Marco, aka Slave Unit, is a professional truck driver and forklift operator. He grew up in Vigan City and Manila in the Philippines, but now resides in the east coast, USA. He tries to write music, essays, short stories and code in his spare time, mostly to no fruition.
"A good part of my teenage years was spent hanging out at videogame arcades at malls in Manila. Every once in a while I would stumble upon a broken game. It would have the terms “SLAVE UNIT ERROR” or something like that flashing on the screen. I liked the term. One day I thought that we are all slave units to a master unit in one way or the other, whether you like it or not. Since then, the idea and the term of a slave unit has been my motivation to withstand life obstacles or my basis for compromise with societal norms and the name of my band if I ever put together one, or the name of my web development company if I ever start one, or the name of my t-shirt company if I ever…" ~ Marco, aka Slave Unit