An interview with Eric Copeland from Black Dice, a noise/rock experimental band based in New York. By our lovely Marcel Thee.

1. Why did you decide to compile some of your 12′ materials for the new album along with newer songs?

The idea was that at it’s conception; to release all the songs on vinyl through other labels and then just have a CD and digital release at the end of recording it all. Initially, we’d intended to put out the CD, but when Paw Tracks came along, it made sense to work with the instead. Plus, I like having all the songs on some special little vinyl releases, with the posters. The last five songs will also be released as a 12” on Paw Tracks at the same time as ‘Load Blown’.

2. In terms of the writing and recording process, how is it different from your previous albums, such as Broken Ear Record/Creature Comforts? Did Eric’s solo album influence it in any way?

We spent a long time working on this one, on and off. It was also the first one where a lot of it was created in the studio to some extent. And it was also the first one where we recorded ourselves a little bit, which was an entirely new experience. ‘Hermaprodite’ I made it all by self recordings, so I felt pretty capable in our practice space doing it ourselves.

3. Most Indonesian “noise/experimental” musicians tend to gravitate towards more electronic sounds rather than organic ones. Do you and the rest of Black Dice have any preferance in this matter? And why?

I’d say we all love electronic sounds and work with them to some extent. But we definitely don’t restrict ourselves to any one sort of sound. As long as we like what is being done with the sound, the source tends to matter less. We don’t really take a stance in this matter.

4. The earlier Black Dice materials was much more harsh and trash oriented, but had a more “traditional” song structure form. Do you see Black Dice infusing some of the more traditional aspects of songwriting again into future materials?

I don’t know if they were really ‘traditional’ arrangements or structures. But the music was different, as was the instrumentation. But I guess if you keep going, you eventually end up at some familiar places, to you or to your audience. But even then, how do you mean traditional?

5. Are there certain secret languages or cues that all of you have when writing and performing, in distinguishing parts of a song? Maybe as a signal to “move” the song from one part to the other? Do you have it written down?

Definitely, but not always. Sometimes we all have a tolerance that we act upon together to know when to do that. Sometimes one of us leads, while the others follow. Alot of it depends on how a set is moving, where it needs to go. So, for instance, some changes have to be initiated by one person as the others aren’t in a position to make the change alone/first. Sometimes we have to write it down, sometimes we just talk about it, sometimes its eye contact. It really all depends on the circumstances..

6. Was there any specific moment/inspiration when you decided this was the kind of music you wanted to make?

No, not really. We’ve been stumbling into these places pretty accidentally.

7. Which of your albums would you recommend to a Black Dice novice as an introduction to your materials?

Me, I’d always say the newest one. Or, I will sat ‘Creature Comforts,’ because it was hard for a lo of people to get into, but I also feel like is a good place to get on board with the trajectory of following up with the rest of the records.

8. Would it be okay if you share with us some your live equipment set up?

We play a guitar, some delays, pitch shifters, electronic drums, a sequencer, some minidiscs, a sampler machine, some mixing boards.. Nothing to exciting for gear people I don’t think..

9. What would be the perfect setting for listening to a later-period Black Dice record (Broken Ear Records, Creature Comforts, the upcoming Load Blown)?

I’ll sat that I usually think our records will be complimented by some serine setting, but they tend to sound real aggresive and urban in those surrounds. Now I’d say just taking a walk maybe. Maybe here in NY? Although I wish everyone could sit in a huge room with floor-too-ceiling windows, high up anywhere, with a huge sound system playing the cd, DJ’d with no song interruptions, all three in a row. That’d be perfect.

www.blackdice.net

sounds : www.emichrysalis.co.uk/players/blackdice/

A year ago I was on a gig where a boy and a girl sits in front of two keyboards face to face. Not so long after they occupied the chairs, they started to play some beautiful tunes. A few weeks later they become Alphawaves. After some stunning performances, I decided too give them two question. And here we go…

A Good Music Is ?

• a good music can be connected to emotions
• there is a climax and anticlimax
• can be imagined as a picture
• can be imagined as a color
• mean something to the writes
• the song that he/she sing mean anything to the people who’ll sing them too
• our music

Why Alphawaves?

