How?! Well let's just say that's exactly one of the things you should watch for when you purchase this after Friday. There are also several countries where they performed in but most of it is shot in Paris where you'll see a humongous stadium all filled with fans screaming their lungs out just for COLDPLAY.

This one isn't actually for local release. This is the international version. Those scribbles actually was seen also in the concert stage. I won't tell you how, you must get it first before it makes sense hehe.

All their best hits plus new ones are included in this DVD release. Mylo Xyloto (which is consequently also the fifth studio album by this British alternative rock band), Hurts Like Heaven, In My Place, Major Minus, Yellow, Violet Hall, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Princess of China, Up In Flames, Viva La Vida, my personal favorite Charlie Brown, Paradise, Us Against The World, Clocks, Fix You and Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall.Oh and before I forget, Mylo Xyloto charted at number one in 34 countries on its first week so just imagine how much airplay their song gets in one day! The first week alone walloped 208,000 units of this!

Coldplay Live 2012 is their first concert film/live album. They're around the world touring and showing this concert to almost 3 Million people across countries.Chris Martin has never been so proud of this because the Mylo Xyloto tour made them realize that its the most fun they've ever had in a long time. From laser lights, to pyrotechnics and wristbands, it has been an honor for them to have had the chance to have their throng of fans perform with them in the concert. We were at awe at what we saw in Paris so don't even think about not watching it!

Go grab your copies on Friday! It will be available in Coldplay Live 2012 CD+DVD (Philippine Version) for only 485 Philippine Pesos and Coldplay Live 2012 CD+DVD (Imported Limited Edition) with free Mylo Xyloto baller for 1,500 Philippine Pesos.Thanks to the people from Astroplus/Astrovision, Odyssey Music and Video, and Polyeast Records. You guys rock! =)

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HALE: The Complete Hits Album

I have seen this guy in the past when we got the chance to talk with SomeDayDream a few months ago. I haven't seen them perform as a group "live" though aside from the occasional appearances they had with MYX via public television. He was nice, he had that presence and I'm not surprised he's got a huge following because aside from good looks... Champ Lui Pio's got so much talent. That goes the same with everyone in his band called Hale. 

Although we're all so shocked about their decision to disband for all the wrong or right reasons, we still continue to reminisce and ask ourselves... why do I love Hale and their songs. We might not even know why or how we could get the band back but for the latter we can easily get our fix of their music! Polyeast Records just came out with the "Platinum Collection : HALE | The Complete Hits Album". If you are a fan of the band or their songs, you would never want to let this thing pass because aside from the CD this contains a DVD compilation of all the greatest hits you love from HALE. This is surely something that fans should never miss. The playlist also boasts of 17 songs which topped Philippine charts when the band was still together. The song choices alone were great, I wonder if they had a hand at this. You should definitely watch the DVD first before listening to the CD. I guess that's the part where you get nostalgic.

Honestly I see quite a ton of sadness in some of these songs. But there's actually truth in these things. These songs matter to guys in general. Girls dig the part where its supposed to be sung to them. You dream of how these emotions could possibly be expressed; they use lyrics and music. Hale just does it like clockwork. It's like poetry put into a song. It's deep that you get depressed in a good way (if there is such a thing). Heavy on most of the ones included in the album; but totally apt for the occasion. There's like a sense of sadness but you love how it just brings your sanity back to something that would totally communicate how you feel when it happens to you. A breakup, a situation, a thing of the past just comes crashing back to you after hearing them play their music.

Broken Sonnet, The Day You Said Goodnight are given favorites. What I love in this album though is quite a surprise... it's the single Magkaibang Mundo. Not only because the official music video stars one of my muse Angel Locsin but because the words touched me the most. It's kinda situational too and I won't tell you I had a similar experience. No I won't tell you really LOL. I guess this album's strong point is that everybody's got a situation they can relate to. That's exactly what the songwriter probably wanted to do in the first place. If you like the band, the song and their music, you should definitely have this album. You'll regret it if you don't.

Please drop by your favorite record stores nationwide and get it. With a CD and DVD it's a collectors item. Thanks to Polyeast Records for making sure we have enough inspiration with Hale's music until now. I just wish somehow, someday they still get to play together. I'm with you. 

