DJ Love featured in Michael Palin's Channel 5 documentary series on the Philippines

Budots pioneer DJ Love features in a new documentary series from legendary British filmmaker and travel writer Michael Palin.

The first episode of Michael Palin in the Philippines premiered via Channel 5 on September 26, and follows the presenter as he explores the lesser-known landmarks and culture across the country's many islands.

In the final episode of the three-part series, which aired on Monday, October 12, Palin visits Davao City and encounters the local budots scene, with a familiar local guide in one of the sound's flag bearers, DJ Love.

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In a video shared via Instagram yesterday, October 14, Palin describes discovering the fast-growing Filipino electronic genre, which he found "bewilderingly incomprehensible", and meeting "a man called Sherwin Tuna", AKA DJ Love.

"I loved his lair," Palin can be heard saying over a clip of him visiting DJ Love's studio. "He creates this very sharp, jarring electronic sort of music," he says, with producer Neil Ferguson adding: "Oh, it makes punk look like Beethoven."

"What I liked about the budots thing was that he used sounds from the street," Palin continues. "Police cars going by, dogs barking, a police siren. All these were sampled and could be used in his tracks."

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Palin later confesses that he's a fan of the genre, revealing: "I have to battle against this image of being terribly nice. And that's why I like budots, because it's so utterly different from the church music I was brought up on."

Watch the clip below and check out the full episode via Channel 5

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