Dina:

• my alter ego
• practicing piano
• mey greymood diary
• I believe in Elang
• Sometimes digital girl should be often with analog boy

Elang:

• Love her alter ego
• Practicing writing songs
• I believe in Dina
• She loves toy and I’m a toy, but not every toy is serious.

Interview by Eric Wiryanata
Photos by Ryan Koesuma

Club 8 is a nice indiepop band from Sweden released under Labrador Records, after their release with FFWD Records a few years ago in Indonesia, they become a very influential indiepop sound here in Indonesia. We are lucky to catch their live in Bandung a few months ago. And now I’m trying to catch them again to answer some short questions, and talk about their future release “The Boy That Couldn’t Stop Dreaming”.

Hello Karolina, I’ve got a few short question to ask you… how are you?

I’m fine, thank you. This magic year 2007 has been so good to me, the best one in a very, very long time. It’s been full of surprises, creativity and love. Club 8 just finished the recording of a new album and i was more inspired than ever before. And the trip to Indonesia in March filled me with happiness and still does. And I’ve been working with a film script, something that I’ve been dreaming to do for a long time. I write it together with a Swedish author called Hans-Eric Hellberg and the script is based on his very controversial and debated books from the seventies. It’s a beautiful story about love between two very young people who live with their families in the same house.

Would you mention 5 (or more) records that had been influencing you until now?

Some of the records below have had a big influence on me as a person, some of them have influenced our music a lot and I think it’s quite easy to guess which ones.

• The Field Mice: Coastal
• Blueboy: If wishes were horses
• The Smiths: The Smiths
• The Radio Dept: Lesser matters
• Felt: Poem of the river
• Leonard Cohen: Songs
• Television Personalities: Far away and lost in joy
• The Sea Urchins: Stardust
• Ingenting: Mycket vasen for ingenting
• Mazzy Star: Among my swan

What is on your heavy rotation playlist lately?

• Club 8:
  ‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’
  (the 12 song album which will be out in September)
  It’s just finished and I can’t stop analysing every detail on it, to see if there are things that i want to change in the production. But that’s so silly, cause it’s being printed right now so i should leave it. But I’m happy to say that both me and Johan are very satisfied with it. It’s such a good feeling.

• -Morrissey:
  ‘Your arsenal’
  I just say one thing: the song ‘Seasick, yet still docked’ is so beautiful it hurts. My heart is too small for it.

• -Labrador 100
  Labrador records is our Swedish label and early this year they released a 100 song compilation including one song from each release from the start 1997 up to now, and Labrador’s very first album was actually ‘The friend I once had’ with Club 8. My absolute favourites on Labrador records are The Radio Dept, The Mary Onettes and Ingenting, which is the only band who sings in Swedish on Labrador.

Is there any band in mind you would recommend our readers to listen?

I recommend you go for all the bands I mentioned in the first question. Their songs will make you smile and cry and smile and cry… and afterwards you will feel soothened, comforted, awakened, cleaned and enlightened, more alive than ever and never lonely again :)

What do you miss about Indonesia after the show a few months ago?

I miss the whole thing… especially the people. I still think about Indonesia every day and i have SMS and myspace contact with quite a lot of the fans who were there and listened to us.

I don’t know why but I felt a very special connection to Indonesia. The friendliness and warmth of the organizers and the people in general, touched me.

Any plans for the future release?

The next step is to release the second single, called ‘Heaven’ in the beginning of September and after that we’ll release the album ‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’ in the end of the same month. Very soon we’ll start recording our 7th album and also tour a little. We’ve been invited to many Asian countries but we think we’ll play in China and Thailand to begin with.

Thanks for the time.

Sounds: www.labrador.se/sounds.php3
Info: www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3
www.myspace.com/club8

About Olive Tree
It was September 2003 when Kiki (Songwriter/Pianist) asked Bez (Drums) and the other starting members to form a band named Olive Tree, later on, the other starting members decided to leave the band and replaced by Iman (Bass) and Teezar (Guitar) which become the original member of Olive Trees later performances. The very first public performance of the band was in March 2004, five months after it was formed.In their first two years of struggle, the unique musical characters of the band rapidly catch everybody’s attention in their every performances. With no other band to compare in their genre (which is a hybrid from classical pop piano, unique vocal character, powerful drum beats, catchy bass tunes and rock guitars) the somehow gloomy but funny band becomes a stand alone benchmark in Bandung’s independent music scene.

