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		<title>Heart of Palms UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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They are Erica Elektra: vocals, keyboard, beats, omnichord, Jamie Kaye: cello, autoharp, keyboard, Sonia Powell: glockenspiel, percussion, keyboard. Play a beautiful electro-pop music, and would release an album called &#8220;For Life&#8221;, under the label Hypnote in mid October 2008. While waiting for the album, why don&#8217;t you read a short q&#038;a with Erica : 
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They are <strong>Erica Elektra</strong>: vocals, keyboard, beats, omnichord, <strong>Jamie Kaye</strong>: cello, autoharp, keyboard, <strong>Sonia Powell</strong>: glockenspiel, percussion, keyboard. Play a beautiful electro-pop music, and would release an album called &#8220;For Life&#8221;, under the label Hypnote in mid October 2008. While waiting for the album, why don&#8217;t you read a short q&#038;a with Erica : </p>
<p><strong>Hello how are you girls?</strong><br />
We are lovely, thanks for asking.<br />
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<strong>five words that would be best used as &#8216;tag&#8217; to describing Heart of Palms UK?</strong><br />
1. avant-garde<br />
2. femtronipop<br />
3. collective<br />
4. cute<br />
5. euro</p>
<p><strong>Tell us more about your upcoming release.</strong><br />
The album is coming out on 10/14 on the Hypnote Recording Concern label.  We won a grant from GenArt and Biore Skin Care in the end of 2007, and used the money to record the album with Dan Horne (Beachwood Sparks, Wolfmother, Lilys) at Lone Palm Studios.  A lot of our friends played on the album, and it really was a coming together of lots of different elements. It was mastered in Sweden by Henrik Jonsson (Peter Bjorn and John, Robyn, The Knife, Lykke Li) which really gave it this particular sound we love.</p>
<p>The songs were all written in the past few years, mostly having to do with falling in love, falling out of love, and then figuring out what to do when it&#8217;s all over and life seems completely open and unknown.</p>
<p><strong>Share us some stories about the music scene in your city?</strong></p>
<p>LA is filled with some really talented people. I don&#8217;t know, it just seems really supportive and I love the fact that there are so many impromptu venues here&#8230;hidden away in strip malls next to chuches and nail salons.<br />
There&#8217;s a real sense of family vibe between the bands here. it&#8217;s great.</p>
<p><strong>Any good albums you found recently?</strong></p>
<p>Crystal Castles &#8211; s/t<br />
Alex Gopher -s/t<br />
Bang Gang &#8211; Something Wrong<br />
Kelley Polar &#8211; Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens<br />
Yeasayer &#8211; All Hours Cymbals</p>
<p><strong>What was the last book you read? is it good?</strong><br />
I am reading The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.  Yes, it&#8217;s good. Pretty tragic though&#8230; epic and interesting.  I like books that are based in some sort of historical reality &#8211; cuz you can learn a lot, even though you&#8217;re just reading a novel.</p>
<p>I am also reading What Color is Your Parachute.  trying to figure out my life.  you know. </p>
<p><strong>What questions you think we should ask you? and what&#8217;s the answer?</strong><br />
<em>What does the UK mean?</em><br />
the answer &#8211; don&#8217;t ask about the UK</p>
<p><em>How did you get so stylish?</em><br />
the answer &#8211; we were made that way</p>
<p><em>Where can we buy your album?</em><br />
the answer: everywhere.  in stores and online.  as of 10/14/08.</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
we will motherfucking rock you.</p>
<p><img src="http://deathrockstar.info/wp-content/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/images/mp3.gif" alt="" title="" style="vertical-align: middle;" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://deathrockstar.info/download/59/">Heart Of Palms UK - People and Logistic</a></strong> (unknown, 251 hits)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/heartsofpalmuk" title="http://www.myspace.com/heartsofpalmuk" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/heartsofpalmuk</a></p>

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		<title>Tangtype</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>A beautiful pop music with chaotic noises.</p>
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<p><strong>please share a brief story about the music scenes in your city</strong><br />
it&#8217;s funny because when i went to argentina some people there had heard that techno was coming from belgium. and they were really surprised when i told them it&#8217;s not true at all ;-) the music scene in brussels is more focused on rock and jazz bands.<br />
maybe the electronic scene was more interesting in the 80&#8217;s &#8211; early 90&#8217;s in belgium.<br />
there are a lot of people making this kind of music but i feel like the different styles and influences are not connected. it&#8217;s even more obvious with the language border. and this lack of connection is a real problem because it&#8217;s so hard to promote independant music. it would be much more easy if structures and different kinds of music would easily collaborate with each other.</p>
<p><strong>the band background</strong><br />
we both have an &#8216;acoustic instruments&#8217; background (j-f with the violin &amp; mewith the guitar). we had some folk projects&#8230; not enough fun with instruments so we needed to deconstruct everythnig with the help of electronic devices!<br />
then j-f learned electroacoustic and me singing. so we started to mix acoustic and electronic, computer and voice, guitar.. overlapping with each other.</p>
<p><strong>what is your current current activities</strong><br />
we try to promote our album &#8216;flake out&#8217; and work on the concerts. but we both work aside.. part-time (j-f in a youth hostel and me as a web designer).</p>
<p><strong>how do you describe your music in one sentence?</strong><br />
contrasted pop: cold but warm, sweet but sour, structurated but incoherent!</p>
<p><strong>any future plans for Tangtype?</strong><br />
we already started to work on the second album. but we made a break with new songs since the release of &#8216;flake out&#8217;. we want to work in a really different way, inverting parts, but still as a duo.. or maybe not. lets see&#8230;<br />
ooh yes and we&#8217;ll also have a tour in europe next october.</p>
<p><strong>top five songs on your playlists</strong></p>
<p><strong>julie&#8217;s top 5</strong><br />
&#8216;Jinx&#8217; by Kammerflimmer Kollektief<br />
&#8216;All that is my own&#8217; by Nico<br />
&#8216;For women&#8217; by Ursula Rucker<br />
&#8216;Survival Kit&#8217; by Kapital Band I<br />
&#8216;Gardener&#8217; by Joanne Robertson</p>
<p><strong>jf&#8217;s top 5</strong><br />
&#8216;Alhaja Sikira Adunni / Ayinla Fuji E Ga Pupo&#8217; by Kollington Ayinla<br />
&#8216;Variations sur un theme de Monteverdi&#8217; by Art Ensemble of Chicago<br />
&#8216;MMM&#8217; by Michael Thieke<br />
&#8216;(My heart is) closed for the season&#8217; by Bettye Swann<br />
&#8216;Untitled3&#8242; by Box</p>
<p><strong>underrated bands you can recommend our readers</strong><br />
kaboom karavan<br />
bolivar zoar<br />
jos steen<br />
schnee<br />
the magic i.d.<br />
Ellery Eskelin (w. Andrea Parkins &amp; Jim Black)<br />
David Maranha<br />
Steinbrüchel<br />
September Collective</p>
<p>ps: Oooh yes and here is our bio (from &#8216;humpty dumpty records&#8217; web page) ..don&#8217;t hesitate to make it shorter if you need ..</p>
<p>Before the formation of Tangtype, a couple onstage as well as offstage. Miss (Julie Cambier) played the guitar and the bass guitar and ended up focusing on her main asset : her voice. She worked on it with the precious help of a Turkish singer called Sibel. As for Mister (Jean-François Brohée), as he was always following brassbands playing in the street, his parents finally bought him a violin to meet his bubbling desire of music. He followed a classical musical academic program, played in a few local bands, got the fist price at Royal Conservatoire of Mons (Belgium) in the electroacoustic department, and decided to create his own sound universe. Together, they imagined their project like a tangram, a combinaison of parts in constant change, making sounds evolving, overlapping one another and reconstructing themselves from parts to parts.</p>
<p>In 2005, they took part in “Bain de Bouche”, a collective projet (featuring Amute, Mitchel Akiyama, Sebastien Roux), conceived by Christophe Bailleau and presented at City Sonics (Mons, Belgium). They also appeared on Stilllysm compilation published by the Belgian label Stilll (featuring accomplished artists as Aoki Takamasa, Ghislain Poirier and Holiday for Strings). In 2007, they decided to put the final touch to their first album ` Flake Out’, produced by Christof Kurzmann and masterized in Vienna at Amann studio (Fennesz, David Sylvian, B.Fleischmann, Radian, Sylvain Chauveau).</p>

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		<title>Trampauline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Meet Trampauline a Seoul based electro-pop with sweet dialects.</p>
<p><strong>Please share us some story about the music scene in Seoul</strong><br />
music business wise, it is brutal. because of numerous almost-free download sites and all that, no one&#8217;s really getting any pies that they deserve. in indie scenes everyone&#8217;s doing their jobs and working pretty hard to get known without hurting their pride as an artist. music wise, lots of varieties and experiments are being tried. people are still enthusiastic to taste new misic and genre</p>
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<strong> If you have to describe your music in one sentences what would that be? </strong><br />
delicious like a carnival, luminous like mercury, lively like life.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s top five songs on your current playlist?</strong><br />
PPRPLNS ryeryeAB&#8212;M.I.A<br />
Definition&#8212;Black star<br />
Stuck inside the memphis blues again&#8212;bob dylan<br />
Moon geun young&#8212;So cow<br />
Tower of song&#8212;Leonard cohen</p>
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any other cool Korean&#8217;s band that you can recomend us?</strong><br />
Atombook&#8212;- beautiful folk music with an essence of pure pop. unforgettable melody.<br />
Magazine king &#8212;&#8211; korean lo fi dub?? reasoning music he says. but inventing music i say.<br />
byul(electronica band, not a singer) &#8212;&#8211; sounds like dark twinkling stars. sometimes twisted stars. (the band&#8217;s name is really &#8216;a star&#8217; in korean)<br />
Windy city&#8212;- raggae / dub band with da jah- attitude<br />
amateur amplifier&#8212;- korean lo fi- D.I.Y  folk. king of tragic comedy. but with a sparkle of an artistic sense.<br />
mojave<br />
fortune cookie<br />
lobotomy&#8212;they show wide spectrum of korean electronic music scene</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
never say last words until it&#8217;s really an end.</p>
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<a href="http://myspace.com/trampauline" title="http://myspace.com/trampauline" target="_blank">myspace.com/trampauline</a> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Trampauline</strong> is a name for a Seoul-based korean pop electronica musician Cha, Hyo Sun. supported by 3 live session members Mi Young, Na Hye, Da Ham.<br />
She Started playing with them in front of people since last year, her first album will be out this month.<br />
Trampauline aims to make music that lights up people&#8217;s souls, combining thrills of electronic sound with sophisticatedly controlled acoustics. bringing out the sense of pure pop.</p>
<p>Trampauline sounds like:<br />
heart -knocking tunes with simple beat. wearing an outfit of electronica but  if you look inside, you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s definitely an acoustic spirit in it. a bit of noise, a bit of sunshine, might want to add some sound samples taken from my everyday life surroundings and companions. melancholia is another spice. ep based sweet pop songs and some instrumentals still with clear melodies all breathing in my works.</p>

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		<title>Jonna Lee &#8211; Warm and cool pop music with nerves.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Meet Jonna Lee a Swedish pop sweetheart with beautiful voices, the album &#8220;10 Pieces, 10 Bruises&#8221; out last year, sounded like a mixtures of American folk with light Swedish indie pop. Here a brief question and answer with her. </p>
<p><strong>how are you now ?</strong><br />
Good thanks, very busy recording my new record while playing shows and promoting my debut one. Me and two friends have just finished building a studio out of our rehearsal space in Stockholm, so that&#8217;s here I&#8217;m recording. It&#8217;s great! though it has somewhat of a weird smell that we&#8217;re working on removing.</p>
<p><strong>if you have to describe your music in one sentences, what would that be ? One sentense?</strong><br />
Warm and cool pop music with nerves.</p>
<p><strong>how is the music scene in your country?</strong><br />
The music scene in Sweden is very much alive and vivid right now. Lots of new bands pop up and people talk about a new Scandinavian sound. I&#8217;m not sure what this means though. Hard to be objective. We&#8217;re producing lots of great music at the moment though. Lovely!</p>
<p><strong>top five songs on your playlist now?</strong><br />
Midlake &#8211; Young Bride (from Trials of Van Occupanther)<br />
Ed Harcourt &#8211; Lachrymosity (myspace demo)<br />
Leona Naess &#8211; Heavy like sunday (forthcoming album Thirteens)<br />
Håkan Hellström &#8211; För en lång lång tid (from new record För send för edelweiss)<br />
Travis &#8211; Big chair (from latest album The boy with no name)</p>
<p><strong>what is the best record you bought in the last 6 months?</strong><br />
Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;In Rainbows&#8221;.<br />
I guess everyone knows Radiohead. I&#8217;m a proud owner of this record. It&#8217;s a complete record with a fantastic production (Nigel Godrich) and lovely melodies. They are one of our times greatest bands.</p>
<p><strong>how&#8217;s the songwriting usually done?</strong><br />
The way I write songs? I have a golden lyric book that i fill with my thoughts and worries. I then sit by the piano, the drums or with my guitar and make music for these lyrics, that often were given a melody that I&#8217;ve kept in my head since i wrote them. Then I record this right away with my fiancé Claes Björklund. He&#8217;s the coolest producer, and my band. Or as soon as they&#8217;re availible&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>You covered the Postal Service&#8217;s song, is that somekind of strategy? or you just simply like it?</strong><br />
Em oh you mean that one could gain publicity by covering an already made hit song and make it an acoustic, stripped down version? It&#8217;s very common these days indeed. Well, i have a week spot for Ben Gibbard. He&#8217;s somewhat my all time favorite songwriter. I just wanted to make my version of DC sleeps.. I have some very strange but loving memories to that song. When the postal service released it I was in a weird state and couldn&#8217;t stop listening to it. Then i Started playing it live to finally record it in my kitchen. This was quite a while ago now though.</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
Well even though downloading is fun and all, I think you should buy my record. It&#8217;s really quite lovely.</p>
<p>best, Jonna lee</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jonnalee.com" title="http://www.jonnalee.com" target="_blank">www.jonnalee.com</a> or<br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/jonnaleemusic" title="http://www.myspace.com/jonnaleemusic" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/jonnaleemusic</a></p>