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Acoustic Essentials: Angela Sings James Taylor, Michael Learns To Rock!

I've been listening to her CD these past few days and honestly I haven't seen this particular artist yet nor have I interviewed her. The album itself didn't contain her photos so I was wondering if this was really meant to be this way. I got her "Acoustic Essentials: Angela Sings James Taylor" and the other one "Acoustic Essentials: Angela Sings Michael Learns To Rock". Both of these artists are classics and I am very familiar of their songs; I wonder how she'll be able to do this since the songs are pretty good even without re-interpreting the original. 

I was surprised to hear this for the first time. She's got spunk and the voice is so angelic. No wonder the monicker! My current favorite on this first one is "If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight". Although she didn't veer away that much from the way James Taylor sings this, it makes a refreshing and more dreamy way of doing this.You kinda get caught in the middle of just enjoying it and keeping your eyes closed setting the mood to relax and off to a good slumber. Here's some of the other songs in the album:

1 How Sweet It Is
2 You've Got A Friend
3 Fire and Rain
4 Wondering
5 Shower The People
6 Your Smiling Face
7 Sweet Baby James
8 Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
9 Handyman
10 If I Keep My Heart Out Of Sight
11 Something in The Way She Moves
12 Carolina On My Mind

The other album which contains "Michael Learns To Rock" covers is sublime! For those who loved their songs from a couple of years ago, this is definitely a "Must Buy". It really feels different to hear these songs come from a female because as you know the male take on this was kinda romantic. Since she sounds so angelic the difference just makes this a tad better. Not to undermine the original it just sounds clean and crisp when you do this on an unplugged state. 

If there's something to take note of on this album, it's the single "I'm Gonna Be Around". You can really feel that she's going to be there. The emotions were evidently showing on each track but I loved this one better. I guess to each his own. You kinda get the favorite songs you connect with. Believe me, it's quite easy to do that with her voice. She's done this so good. You have the choice to love more on this album's 12 tracks. Do you find anything that you fancy?!

1 25 Minutes
2 Out of the Blue
3 That's Why You Go Away
4 Paint My Love
5 The Actor
6 Sleeping Child
7 Breaking My Heart
8 How Many Hours
9 I'm Gonna Be Around
10 Nothing To Lose
11 You Took My Heart Away
12 Someday

For those who would like me to choose the better one between the two, I'd go for the James Taylor. Though it would really be a more moving experience if you got both CD's on your car. You'll feel definitely better because its worth collecting. On a Sunday afternoon, where you just want to chill and lie down on a hammock whilst sipping on your tropical punch laced with an umbrella on the side this is the perfect accompaniment for that. I wish I could meet the artist behind this album and ask her about the song choices because I feel her.

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She's Back! : The Best of Kylie Minogue!

Hey guys, I'm sure you got the busiest schedules and life's pretty hectic. Enough of that because one of the most beautiful woman I've ever known just released a new album. It's time to talk about that! I think it's kinda early for this but the thought of having an album with The Best of Kylie Minogue as title is just what any particular fan would love. For those who haven't even seen it, you are missing half your life and probably half of the playlist that you should have in your gadgets. You probably think this is going to be the most biased album review because obviously I love her. But I will try my best to stay neutral would that be okay?  For starters, the song choice is like a full tour on Kylie Minogue's career. From chart toppers to dance hits, from memorable pieces to the changes she has been in the past few decades, they've compiled that all into one album. This is definitely a collectors item. First on the list is "Can't Get You Out of My Head" which is stellar, cosmic and undoubtedly one of the more futurustic tracks of Kylie when she came back with a vengeance in the 90's. It has been used in so many shows on TV people already know the beat by heart. I even love "Spinning Around" and "Get Outta My Way" track where her alter ego Disco Kylie probably came out, it would have been fun if they included "You Did It Again" since that would show the identities she had at that time. That's why I regret to have not been able to experience her in the Aphrodite concert a couple of months ago, that would have sent me into tears for sure! Her phenomenal hits "I should be so Lucky" and "The Locomotion" has transcended time and got included on this album too; because that's one of her more notable hits in the 80's so you've gotta have that.