The rock love song and March of the lonely nights are two olive tree demo tracks released by the bands for radio play (the second track also appears on the demo cassette supplied by Ripple Magazine), and become number one indie track on two separate big radio stations in Bandung from October to November 2004.

The next demo track Miss you used for late night radio program for their background music illustration. Still looking for the right recording label to sign, in February 2006 Olive Tree released their first commercial single Winter Holiday under Jakarta’s join recording labels: Parc & Kenanga records in their compilation album: Riot The Thursday Riot Compilation in which features 17 old & upcoming Indie artists from independent music scene allover Indonesia.

In December 2006 Olive Tree finally release their debut album, self funded, self promoted and self distributed. The album contains 12 tracks and their singles quickly climbs to the top of indie charts in many radio allover major cities in indonesia. Currently on tour and promoting their album, Olive tree are working on some songs for the upcoming second album and planning to release the album in one or two years.

Short Deathrockstar Q&A with Olive Tree

• Kapan Olive Tree terbentuk?
  Oct 2003

• Siapa aja personelnnya
  Teezar (guitar), Iman (bass), Kiki-chan (Keyboard and vocal), Bez (Drum)

• Judul album?
  Self-titled (Olive Tree)

• Lagu Jagoan?.
  Winter holiday, Psycho girl, Mimomew

• Track Listings?

1. rock love song
2. another story
3. winter holiday
4. smile from you
5. miss you
6. a boy with a red and a white shirt
7. my conversation
8. psychogirl
9. mimomew
10. magic of an olive tree
11. march of the lonely night

• Visi-misi dari album (kalo ada)?
  Visi misi album: bayar “hutang” buat yang suka olive tree, yang selama 3 taun ga pernah berenti nanyain album kita, misinya yah menjadi milyuner dari hasil bermusik.

• Albumnya dijual dimana aja?
  Bandung: Monik house, Screamous Shop, Airplane, Anonim, DU68 Musik, Riotic, Disconnect, Soho Cihampelas Walk, Arena, 347eat, Ouval research
  Jakarta: Aksara bookstore (Kemang,Cilandak Townsquare, and Plaza Indonesia)

• Trus ada rencana apa aja dimasa depan?
  Bikin album kedua, buat yang jomblo mau nyari cewe, hmm trus… meningkatkan standarisasi kepuasan pribadi dalam bermusik.

Olive Tree Myspace

They are a band of three that plays 60s-revival kind of music. On their attractive show performances, the usually-drunk vocalist/frontman, Acum, resembles those daily-smoking-pots hippies, but he wore Batik instead of the typical flowery-pattern clothes.

With a piece of paper and a pen, we tried our best to get Acum answers these questions, because apparently, under the local alcohol drink of lapen, he could only answer in English.

Which one of your songs would be a good representation of the band?
She Burns The Disco ? Titik Balik

What have you been listening to recently? Are there any other bands that have influenced your songwriting for Bangku Taman?
Francois Hardy ?En Vogue?. And our Influences for the band are: Bob Dylan, The Byrds, The Monkees, and Procol Harum.

A lot of great bands that we love tends to be on an indie label, and with their limited distribution power, would you consider signing with an obviously corporate major label
Nope, I don?t like major label

List the songs that you would like to put on, if supposively there would be a Bangku Taman?s Greatest Hits album.

• Catch Me When I Fall
• Satelit
• Miracles Should Not Come So Soon
• How Strange
• Fantasi
• Kera
• Robby (The Graveyard is What You?ll See)
• Solomon Songs (B-side version)

What is an honest music?
An honest music is.. A music that came with no pressure, let is flows freely, start smokin? pots and take the 1st chord.

Do you discover any good new band lately?
C?mon Lennon

Please recommend us some of the best songs you had written ever. And please tell us the story behind it.
Robby (The Graveyard Is What You?ll See). It?s about a son who rebel his father for the customs and traditions he had since he was born.

