Ultraelectromagneticpop!

Though Ultraelectromagneticpop! was their debut album, most of the songs were recycled from original compositions that were written since their college days in 1989. Hoping to have their songs published, the band recorded a demo tape in 1991 and shopped around record labels and radio stations, only to be rejected at every turn. A friend-professor, Robin Rivera, from their school, UP Diliman, helped them record an improved version of the demo tape which was named Pop U!, a play on the invective "fuck you," in response to the people who turned them down. After a year of being passed around the underground music scene, the demo tape made its way to the hands of BMG Records (Philippines), who signed a three-year contract with the band.

The title of the album is a pun on ultraelectromagnetic tops, a fictional weapon from the anime serial Voltes V, which was immensely popular in the Philippines.

The recording of Ultraelectromagneticpop started on July 1992 to April 1993 with crazy working titles like "Lutong Bahay", "Pekaloid", "The Klasik Kapums Konsert Kookout", and "Eraserheads Greatest Hits Vol. 5". at Ad & Ad Recording Studio and JR Recording Studio.

Based on their production notes, they somewhat had a hard time during their recording sessions. It was stated that there are two things on their recording sessions : Heaven and Hell.

Hell: Ac and Ad. Brownouts, floods, rain, wait ancient equipment, No DAT, Ed Formoso, master recording machine kept slowing down and breaking up.

Heaven: JR Recording. Groovy engineer, Mr. Willie (the screen) Munji. Freedom! Experimentation. Everything we wanted. Good food, sound, equipment (d-drums! effects! sofa!)

The album was released by BMG Records ( Pilipinas ) under the label's local division, Musiko Records in July 1993. The album was originally issued on both compact disc and cassette tape formats with the respective catalog numbers: MRCD-032 and MRMC-032. Original issue cassettes featured full-color sticker labels on both sides.

In 2008, the album was re-released together with the band's other albums.

Notes

• Tracks 5 and 9 are considered filler tracks.
• Track 6 incorporates elements of "Too Young" written by Sylvia Dee and Sidney Lippman, being performed by Nat King Cole.
• Track 6 incorporates elements of "Silly Love Songs", performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.
• Track 6 incorporates lyrical references of several folk songs in the Philippines.
• Tracks 3 and 11 are entirely the same song. The latter is a clean, and radio-friendly version of the former.

Credits for Ultraelectromagneticpop! adapted from liner notes.[4]

• Ely Buendia – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, tambourine, handclaps
• Buddy Zabala – bass guitar, backing vocals, piano, handclaps
• Marcus Adoro – lead guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, handclaps, lead vocals on "Honky-Toinks Granny"
• Raimund Marasigan – drums, backing vocals, handclaps

Additional personnel

• Eraserheads – production (tracks 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12)
• Ed Formoso – producer (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11)
• Willie Munji – mixer, recording
• Jojo Bacasmas – lead vocals on "Ganjazz", backing vocals on "Ligaya"
• Boy Tanquinitic – recording
• Jhoffer Aquino – recording
• Ronnie Soriano – recording
• Dodong Viray – production coordinator
• Vic Valenciano – artists and repertoire
• Mario Joson – art direction, design
• Chitty Ramirez – art execution
• Mitch Amurao – photography

The release of Ultraelectromagneticpop! gave way to other Filipino bands to splash onto the Philippine Alternative Music Scene and also saw the emergence of the so-called "90's Rock Revolution" in the Philippines.

• Allmusic Review
• schizo-archives.com
• ultraelectromagneticpop! Cassette Inlay