Her most recent album with hit single "All the Lovers" which in my dictionary is by far is one of the sexiest videos ever shown on MTV is something that you should watch... it'll set you on fire because after that you'll really feel too hot! Here's a rundown on the tracks for this "The Best of Kylie Minogue" Album:

1 Can't Get You Out of My Head – 3:492 Spinning Around – 3:263 I Should Be So Lucky – 3:244 Love at First Sight – 3:575 In Your Eyes – 3:186 Kids (with Robbie Williams) – 4:187 Better the Devil You Know – 3:548 All the Lovers – 3:199 Give Me Just a Little More Time – 3:0710 Celebration – 3:5511 Slow – 3:1312 Red Blooded Woman – 4:2113 I Believe in You – 3:1914 On a Night Like This – 3:3115 Confide in Me – 4:2616 Get Outta My Way – 3:3917 The Loco-Motion – 3:1218 Tears on My Pillow – 2:3319 Wow – 3:1220 In My Arms – 3:3221 Never Too Late – 3:27

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21 tracks of pure electronic music, a mix of inspirations from French, UK or Australian clubs. It's the ultimate album of choice for lovers like me. So make sure that if you drop by your local record bars, get one of these essentials and make her music pound on your ears til the wee hours of the morning like I do!

The Best of Kylie Minogue is released in the Philippines by the good people at Polyeast Records!

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Make It Or Break It: Down To Mars!

I'm not quite fond of KPOP music but I don't hate it don't get me wrong. I have seen groups try and fail miserably but I have seen something very promising a few days ago. Have you guys heard of Down To Mars?

For starters, Down To Mars is NOT a KPOP group. They are however something new, a new breed signifying a whole other genre called "INTERPOP" probably because they are half Filipino and half of an other Asian race. This was my first time to see them but have seen they've got quite a HUGE following. That alone got my attention. Why were they so interesting to these people? That I've got to find out.

You'd be deaf from their screams if you were there I'm tellin you! The host alone had to stop a couple of times to tell the audience to tone down a bit because we weren't hearing him anymore.

Good looking guys who can sing and dance quite well for their age. No wonder they've been hounded by their fans like that! For what its worth, I honestly see these guys are going places. I can tell that to you this early because they will literally be representing the Philippines in Korea a couple of months from now. The Korea Day together with other International performers will be their launch pad in that part of the world and I'm not surprised if they are going to get a lot of screams there as well. They are seriously combining these guys like its a waste of good looks if you put them in a group. GMA and Polyeast Records are gambling on this one but I think they've got a mighty gem in the rough. As far as performance goes, they delivered!

Plus they showed their single's official MTV! With Marian Rivera on the video too!

7 talented guys who also have the looks. Will the make it or break it? I don't know yet but it certainly looks VERY promising! Sorry for those who say they are "KPOP" because honestly they are not. It's like they are in their own genre. They've got their album already out in the market and you should look for the same name DOWN TO MARS on your favorite record bars. This is once again under POLYEAST Records. Try to make sure you get a copy and see what the difference is! Watch out for their shows in leading malls/establishments nationwide!

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Charming Ryan Bang's Album Launch!

A breath of fresh air and a genuine guy that just wants to be happy. That's how I want to describe Ryan Bang. He might not be the best hearth rob or matinee idol that Philippine showbiz wants to show but boy he's a ton of laugh and personality in one package. He improved quite a lot from his first days in PBB and I'm not surprised he's got more projects up his sleeves. This one though was one of the things YOU NEVER THOUGHT WOULD HAPPEN, but it DID! I'm excited to tell you guys that Ryan Bang already has an album!!!

With singles like "I lilly lilly like it! (I really really like it)", Pan Americano, Parapapa, Waka Waka, Git with U, Bon Bon, and another "I lilly lilly like it Mixed!" this proves to be one awesome album fit for the family. His charm and renditions of catchy tunes would definitely be the delight of those who listen to Willie Revillame or other artists in their genre. I would agree some of his songs are going to be hard to understand but the JOY is really in that! You have fun, dance once it starts and get carried away with you and your folks because it's FUN! Ryan Bang brings to you choices that other artists wouldn't have which is his CHARM!

I like Ryan Bang, he's a good guy... and if this album would make you feel that charm I found in him I suggest you go and get it! This is his first, I would love to see him do a Christmas Album this year!

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