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<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2406/2404533697_4292a53c87_o.jpg" alt="foxtailsomersault" width="500" height="375" border="0" /> Foxtail Somersault a San Fransisco based shoegaze band, with a sweet sounds and deep melody. This band recently release Fathom a beautiful e.p. And now they&#8217;re going to tell you about how they arrange the songs, and some small stuff. Meet <strong>Seiken </strong>from <strong>Foxtail Somersault.</strong></p>
<p><strong>i&#8217;m a kind of wondering, how did you get that name?</strong><br />
It&#8217;s an inside joke</p>
<p><strong>tell me more about &#8220;motionland&#8221;, it is such a beautiful song. </strong><br />
On composing Motionland, I first created the bassline,then layered guitars around it, to build the feel.  That&#8217;s how I typically compose, start with a riff, either bass or guitar, and layer and build around it.</p>
<p><strong>Top 5 releases of 07:</strong><br />
Astral &#8211; Sleepwalker<br />
Explosions in the sky &#8211; All of a Sudden I Miss<br />
Everyone<br />
Tearwave &#8211; Tearwave<br />
The Voices &#8211; The Sound of Young America<br />
A Place to Bury Strangers &#8211; A Place to BuryStrangers</p>
<p><strong>Tell us more about your upcoming album</strong><br />
We&#8217;re still in the recording stages,  we&#8217;ve done a couple of scratch tracks for a few songs, but I think we&#8217;re at the point where the scructure is all there, and we just have to lay them all down.  The main difference between Fathom and our next release is composition, I wrote all of the music for Fathom, and for our next release, I only wrote A Love song Part II.</p>
<p><strong>any good underated bands you found recently found that you think they should get more attention? </strong><br />
There are so many great bands in San Francisco,  I would say all the bands listed in <a href="http://Coolwavessf.com" title="http://Coolwavessf.com" target="_blank">Coolwavessf.com</a></p>
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		<title>13Conversation &#8211; talk about life and love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Meet Boyd from 13 Conversation and let&#8217;s listen about his thought about life, love and friendship.</p>
<p><strong>Apa kabarnya nih?</strong><br />
Fine, Baik, Apik-apik, daramang&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>please share a brief story about the music scenes in your city</strong><br />
ADit &#8211; Boyd :<br />
woohhoo, our city? music scenes? music scenes yg mana? </p>
<p>Boyd :first,i really dont&#8217; have a city&#8230;every city that i life is my city.Adit &#8211; Boyd :<br />
second, we take the easiest way to answer this question,we gonna talk about Indonesian music scenes. some pople think it&#8217;s good, a lot of propagation.Some people think it sucks, theres a propagation, but didn&#8217;t move forward. And we think&#8230;we think it&#8217;s not to important to think, it&#8217;s more to what are you gonna give them to sing.</p>
<p><strong>In your own words, how do you describe your musics?</strong><br />
Boyd : i describe it like a personal statement about life, love, friendship, self revolution,freedom of speech, flying high, trafic jam, feeling awesome, blessed, believed, desire, lucky, strong&#8230;more</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s the story behind the name &#8216;13 conversation&#8217;?</strong><br />
Boyd : not much, the story behind 13conversation name came when me and my 12 friends are talkin about my song, and they said that the songs was too sloppy and the others said that it&#8217;s easy to listen, and people will get the message. from what we&#8217;ve talk that night, i&#8217;ve decide to give a name 13conversation, it&#8217;s me and my 12 friends, equals 13 and we talkin about what we thing, so it&#8217;s really-really free to talk, good, bad, hard feeling, soft, or anything&#8230;i make 13conversation name just to let people know that it&#8217;s dificult to make 13 people have the same feeling, but if we can open ourself, respect and let other people talk what they think, its a great honor and feeling. Geez&#8230;i talk to much&#8230; actually, the story behind 13conversation name is &#8220;The Art Of Difference&#8221;, hope for the difference that people thing about 13conversation will make 13conversation have more hope to make a great propagation in our music.</p>
<p><strong>What is top five songs on your playlists</strong><br />
Boyd :<br />
1. Lydia &#8211; I woke up near the sea (Illuminate)<br />
2. Red Room Cinema &#8211; Close your eyes and count to ten (Red Room Cinema)<br />
3. Pennywise &#8211; You Get The Life You Choos (Reason To Believe)<br />
4. Comeback kid &#8211; The Trouble I Love (Wake The Dead)<br />
5. Metric &#8211; Soft Rock Star (Grow Up And Blow Away)</p>
<p>Adit :<br />
1. Dashboard Confessional &#8211; Hands Down<br />
2. Radiohead &#8211; Paranoid Android<br />
3. Radiohead &#8211; No Suprises<br />
4. Muse &#8211; Starlight<br />
5. The Cure &#8211; There Is No If</p>
<p><strong>underrated bands you can recommend our readers</strong><br />
- Red room cinema (Red Room Cinema Album)<br />
- Lydia (Illuminate Album)<br />
- Metric (Grow Up And Blow Away Album)<br />
- Dungeon Elite (Make Love Not Warcraft Album)<br />
- Balmorhea (River Arms Album)<br />
- Sore (Apatis Ria Album)<br />
- Luke Picket (Blood Money Album)<br />
- Pure Saturday (Time For A Change Time To Move On)<br />
- Pennywise (Reason To Believe)</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
stay alive say hi to us and get a free cd :P </p>
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		<title>Jack and Four Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://deathrockstar.info/media/2008/04/foto-jack-and-four-men.jpg' width="240" height="180"class=alignleft alt='jack n four men' /><strong>Jack n Four Men</strong> sebuah band rock n roll asal Bandung, yang pelan tapi pasti meraih perhatian publik karena kekosistenan mereka dalam berkarya. Dengan musik yang cenderung mudah ditangkap, tidak <em>cheesy </em>ditambah attitude yang rendah hati, saya rasa mereka perlu diberi perhatian lebih lanjut lagi.]]></description>
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<strong>Jack n Four Men</strong> sebuah band rock n roll asal Bandung, yang pelan tapi pasti meraih perhatian publik karena kekosistenan mereka dalam berkarya. Dengan musik yang cenderung mudah ditangkap, tidak <em>cheesy </em>ditambah attitude yang rendah hati, saya rasa mereka perlu diberi perhatian lebih lanjut lagi.</p>
<p><strong>Apa kabarnya nih?</strong><br />
A: Lagi sedikit flu, karena cuaca yang hujan terus!<br />
N: Lumayan kena penyakit cuaca aneh, kepala sakit uy.<br />
R: Boke!<br />
W: Gua baru aja beli ikan piaraan, jadi lagi seneng hehe&#8230;baru pertama kali punya piaraan pribadi, ga penting ya? hehe..<br />
JAFM: Yang jelas kita semua lagi disibukan persiapan tur kedua sama ngumpulin materi untuk album kedua, kali ini full album.</p>
<p><strong>Ceritain dikit tentang scene rock n roll di kota kamu?</strong><br />
Ehm, bagus&#8230;mulai mengarah menjadi pop culture, sih. Banyak band Garage Rock yang bagus, cuma kadang pergerakannya masih masing-masing per individu band, kayanya perlu ada dibentuk paguyubannya, wuahahaha&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Dalam bahasa kamu sendiri bagaimana kamu mendeskripsikan musik Jack and Four Men?</strong><br />
A: The Beatles + Ramones + Oasis + The Libertines + The White Stripes + The Strokes, jadi perpaduan lama dan baru dari Inggris dan Amerika.<br />
W: Tapi kalo didengerin sih lagunya cenderung nada-nada ceria, cathcy, sedikit kasar aransemennya walaupun isinya banyak yang frustasi liriknya. Ada unsur, rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, garage rock, blues, country bahkan klasik. Yang klasik ada di lagu &#8220;Tone No. 1&#8243;</p>
<p><strong>ada cerita apa dibalik nama Jack and Four Men?</strong><br />
Awalnya Jack dulu gitaris kita dan empat temannya yang ngebentuk band ini tapi kontrak mereka udah abis, jadi kita sekarang yang nerusin, hehehe&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Lagi dengerin album apa aja akhir-akhir ini?</strong><br />
R: Cansei De Ser Sexy/CSS, The Hives (Black &#038; White), Oasis<br />
W: Oasis, The Beatles, The White Stripes, John Mayer (Continuum), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bone), Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Arctic Monkeys<br />
N: Blur (Park Life), Oasis, Asian Kung Fu Generation, Train (Drops Of Jupiter), The Beatles, RHCP (Mothers Milk),<br />
Our Lady Peace, U2,dll.<br />
A: Albert Hammond Jr., Kings Of Leon, The Racounters</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana biasanya proses penulisan lagu terjadi?</strong><br />
Awalnya Windy bikin mentahnya dulu kaya chords, lirik dan nyanyiannya secara akustik trus kita aransemen bareng-bareng deh</p>
<p><strong>Ada ngga band-band lokal yang menurut kamu oke untuk diberi perhatian lagi?</strong><br />
R: 1900 Yesterday, TDS, Inpirational Joni<br />
W: TDS, Pestolaer, Time Bomb, Bad Boys Blues, Adrian Adioetomo! Hidup blues! hehe&#8230;<br />
N: Lipgloss, The Telephone (Purwokerto), Homogenic, The Wicked (yang ini band temen, inspirator kita semua hehe&#8230;)<br />
A: Pestolaer, Teenage Death Star, Speaker 1st, mereka pda mau ngeluarin album kan.</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
R: Keep Fighting, keep struggling and Keep D.I.Y !<br />
A: Viva la Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll !<br />
W: Don&#8217;t ever give up however you hurts ! (I mean for the bands)<br />
N: There is always something!</p>
<p>Jack and Four Men berdiri 9 Oktober 2003 dengan formasi yang terdiri dari 5 orang yaitu Jack (gitar), Riky (vokal), Obet (bass), Guruh (rhythm guitar) dan Andri (drum). Di tahun 2004 hingga sekarang terjadi beberapa kali pergantian personil hinnga akhirnya menjadi 4 orang yaitu Riky (vokal), Windy (gitar,vokal), Nando (bass), dan Andri (drum). Sebelum membawakan lagu sendiri Jack and Four Men sering membawakan lagu-lagu dari band-band Garage Rock seperti The Libertines, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Kings Of Leon, dll. Namun di tahun 204 kami mulai membawakan lagu-lagu ciptaan sendiri.</p>
<p>Personil:</p>
<p><strong>Riky</strong> (vokal), mahasiswa STBA Yapari-ABA jurusan Sastra Jerman 2000 terinfluence oleh band-band britpop seperti Oasis, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Libertines dan beberapa band Jepang seperti Shonen Knife.</p>
<p><strong>Windy</strong> (gitar, vokal), alumni ITENAS dkv 2002 terinfluence oleh Oasis terutama Noel Gallagher, The Beatles, The Strokes, The Libertines, Babyshambles, The White Stripes, John Lee Hooker, Jammie Cullum, John Mayer, The Everly Brothers,Robert Johnson, dll.</p>
<p><strong>Nando</strong> (bass), mahasiswa ITENAS Teknik Industri 2003 terinfluence oleh Oasis dan band-band Jepang.</p>
<p><strong>Andri</strong> (drum), mahasiswa UNPAS jurusan Sastra Inggris 2001 terinfluence oleh band-band garage dan punk seperti Ramones, The Clash, The Strokes, The Libertines, Kings Of Leon.</p>
<p><img src='http://deathrockstar.info/media/2008/04/cover-depan.jpg' class=alignleft alt='cover-depan.jpg' />Diskografi:<br />
- Kompilasi TRAXOUND #2,2007 (Single &#8216;No Freedom&#8217;)<br />
- Mini Album, Jack and Four Men, 2007 (7 tracks)<br />
_ OST. Radit dan Jani, 2008 (Single &#8216;No Freedom&#8217;), soon on iTunes version!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/jackn4men" title="http://www.myspace.com/jackn4men" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/jackn4men</a></p>
<p><a href="http://jackandfourmen.multiply.com" title="http://jackandfourmen.multiply.com" target="_blank">jackandfourmen.multiply.com</a></p>

