For those of us old enough to remember, the rock music station NU 107 carried a couple of songs on its playlist by the local ska ensemble PUT3SKA. Those tracks were as catchy as one could get, and like all ska songs featured an intense horn section. These horns are making a comeback in the latest mix of CHNDTR’s recent release “Mine”, which dropped more than a month ago. The mix, dubbed “Mine (Cheesy Version)” promises to offer a different take on a song that’s inspired, among other things, by 1990s love songs and their bilingual lyrics.
Its composers, Chin Detera and Niko Bacani, says that it took half a day to write and a lot of convincing that the song was worth recording. The song talks about the familiar experience of close friends becoming lovers and the endurance such relationships might have, and with this new “cheesy” take, the band wants listeners to appreciate “Mine” with a greater sense of “kilig” than before.
CHNDTR tells us that “Mine” was inspired by an experience of a friend of theirs at a party where they all were. His crush happened to be there, and as it happens, they all knew he felt that way for her. So all night, his friends relentlessly teased the two, who blushed in response. They knew that there was a spark there, and later was so inspired to write a song based on that memorable night.
They tell us that two are now a couple.
CHNDTR is now part of the Republic Records Philippines family, a label that was launched on July 8 of this year. Being part of Republic and working with the label’s A&R executive Tiny Corpuz, who also produced “Mine (Cheesy Version)” offers them new opportunities and challenges. “We think that the band will [not only be] challenged [creatively] but in discipline and hard work,” they tell us, “We hope that we can make the most out of our ideas and make music that we can be proud of in the future.”
Republic Records Philippines just released the single on all major streaming platforms.