Lastly?
There?s no last, the music still continues ?

People said that they were a Weezer-esque kind of band, but this all-male victory full of distortion and harmony band always refused that kind of statement and clearly appoint themselves as The Beach Boys-esque-with-distortion kind of band. Well okay, while they still got those catchy tunes, falsetto singings and the funny melodies on stage why should we care about their so-called predecessors?

On the pen and piece of paper, we tried force Ario to answer these short questions about the band, but he eventually ask Indra7 (their manager) to do the work.

What?s the fascination with the word ADAMS?
(They drew the male/mars symbol)

What records have you been listening to lately?
Thin Lizzy

Even though The Adams still sometimes gets tagged as ?Power Pop?, a lot of reviews tends to praise the ?power? value of the music. Do you agree with this? Do you think that there is an extra ?power? value on your music that a lot of other bands just don?t have?
We think that music and power (or we should say ?soul?) should come in the same way in any kind of genre. For sure, our power were based on how we deal with each individuals in the band, in social live and sex lives! Hehe.

Musically, which bands influences your music?
The Beach Boys

Tell us the five ingredients of writing a The Adams? material?
Harmony
Distortion
Family
Love
Friendship

What legendary band would you say died and were reincarnated as The Adams?
Thin Lizzy, Dedy Stanzah, Enuff Z?Nuff

What would be the perfect setting for listening to The Adams? records?
Bathroom and Inul Vista Karaoke

Meet Santamonica, a nice indiepop band from Indonesia.

How are you today?

Fantastic, thanks for asking

The band is actually made up of people who’ve previously been in other bands. How do you think the members’ previous experience influence the music of Santamonica?

Do you mean Iyub? Because I (dita) have never been in a band before. Iyub’s other band Sugarstar (now Direct Action Group) is very different to Santamonica, music wise. He approaches to the songs very differently with Sugarstar, and as far as I know it doesn’t have any major influence to Santamonica music. I could say that those two bands are like two peas in different pods. :)

What are you approaching differently in Santamonica than your other projects?

I think Santamonica music is very intimate, it’s very personal and has feminine touch compared to Sugarstar, as there are only two people involved in the song writing process.

Your last E.P was, in our opinion, one of the best releases last year. Were you satisfied with the E.P? or were there some ideas you couldn’t put on the album?

We never thought of it as one of the best releases, but thank you for saying so. Of course we’re quite satisfied with it, although it only has three songs in it, and yes sometimes we’d criticize ourselves too hard when listening to the materials again and again, like the mixing of the first and second songs are not up to our standard as we did them only in a day. Initially, the E.P was intended as the gifts for our wedding guests, but there’re many people asking us to publish our songs, so we decided to make the e.p as our first release. As for the quantity of the songs, those 3 songs are enough for the e.p because they show how our music is; tad bit bossa nova, tad bit electronic, tad bit pop-ish, and most importantly albeit a little bit personal, the three of them have certain meanings for us; Serenade of Yellow Park is the first song we made together, Please Say Yes was the song that Iyub gave me when he proposed, and Sought and Found is about us together as a couple. So I don’t think we’d want to add more songs to the e.p.

How does the writing process in the band go?

It’s never the same, all depend on our moods. Usually I would ask Iyub to compose a music that has certain ambience or feeling; it could be cheerful, seductive or sad. Then we’d record it in our studio, when the music is done, I’d write the lyrics for it, sometimes the writing process would occur instantly when I listen to the song, and sometimes I could just get my old poems and re-write it to make it fit to the music.

Musically, which bands would you say influence you?

Antonio Jobim, Stereolab, classic Disney soundtracks, well I lost counts on our influences. There’re too many of them. Other than band I would say we got our influences from surrealist arts, film noir, and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll.

Where did the name Santamonica came from?

Iyub told me he’s been a fan of some Monika records’ bands, like Contriva. So I guess that’s where he got the name from.

Which do you enjoy more, playing live or recording?

Both have different sensation, but for me I’d say recording because there’s where it all started. Playing live is nice too though, as we can interact with the audience and coping with different stage experiences.

What do you think is the benefit from having a female vocalist, who is indeed your wife?