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		<title>Tiger Tiger! &#8211; Roaring Indie pop from Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Tiger Tiger! came rom Italy with a twist of indie pop but with a more provocative lyrics. Listen to their tunes and read more about them in the interview.</p>
<p><strong>Hello, how are you?</strong><br />
Hello we are fine, we are listening to Boemian Rapsodhy (Queen), counting the number of the voices on it&#8230;incredible&#8230;</p>
<p><img src='http://deathrockstar.info/media/2008/03/tigertiger2.jpg' class=alignleft alt='tigertiger2.jpg' /><strong>mind to share us story about the indiepop scene in Italy?</strong><br />
In Italy there are a lot of indiepop bands,we don&#8217;t know exactly the story, but there is a good stuff man!</p>
<p><strong>why the name Tiger Tiger! ?</strong><br />
In our past lives we were tigers and during this life we had good experience with tigers infact they recognize us by our savana smell. And obviously we love tigers both withe and yellow!</p>
<p><strong>tell us more about your 11 pm release.</strong><br />
F: 11pm it&#8217;s our first release and it&#8217;s an LP, born almost entirely during the recording sessions between last september and february 2008. Luckily our friend Adriano believed in our music and gave us the opportunity to use his studio without any pressure.Now he play bass during our gigs!<br />
During these months we had many collaborations with some friends: Scaglia (My awesome mixtape) played trumpet , Giamma played clarinet, Cisco (sunday morning) played drums and Matteo (disco drive) helped us in many different ways!</p>
<p><strong>what&#8217;s top five songs on your current playlist?</strong></p>
<p>Federico :<br />
The Dodos &#8211; Fools<br />
Grizzly Bear &#8211; On a neck, on a spit<br />
Patrick Watson &#8211; Luscious life<br />
The Zombies &#8211; Summertime<br />
Tyrannosaurus Rex &#8211; Graceful fat Sheba</p>
<p>Margot:<br />
Televison &#8211; I see no evil<br />
Yo la tengo &#8211; season of the shark<br />
Wilco &#8211; spiders<br />
Velvet Underground &#8211; new age<br />
Beatles &#8211; this boy</p>
<p><strong>any other underrated band you can share to our readers? tell us little bit about them</strong>.<br />
our italian friends The calorifer is very hot are really cool, they are a duo that plays very genuine music</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
I can see by your eyes you&#8217;re a good man!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/TIGERONTIGER" title="http://www.myspace.com/TIGERONTIGER" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/TIGERONTIGER</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myhoney.it/" title="http://www.myhoney.it/" target="_blank">www.myhoney.it/</a></p>

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		<title>Opra Hashimo &#8211; French Music Producer in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>About Opra Hashimo :</strong><br />
Opra Hashimo is a French music producer. Apart from his own production, he is always ready for collaboration. He has already collaborated with Xcircles, Aamir, Quimbokat, Tnem, Mr. PiliPili and more. These collaborations have been granted by the release of his sound project &#8220;Porqué&#8221; with Quimbokat, in Sayag jazz machine album named Anachro&#8217;mix experiences.</p>
<p>Currently living in China, he is producing and playing music in different places in Beijing.</p>
<p><strong>Current projects:</strong><br />
- Soon release of &#8220;Sanjuro&#8221; track under a Canadian label, Savoir Faire Records<br />
- Producing the music of a promotional video for the new subway in Perth (Australia)<br />
- Producing instrumentals for Xczircle, an American MC (from escape artists)<br />
- Producing instrumentals for Aamir, an American MC (from escape artists)<br />
- Remix for I-GO, a Shanghainese electronic music band</p>
<p><strong>Future projects:</strong></p>
<p>- Preparation of DJ performance, electronics music set<br />
- Preparation of DJ performance with Tnem, Hip Hop music set</p>
<p>and here a brief interview with Opra<br />
<strong>How are you now?</strong></p>
<p>I am fine, lots of project in progress, so much that I can not put my mind together sometimes, but to live in China is a good environment to make the work less heavy.</p>
<p><strong>How is the Hip Hop scene in China nowadays?</strong><br />
From my perspective, Hip Hop scene is made by DJ in clubs. But nowadays in China, I can feel many Hip Hop influences in ads, cinema&#8230; even the pop music sounds Hip Hop!</p>
<p>In terms of local artist, Chinese Hip Hop is promoted by DJ Woordy (first ranking in the DMC China championship) who participates in worldwide competitions. </p>
<p><strong>How&#8217;s the songs production usually done (made)?</strong></p>
<p>For me, what can make me start a project are directly link to my feelings and these feelings can be pushed by a noise, a sound, a sample or a movie&#8230; Sometimes I am just sitting in front of my desk and trying to figure out something, without knowing from where to start and how the project will end. I could also start a project in collaboration with others artist&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Any other nice act from China that you thing would be great for us to know?</strong></p>
<p>Beijing 2008 Olympics games!!!! :D</p>
<p><strong>What is top five songs on your playlists now?</strong></p>
<p>arghhh!!! Five is too short! Impossible!</p>
<p>Modeselektor &#8211; Silikon (Siriusmo Remix)<br />
Madvillain &#8211; Figaro (101 Remix)<br />
Moondog &#8211; Bird&#8217;s Lament<br />
Medina Green &#038; Mos Def &#8211; Crosstown Beef<br />
Purple comfusion &#038; Villeneuve &#8211; Return to nassau (Vocale version)<br />
Dj Krush &#8211; Coffee Talk<br />
Peter Bjorn And John &#8211; Young Folks (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Remix)<br />
Braintax Ft. Taskforce &#8211; Godnose<br />
Robyn &#8211; Konichiwa Bitches (Trentemoller Remix)<br />
Dabrye Ft. Invincible &#038; Fin &#8211; Viewer Discretion</p>
<p>&#8230; and many many more&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Last word?</strong><br />
Anticonstitutionnellement (The longest word in French dictionary)</p>
<p><a href="mailto:Opra.production@gmail.com" title="mailto:Opra.production@gmail.com">Opra.production@gmail.com</a> </p>
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		<title>Noisy Crane &#8211; melancholy lo-fi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<strong>how are you guys now?</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re currently preparing to take a tour this March in the state of Ohio. We&#8217;re looking forward to it and hopefully we&#8217;ll have a good time. We&#8217;re also working on playing more shows in Kentucky and recording a new full-length record of 14 songs which might be called, &#8220;Limestone Walls and Frozen Falls&#8221;. All this while going to college full time and working. It&#8217;s pretty chaotic sometimes. :)</p>
<p><strong>do you mind to share some story about the music scene in Lexington?</strong></p>
<p>The music scene here is diverse, even though Lexington isn&#8217;t a large city. It&#8217;s best known, I believe, for noise rock and experimental/fluid style bands such as Warmer Milks. It has a large number of classic folk musicians, old and young, and a few years ago there was a pretty large hard-core scene. It&#8217;s all over the place which makes it fun.</p>
<p><strong>tell us more about your release.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.noisycrane.com/files/Portmanteau">&#8220;Portmanteau&#8221;</a> was our first official full-length release. It was recorded on a Tascam 8-track cassette Portastudio in our bedrooms and mixed on my computer. The name comes from an old French word which describes a new word created by combining two other words, such as &#8220;motel&#8221;, which is motorist + hotel. To me, the 10 tracks we had recorded for the record were like a portmanteau of musical ideas that we had been playing around with, and also it just had a nice sound to it. The songs themselves range from pretty standard folk to near pop or western american lonesomeness. We tried to write it so that most of the songs flow into each other or blend to form a unified whole.</p>
<p><strong>if people ask you to mention five things that would be best to describe your music, what would that be?</strong></p>
<p>Hmmm… We&#8217;re lo-fi, melancholy, simple, spirited, and fun.</p>
<p><strong>any unforgetable moment while you guys on tour?</strong></p>
<p>Well, we haven&#8217;t played outside of Kentucky yet but our first tour is coming up in March, One of our most memorable times playing a show was at the release of Portmanteau here in Lexington when we had friends join us on stage to help play the songs as close to the record as possible. We sometimes had as many as 10 people on stage. It was the craziest and most confusing show we&#8217;ve played.</p>
<p><strong>we&#8217;re kind of enjoying your songs &#8220;come to me&#8221; what&#8217;s the story in it?</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m glad you enjoy it. It&#8217;s not autobiographical, but it&#8217;s basically about someone who moved to a new city after a relationship went sour but finds themselves still being pursued by their ex, and isn&#8217;t happy about it. They&#8217;re still pretty bitter and want to move on but their ex doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<p><strong>any good underated bands you can share our readers?</strong></p>
<p>Hmm… Another local Lexington band, The Who Noes, don&#8217;t play many shows but are truly awesome, as well as another Kentucky band, Bedtime, who is just beginning to get their name out. Louisville, KY bands Wax Fang and Your Black Star are known, but deserve to get even more attention. They&#8217;re some truly awesome rock. Paleo from New York City plays some amazing folk.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/noussommesvieux" title="http://www.myspace.com/noussommesvieux" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/noussommesvieux</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebedtime" title="http://www.myspace.com/thebedtime" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/thebedtime</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.waxfang.com/" title="http://www.waxfang.com/" target="_blank">www.waxfang.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.yourblackstar.com/" title="http://www.yourblackstar.com/" target="_blank">www.yourblackstar.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.paleo.ws/" title="http://www.paleo.ws/" target="_blank">www.paleo.ws/</a></p>
<p><strong>what&#8217;s top five songs on your current playlist?</strong></p>
<p>Ocean of Noise – The Arcade Fire</p>
<p>I Don&#8217;t Really Love you Anymore – The Magnetic Fields</p>
<p>The Pelican – Menomana</p>
<p>Champagne Nights – The Who Nose</p>
<p>Band of Horses – The Great Salt Lakes.</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say, except I hope you guys enjoy our music. As I said earlier, we&#8217;re working on a new record, so if you like our stuff please check back with us soon.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.noisycrane.com" title="http://www.noisycrane.com" target="_blank">www.noisycrane.com</a></p>

