Performance
Friday night at 1F
Friday night at 1F Projects. Midnight Intruder, Cyril Yarisantos, and Vader on the bill. Midnight Intruder and Yarisantos out of the Groove Nation tradition; Vader the long-running Black Market resident from Erick Ong’s roster of aliases.
Mario Serrano is a Manila-based DJ whose career traces back to Groove Nation, the collective behind a generation of formative underground parties through the 1990s. He DJs under aliases including Midnight Intruder, and releases music as Marioscafe — most recently the album Overnight Success.
Cyril Yarisantos is a Manila DJ and producer who began mixing soul, R&B, hip-hop, breaks, funk and disco in 1990, and by 1991 — at age 15 — was one of the youngest residents on the Manila club circuit, where he turned toward house and techno. A co-resident at Groove Nation’s Deep Fried, he later played the latter run of the Consortium parties. His sets and releases on Funkfield and Dustpan Records have placed him alongside Marques Wyatt, Juan Nunez, Nathan Coles, Evil Eddie Richards, and Detroit’s Kevin Saunderson.
A veteran of Manila’s electronic dance scene, Erick Ong has been quietly central to the city’s nightlife for over a decade — DJing under aliases including Huang, Mulan, and Vader, with a long-running residency at Black Market and opening sets for visiting acts like Kode 9, Daedelus, Pinch, Jim Masters, GaslampKiller, and Addison Groove. He co-founded the now-defunct underground venues XX XX, Black Market, and B-Side.
