Doug Candano is the author of the new book of surreal short fiction "Infinite Lives, Infinite Deaths" (Penguin Random House SEA).

His literary writing has won several national level awards, including the Philippines Free Press Literary Award and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature.

He has also written for film and theater and has a side career as one of the country’s top competitive eaters. He works as a freelance research consultant for dev't programs.

Follow Doug on his author page: https://www.penguin.sg/book_author/douglas-candano/

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Chris Linaban (director) and Ara Chawdhury (producer) are the creators of the 2016 Bisaya stoner movie SUPERPSYCHOCEBU.

With a cult following growing over the years (screenings during 4/20), in 2024 they now have screenings in the US and Philippines.

The filmmaking and real life partners look back on how they made the movie and what it means to them now.

superpsychocebumovie.com/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7N9aQEupCE

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Extreme slow metal at its tastiest. Hailed as genre-defying and a tour-de-force, BASALT SHRINE's debut LP is burning up the Pinoy sludge swamp like someone freed a quartet of gleeful arsonists. 

The Filipino doom/post-metal super group is composed of Bobby Legaspi (Surrogate Prey, Malicious Birth), Rallye Ibanez (Ex-Religious Nightmare, Surrogate Prey) and Ronaldo and Ronnel Vivo (Dagtum, The Insektlife Cycle, Abanglupa, Imperial Airwaves, Ex-Hateure). 

On this interview we go through each of the tracks on their excellent album "FROM FIERY TONGUES", their thoughts on extreme music, and how they found a hack for performing their previously studio-only songs live.

Buy the digital album on their Bandcamp: https://basaltshrine.bandcamp.com/releases

Buy the physical releases on the ff platforms.

Electric Spark (Netherlands) / Vinyl
www.electricsparkrecords.com

Surrogate Rec. (Ukraine) / Jewel Case CD
www.surrogaterec.com

Cruel Nature Records (UK) / Special Edition Cassette Tape
cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

Three Moons Records (Poland) / Limited Edition Cassette Tape
www.threemoonsrecords.com

Aim Down Sight Records (Germany) / Limited Edition Cassette Tape
aimdownsightrecords.bandcamp.com

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Electric Talon Records (Philadelphia) / Digipak CD / Cassette
www.electrictalonrecords.com

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PAWN (Ph) / Cassette Tape
pawnrecords.com

Harrowing Industries (Indonesia) / Digipak CD
harrowingindustries.bandcamp.com

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Australian phenom Rhiannan Iffland is one of the most dominant female Olympic divers in the world and the undisputed Queen of Cliff-Diving. 

A five-time consecutive Red Bull Cliff-Diving Series World Champion, she still credits one of her biggest wins to the time she came back from a devastating MCL injury in 2017, claiming the championship title despite a six-week rehab layoff. How did she bounce back so fast? Visualization and mental training were crucial to her recovery. 

This is a field recording from 2019, when Red Bull held an event off Palawan Island, in southwestern Philippines.        

Read my feature story on Rhiannan: https://aomnl.com/sports/Cliff-diving-red-bull-rhiannan-iffland 

Music provided by Surrogate Prey, used with permission. This podcast is powered by Anchor. 

RONALDO VIVO Jr. may be a well known musician and visual artist in Filipino metal and extreme music, being in bands like sludge supergroup Basalt Shrine and Abanglupa, but he is also an indie publisher, director, and popular writer of transgressive crime literature. On this episode, we talked about his recent release that's since become a cult hit "Ang Bangin sa Ilalim ng Ating mga Paa" (The Abyss Beneath Our Feet) and his first book "Ang Kapangyarihan Higit sa Ating Lahat" (The Power Above Us All), both available on independent presses.

CONTAINS sound samples from "Cottonmouth" by Surrogate Prey. Used with permission.

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MANIC MUNDANE is the musical moniker of solo artist Kath Dizon. 

A young, bedroom producer based in Mindanao, she crafts a particularly robust strain of electronic music out of deceptively simple riffs, spiced up by sci-fi synths imbued with a triphop vibe, garnished with 80s post-punk. 

“Narrative Three,” is Manic Mundane’s debut EP under the Cebu-based record label Melt Records. It’s Dizon’s big coming out as a solo artist as well as a return to her roots, literally being back in her hometown of Koronadal City in South Cotabato. 

A college rocker who used to front a hardcore punk band in Iligan city, she has since made the jump to crafting moody hymns about the imagined ecstasies of psychic travel and exorcising religious demons.

On this episode of the Dead Drop Podcast, I talked to Dizon in late 2021 as she was putting the finishing touches to her album. Check out her music, now available on Bandcamp, and listen to it on any of the major streaming platforms. 

Excerpt from "Astral Bodies" used with permission, all rights to Melt Records.

Buy MANIC MUNDANE's music on BANDCAMP. 

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