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		<title>Luk &#8211; pleasure, dream, voyage and fall in love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Meet Luk, the electronica band from Ukraina.</p>
<p><strong>how are Luk now ?</strong></p>
<p>We are ok. We are planning to start working on our new album this year. You will be able to listen to one of our new songs soon. We&#8217;ll present it on our official compilation that will be released in a few months. But unfortunately this compilation of our best songs will be released only in Ukraine. If some European labels want to work with us, we are glad to cooperate.</p>
<p><strong>if you&#8217;ve been asked to mention five Verbs that would best associated to your music, what would that be?</strong></p>
<p><strong>what is the best record you bought in the last 6 months?</strong></p>
<p>Radiohead &#8220;In rainbows&#8221;. In our humble opinion, Radiohead is one of the best modern groups. Thom Yorke and his group made revolution in music with album &#8220;Ok computer&#8221;. After that they have modified the style of group and have proved that their views on music don&#8217;t go beyond guitar music. Doublet (albums &#8220;Kid A&#8221; and &#8220;Amnesiac&#8221;) has hit the mark. Radiohead have won on the territory of electronic music just as they made it before on other territories. May be new album of the group isn..t so much revolutionary, but melodic of these songs is beautiful and the voice of singer comes straight to the heart. </p>
<p><strong>Would you mind share us some stories about the music scene in Ukraine? any other nice band you can recommend our readers?</strong></p>
<p>Ukrainian music scene is rich in perfect groups. Most of these bands are underground acts, but they are making really interesting music. For example, a group from Dnepropetrovsk, that has very strange name &#8220;…and my friend truck&#8221; consists of only three musicians: bass-guitarist, drummer and singer. It can seem unusual, but most of their songs have pop-rock structure and it&#8217;s easy to imagine them on European radio stations.<br />
Kharkov is playing a remarkable role in Ukrainian music life. Group 5nizza from Kharkov was very popular in former Soviet Union countries. Two boys &#8211; guitarist and singer – made the mixture that consisted of reggae, rock and pop. Now they have own projects, and their groups are one of the most interesting things that are going in Ukrainian music. There are also a lot of perfect jazz groups in Kharkov.<br />
And at last we want to recommend your readers group that is surely one of the Ukraine&#8217;s brightest diamonds. It is called &#8220;Esthetic Education&#8221;. Most of their songs are in English, and really it is such a feeling that they came to us from an English club of the 60&#8217;s. Belgian-Ukrainian-Russian frontman Loui Frank reminds of Jim Morrison (frontman of the Doors), his energy has such strength that it&#8217;s hard to find another example. But this doesn&#8217;t mean that the style of this group came only from the 60&#8217;s. Attentive listeners can find in their music influences of the modern music, such as post-rock groups (Sigur Ros, Mogwai), post-country singers (Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart). But we can say in spite of this influences &#8220;Esthetic Education&#8221; is one of the most distinctive groups in Ukraine.</p>
<p><strong>five best albums that actually stay in your heart forever?</strong></p>
<p>1. Bjork &#8220;Post&#8221;<br />
2. Air &#8220;Moon safari&#8221;<br />
3. Mum &#8220;Finally we are no one&#8221;<br />
4. Muse &#8220;Origin of symmetry&#8221;<br />
5. The Doors &#8220;The Doors&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>what is your top five songs that heavily rotate on your playlists?</strong></p>
<p>1. Portishead &#8220;Only you&#8221;<br />
2. Muse &#8220;Unintended&#8221;<br />
3. Massive attack &#8220;Teardrop&#8221;<br />
4. Goran Bregovich «Sex»<br />
5. Bjork vs. Thom Yorke «I&#8217;ve seen it all»</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong></p>
<p>We want to wish all of you to be always elated. Listen to the music, that your heart says to you.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/lukpage" title="http://www.myspace.com/lukpage" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/lukpage</a><br />
<a href="http://www.luk.com" title="http://www.luk.com" target="_blank">www.luk.com</a>.ua</p>
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		<title>Astrolab &#8211; it&#8217;s the clouds and space</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Please meet <strong>Astrolab</strong>, the latest breakthrough in Bandung&#8217;s indiepop scene. It&#8217;s Dany Badra, Rangga Kuntara, Andri Diana, Ibnu Hafidz Alim, and Yoki Adhitama. </p>
<p><strong>Hello would you mind to share the readers brief story about the bandung music scenes from your point of view?</strong><br />
It has been better prefer to few years ago in bandung. Our music expression and appreciation is now better, also there are a lot of gigs that support music scene in bandung. </p>
<p><strong>tell us a lil bit more about the band background? </strong><br />
Friendship since junior high school and similarities in music. </p>
<p><strong>What is Your current activities? </strong><br />
Study, work and play. </p>
<p><strong>A brief astrolab description? </strong><br />
It&#8217;s about nature and life filled with ocean, sky, clouds and space. </p>
<p><strong>Influences?</strong><br />
Dany Badra : Blueboy, The Pastels</p>
<p>Rangga Kuntara : Postcard Records, The Subway Organization 1986-1989, C86, Sarah Records, The Smiths, Felt, Mike Oldfield</p>
<p>Andri Diana : The Ocean Blue, St. Christopher, Morrissey, The Dears</p>
<p>Ibnu H.A.: The Human League, New Order, Joy Division, Marc Almond, Kate Bush</p>
<p>Yoki Adithama : The Hit Parade, Strawberry Switchblade, The Organ, Lovejoy, Altered Images </p>
<p><strong>Future Plans?</strong><br />
Being productive and mature in music.<br />
Make better social relationship</p>
<p><strong>What is Top Five Songs on your play list?</strong><br />
Badra :<br />
01. Cloud babies (blueboy)<br />
02. Killjoy (Brighter)<br />
03. His London (Beaumont)<br />
04. Boy Meets World (Action Painting!)<br />
05. Slow Soft Sighs (Trembling Blue Stars) </p>
<p>Rangga :<br />
01. Can&#8217;t You Tell It&#8217;s True¿ (Another Sunny Day)<br />
02. The Sea Is So Quite (Trembling Blue Stars)<br />
03. Vasco Da Gama (Felt)<br />
04. Everglades (The Sea Urchins)<br />
05. Girl Afraid (The Smiths) </p>
<p>Andri :<br />
01. Antinature (McCarthy)<br />
02. Pink Champange (Arabesque)<br />
03. Barbarism Begins At Home (The Smiths)<br />
04. Air (The Owls)<br />
05. The Cold Swedish Winter (Jens Lekman)</p>
<p>Ibnu :<br />
01. Heart like a wheel (The Human League)<br />
02. My Hand Over My Heart (Marc Almond)<br />
03. To France (Mike Oldfield)<br />
04. Here is the House (Depeche Mode)<br />
05. You Deserve More Than A Maybe (St. Christopher)</p>
<p>Yoki :<br />
01. Mercury (The Ocean Blue)<br />
02. Save A Prayer (Duran-Duran)<br />
03. Who Knows What Love Is (Strawberry Switchblade)<br />
04. Climbing (The Sweetest Ache)<br />
05. Your Arms Around Me (Jens Lekman) </p>
<p><strong>Any good Underrated bands you can recommend our readers?</strong><br />
Sunny Summer Day, Twisterella, Sunday Night Joy, Faction, Abadkatrowave, EmbarkasihPitaloka, Just A joke. </p>
<p><strong>myspace.com/astrolab8</strong><br />
Joz :  081809095646<br />
ncut : 08131282099<br />
novi : 081573013599</p>

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		<title>Monday Math Class &#8211; pop music written at 2am</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<strong>Monday Math Class</strong> is Ario and Prisci, a duo that play a beautiful pop tunes. Ario are known as guitarists and singer for the indierock band <a href="  <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theadamsbands" title="http://www.myspace.com/theadamsbands" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/theadamsbands</a>  &#8220;>The Adams</a>. Now with this duo, he tries to offer you music lover a different kind of pop. Well for more information please visit their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/timeapart  ">myspace</a>, and read the following interview&#8230; and for your information : they are looking for a bass player.</p>
<p><strong>tell us more about your  band background. </strong><br />
well our background consists of mainly goofy people. we first met at a gig then we hit straight off cause we shared the same taste of music and humor! and created magic tadaaaa!</p>
<p><strong>What is your current activities?</strong><br />
ario is busy working in studio&#8217;s around Jakarta and Prisci is busy with school and her art basically. </p>
<p><strong>Can you share us your own description about the Monday Math Class Music ?</strong><br />
humm.. uu ee aaa.. our music is humm.. a little thing i like to call &#8221; eee&#8230; uuu.. aaaaa..&#8221; its fun ! </p>
<p><strong>Any influences that you can share us?</strong><br />
the strokes, the records, the adams, zolof the rock and roll destroyer, the hives and lots more!</p>
<p><strong>What is your future plans?</strong><br />
dominate stages, make an EP, and live life !! </p>
<p><strong>Top five songs on your playlists</strong><br />
HAHA 2am, Reptilia, Dame De Lotus, Kool Thing, Bulls on Parade</p>
<p><strong>Underrated bands you can recommend our readers </strong><br />
wheee KILLING ME INSIDE!! Humm.. Thirteen, I was A cub scout </p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/timeapart" title="http://www.myspace.com/timeapart" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/timeapart</a></p>

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		<title>Whisper Desire &#8211; Pop music for the beautiful scenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Whisper Desire is one of the most talked pop bands in Jakarta Indonesia, but somehow they are still so underated. Even if some magazine try to blew &#8216;em up as the next big thing for 2007, but they&#8217;re not getting much bigger rather than they were in 2006. Well we all hope that they can get a more promising year in this 2008.</p>
<p><strong>What do you think about the Jakarta indie music scene?</strong><br />
Perkembangannya udah bagus banget sekarang. Banyak label-label dan band-band baru yang bermunculan. Bervariasi lah intinya. Udah ga didominasi sama label atau band-band tertentu aja. Secara keseluruhan, eksistensi scene ini sudah lebih kuat karena apresiasi masyarakat terhadapnya juga semakin tinggi. </p>
<p><strong>Ceritain dikit dong mengenai awal mulanya band ini</strong><br />
Awal mulanya kita cuma iseng2 aja..bikin band cuma buat menghabiskan masa2 akhir di SMA. Tapi ternyata respon orang2 cukup mengejutkan dan meminta kita untuk terus jalan, di situlah kita akhirnya memutuskan untuk mulai serius bermusik dengan nama whisperdesire. </p>
<p><strong>Aktifitas loe sehari-hari sekarang apa aja?</strong><br />
Kita lagi ngumpulin materi untuk album. Doain aja 2009 bisa dirilis. Selain itu semuanya masih kuliah, kecuali untuk Gobel (bassis) yang baru aja mulai kerja di salah satu perusahaan kertas. </p>
<p><strong>Menurut loe sendiri, musik loe itu seperti apa?</strong><br />
musik pop yang dipadukan dengan emosi serta pemandangan indah.  </p>
<p><strong>Personels</strong><br />
Freddy Aritonang  : vocal<br />
Rabindra Wisatrya : guitar<br />
Mikael Mirdad  : guitar<br />
Enrico Gobel  : bass<br />
Anika Miranti  : keyboard<br />
Hertrinur Pamungkas : drums </p>
<p><strong>Buat kalian sendiri, influence paling gede dateng darimana?</strong><br />
Influence tiap personel beda-beda sih. Biasanya tergantung mood dan apa yang lagi sering didengerin saat itu. Tapi mungkin basicnya masih di The Cure karena kita mulai band ini dari meng-cover lagu-lagu mereka. Baru dari situ berlanjut musik-musik lain yang lagi kita dengerin. </p>
<p><strong>Rencana kalian dimasa mendatang?</strong><br />
mempersiapkan album debut kami. Mempersiapkan album kedua..ketiga..keempat. hahaha..mungkin konser tunggal kali yah, sama go international. </p>
<p><strong>Top five songs on your playlists</strong><br />
- Sex Machine – James Brown<br />
- Mikado – Jagga Jazzist<br />
- What Sarah Said – Death Cab for Cutie<br />
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamond – The Beatles<br />
- Stupid Memory – Sondre Lerche </p>
<p><strong>Underrated bands you can recommend our readers</strong><br />
Sarin, Ghaust, Jelaga, dan Blackmoore. </p>
<p><strong>Contacts</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/whisperdesire" title="http://www.myspace.com/whisperdesire" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/whisperdesire</a><br />
<a href="mailto:whisper_desire04@yahoo.com" title="mailto:whisper_desire04@yahoo.com">whisper_desire04@yahoo.com</a><br />
iqbal 021-93594374 </p>
<p>* Link of our songs</p>
<p><a href="http://whisperdesire.multiply.com/music" title="http://whisperdesire.multiply.com/music" target="_blank">whisperdesire.multiply.com/music</a></p>

