Jason Calixto

Jason Cristobal Calixto (Born July 31, 1990) is a Filipino web designer and online music producer. He established the amateur internet record label Thug Line Records Philippines, a subsidiary of Atlantic Recording Corporation. Long one of the most important online Filipino independent record label, Thug Line Records Pilippines now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Recording Corporation, which consolidated Grand Hustle / Atlantic Label and the Elektra Entertainment Group into one label in 2007. It is notable that Calixto was always not credited in any of his works. He said that he did it intentionally to prevent his family and friends from knowing his endeavors.
Early Life
Calixto was born in Quezon City on July 31, 1990 and the son of proud Evelyn and Danilo Calixto. He and his family resides in Novaliches. He bacame interested into computers at the age of twelve and started to create prototype websites since then. He started his record producing career in late 2005 at the age of 15 along with Seo Ji hoon (A Korean national) who was impressed with Calixto's computer skills.
Web Development
Calixto's first work was the now liquidated FunstuffSampler; a website that offers a variety of entertainment (such as chat, music and news) for Filipinos. Due to the lack of popularity (considering that Calixto only hosted the website on a free server), the site was up only for 4 months until it closed in mid 2004. He was notable for his contributions on TristanCafe, Yehey! and numerous Filipino establishments websites.
Thug Line Records
Thug Line Records is a record label founded by Jason Calixto and Seo Ji Hoon, also known as Thug Line Family, Thug Line Soldiers and TL. Originally founding members of the Death Row Productions, a collective of Metro Manila based rap and R&B groups, Seo Ji Hoon broke apart from the group in 2008 to establish his own roster of musicians. Although this roster is not well known, they have appeared on Seo Ji Hoon's solo albums Thug Mentality, Thug on da Line, LeathaFace: The Legends Underground (Part I) and Too Raw for Retail. The Thug Line Records was popular in the underground Filipino Rap industry as it produces a lot of mixtapes and sold it online in mp3 formats. Thug Line Records was uniquely known to produce it's music on digital media rather than discs and casettes. According to Jason, it is their marketing strategy as piracy is a plague in the Philippines and small record labels like them can only produce music in a very cheap manner. Despite the label's low class operations, it is experiencing a good amount of success as it operated in an almost zero-cost circumstances. The label also promotes foreign albums majorly on the Hip hop genre.
Artists that are promoted by Thug Line:
Tupac,
Twista,
Bone Thugs ~N~ Harmony,
The Notorious B.I.G.,
Dr. Dre,
Snoop Dogg,
Soulja Boy Tell 'Em,
Bob Marley,
Lil' Wayne

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