It's time to party like it's 2022 with the Eraserheads.

Over the weekend, the Eraserheads released the Huling El Bimbo (Live at 2022 The Eraserheads Reunion Concert), a live album recorded at their monumental 4-hour SMDC Festival Grounds concert on 22 December 2022. The live album is also set to be pressed on vinyl later this year.

On Episode 102 of Raymund Marasigan and Daren Lim's Offstage Hang, Eraserheads frontman Ely Buendia and audio engineer/producer Audry Dionisio revealed that the entire 4-hour concert—including the intermission—was sent over to them.

"We stared at that project for an hour, figuring out how we're going to mix this. I chopped everything per song and then cleaned some [noise], and then we hired three interns, to clean some more," Dionisio says, explaining their process on how they cleaned up the live tracks, where some picked up other instruments, tracks that were empty and had to be removed, and others where guest performers like Gary Valenciano would sing along to the songs backstage. "Removing all that noise and isolating the songs took me and three interns to do. That was thirty-two songs and that took us months only because it was a lot. The files are big."

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Getting a little technical, Buendia and Dionisio shared that there were over 50 inputs per track. After all the cleaning, they ended up with around 30 usable inputs. Dionisio started the mix, templating, and did some basic EQ before passing it over to Buendia. "It's his music, so he's the one who went deep. Sleepless nights talaga," she said.

Buendia shared that the live album went through two master mixes—the first one, he wasn't happy with, the second, he balanced things out to "get that live feeling," he said. He also revealed that he did a lot of research, listening to live albums and bootlegs of Fleetwood Mac and Prince. There was some minor curing to make the album palatable for streaming. "It was so overwhelming, you make mistakes," Marasigan opened up. "Buddy was asking, 'Did you fix anything?' I don't want to listen to it, because I'm gonna cringe if you hear the mistakes."

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Bassist Buddy Zabala was invited to join the interview and mentioned that "it was one note." He said, "One really bad note. That amp also died, actually my bass cut out. We just kept it as is and then hopefully it was musical enough that the people liked it."

"Ako sa 'Slo Mo' natapilok eh," Marasigan recalled. "It was just one moment na parang, 'oh my god, this is so big!' And it was overwhelming, tapos after a split second out of mental focus, it slipped. I want to remember it that way."

Stream the Eraserheads' Huling El Bimbo (Live at 2022 The Eraserheads Reunion Concert) below.