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		<title>NimB &#8211; Energetic yet relaxing electronic&#8217;s sounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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If you guys into electronica, and loves to add a little bit distortion and beautiful vocals. you should gives NimB a try. Here a brief interview with them.</p>
<p><strong>how are you guys now ?</strong><br />
Thank you for askingJ We’re in the process of our debut album production. The deadline is soon, so we have a lot to do. Also we are full of ideas. Actually we are always full of ideasJ</p>
<p><strong>if you have to describe your music in one sentences, what would that be ?</strong></p>
<p>In one sentence? That’s funny…Let me think…It’s energetic, but in the same time relaxing mix, snowy and cold, shining and full of air. Am I clear enough?</p>
<p><strong>what is the best record you bought in the last 6 months? </strong></p>
<p>Well, It’s Jay-Jay Johanson, Rush. Actually we’ve listen his latest things and interested so much that decided to buy everything he ever produced. This album of 2005 is sad, but so beautiful. This music matches for sitting at home alone, watching the rain outdoor. </p>
<p><strong>please reccomend our readers a nice underated bands you know to our readers, and how are they sounds? </strong><br />
With greate pleasure! </p>
<p>Let me introduce our Ukrainian friends – IDM monsters “2 sleepy” <a href="http://www.2sleepy.info" title="http://www.2sleepy.info" target="_blank">www.2sleepy.info</a> They play amasing things with a very positive aura. </p>
<p>Also we like “Mamanet” – electronic indie band <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mamanetband" title="http://www.myspace.com/mamanetband" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/mamanetband</a>. Their music is very creative and sofisticated, I think. Both bands are very prospective, believe me.<br />
how is the music scene in your country?<br />
This is a good question. Perhaps, as in Indonesia (correct me if I’m mistaken) we have two parrallel music worlds – major lable artists for masses and indie bands for other people. I think with Internet era, we watch the proces of borders vanishing, so very soon we’ll talk about the world scene and world music space. Actually this interview confirms this</p>
<p><strong>tell us more about your latest album.</strong></p>
<p>As we already mentioned we only prepare our first album. It doesn’t mean that we’re just started to play music – we play about 5 years already. This means that this album will be comprehencive. Only the best songs of this 5-year period will be included. So, that’s why we’re sure that the first album will be cool. We’re sorry that we made our fans to wait so long.</p>
<p><strong>last words ?</strong></p>
<p>We’ve been shocked with Indonesian bands, we found on your web-site. It so fresh, so new and progressive. Ukraine is so far away of Indonesia – about 12 hours by plane, but music unites all melomans of the world. Thank you so much, listen usJ</p>
<p>much apreciate</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/nimbband" title="http://www.myspace.com/nimbband" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/nimbband</a></p>
<p>Fans Video :<br />
[video]<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h34fFCIioJk" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h34fFCIioJk" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=h34fFCIioJk</a>[/video]<br />
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		<title>Minor Plastissin &#8211; Young persons stimulated imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<strong>Apa kabar nya?</strong><br />
jojo: baik baik sehat selalu<br />
ditho: baik baik , hehe lagi mempersiapkan recording nih<br />
vania: senang sekali baru memasuki masa legal<br />
banyu: baik baik</p>
<p><strong>Coba ceritakan sedikit tentang latar belakang band kalian</strong><br />
Awalnya band ini terbentuk dikarenakan adanya percakapan remaja 16 tahun yaitu ditho dan vania yang pada saat itu sedang membahas tentang selera musik dan nampaknya mereka memiliki kesamaan visi dan misi dalam berselera musik. Tiba-tiba saja ditho memiliki dorongan untuk mengebel (menelepon) jojo yang tiada lain adalah rekannya dan terjadi percakapan yang intinya untuk membentuk sebuah band, dan jojo pun menyanggupinya. Setelah itu banyu pun yang dahulunya ditipu untuk menjadi pemain additional akhirnya digaet untuk menjadi keyboardis tetap dan jadilah MINOR PLASTISSIN! Musik milik MINOR PLASTISSIN ini musik yang sedap disuguhi kepada para pendengar pada saat senja tiba nah bisa terimajinasikan bukan? Dengan beat sample milik Ditho yang standard, suara gitar Jojo yang tersendat, synthesizer milik Vania yang menampilkan sisi imajinatif dari setiap orang yang mendengar MINOR PLASTISSIN serta keyboard yang membawa pada harmonika khayalan senja di cockpit. Banyaknya band yang didengar oleh personel MINOR PLASTISSIN sangat mempengaruhi mereka dalam proses pembuatan lagu, diantaranya Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Milosh, Zero7, Battles, Televon Tel Aviv, The Postal Service, Royksopp. Selain menjadi influence, band-band tersebut juga mempengaruhi kami untuk dapat sukses seperti mereka, dengan menyelesaikan proses recording karena kami hendak membuat sebuah album. Jangan lupa untuk menyisihkan uangnya untuk membeli ya! Terima kasih.</p>
<p><strong>Kalau kamu diminta menyebutkan 5 buah benda yang dapat diasosiasikan dengan Minor Plastissin, kira kira benda apa ajakah itu?</strong><br />
minor plastissin: 3 kaum adam 2 kaum hawa hehe 2 + 3 = 5</p>
<p><strong>Apakah album terbaik yang kamu dapatkan dalam 6 bulan terakhir ini?</strong><br />
vania: modular presents II,  album tersebut merupakan kompilasi dari artis artis jebolan             modular record, hentakan lagu lagunya bisa membuat sedikit berdisko ago go.. hehe<br />
ditho: Radiohead; In Rainbows. hmm know nothing to say but they&#8217;re too fuckin genius<br />
jojo: Happy Mondays; Uncle Disfunctional. Membuat saya tergila gila terhadap nada mabuk taun     80an hehe..<br />
banyu: Holden. Musik yang enak untuk didengar sendirian c :</p>
<p><strong>top five songs on your playlists?</strong><br />
minor plastissin: TTV &#8211; telefon tel aviv, Home &#8211; Zero7, Cayman Island &#8211; Kings of              Convenience, Konichiwa Bitches &#8211; Robyn, Nothing Better &#8211; Postal Service</p>
<p><strong>Ada rekomendasi band-band lokal lain yang menurut kamu perlu didengar?</strong><br />
Ditho: Santamonica<br />
Vania: Holy City Rollers<br />
Banyu: Agrikulture<br />
Jojo: Denial</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
Sampjump! Tschus!</p>
<p>Contact Person : Aga > 0818711194 dan 021-99463679<br />
Myspace : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/heyminorplastissin" title="http://www.myspace.com/heyminorplastissin" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/heyminorplastissin</a></p>

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		<title>Siverski 72 &#8211; Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Siverski 72 is Felix Siverski that done Vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards, drum-machines and noise. </p>
<p><strong>please share a brief story about the music scenes in your city</strong><br />
I live in small town called KINGISEPP. There is no music. NO MUSIC. Im fuckin alone</p>
<p><strong>Tell us more about the band background</strong><br />
My name is Felix Siverski.Im just 18. My life is strange. I was in psychiatric Hospital month ago, Im not study in any university, and I mow army now. I start played music when I was 16. My previous bands were Bright Red Lips (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/2brightredlips" title="http://www.myspace.com/2brightredlips" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/2brightredlips</a>) and Liberian Railways (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/liberianrailwaysmusic" title="http://www.myspace.com/liberianrailwaysmusic" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/liberianrailwaysmusic</a>). Now Im alone. There is no background in my band.</p>
<p><strong>What is your current activities?</strong><br />
Siverski 72 and Perfect Nothing 4 (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/pn4" title="http://www.myspace.com/pn4" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/pn4</a>). PN 4 is my another project, like The Jesus And Mary Chain. Just for fun.</p>
<p><strong>Would you share us a brief description of Siverski 72 music?</strong><br />
I have about 40 recorded songs. My problem that I dont have any style. I like bands like The Cooper Temple Clause. Songs in any genres. Fuck indie, fuck post punk, fuck nu rave. Mix all this shit &#8211; is my music.</p>
<p><strong>Any influences?</strong><br />
The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Interpol, Chikinki, and russian female singer Maksim. </p>
<p><strong>Any future plans?</strong><br />
Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to</p>
<p><strong>What is the top five songs on your playlists?</strong><br />
The Brian Jonestown Massacre &#8211; Servo<br />
She Wants Revenge &#8211; Red Flags And Long Nights<br />
Selfish Cunt &#8211; Fuck The Poor<br />
Grinderman &#8211; No Pussy Blues<br />
Motorama &#8211; Somersault</p>
<p><strong>Any underrated bands you can recommend our readers?</strong><br />
nothing.</p>
<p><strong>contacts</strong><br />
MSN &#8211; <a href="mailto:librails@hotmail.com" title="mailto:librails@hotmail.com">librails@hotmail.com</a></p>
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<p>download more songs at <strong>http://www.myspace.com/siverski72</strong></p>

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		<title>Cranial Incisored &#8211; chaotic structure of crushing-hydrogrind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<strong>Hello , please share a brief story about the music scenes in your city</strong><br />
Yogyakarta. Maybe this is not a big city, but we have many crazy bands/musicians here, that I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re really really different with another place in Indonesia. Many talented people and human resources here that make creative work and still not exposed / unknown. Some of them well known such as: Shaggy Dog, Death Vomit, Seek Six Sick, etc. Scenes always grow up with their next generation till it goes to us and it will give another path to the others part and another next generation&#8230; and next next generation. If your band/music dont have any character, you can&#8217;t grow up here. In Yogyakarta, different means DIFFERENT, not similiar, not yellow and red, but black and white.</p>
<p><strong>Please tell us more about your band background</strong><br />
9 years ago&#8230;start with brutal death bands like any other Indonesian bands (in that times), till get bored with stagnancy in the scene with many similiar style and nothing new and fresh straight to the face, in 2000 make release 2nd demo &#8220;experimental minds of instability to shock your therapy system&#8221; and this is our starting point to change our music direction.<br />
Change to explore more and more till now.</p>
<p><strong>What is your current activities</strong><br />
online freelancer for design/packaging/web, write in some magazine/newsletter/webmagz, and swimming!:p</p>
<p><strong>Mind to share us again about a brief Cranial Incisored music description?</strong><br />
mix from crushing-hydrogrind with math metal and freejazz with chaotic structure.</p>
<p><strong>personels</strong><br />
mal: bas, didiet:vocal, obet:drums, halim: gitar</p>
<p><strong>What is your influences?</strong><br />
naked city, melt banana, the dillinger escape plan, meshuggah, virulence, midori, many many many many&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>future plans</strong><br />
make new release and attack the world.</p>
<p><strong>top five songs on your playlists</strong></p>
<p>songs? current on playlist (random):</p>
<p>home (freenote)<br />
eko shika dance!! (midori)<br />
gelora asmara (groove bandit)<br />
veek (spangle call lilli line)<br />
katsute (ego wrappin&#8217;)</p>
<p><strong>underrated bands you can recommend our readers</strong><br />
zoo, southern beach terror</p>
<p><strong>contacts</strong><br />
mobile : 0815 697 0342<br />
<a href="mailto:chaotic_math@yahoo.com" title="mailto:chaotic_math@yahoo.com">chaotic_math@yahoo.com</a><br />
<a href="mailto:brainstorming.dengangunting@gmail.com" title="mailto:brainstorming.dengangunting@gmail.com">brainstorming.dengangunting@gmail.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cranialincisored" title="http://www.myspace.com/cranialincisored" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/cranialincisored</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.cranialincisored.cjb.net" title="http://www.cranialincisored.cjb.net" target="_blank">www.cranialincisored.cjb.net</a></p>
<p>download their audiocrashing tunes at <strong>http://www.myspace.com/cranialincisored</strong></p>

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		<title>Nervous Breakdown &#8211; Eastern Jakarta Hardcore Punk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>nervous breakdown merupakan r.break pada vokal dan gitar, freddy fredball pada drum,bass dan vokal, xeno pada gitar dan drum, tom curly pada bass dan drum,dan vokal (terkadang) </p>
<p>pengaruh musik kami beragam dari nuansa depresiv ala nirvana sampai kenakalan beastie boys, sikap anti kemapanan dari the smiths dan juga unsur-unsur kemarahan dari black flag kami sendiri menyebut musik kami hardcore punk dengan explorasi tanpa batas kami melebur bermacam-macam variasi musik seperti Bluez,Grunge,New Wave dan lain-lain bersama agresivitas klasik hardcore punk yang intens  menjadi berbeda adalah moto kami</p>
<p>karna dasar kenapa kami membentuk band ini pada tahun 2006 awalkarna kami semua sudah muak dengan semua hal-hal yang sama yang selalu kami liat dan kami dengar di setiap hari kami yang membosankan kami ingin sesuatu yang baru dan juga segar,tanpa harus terikat dengan batasan-batasan konyol yang menghambat kemajuan kami  oh ya sejauh ini kami sudah mempunyai 14 lagu dalam sebuah demo yang kami namakan dengan judul New Dogs On The Block</p>
<p>yang hanya kami jual setiap kami manggung </p>
<p><strong>Sedikit cerita mengenai scene musik di Jakarta Timur</strong><br />
Jakarta Timur sudah dari dulu sampai sekarang sudah menjadi tempat yang menghasilkan banyak band berkualitas dengan ciri yang khas dan segala macam jenis musik ada semua di sini mulai dari musik extreme metal dan sejenisnya seperti SIKSAKUBUR,DEAD VERTICAL,PANIC DISORDER,HARD TO KILL dan lain-lain hardcore punk seperti LOOSERZ,TRIPLE X,LOST SIGHT,ROTTEN VAGINA 69,R.U. SUCKS dan masih banyak lagi.. tapi tidak hanya jenis musik cadas saja yang ada di sini kami mempunyaijuga kawan-kawan yang tergabung dalam berbagai grup indie seperti DIKEROYOK WANITA,THE PORNO,GRASMERE dan lain-lain bahkan jakarta timur juga merupakan tempat home base dari label extreme metal ROTTREVORE RECORDS selain di bandung dari buaran,duren sawit,klender,pondok kelapa,cipinang,kramat jati,pondok gede,dan sekitarnya kami akan terus maju dalam persatuan yang teguh </p>
<p>contact us :<br />
(021) 99120219 *Stella*<br />
085697479271 *Maya*<br />
or u can email us : <a href="mailto:narsiscore84@yahoo.com" title="mailto:narsiscore84@yahoo.com">narsiscore84@yahoo.com</a></p>

