My colleague Jay Palacpac and I worked on a few remixes based on the recently concluded Every Nation Conference 2010 at the SMX Center in Pasay City, Philippines. Jay remixed the conference theme, God Who Reigns, and I set the highlights of two preachers, Nigeria’s Grace Aiyedogbon and Nashville’s Steve Murrell. Feel free to download any of these EN2010 remixes here. :) Download God Who Reigns Remix by Jay Palacpac Download Grace...

I was so moved by the message of Nigerian preacher Grace Aiyedogbon that I just had to set some of my favorite parts to music. Such power in her message, she’s a fantastic...

In 2008, I wrote a song titled Set Apart for Uncommon, a message series of Victory Fort Bonifacio, the church in the Philippines for which I work. When it was sung in church, it was transformed into a praise anthem instead of the mid-tempo pseudo-ballad I’d imagined it to be. (Hey, apparently, arrangers can do whatever they want with a song. Thanks, Archie. lol) Almost two years since, I realize the original demo of Set Apart...

The Holy Week has been a great time for me to reconnect with my family and my God. This morning, I decided to create a praise song based on Psalm 118, and Easy to Love You is the end result. It’s a happy little praise song, and I’m not quite sure where it should be classified (OPM? lol), but I’m really happy with how it turned out. I started out wanting to make it sound like Train or Needtobreathe, but I think it’s got a...

My songwriting partner Archie Castillo and I have completed a new song. Titled Spirit of God, although originally titled Make My Heart Your Home, it’s our second original song for the year, after a track called Come Together (Shout), which I unfortunately cannot stream here yet because I have to wait until I find out whether or not it will be included in the roster of original tracks for EN2010. Spirit of God is a song for and about the...

I really like dance music, despite the fact that I can’t dance at all. *sob* Growing up in the 90s, I really, really liked the kind of club music that was coming out, stuff from C&C Music Factory, Cece Peniston, Crystal Waters, Martha Wash. DJ remixes were enough reason for me to buy CD singles; if an artist had Junior Vasquez working on it, it was almost a guarantee that I would buy the CD single. I never actually went to a club...