Hahha, this is a tough question. I think because we’re a couple we tend to like the same things; music wise, we like the same bands, and our ideas are very similar. Iyub is a perfectionist and he could be tough to me sometimes during recording, but I wouldn’t get cross to him because I know that it’s for my own benefit, that’d be a different situation if the vocalist is not someone who knows him well. And as for him I think having his wife as a vocalist saves him some troubles, you know like not having to worry that your vocalist’s boyfriend getting jealous to you and forbid her to stay late for recording in the studio, you know all those hassles.

Any last words?

Our full length album will be released this year, and the title is Survivors of the Disco, so please wait! :)

Interview with Jakarta’s rising Hardcore band, Fall, by our contributor, Rian Pelor.

Setahu gw kalian sudah cukup lama bersama sebagai band, kenapa dan bagaimana kalian membentuk band ini; dan kenapa memilih kata Fall sebagai nama band kalian?

Fall pada awalnya adalah ?skate buddies?, Claude, Deedee, Alex dan xTejax bertemu di Senayan OG crew jauh sebelum membentuk sebuah band. Secara official band ini terbentuk tahun 1999, tapi kami sudah menulis musik bersama sejak tahun 1997. Skateboarding adalah yang menginspirasi kami untuk membuat musik. Skateboarding dan musik hubungannya sangat erat dan kebetulan kami mempunyai passion yang sama untuk kedua hal tersebut, jadinya kenapa tidak ?Skate together and rock together!?, intinya being with your friends all the time. Friendship, Itu mungkin hal terpenting dalam youth. Mengenai nama band kami suka simplicity dan estetika dari Fall.

Album perdana kalian FALL IS THE SEASON baru saja dirilis oleh Fireal records, ada apa dengan musim gugur dan album itu?

Musim gugur adalah musim yang sangat indah. Semua warna di musim itu menjadi inspirasi kami. Walaupun musim itu sangat dingin dan kelam, tetap saja ada sebuah comfort atau sense of security yang diciptakan. Contohnya pasangan yang saling berpelukan di musim yang dingin itu menciptakan sebuah kehangatan. Mungkin contoh itu kurang menjelaskan maksud saya, pokoknya intinya adalah love and hope. There will always be love and hope.

Bagaimana dengan artwork front cover album dengan foto cewe itu, apakah ada makna tertentu juga?

Kembali lagi ke masalah estetika dan simplicity, kami memilih konsep artwork FALLISTHESEASON yang minimalis. Foto wanita itu adalah lambang keindahan / beauty. The beauty in being human.

Album perdana kalian itu menurut gw membawa warna musik hardcore yang cukup unik dengan sedikit nuansa shoegazer atau mungkin malah bisa dibilang one of a kind diantara band-band lain di scene hardcore lokal. Bagaimana kalian muncul dengan ide dan konsep musiknya? Influens yang paling berpengaruh secara musikal?

Thanks, dude! Dalam menciptakan musik kita memiliki sebuah ?anti-concept? awal yang bebas dan natural dalam proses mengaransemen musik itu sendiri. ?Anything can happen in music!?. Jadinya, kita tidak pernah membatasi diri untuk hal ini. Kalau masalah influence, kami ter-influence dengan band band yang kita dengarkan pada saat masih growing up era 80an dan 90an.

Siapa personil yang paling dominan dalam urusan musik? Pernah berantem ngga kalo kalian sedang jamming atau bikin lagu?

Semua personil berperanlah dalam urusan musik. Istilahnya, the machine won?t work without a missing piece. Musik kami demikian karena detail masing2 anggota, kita semua punya share didalam penulisan. Kalau berantem pasti pernahlah, sampai santet2an, bro! Haha!

Gw tertarik dengan cara penulisan dan perspektif personal dari lirik yang dalam lagu-lagu Fall, bisa cerita sedikit tentang pesan yang mungkin coba disampaikan? dan seberapa penting peranan lirik dalam lagu kalian?