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		<title>O Quarto das Cinzas &#8211; a soothing tropical melody</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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I found their music throught Myspace, and i found their name are pretty so i decide to listen to some of their beautiful tunes. And now i wish to share you as our readers the beautiful sounds by <strong>O Quarto das Cinzas</strong> click their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/oquartodascinzas">myspace</a> page for more info</p>
<p><strong>How are you now?</strong></p>
<p>Well, in early 2007 we realeased a EP called A Chave with five songs, since then, we were working with this material, playing in the most important festivals of Brazil all this past year.  These festivals were where we  obtained the recognition of our work on the brazilian indie scene, together with the internet and good reviews in important magazines like Rolling Stone Brasil, Bizz, Vogue Brasil and TV shows. We feel we&#8217;re in a good moment, now we&#8217;re making the pre-production of our first album to be released in the beginning of 2008, also we have plans to play outside the country this year.</p>
<p><strong>How is the indie music scene in Brazil nowadays? seems like more and more great musicians are coming up.</strong></p>
<p>Yes. The indie scene here it&#8217;s growing quickly, with new bands appearing of all the regions of the country. the Internet and the festivals are the most importants factors in the formation of these bands. It is very good being part of this moment, where it feels an increasing energy in the scene</p>
<p><strong>Have you ever found a nice music from South East Asia? especially Indonesia?</strong></p>
<p>Not until now. Meeting you guys was realy cool. We look forward to find more things from indonesia</p>
<p><strong>I found a lot of Brazilian bands in Myspace. do you have any reccomendation for our readers?</strong></p>
<p>There is a lot of great bands from brazil in myspace, look up for: &#8220;Cidadão Instigado&#8221;, Montage, Los Porongas, Vanguart. Mombojó,  Movéis Colonias de Acaju, Jumbo Elecktro, Macaco Bong, Lucy and the Popsonics.</p>
<p><strong>What is top five songs on your playlists now?</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s hard to chose, lot of music listening around here, but here it goes:<br />
(Not necessarily in this order)</p>
<p>1.Radiohead – Nude<br />
2.Amy  Winehouse – You Know I&#8217;m no Good<br />
3. Bjork – Earth Intruders<br />
4.The Battles – Tonto<br />
5. anything from: Beatles, Bob Marley, Portishead, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Mutantes, Nirvana, Mr. Bungle, Frank Zappa, there is just no end&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong></p>
<p>Thanks for the opportunity, we just like to say it&#8217;s great to be able to get in touch with people from all around the world and to have the chance to bring our music to them. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s makes it worth all the work. Thank you again and Light, Peace and Love to us all.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2058/2208681976_4e2c038ab7_o.jpg" alt="O Quarto das Cinzas" border="0" height="250" width="500" /></p>
<p>&#8211;<br />
&#8220;as cinzas que nunca somem<br />
o pó de tudo que se desfaz<br />
se reproduz<br />
e voa<br />
tudo que voa<br />
e chega e some<br />
e continua..<br />
cinza que é preto com branco<br />
que retorna e se une e renasce&#8221;</p>
<p>O Quarto das Cinzas<br />
Tel.:  (11) 9143.4463 / (11) 9125.1119</p>
<p>Clip CIRCULARES!!!! Assista no YouTube!!</p>
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<p>Pra você ouvir&#8230;</p>
<p>MP3 grátis:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tramavirtual.com.br/o_quarto_das_cinzas" title="http://www.tramavirtual.com.br/o_quarto_das_cinzas" target="_blank">www.tramavirtual.com.br/o_quarto_das_cinzas</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/oquartodascinzas" title="http://www.myspace.com/oquartodascinzas" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/oquartodascinzas</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/layalopes" title="http://www.myspace.com/layalopes" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/layalopes</a></p>
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		<title>The Secret Love Parade &#8211; a sweeter variation of all things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>The Secret Love Parade</strong> is a dutch indie pop band, that play a simple and decent melody about everything. And here a brief interview with the beautiful indie-pop trio. </p>
<p><strong>The secret love parade </strong></p>
<p><strong>Please tell us more about your band</strong><br />
Aino and Janna started making music together when they were about fifteen, This summer(2007) Lara, Janna&#8217;s sister, joined the group, playing both bass and flute, Janna switched from bass to guitar, Aino learned to play the organ (among other things, though she could already sing), and we finally added some beats, to make the band complete.  </p>
<p>The secret love parade is the result of a pretty long way of musical (and personal) development. We don&#8217;t really know why we don&#8217;t sound like the music that influences us. It&#8217;s a dreamy and sweeter variation of a lot of things. Its not that we necessarily only want to make sweet and dreamy things, but this is what comes out when we play, so you can say its close to the heart.  We are influenced not only by the Beatles, but also by books, movies, in a general sense a broadening of knowledge of the beauty (and ugliness) in the world. </p>
<p><strong>Share us some stories about the Dutch indie scene please. </strong><br />
Well, then what do you do in Holland, when you are three girls that want to make music, preferably for a lot of people? You join the indie-scene! What indiepop scene? Where&#8217;s the door? People are doors in this scene that&#8217;s mainly located around Amsterdam. I think it&#8217;s a rule that goes for every music scene: to join it, you&#8217;ll have to know people, and you&#8217;ll have to be assrtive enough to use them as doors. Or be incredibly lucky. </p>
<p>But you can&#8217;t count on that, so our future plans are to play a lot of gigs in Holland, and beyond. We are just getting started. We&#8217;ll explore the scene like a jungle, armed with a great album that should be out this year, and in the same time explore musice like a mountain. There will be a lot of hiking to do, but eventually we have to get somewehere. </p>
<p><strong>Share us about your influences</strong><br />
To be a little more practical, here a list of influential bands,<br />
Influences (bands, philosophers and movies) </p>
<p>Radiohead<br />
The Beatles<br />
Midlake<br />
Arcade Fire<br />
Bright Eyes<br />
The Shins<br />
Broken Social Scène<br />
Pink Floyd<br />
Nirvana<br />
Nick Drake</p>
<p>Baruch de Spinoza<br />
Friedrich Nietzsche</p>
<p>Amélie<br />
Science of sleep<br />
A clockwork orange<br />
The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind<br />
Requiem for a dream</p>
<p><strong>Any good Underrated bands you know?</strong></p>
<p>Jack Beauregard (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/jackbeauregard" title="http://www.myspace.com/jackbeauregard" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/jackbeauregard</a> )<br />
Lian ray (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/Lianray" title="http://www.myspace.com/Lianray" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/Lianray</a>)<br />
Midlake  (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/midlake" title="http://www.myspace.com/midlake" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/midlake</a> )<br />
Lola Kite (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/Lolakite" title="http://www.myspace.com/Lolakite" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/Lolakite</a>) </p>
<p><strong>What is the top five songs on your curent playlist?</strong></p>
<p>Petula Clark – Un Jeune Homme Bien</p>
<p>Paul McCartney- Heart Of The Country</p>
<p>The Shins- Girl inform me</p>
<p>Au Revoir Simone &#8211; Through The Backyards</p>
<p>Daniel Johnston &#8211; Walking The Cow</p>
<p>Contact</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thesecretloveparade" title="http://www.myspace.com/thesecretloveparade" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/thesecretloveparade</a></p>

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		<title>The Wispy Hummers &#8211; when you feels like drunk but you&#8217;re not</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Tell us more about your band&#8217;s background </strong></p>
<p>Well, The Wispy Hummers really started as a way to pass the time for me (Joan J.L) while I think about what to do with my life after graduating high school.   So one day in my monotonous existence, I was listening to Bob Dylan, and I thought to myself, well I could do that, and I just started writing songs from there I guess. After about six months, I had written a couple dozens songs and was pretty confused about what to do with them so before I start forgetting them one by one, I decided to record them on my computer. I put them up on myspace just because that seems like the hip thing to do and here we are. </p>
<p><strong>Any future plan for The Wispy Hummers?</strong><br />
I am currently trying to put together a proper band because I personally can only play the guitar (not very well, I might add) and shows has been a little tedious. When that happens, I&#8217;d probably like to properly record the songs and hopefully release them in the near future. But for now, I&#8217;ll keep writing songs and playing as much shows as possible really. </p>
<p><strong>If you had to describe about your music, what would that be?</strong><br />
I generally dislike it when people ask me what type/genre of music do I play, I prefer it when people judge that for themselves, but if I have to say I&#8217;d probably say folk pop, or along that line. The biggest influence, I would have to say is Bob Dylan, just because he is truly the coolest person ever, I think.   Others would include Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, Wilco and just people in general, everyday folks, I think influenced my songwriting the most. </p>
<p><strong>Share us your top five songs in your current playlist</strong><br />
Top Five Songs In My Playlist: (this is hard)</p>
<p>Four Winds by Bright Eyes</p>
<p>Art Is Hard by Cursive</p>
<p>The Engine Driver by The Decemberist</p>
<p>The Absence Of God by Rilo Kiley</p>
<p>The King of Carrot Flowers by Neutral Milk Hotel</p>
<p><strong>Any good underated bands you know, that you thing they deserve a more proper attention?</strong><br />
There are too many underrated bands in music actually, but way too many overrated ones as well. So I don&#8217;t know if these bands are underrated but they&#8217;re relatively unknown in Indonesia: </p>
<p>Whispertown2000<br />
The Watson Twins<br />
The Good Life<br />
The Elected<br />
Fiery Furnaces</p>
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Contact info</strong></p>
<p>MySpace: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thewispyhummers" title="http://www.myspace.com/thewispyhummers" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/thewispyhummers</a><br />
My Manager, Jodie: <a href="mailto:o_jodie_o@hotmail.com" title="mailto:o_jodie_o@hotmail.com">o_jodie_o@hotmail.com</a><br />
My Band E-mail: <a href="mailto:thewispyhummers@gmail.com" title="mailto:thewispyhummers@gmail.com">thewispyhummers@gmail.com</a></p>

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		<title>The Southern Beach Terror &#8211; the dangerous surf rock band</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Southern Beach Terror band surf rock asal Jogja dengan permainan yang lebih kasar dan agresif dari band surf rock yang ada pada umumnya. Mind your ears while enjoying,</p>
<p>berikut ini adalah interview singkatnya</p>
<p><strong>apa kabar Southern Beach Terror?</strong></p>
<p>baek2 aja ne kita lagi berduaan lagi kaya biji peler, masi nunggu personil baru yang lagi merampungkan studinya, untuk sementara kalo live kita di bantu sama rev.cornelius octopus pada organ</p>
<p><strong>ada apa dengan pantai selatan? btw ada hubungan apa dengan nyi penunggu pantai selatan?</strong></p>
<p>ngga ada apa2 di pantai selatan&#8230;dijogja tu ga ada apa2 man,makanya kita bikin ne band biar kita ga mati bosen disini&#8230;mmm kita pikir nyi roro kidul itu seksi hihihi kinda kinky kalo lu sampe ML sm doi hahahaha&#8230;pernah denger kamarnya yg di hotel di parangtritis? katanya si sering tu pejabat2 yg ngalap berkah ke situ trus katanya si ML sm si nyai&#8230;.wooohoooo&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>kalo diperhatiin, hampir semua pemain surf rock bukan pemain surfing, menurut lu kenapa ya? lu maen surfing ga?</strong></p>
<p>surfing ngga&#8230;renang aja kita ga bisa hahahahaha gatau tuh kenapa ya? ngga penting bgt deh </p>
<p><strong>apa pendapat lu tenang Tielman Brothers? </strong></p>
<p>berita basi! kita sudah tau tielman brothers dari pertama bikin account di myspace&#8230;boleh tau dari kolega kita di jerman si hehehe<br />
rada shock jg tapi yaudahlah&#8230;yang lalu biar lah berlalu hahaha</p>
<p><strong>5 lagu yang paling sering lu dengerin saat ini?</strong></p>
<p>wah sori gw sudah janji ga boleh bocorin lagu2 yg gw dengerin skarang kalo ngga gw bakal mati ato ngga lu yang mati! sori dude&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>ada rekomendasi band-band yang perlu didengarkan untuk para pembaca? terutama band yang jarang terpublikasikan</strong></p>
<p>the rematiks&#8230;band paling underated dijogja! we love them,cari aja di myspace ada ko&#8230;mampir aja n talk shit to them, they love that!</p>
<p><strong>last word?</strong></p>
<p>last word!</p>
<p><em><strong>Their biography, as taken from  </strong><strong>http://www.myspace.com/thesouthernbeachterror</strong></em><br />
The Southern Beach Terror is (probably)the one only surf rockin&#8217; band that ever existed in Indonesia.<br />
Hailing from small town of Jogjakarta in Central Java<br />
Theres no surfing scene here and there was nothing&#8230;i repeat nothing is cool in this town&#8230;the music scene is too lame, everything is too well produced<br />
And we are too busy diggin graves of all rock n roll past. We are not interested in anything new. FUCK YOU!</p>
<p>=================================================== DISCOGRAPHY ===================================================<br />
KOMPIRASI 1<br />
Compilation Album 2006<br />
[Project Babi No.9 Records] </p>
<p>TRAXOUND 1<br />
Compilation of Trax Magazine 2006<br />
[Trax Magazine Record] </p>
<p>LIVE AT JOE&#8217;S GARAGE<br />
Released for free in Jakarta. Limited only 50 CD-R<br />
[Hellbender Records 2007] </p>
<p>HORROR FROM BELOW<br />
Split album with RAW SEWAGE<br />
OUT NOW! please contact <a href="http://www.myspace.com/licensetoshredrecords" title="http://www.myspace.com/licensetoshredrecords" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/licensetoshredrecords</a> to get the CD<br />
[License To Shred Records / Sinister Fiend Records]</p>

