Formed in 1998, the Radioactive Sago Project garnered some attention during the last few months of the Estrada administration. They played in massive anti-Erap rallies, with their hit song ‘Gusto ko ng Baboy’ embodying the widespread public contempt against the excesses of the said administration. The song is their carrier single in their first self-titled album under Neo/Viva records.

But the band lost their recording deal two years ago, when it seemed like their label decided that they were a bunch of one-trick wonders and simply let the remainder of their two-album deal rot perhaps ‘till hell froze over.

Well, they could be a troupe of one-trick ponies for all we know, but that doesn’t stop them from coming up with a new album entitled ‘Urban Gulaman’. To be released independently, of course, unless some record company would be mad enough to sign them up.

Made up mostly of young UP College of Music alumni, the eight-man unit plays a unique synthesis of spoken word, jazz, funk, punk, metal, and afro-latin, with some experimental touches thrown in. The band plays in venues like Freedom Bar, ‘70s Bistro, Millennia, Big Sky Mind, Crowded House, Sanctum, and other spots that DO NOT have people requesting for ‘Overjoyed’ and crappy Earth, Wind, and Fire covers.