Much appreciated! Secara lirik album FALLISTHESEASON mungkin bisa disebut sebagai sebuah ?human? album. Saya percaya bahwa bila relasi antar manusia di level personal bisa indah dan akur, maka dunia akan lebih baik. Saya tidak ingin merubah dunia, saya hanya ingin mengingatkan orang2 bahwa emosi yang anda rasakan adalah emosi yang dirasakan orang lain juga. You?re not alone. Cinta, benci, sedih, senang dirasakan semua manusia dibumi ini. Hal simple itu seharusnya sudah bisa menciptakan sebuah bond diantara individu. Saya tidak menulis tentang politik atau sosial karena tidak semua orang mengerti akan hal itu. Tapi, semua orang yang mengerti akan politik dan sosial mengerti akan emosi. Lirik2 itu berupa doa, surat, cerita dan saya harapkan yang membaca lirik itu bisa dekat dan relate dengan isinya. I can?t change the world, let alone the social or political climate, but at least I can remind people about being human and that we?re all the same. Think about it. You have to start from one, if you want to count to one thousand.

Secara umur rata-rata personil kalian yang hampir mendekati akhir masa twenty something, apa yang kalian harapkan dari kehidupan band yang sedang kalian jalani ini? Fame? Fortune? Kepuasan pribadi? Changing the world?

Twenty something? Ahahahahah..! Thirty something kali? Yang masih berumur late twenties hanya si Claude, itu juga hanya tinggal 2 tahun masa twenties-nya. Yang kita harapkan adalah pushing our own limits dan progression dalam berkarya!!!

Panggung bagi sebagian orang mungkin dianggap sebagai medium untuk menjadi tenar, Kalau kalian bagaimana?

Manggung is fun! How else should it be? Sharing your music with other people is a great feeling, man!

Beberapa orang mungkin berpikir cool banget jadi anak band sekarang ini, pandangan kalian sendiri akan hal tersebut bagaimana? dan apa makna hardcore buat kalian sendiri?

Ah, itu kembali ke individu masing masinglah, kita percaya pada kebebasan. Orang mau nge-band dengan alasan apapun terserah2 aja. Makna Hardcore bagi masing2 individu di band ini tentunya berbeda beda, tapi yang termasuk maknanya bagi kami sebagai sebuah band adalah freedom to make your own choices, knowing what to do, being realistic, a positive and constructive way of thinking, respect and friendship.

Apakah ada personil yang straight edge atau vegan mungkin?

Ada donXXX!!!! Haha..! Si xTEJAx sudah straightedge cukup lama. He?s straightedge for himself, which is good! Vegan? Berat yang satu itu untuk di Indonesia, kawan! But, if you?re dedicated enough, for sure you can pull it!

Masing-masing personil Fall pasti punya kesibukan lain diluar band, bisa cerita sedikit? dan ketika muncul benturan antara kepentingan band dan kepentingan pribadi bagaimana kalian menghadapinya? Apa ada semacam kesepakatan tertentu?

Pasti, Teja adalah production manager di sebuah publisher, Deedee adalah graphic designer di sebuah graphic house dan co-owner Deadboy Clothes and Skateboard Company, Alex is running his own security system company dan Claude kalau tak salah baru mendaftar menjadi pelatih ballet air wanita, namun sepertinya kemungkinan dia diterima sangat kecil dan dia juga owner Tuff Stuff Skateboards and Together We Are God atau TWAG, sebuah clothing line bagi pria dan wanita tampil, genit dan mengalami puber kedua sebelum saatnya seperti si om Claude sendiri..! Kesepakatan? Aiiih! Kami bukan bisnis partner, bro! Kita tau responsibilities masing masing di dalam band.

Sekarang semakin banyak generasi baru yang tersedot ke dalam hardcore scene dan semakin banyak yang mau terlibat di belakang layar selain membentuk band, menurut kalian kearah mana sih idealnya pergerakan hardcore semestinya dibawa sekarang ini? Apa ada ganjalan yang kalian anggap bisa menghambat?

Menurut kami, untuk idealnya pergerakan musik hardcore harus dibawa ke arah ?Creativity in Music?, apalagi sudah tersedia sarana seperti Myspace dan Pure Volume yang bisa meng-introduce scene kita ke dunia international. Berkaryalah! Hambatannya adalah cara berpikir yang negatif, scene kita sudah sangat berkembang, satu satunya hambatan yang bisa saya pikirkan adalah itu saja. Be supportive!