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<p>Band Melodic punk asal  Bandung ini baru-baru ini merilis sebuah album yang mereka bagikan cuma-cuma melalui <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fiddlersmusic">myspace</a> mereka dan <a href="www.fiddlersmusic.tk">website</a> band. Mungkin tidak ada salahnya kalau kamu mencoba untuk mendownload si e.p. gratisan ini semasih online. :)</p>
<p><strong>- apakabar Fiddlers sekarang?</strong><br />
Maskund : Baik,hanya ada sedikit gangguan pada<br />
hidung,heuheu…<br />
Kijo            : Well, nice dude..satu botol bir dicampur 2buavita and shake with our hand… hahahaha<br />
Marjon  : kurang baik bro,,banyak kerjaan dead line neh,,</p>
<p><strong>- kenapa e.p. lu dibagiin gratis?</strong><br />
Maskund : ya intinya sih sebagai ajang promosi juga karena Fiddlers kan sempat fakum 1 tahun, mungkin orang-orang pun udah lupa sama kami dan album ini gw<br />
pikir sih sebagai alat pengingat aja, jadi buat apa dipungut bayaran, rencananya launchingnya juga bakalan kami gratisin ko, tapi buat next album kayanya ga akan berlaku lagi..hahaha</p>
<p>Kijo    : yupz..kita sadar akan semua karya ciptaan tuhan. Lo tau, god create this world buat satu kebebasan, ga ada yang dipungut biaya apapun dan gw rasa hak semua orang tuk denger, ngerasain apa yang lagi kita (fiddlers) rasain lewat album yang kita bagiin free ini.</p>
<p>Marjon  : saya fikir Fiddlers tau apa yang di lakukan sekarang ini, dengan gratisan orang-orang ga perlu susah tuk dapetinnya, karena kami ingin mereka yang dapatkan cd kami puas dan tidak merasa kecewa apa yang Fiddlers berikan.</p>
<p><strong>- lagi dengerin apa aja yang oke nih?</strong><br />
Maskund : Gw skrg lagi demen dengerin musik hardcore oldskool hehehe, tapi AVA yang baru okey juga tuh…</p>
<p>Kijo    : Yang ok? Apa ya?! gw lg suka banget dengerin rise against..musik pembawa suara rakyat banyak..hahahaha</p>
<p>Marjon  : all music,terutama lagu yang nge’bite dan bersemangat, bikin ide-ide baru buat gw&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- menurut lu, 5 album yang perlu untuk didengarkan juga oleh para pembaca?</strong><br />
Maskund : Fiddlers (Sing This Loud E.P), Rise Against(Revolution per Minute), Seringai (Serigala Militia), AVA (I-Empire), MxPx (Before Everything and After).</p>
<p>Kijo    : AVA (I-Empire), Nofx (wolves in wolves clothing), New Found Glory (from screen to your stereo part. 2),  Rise Against (The Sufferer &#038; The Witness), Fiddlers (Sing this Loud E.P) pastinya!!!</p>
<p>Marjon  : Fiddlers (sing this loud E.P), blink182 all album, mxpx (before everything and after), Hi-standard (making the road), +44 (when your heart stop beating).</p>
<p><strong>- last word?</strong><br />
Maskund : Download dan dapatkan album kami ya!hahahaha…<br />
Kijo    : Last, always support your local band and localbitch..hehehe beli  yang asli jangan yang<br />
bajakan..Piracy is a crime!<br />
Marjon  : Gw butuh dukungan penuh buat kalian yang udah dengeri lagu kami, so buat saran dan kritiknya kami tunggu ya&#8230;</p>
<p>thank&#8217;s<br />
(fiddlers)</p>
<p><strong>Sedikit perkenalan lebih lanjut dengan Fiddlers :</strong><br />
Well, band ini terbentuk pada akhir tahun 2005, Diawali dengan rasa ketidak puasan terhadap band-band terdahulunya, ketiga anak muda yang berasal dari 2 buah band yang berbeda memutuskan untuk membuat sebuah band baru yang lebih baik dari band sebelumnya, akhirnya terbentuklah sebuah band dengan nama <strong>FIDDLERS</strong>. Untuk meramaikan belantika musik Indonesia<br />
yang cendrung monoton, FIDDLERS pun mencoba untuk membuat konsep baru yang lebih baik dengan mengusung aliran musik “TEENAGE MELODIC” yang bertemakan tentang harapan, depresi, konflik, cinta dan semua masalah yang cendrung dialami oleh anak muda jaman sekarang.</p>
<p>Fiddlers yang berarti Pemain Biola melambangkan ciri khas musik dari Fiddlers yang mempunyai karakter yang kuat. Masing – masing lagu yang telah kami ciptakan mempunyai filosofi yang berasal dari our experience.</p>
<p>Dengan paduan khas PUNK yang kental dengan pengaruh FEEL lainnya menjadikan musik yang Keras namun dibalut dengan lirik berisi cinta, ambisi sakit hati dan sebuah harapan akan menambah kesan Teenage Melodic yang sangat kental.</p>
<p>Influence       : Television, Magazines, Book, The Grief, God, Women, Love, Family, World, and War.</p>
<p>Rencana Fiddlers dimasa mendatang adalah membuat sebuah full album yang kualitasnya lebih baik dibandingkan dengan album terdahulu (E.P) baik dari segi musik, sound, dan yang lainnya.</p>
<p>Fiddlers :<br />
Agung Maskund // Guitar, Voc<br />
Ricky Kijo // Bass, Voc<br />
Mario Marjon // Drums</p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Singer songwriter bernama [rendyasradahnial] yang banyak terpengaruh oleh Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright sampai ke Wilco ataupun Ron Sexsmith, mengerjakan sebagian besar lagunya di komputer pribadinya. Dengan lagu-lagu yang cukup representatif jika dikerjakan ulang distudio yang lebih lengkap. Berikut ini interview singkat dengan Rendy mengenai proyek musiknya ini.</p>
<p><strong>Apa kabar [rendyasradahnial] sekarang?</strong><br />
baik..baik.. bisa dibilang rentang 2 bulan kemarin sampe sekarang lagi dikasih lancar produce lagu. soalnya sempet &#8220;musuhan&#8221; cukup lama juga sama Fruity Loops, sekitar 1 tahun . Untung ada &#8220;Dialog&#8221;, dari situ semuanya dimulai. Lagi </p>
<p><strong>Kalo loe diminta menjelaskan tentang musik loe hanya dalam satu kalimat, apa yang akan loe tulis? </strong><br />
I heart my pc!</p>
<p><strong>Lima lagu paling heavy rotation di playlist loe?</strong><br />
No Surprises &#8211; Radiohead<br />
Natasha &#8211; Rufus Wainwright<br />
Dragonfly On Baystreet &#8211; Ron Sexsmith<br />
Lukin&#8217; &#8211; Pearl Jam<br />
Coffee &#8211; Copeland</p>
<p><strong>Menurut loe band lokal apa yang musti disimak? mengapa?</strong><br />
Gua rasa semua orang setuju buat band yang satu ini karena mereka sudah well-known by now, tentu karena mereka memang brilian. Efek Rumah Kaca! mengapa? you&#8217;ll tell me, won&#8217;t you? </p>
<p><strong>last word.</strong><br />
I need you to know me.</p>
<p><strong>[rendyasradahnial]</strong>, awalnya bernama The Get Up. Itu juga nama pemberian seorang teman. Karena waktu itu saya masih awam akan musik-musik luar negeri kecuali Radiohead, Greenday dan Travis. Saya gak pernah sadar kalau ada band luar bernama hampir sama dengan The Get Up, yaitu The Get Up Kids! Crap! Bahkan yang memberitahu saya kalau ada band luar bernama serupa tapi nyaris sama itu orang yang memberi nama The Get Up pada saya. But thanks to him, that&#8217;s where everything started. </p>
<p>Tentang influence, Radiohead ambil bagian terbesar. Yang lainnya mungkin Rufus Wainwright [ dia juga alasan saya mengapa memilih nama sendiri dibanding tetap dengan The Get Up !], Lorien, Embrace dan Psikopat.</p>
<p><a href="http://myspace.com/rendyasradahnial" title="http://myspace.com/rendyasradahnial" target="_blank">myspace.com/rendyasradahnial</a></p>

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		<title>Lucy and the Popsonics &#8211; the brazillian electro rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Introuducing you our friends from Brazil, that play a catchy electro rock, well some people said that it is an electroclash, but whatever it is, they&#8217;re pretty good to made us dance here. try to hear their <a href="http://deathrockstar.info/media/2007/12/01-popdollkiller.mp3">sounds </a>and maybe you can dance with us too.</p>
<p><strong>how are ou now ?</strong><br />
We played at the biggest rock and eletro-rock festivals in Brazil and we..re going to SXSW (Austin &#8211; Texas) in March and maybe to France in April. In November, we..ve been in Portugal and I confess &#8211; I loved and I almost forgot to come back.</p>
<p><strong>if you&#8217;ve been asked to mention five words that would best associated to your musics, what would that be?</strong></p>
<p>a girl + a boy and a MP3 player.</p>
<p><strong>How is the music scene in Brazil nowadays?</strong></p>
<p>It..s very diverse and a little bit complex. we have all kind of sounds. Brazil is big enough but here we have too much forro, axe, samba and MPB. It..s bizarre! The people community that really likes rock is not too much and it makes this kind of sound not profitable and the bands not so professional.<br />
<strong><br />
please reccomend our readers a nice new band you know to our readers, and how are they sounds?</strong></p>
<p>superquadra &#8211; rock+poetry+technology music<br />
Galinha preta &#8211; unemployed people+samplers+grind core band<br />
Montage &#8211; homosexuals? + Freedom + Pills</p>
<p><strong>five best albums that actually stay in your heart forever?</strong><br />
Any of REM<br />
Any of David Bowie<br />
Any of B-52..s<br />
Any of Kraftwerk<br />
Any of Devo</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
Je danse, donc je suis. (I dance, so I am)</p>
<p><strong>Here a brief introduction about them (as taken from their <a href="www.myspace.com/lucyandthepopsonics">myspace</a>)</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>“The Fable (or the Farse?) of Two Electropandas”</strong></em></p>
<p>They met at kindergarten, shared delicious sweets and a weird taste for non sense. Later on, they became a cute-mid-height couple with great musical and esthetic affinity. They tried some bad succeeded rides through rock and then decided to exterminate drummer players at their group. All of a sudden, something pretty extraordinary happened: they received super powers from an electronic drum kit, Lucy, and became Popsonics. Followed by that, in a very strange experience at the backyard of the studio, it happened an exotic visit from other space genre, also a couple, Eletropandas. This couple got Fernanda and Pil Popsonic contaminated by a never seen fable, in which pleasure is the top command, pose and feelgood aspects of life are the destiny. They don’t know so far whether it’s a dream or a real fable. Would it be a farse? The effects of this meeting between Popsonics and Eletropandas resulted in “A Fábula (ou a Farsa?) de Dois Eletropandas” [The Fable (or the Farse?) of Two Electropandas], Lucy and The Popsonics’ debut album.</p>
<p>Contacts: <a href="mailto:texarkanapop@gmail.com/lucyandthepopsonics@gmail.com" title="mailto:texarkanapop@gmail.com/lucyandthepopsonics@gmail.com">texarkanapop@gmail.com/lucyandthepopsonics@gmail.com</a><br />
stream various songs : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/lucyandthepopsonics" title="http://www.myspace.com/lucyandthepopsonics" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/lucyandthepopsonics</a></p>
<p>the making of <strong>PopDollKiller</strong> single<br />
[video]<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3ErJcH_wo" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3ErJcH_wo" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3ErJcH_wo</a>[/video]<br />
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		<title>Pee Wee Gaskins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>With the name of a serial killers, they try to get you a killer music. </p>
<p><strong>Apa kabar Pee Wee Gaskins sekarang?</strong><br />
quite alright, everything works out normal, lg brainstorming mikirin konsep artwork cd dan nyiapin videoklip pertama.. cant hardly wait! </p>
<p><strong>coba ceritakan tentang album kalian nanti.</strong><br />
umm kita mau bikin rilisan sndiri, mau tau statistiknya, semacam album percobaan (tp pastinya ga asal2an) just to let people know more about pee wee gaskins and tell them how do we sounds like, dan gimana tanggapannya, menarik dan memikat label yang bs bantu kita bikin rilisan selanjutnya yg bisa dijual worldwide dlm kuantitas yg lebih besar *wink wink*. albumnya bertitel &#8220;GO!&#8221; isinya 5 lagu + 1 bonus video</p>
<p><strong>5 lagu paling oke yang lagi ada di playlist loe sekarang?</strong><br />
playlist gw pribadi (dochi)<br />
1. four year strong &#8211; badabing! wit a pipe<br />
2. :( (colonopenbracket) &#8211; cute<br />
3. jack&#8217;s mannequin &#8211; dark blue<br />
4. parade the day &#8211; american dream<br />
5. sigur ros &#8211; salka</p>
<p><strong>Rekomendasikan band lokal paling oke menurut kalian.</strong><br />
blablablast!, jw86, goodboybadminton, rocket rockers, hellostereo, ihcod agedas, erik indarto, thirteen, killing me inside, dll.. semua bisa dicari di myspace..</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
dorks never say die.<br />
makasih interviewnya :)</p>
<p>Pee Wee Gaskins originally began as a solo project for Guitarist/vocalist/midget rapist Dochi Sadega on Ihcod Agedas. After swelling to a full line up, we searched the internet for a new band name that illustrates our musical personalities. And then we eventually tag the words &#8217;serial killer&#8217; to the search engine. we found &#8216;Donald Pee Wee Gaskins&#8217; and the rest.. as they say.. was history.<br />
Pee Wee Gaskins creates a uniquely infectious blend of guitar-mangled, multy layered, melodic rock and catchy synthesizer melodies reminiscent of early the get up kids fused with fall out boy, which cases our effusive pop punk influenced sound.<br />
At the moment, us five-piece is currently recording to make ready our self-produced album, titled &#8220;GO!&#8221;.</p>

