For the people who knows martial arts, they may have heard a lot of things from Japan, China and Korea. But not very many people know about Filipino martial arts. So here’s a little clip from the  The Hunted (starring Tommy Lee Jones, and Benicio Del Torro) showcasing it.

Filipino Martial Arts in The Hunted (two scenes)

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even this looks like a better fight than Rounin…

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I think I’m on a roll about music hehe… See There’s no Pop Songs in the Philippines

I was in contact with the site admin of Pinoy Centric, (you have to check them out!) and its been awhile since I asked them a question… If there’s any band/group that uses traditional instruments in the Philippines to create rock/modern music.

This might be a weird question or an odd combination… rock and traditional… what the hey!? Are you nuts? Traditional is traditional and modern is modern.

Making “modern” and or (*gasp*) pop music with traditional instruments can sound great.

Examples:

Japan has the Yoshida Brothers:

Now what does it sound with a rock group singing?

Monkey Majik (Canadian Teachers that became a hit in Japan) + Yoshida Brothers

And China has the Twelve Girls Band (they’re actually 13… one backup) HQ Version (37 mb, wmv)

Another sample, playing New Classicism, due to youtube the HQ version is gone

Where’s the group that uses kulinta from Magindanao, with the nose flutes and gangsa from the north with a mix of guitar from the Spanish. And maybe a great vocalist (you probably don’t even have to). Now you got a great band with the whole Filipino pride behind it.

Filipinos are even crazy about music see Indonesia, Philippines have most music-mad youngsters

Addendum:

Just have to put this in too! Classic Music done for modern times

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Yup that’s right, it seems there’s no such thing as pop songs in the Philippines, if there are, its rare or imported from another country i.e. USA, Japan, Korea.

This is pretty bold statement but I think I can provide some evidence of this.

For some reason “pop” music in the Philippines has been categorized with ballads and/or alternatives. There are great bands over there doing covers of rock ballads or singing their own compositions. But it’s still not “pop” music.

Pop artist/s are “packaged and groomed” as an individual artist and/or as part of a group.

If I may, the categories that are dominant in the Philippines are ballad, alternative, rock, weird ones (otso, otso), dance, rap, R&B, Christian, revivals, and traditional. But no poppish beat.

Now there’s no reason why should anyone wonder that Japanese/Korean/ American pop music are popular in the PI, because there’s no artist/s that has been doing this type of pop songs.

One can argue, pop music is really whatever is popular. But pop has elements of that one can dance too, a repeating beat, and pretty simple melodies with wide range of sound. One is yet to find this in Filipino music, to make it sound “edgy and modern” .

Korean,and Japanese Pop has been popular even in the U.S. because of it’s beats and intersting syncopations.

But where’s Fil-Pop? or maybe Flip-pop?

Thanks to youtube, I can cite some samples:

The only “poppish” thing I can relate to as of now is this music video by Iya Villania’s “Good To Be Me”

Now, if the language of the Philippines is Chinese then these would be the current “pop” music in the Philippines

As a comparison this is apparently the pop music in the PI as of now.

Now let’s see some samples of what pop is in Japan:She’s half -filipino and very popular in Japan right now. Leah Dizon

The first search result on Youtube with a query of Jpop (ok I know BOA is Korean, but she’s fluent in Japanese)

And the two most popular female singers in Japan.

Korean Pop Samples:BOA singing in English

H.O.T. arguably the one of the boybands that lead K-pop

American Sample:Britney Spears

It’s really quite surprising that Flip-pop/filpop has not develop yet even though it’s heavily influence by western music. It’s an untapped, and very profitable market.Yes I coined the term: Flip-pop/filpop

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So this is a practice subbing for me, just for fun.

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