Any recommended bands yang perlu diberi perhatian dari mereka yang mewakili generasi baru?

Wah, menurut kami band band sekarang bagus bagus dan progress-nya luar biasa! Menurut kami buat generasi muda Accidental Hero dan Nostoc memberikan warna baru dengan komposisi musik mereka yang berani. We are stoked on those kids! ?Generasi baru? seperti Too Late To Notice, Worst Case Scenario, The Deck, dkk juga seru seru! There are so many more young bands out there that are good! On other notes, saya juga kemaren ini menghadiri acara Hardfest dan senang melihat bahwa old school hardcore is here and kickin? it!!! Big ups to the bands who rocked that show! Older generation playas like Stepforward, Killed By Butterfly, Dagger Stab, Burning Inside, xThinking Straightx, Paper Gangster, Straight Out, Fragrant and others continue to produce great stuff! Mudah mudahan dari kalimat diatas saya bisa mendeskripsikan bahwa scene hadcore lokal sudah sangat colorful dan exciting! Alriiiight!!! Hahahaha..! Aduh, sedikit euphoria rupanya..

Dan duh..sepertinya obrolan kita kali ini mesti diakhiri disini; semoga Fall bisa terus maju dan jaya pastinya. Mungkin ada pesan yang hendak disampaikan bagi teman-teman pengunjung setia webzine deathrockstar?

Terimakasih doa restunya, kawan! Jangan lupa untuk membuka www.myspace.com/fall, check that out and don?t forget to check out our wonderful friends and bands there. Thanks to Rusty Indonesia. We appreciate the support from everyone! Don?t forget the respect! Skateboarding for life! Creativity now!

Apa kabar The Milo sekarang?
The Milo kabarnya baik baik aja.

Bisa cerita mengenai rencana album remix nya?
Album remix themilo berjudul: interpretation. Sampai saat ini album remix belum rilis karena masih menunggu lampu hijau dari pihak produser album tsb. Tapi semuanya sudah beres kok, produksi – mastering – copying. Berisikan 7 lagu dan 7 bintang tamu yang me-remix lagu dialbum Let Me Begin. Masing – masing : Homogenic, Elektrofuxx, Space Astronauts, Nuffnuxx, DJ Tomatoes, DJ Gerry, Love & Affair

Kalo full album berikutnya?
Sekarang dalam taraf pengerjaan/rekaman album yang kedua. Album kedua ini diharapkan bisa lebih baik lagi dari album yang pertama (Let Me Begin) baik dari kualitas sound maupun materinya. sebenarnya keinginan kami semua album kedua ini bisa rilis diakhir tahun 2005, tetapi ternyata banyak sekali kendala yang membuat album kedua ini lama proses pengerjaannya. Kendala yang dimaksudkan disini ialah bahwa The Milo tidak ingin hasil rekamannya nanti jelek, setiap materi yang sudah selesai banyak yang dibongkar kembali demi standar kualitas yang The Milo inginkan.

Sekarang lagi dengerin apa aja ni?
anak anak sih sekarang lagi pada dengerin: sigur ros ? takk, engineers, coldplay – x&y, the beatles, muse, foo fighters – in your honor, malory, pink floyd, dll..

Ada rekomendasi album baru yang oke?
Kalo menurut The Milo sih mungkin sigur ros – takk, ya.

Rekomendasi band buat di tonton?
Live concertnya : pink floyd, muse.

Last words?
Tetap semangat! Hehe, cheers!

Friday (Fr.) terbentuk tahun 1999?. Dan beberapa kali terjadi pergantian formasi? dan formasi mulai tahun 2002 adalah formasi yang paling pas hingga sekarang?. Fr. Sudah merilis mini album ditahun 2003, bertitle “mindtogetclose.ep” berisi 5 lagu, mindtogetclose, turn, koma, the pocket knife dan starts to over. terjual 500 kaset, 200 cd yang semuanya tersebar di Surabaya, malang, sidoarjo, Jakarta, jogja, bandung, semarang, Singapore dan beberapa kota di pulau Sumatra.. cd-cd bajakan juga sudah pernah beredar di kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Mereka juga pernah bergabung dalam album kompilasi local, seperti beautiful day 3, total feedback 2, dan ndie video klip compilation pertama di Indonesia “videoready-o. Video klip Fr. Juga beberapa kali muncul di MTV Indonesia.

