Biography

The Assembly Generals have taken aim at shattering stereotypes, and breaking bias. Theirs is not about who, what, why, and how. Theirs is simply "because we can" and "because it’s fun to do it live”. Even the sound is a sonic gathering to behold, and something quite hard to categorize. Call it raw-electric-Filipino-hiphop or any other permutation, but the simple fact is that the music is alive. It breathes, it grows, it speaks and it moves in and out of every pocket. The music is still rooted in good old hiphop — influenced heavily by the sample-based drum production, and the clear-cut rhyme poetry on the mic, both in their English and Tagalog tracks. But there's that extra flavor, that extra kick, an unexpected that leaves you with just the right amount of discomfort to make you want more. Their self-titled debut album was released on March 6 2015. Produced and written by the band, and recorded in Shinji Tanaka's Sound Creation Studios less than a year earlier — all even before their first live gig. The album also features a well-equipped arsenal of guests such as Beng Calma of DRIP, Camoi Miraflor of Pinoy Stories, local pioneers DJs Arbie Won and Supreme Fist, and a posse of iconic MCs such as Skarm, ILL-J of the Sun Valley Crew, Dash of the Legit Misfitz, TracerOne and Johnny Krush of Mastaplann, and GodNeeks of the LA-based, Rhytmatics. The Assembly also has music videos out online, from their debuts “Kontrabida” and “SakaLawakan”, to their most recent, “ABKD”.