199X is a beat music project by Filipino producer and graphic designer Jordan Cortez who is currently based in Dubai since 2017.  Known for their gritty space-filled and sometimes idiosyncratic beat production style, his works as 199X sometimes entail vagueness and nostalgia and leans more towards the left-field and DIY experimental hip-hop aesthetic and ethos.

He’s a co-founder of Promdi, a beatmaking and bedroom music collective in the Philippines and is the sole operator of his cassette-only micro-label Analog Amigo Records. Before moving to Dubai, he is mostly active as a curator and resident for Ruthless Sound Collective, a sound art group based in Manila.

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