Tour ke beberapa kota juga sudah dijalani, seperti malang, bandung, jogja, Jakarta, semarang, dan beberapa kota2 kecil seperti gresik, sidoarjo, dll. Les voila 5 di bandung adalah gigs penutup di tahun 2005. Di awal tahun 2006 Fr. Akan merilis next album yang bertitle “sitting on anything cold” yang berisi 12 lagu Ini adalah kelanjutan dari album mindtogetclosee.p.

1. apa kabar Friday?

baik baik….. kita masih kebayang2 les voila 5 kemaren…..

gigs nya keren banget……. great show…. thanks marin, kewoy, attin, semua panitia, semua band yang maen bareng kita….. lucy in the loo, rnrm, lass, bloomingdales, pure saturday. the jokes…. dll… thank u very very much

2. ada apakah di hari jum’at?

something good to reach…… ’cause Fr. is the beginning and also the end of the day?.

3.apa kabar scene indie di Surabaya?

ya… disurabaya sekarang band-band lokalnya sudah siap release album…. ditunggu aja… gak kalah keren ama band-band lain lah. hehehe…. banyak yang harus di telusuri untuk kelanjutan scene indie di Surabaya? it’s not even easy as us pride

4. ceritain dikit tentang musik Friday dong.

if you see another seems to fin. jika kamu melihat apa yang ada di depanmu adalah sebuah akhir yang sama sekali ga pernah kamu pikirkan/harapkan…..

dan itu terjadi begitu saja…sangat cepat……..

kita berawal dari musik rock lawas, shoegaze dan sense of pop…..

5. kalian kan termasuk sering tur keluar kota. bagi tips nya dong.

link itu penting banget…. sharing sesama community. And do the social business

6. lagi dengerin apa aja nih sekarang?

kalo guntur lagi kembali kemasa lalu nya, dia lagi dengerin anthrax, black sabbath, megadeath…. dan semacamnya lah…. dan kita lagi terus2an ngedengerin lagu2 Fr? biar cepet bosen dan segera ditinggalin?. Hmm? selain itu kita juga sedang menelaah tentang musik Fr. Gimana pola musik Fr. itu?.

7. kalo kalian bisa merekrut satu orang aktor/aktris terkenal untuk jadi anggota band kalian, siapakah dia? dan posisinya apa?

hmmm… richard dean anderson ( macgyver ) pegang gitar, dia kan jago mengutak-atik …. ya kita beri kebebasan ke si richard buat explore sound….gitarnya mau di apain juga terserah dia… ga penting dia bisa main gitar ato nggak…. yang penting sense nya kuat….hehe

8. kalo kalian ikutan survival project. siapakah yang bakal jadi juaranya?

wah kalo omar kayanya ga bakal menang deh…. jadi kita bakal kehilangan omar pada sesi-sesi awal… soalnya omar sudah mulai kelaparan dan kecapekan… mungkin yang bakal menang bram? soalnya dia kan produsernya?.

9. ada album baru?

next year….. insyaAllah januari rilis…. doain ga ada halangan ( lagiii )

udah selesai proses master dari seattle…. ya… tinggal nunggu produksi di jakarta… mudah2an hasilnya tidak memalukan…. disini kita juga bekerjasama dengan record label dari dijakarta?

10. band surabaya yang kalian rekomendasikan? kenapa?

sheath….. my favorite, jenius, oky manusia absurd… ga jelas ini band surabaya ato bandung…. tapi oky itu asli surabaya,…. trus ada lagi nyiur melambai ( sudah saatnya marley menjahjah soeraba jah ), let’s go common baby ( morrison breakin the numb ), manual ( Fr. featuring manual di salah satu lagu didalam next launch album Fr. ), …. mereka kandidat kuat icon indie surabaya….

11. last?

Maybe our life is such a great moment that never been reach? it’s easier to feel the greatest moment by flew with our feelings than logic