VOTE for Nights of Rizal at this year's Stig Awards (Electro and Synth category)!

Gigs:
November 3, B-side for Ellie's Wicked Wednesday Mixtape. Donate a book and get in FREE :)

November 7, Saguijo for J-hoon Balbuena's Noodles vinyl launch

About/Bio:
Migi de Belen thinks himself a hero only in the Super Mario sense, sucked into the dank and winding pipework of his own nostalgia. Nights of Rizal is the low-res, pixelated soundtrack to Migi's endless 2d side-scrolling: where the princess is not a princess, but is a concept, and is always in another castle.

Read more:
Real Eyes
The Philippine Star

Download FREE from Young Star:
Synth City mix

Nights of Rizal has played all-original sets in B-Side and Saguijo in Makati, Route 196, Tomato Kick, and AMOS Cafe in Quezon City, RONAC Art Center in San Juan, and Borough in Podium Mall, Ortigas. He performed during the opening night of Fete de la WSK 2011. He's a beatmaker for hip-hop/soul collective Soul Fillet Productions and an active member of the buwanbuwancollective .

Collabs/Remixes/Releases:
Nights of Rizal released his first Collected Beats CD in March 2012 at the Better Living Through Xeroxography (BLTX) indie book fair. He produced the beat for J-Hoon Balbuena's song U& Me off J-Hoon's Noodles album. His song "Words" is included in The 2012 Manila Electronic Dance Music Conference's CD giveaway.

He's done remixes for Thai artist Neuter Lover, Electronica Manila founder silverfilter, independent rock band Game Theory, and singer-songwriters A Problem Like Maria and Mic Llave.

He's now working on an all-vocal EP titled Karma Zero, an EP with singer-songwriter Aina Sevilla, and an all-Tagalog EP. Other projects include an acoustic guitar-based band, an electronic duo (with Malaysian producer ADAM KASTURI) called Kereta, and electronic/vocal duo (with Len Calvo of Klieg Lights) dubbed Milen. He also writes jingles and scores commercial AVP's.