Homegrown Talent: Shuffle Union

Fueled with a steady backbeat as well as rhythm area mixed with a brassy sound, Shuffle Union first burst into the local scene with its 2000 entry into the Clubska Manila circuit-chiefly made possible through pioneering ska outfit Put3ska. The band offers since already been a Clubska Manila normal and has kept shows from Mayric’s, Heckle and Jeckle, The Craic, Freedom Bar, Essex, Thousands of years Bar and Gallery, Loudhouse, and Kolumn Bar. Shuffle Union currently spearheads Skamax, the monthly offshoot from the Clubska scene, as well as Ska City United, a monthly event that serves as the showcase for bands included in the Ska City United CD, with support using their company ska bands as well.

Shuffle Union won the actual 2000 National Finals of the Yamaha Band Alert competition held in the Hard Rock Café in Makati. It consequently represented the Philippines in the Asian Finals of the same competition in Bangkok, Thailand, in which the band copped the Best in Performance Award. In the international picture, Shuffle Union currently includes a successful solitary included in the first-ever assortment of music from Asian ska bands. The Album Asian Ska Foundation, released through Authority Records of Japan, is a certified number 1 hit launch. On the local front, the single Dance Beside me recently made an appearance in the Ska City United Collection CD. This is a national ska collection which was previously released in your area, and is now exclusively distributed by Germany’s Copasetic Records. Within 2006, the single also appeared in Jam 88.3’s Doobie Nights compilation CD and consequently became the album’s most requested solitary for 2006.

Shuffle Union regularly co-organizes Ska celebrations in the northern suburbs of Manila. The band has already released its first independently produced EP and is presently working on its debut full-length CD. Now upon its ninth year, this guitar rock band still continues to play with fervor and enthusiasm. Proud products of Clubska Manila's roots school, they have set out to further propagate the initial Jamaican sound in Philippine coast line and that's precisely what they expect to do for many much more years to come.

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