User:Ack Ibanez/sandbox

Rino Ibanez, known professionally as Ack Ibanez, is a UK-based hip hop artist/producer from Dipolog City, Philippines. His style of low fidelity hip-hop and night-time nods hypnotizes listeners. In 2007, he co-founded the collective/independent record label Rebel Doggs Records and signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Philippines in 2020.

Musical career
Ack Ibanez is from Dipolog City, Philippines. Ack is one of the founding members of Rebel Doggs which started in 2007 and later became Rebel Doggs Records, an independent label under partnership with Warner Music Philippines. In addition to producing the entire Rebel Doggs Records catalogue as a label, he has also produced songs and collaborated with other artists outside the Rebel Doggs camp.

In 2007, he released his first mixtape “Dead is ill” with the first single Ganjah, a collaborative track with Nopetsallowed which began the formation of the Rebel Doggs collective. Shortly a year after his first mixtape, Ack released “The Push”.

Throughout the years after his second mixtape, Ack stayed behind the scenes and mainly focused on music production, gathering influences on different genres like Lo-Fi, Vaporwave and different subgenres of Hip-Hop.

In April 2019, after a long hiatus, Ack released the lo-fi boombap instrumental single “Weekend Warrior”. The track gained the attention of its peers and playlist curators alike. Weekend Warrior currently sits in the Top 50 of 4.5k playlists worldwide.

In June 2019, he released the lo-fi hip-hop, retrowave inspired 9 track LP, Vintage Soul Eternal Tsunami.

Shortly after his first LP and a few other singles, In November 2019, he released Blap Season, a collaborative EP with fellow labelmate and Rebel Doggs co-founder Hero Tunguia. The EP has features from artists such as Raz, Dave De La Cruz to name a few.

In December 2019, he released the nostalgia sounding instrumental LP “Sleeping with the Fishes”. The album automatically became a favorite to lo-fi producers and artists alike with the tracks being used as background music for documentaries and vlogs.

In July 2020, Ack released the lo-fi hip-hop album, Chillthaf*kout, as a collaborative LP with Raz.

On November 2020, he released the 14-track lo-fi hip-hop LP "Chillmonger ILL TAPE" and soon after as part of the Rebel Doggs roster Ack Ibanez signed a deal with Warner Music Philippines.

Musical Signature
Ack Ibanez utilizes a musical signature that he places towards the beginning (although not always) of many of the songs he produces. The signature is a voice recording of his own voice saying "This some A.C.K. s***".

Studio Albums

 * 2019 : Sleeping with the fishes
 * 2020: Chillthaf*kout
 * 2020: Chillmonger ILL TAPE

Extended Plays

 * 2019: Vintage Soul Eternal Tsunami
 * 2019: Play til 5am
 * 2019: Blap Season (with Hero Tunguia)

Singles

 * 2019: Hikikimori Isolation
 * 2019: Late Night Samurai
 * 2019: Feed the Bots
 * 2019: Weekend Warrior
 * 2019: Mellin Coast
 * 2019: Chido
 * 2019: Torn Monday
 * 2019: Nine-to-fiver
 * 2020: Broko Ono
 * 2020: Vaccine (with Hero Tunguia)
 * 2020: Mofaux
 * 2020: Lost

Mixtapes

 * 2007: Dead is ILL
 * 2009: The Push