Watch: No Rome – "Know U" [Premiere]

Who is No Rome? He's an up-and-coming electronic producer from Manila, the Philippines, and is an integral part of the city's Young Liquid Gang (or YLG) collective, a group of like-minded musicmakers with internationalist ambitions. Midway through 2014, following in a regular string of consistently quality tracks, No Rome dropped a track called 'Heaven'. More than just keeping up with the expected consistency, the song broke hearts around the world and racked up more than ten times the amount of listens his SoundCloud uploads usually get. It effused gallons of promise and heralded things to come with a fanfare of emotion and glistening production.

His latest offering "Know U" seems to carry on where the touching "Heaven" left off: his rich and textured vocals spinning effortless emotive hooks over ticking beats and washes of clustered electronics. Speaking about the origins of the track itself, Rome tells Best Fit: "the song is about that feeling of being left hanging after making a certain connection with someone at the wrong place in the wrong time."

So he offers us a glimpse into this feeling with his subtropical synth, endearing harmonies and chopped vocals. It's a mix of wind-up-toy beats and grinding electro-house flavours that crash with rolling snare drums and speckles of piano upon the shores of our minds. He's got momentum on his side and this is only the beginning.

Grab "Know U" from iTunes now, courtesy of Mermaid Avenue (Mom + Pop's single label).