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Stitched into a meld of diverse temperaments and

sounds, Manila five-piece band MILESEXPERIENCE
gently etches their names into the local music
scene with hits striking gold of authenticity
and expression.

By Dannise Galon
Photographed by JL Javier
Styled by Celene Sakurako
Special thanks to Desiderata Lounge

A
n amalgamation of reverberations
and personalities,
MilesExperience–shortened as
MSex–started out as modest and as
laid-back as they carry themselves:
by skipping a morning class and
developing the posse of Miles
Bondoc (vocals/guitar), Justin Teano
(guitar), Ian Diaz (bass), Guido
Hizon (keyboards), and Timothy Odulio
(drums) at their alma mater in
University of Santo Tomas, where they
majored in music. A beginning to a
now-long-term friendship, the band’s
name was initially MilesExperience69,
which was later altered into its
latest form. “That’s MilesExperience
with no space and the word ‘sex’ in
the middle. We removed the ‘69’ to
make it more simple since it sounds
too much like a username,” says
Miles. When asked about the genre of
their band, they all held to the same
thought: Fusion. Ian adds, “We’re
each other’s influences. A fusion of
different genres–that’s what we’re Tops by Oxygen and Penshoppe (on Miles)
trying to instill.”
MSex’s sound is a deep dive of
hazy, heartstrings-tugging, arch

“We’re each other’s influences. A

expression of love, art, and life.
With tunes that ring out different
shades of artistry in each other,
their harmonious stimuli involve
rock, jazz, blues, classical, and

fusion of different genres–that’s

hip-hop music. Their psychedelic
experimentations spectacle in their
recently released music video,
“Silakbo,” along with their first
ever MV released last August 2015,

what we’re trying to instill.”

“Love Supreme,” equally resonating
vibes from musical influences such
as Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney,
Eraserheads, Rico Blanco, and As Tall
As Lions, to name a few. Epitomizing

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their own brand of eccentric and off-
the-grid customs, the quintet boosts
themselves from the clutch of new
native music acts, evidently placing
them on the heyday of their career at
the moment.
Standing out in this generation’s
musical influx with the oscillations
the digital age has brought upon,
they sink into a flow of adept and
misty abstract, delivered in a dazed
voice–all the while dismantling
terrains and paving their perpetual
lane. While they all agree that the
Internet’s façade-altering nature
has also taken effect on numerous
means towards the face of music, MSex
establishes that it has made lots of
things better, especially for the
exuberating pool of great artists
in the local music scene including
themselves. “It’s actually better
that they’re more exposed than the
last decades. The competition is less
now because we help and uplift each
other,” Ian quips.
Pointing out the shift in
attitude of local bands, Timothy
reflects on the downside. “There’s a
lot of not-so-good music that people
get exposed to; they’re fed with it.
They feel like it’s good music, but
it’s really not,” shares the drummer.
“The Internet has changed music
through various ways of productions.”
While they make their way towards
the mainstream music scene, the band
rejoices on the fact that their music
is able to help people of need,
whilst they compel glory in playing
them, saying, “Every event we had is
memorable. Every gig has a unique
spirit, a purpose.”
Their debut record is set to be
released on April 30 in B-side at
The Collective, featuring classical
Jackets by Topman, pants by Penshoppe and Zalora (on
Ian), Graphic black tee by Oxygen (on Justin), Graphic
maestro
strings acts and performances from
their close-knit collective of
musicians. With the name of the album
still in the works, their 12-track
LP will include a mix of both
Filipino and English songs. For the
love of music, thriving passion, and
artistry, MilesExperience’s cohorts
are bound to keep their breaths in
check, for the band is just about
to fly off through their soothing
acoustics and plummeting drums thumps
in no time.
facebook.com/milesexperience
@MilesExperience
white tee by Oxygen (on Tim)
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“ALL THE GLAMOUR AND THE TRAUMA AND THE F*CKIN’ MELODRAMA.”
20-year-old singer-songwriter Lorde (whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor)
stands be making ripples on the music scene this early in 2017 as she rakes in
consequent positive critiques for her recently launched sophomore album called
Melodrama.

While the central themes of her debut LP Pure Heroine (2013) shoot on the issues
of conventional beauty and popularity, Melodrama is re ective upon the transience

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of Lorde’s adolescence and adulthood. Unlike most pop stars, however, she has
refrained from putting out music that gets the tales of a new romance and has
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‘Royals’ may have been 16-year-old Ella’s golden ticket to the cut-throat stream of
the industry, but ‘Writer in the Dark’ and ‘Sober II (Melodrama)’ are taking the stage
as the most headline-grabbing songs of the latest release as they carry the core
subjects of the record.

Nevertheless, ‘Supercut’ is undeniably the super song of the album. The backward-
grazing tune tells the account of a venerated relationship, narrating a version that
shades brighter than reality. The brilliance of the track manifests on the lyrics
which ultimately fall on her realization that only a collection of clips remain of what
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