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		<title>Salient Insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>SALIENT INSANITY</strong> terbentuk pertengahan September 2005, dengan formasi xEricx (gitar), Roni (drum), Venus (vokal), dan xEl Veganox (gitar). Pada awalnya, SALIENT INSANITY sempat kesulitan mencari seorang pemain bass. Beberapa orang telah dicoba tapi hasilnya kurang memuaskan. Akhirnya mereka bertemu dengan Bonar, yang juga merupakan pemain bass band pop, NEWDAYS. Awal tahun 2006 Roni (drum) keluar dari band karena bekerja di luar kota, dan posisi drummer diisi oleh Suryo, yang juga merupakan drummer HANDS UPON SALVATION (metalcore) serta MORNING HORNY (melodicpunk).</p>
<p>Masing-masing personil SALIENT INSANITY mempunyai influence yang berbeda-beda, tetapi secara umum beberapa influence secara umumnya antara lain adalah THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, AT THE GATES, ARCH ENEMY, FRAGMENT OF UNBECOMING, SKYWARDS, EMPEROR, WINTERSUN, HIMSA, xPURIFICATIONx, LAMB OF GOD, HATEBREED, hingga Bjork.</p>
<p>Secara musikal, band ini mempunyai ciri sound yang tidak jauh dari THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER dan AT THE GATES. SALIENT INSANITY baru saja mengeluarkan EP yang berjudul &#8220;From Horror to Sorrow&#8221;, berisi 5 lagu melodicmetal agresif yang siap menyayat kuping audiens! Mini album tersebut dirilis dan didistribusikan oleh manajemen SALIENT INSANITY sendiri dibawah bendera Insanity Records.</p>
<p>Hingga kini SALIENT INSANITY masih rutin latihan, manggung, dan menciptakan lagu-lagu baru untuk materi full length album yang akan dirilis awal tahun 2008.</p>
<p>For more info about SALIENT INSANITY:<br />
<a href="mailto:xcrueltyfreex@yahoo.com" title="mailto:xcrueltyfreex@yahoo.com">xcrueltyfreex@yahoo.com</a><br />
<a href="mailto:witch_fr0m_hell@yahoo.com" title="mailto:witch_fr0m_hell@yahoo.com">witch_fr0m_hell@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p>INSANITY MANAGEMENT<br />
C/o Tria<br />
Jl. Kemuning 1 No. 412<br />
Perum Condong Catur<br />
Depok Sleman<br />
Jogja 55283</p>

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		<title>Local Drug Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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-Table of contents-<br />
History<br />
Member<br />
Discography<br />
track list<br />
address<br />
credits<br />
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HISTORY<br />
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<p>Terbentuk pada 14 February 2006 dengan melihat dan merasa rindu akan sound-sound yang sangat lampu dengan menemukan beberapa games machine dari sebuah gudang tua di suatu rumah yaitu Game Boy suatu alat permainan yang mengingatkan kita akan masa-masa kejayaan super Mario bros dan Donkey Kong.</p>
<p>Local drug store mempunyai arti yang sedikit menyimpang dari arti yang ada, Local drug store di artikan sebagai “toko jamu” agar lebih elegan maka di kamuflasekan dengan nama Local drug store.</p>
<p>Musik yang di usung Local drug store adalah chip-tune music/8bit music, dengan menggunakan beberapa toys machines seperti gameboy, Nintendo, mini casio, serta beberapa software untuk mencipkan nada-nada yang funny &#038; groovy.</p>
<p>Local drug store menciptakan suara-suara murni dari sound permainan dan computer jaman dulu seperti commodore. Alat yang di gunakan dalam membentuk sound tersebut dengan menggunakan game boy yang berisikan cartridge bernama LSDJ (little sound DJ) dengan penggabungan dari beberapa software seperti nano voice, synthcart, dan beberapa emulator software video games.  </p>
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Member<br />
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<p>Project personal yang di Bantu oleh beberapa teman untuk mengisi vocal atau mengisi loop-loop pada musik Local drug store. Hanya berisikan satu orang, yaitu :</p>
<p>Dimas		: programming little sound<br />
Bird		: Jakarta, 24 December 1985<br />
Machine 	: Game boy with LSDJ (little sound DJ)<br />
		  Software:  &#8211; 	nano voice<br />
synthcart<br />
visual boy advance emulator<br />
Infuence	: YMCK, Covox, Bit-shifter, nullsleep, JW86, all sound of old computer<br />
		  and video games.</p>
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Discography<br />
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<p><strong>PESTA MIKRO Compilation vol.1</strong><br />
June 2007<br />
Shark Bit Record.</p>
<p><strong>CHIPTOWN 16/2 BIT Compilation</strong><br />
 January 2008<br />
 Shining Record.</p>
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Track list<br />
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<p>DomoArigato!		Chiptown 16/8 BIT Compilation 2007<br />
U.F.O			Pesta Mikro Compilation Vol.1 2007</p>
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Address<br />
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<p>Email :<br />
<a href="mailto:Bip_bip_bit@yahoo.com" title="mailto:Bip_bip_bit@yahoo.com">Bip_bip_bit@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p>Website :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/localdrugstore" title="http://www.myspace.com/localdrugstore" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/localdrugstore</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.multiply.localdrugstore" title="http://www.multiply.localdrugstore" target="_blank">www.multiply.localdrugstore</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.localdrugstore.tk" title="http://www.localdrugstore.tk" target="_blank">www.localdrugstore.tk</a></p>
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Credits<br />
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<p>Profile	: Local Drug Store<br />
Date	: December 11, 2007</p>
<p>* Thanks &#038; Enjoy *</p>

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		<title>Interview Discrete Encounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>Introduce you <strong><a href="http://discreteencounter.com">Discrete Encounter</a></strong> a threepiece rock electronica bands from New York City, here&#8217;s an interview with Taras, Natasha and Stas as written by Natasha</p>
<p><strong>How are you now?</strong></p>
<p>We’re doing pretty well, thank you! At the moment we’re preoccupied with all the preparations for the upcoming release of our new album that is due in January 2008. Last touches to the mix, mastering, cover work, etc. And of course, plenty of holiday parties!</p>
<p><strong>Tell us more about your upcoming CDs?</strong></p>
<p>The album is called &#8220;2B1&#8243;. It is somewhat different from previous DE’s recordings, especially in terms of sound. For the first time we have guitar as a leading instrument and so there’s a constant dialog between lead vocal and guitar solos.</p>
<p>The main outline connecting all songs is that of integration. It’s about never-ending struggle “To be me, to be you, to be one” (2B1), to find your own path, even though “All roads lead to Rome” (Distant Star).</p>
<p>Some songs were inspired by human relationships, especially difficulty connecting and a great sadness associated with the lack of understanding &#8211; “I came to the door, it wasn’t me“ (Pleasure and Pain). While others speak in a more philosophical, metaphorical language.</p>
<p><strong>Would you mind share us, about how the electronic music scene goes in NYC?</strong></p>
<p>Mostly we are familiar with the techno scene, particularly minimal techno that is a part of an underground scene in NY. There are many promoters in the city, and from time to time we get to meet very talented DJs and producers from all over the world. Though not yet mainstream, these parties do attract decent crowds of people.</p>
<p><strong>Top five songs on your playlist now?</strong></p>
<p>Pantha du Prince &#8211; Saturn Strobe<br />
PJ Harvey – Teclo, One Line<br />
Nick Cave and The Bad Seed &#8211; Stagger Lee, Wild Roses<br />
Moscow Radio – www.Deepmix.ru</p>
<p><strong>5 records that mostly influencing your musical experiences?</strong></p>
<p>Bjork<br />
Autechre<br />
Accept<br />
Rage against the Machine<br />
Underworld</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong></p>
<p>We wish everyone Happy Holidays and hope 2008 treats you all well. Cheers!</p>
<p><em>check their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/discreteencountermusic ">Myspace</a> and <a href="www.discreteencounter.com">Website</a> for more information, musics and videos.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/discreteencountermusic" title="http://www.myspace.com/discreteencountermusic" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/discreteencountermusic</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.discreteencounter.com" title="http://www.discreteencounter.com" target="_blank">www.discreteencounter.com</a></p>
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<p><em>all photos by <strong>Carrie Schechter</strong></em></p>

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		<title>Cupumanik</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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Setelah sempat dikira bubar setelah tidak ada kabarnya sejak <a href="http://deathrockstar.info/st-cupumanik/">album terakhirnya</a> beberapa tahun lalu. band modern rock ini ternyata sedang mempersiapkan album barunya. Dan ini adalah interview singkat bersama Chandra sang vokalis. jangan lupa juga dengarkan lagu mereka yang belum dirilis berjudul <a href="http://monster.deathrockstar.info/media/0712_Desember2007/cupumanik-aksara_alam.mp3">Aksara Alam</a></p>
<p><strong>Apa kabar Cupumanik sekarang?</strong><br />
Kami ga pernah benar-benar sangat baik atau dalam keadaan sangat buruk hehe..tapi sangat bersyukur berada di antara keduanya. Saat ini sedang mengumpulkan materi untuk album ke-dua, mulai setor lagu ke aquarius.</p>
<p><strong>Banyak lagu loe yang rada-rada kontemplatif gitu, biasanya untuk mendapatkan inspirasi yang agak dalam kayak gitu apa aja yang biasa loe lakukan?</strong><br />
Formula membaca buku dan diskusi sama temen-temen biasanya yang memancing lirik kontemplatif dalam tema lagu Cupumanik, tapi jujur..gue ga berusaha untuk berwacana atau berusaha ber-kontemplatif dalam lagu-lagu Cupumanik, kebetulan mengalirnya seperti itu aja.</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana konsep untuk album berikutnya nih?</strong><br />
Musik ga seluruhnya murung dan gelap seperti di album pertama, kita bereksperimen dalam cord mayor tapi tetep hard. Konsep lain terinspirasi lagu world wide suicide-nya Pearl jam, jadi kita mencoba bermain di area rock n’ roll. Wacana lirik di seputar sikap politik, nasionalisme, kejiwaan, religius, gumpalan kemarahan dan kekuatan pikiran.</p>
<p><strong>Apa aja nih yang lagi loe dengerin saat ini?</strong><br />
Belakangan gue lagi simak efek rumah kaca, demo-nya Kaimsasikun untuk album ke dua, padi album Tidak hanya diam,  silverchair album young modern, deftones album white pony dan terakhir lagi terpesona dan ber-nostalgia dengan Nirvana. </p>
<p><strong>5. Menurut loe sendiri, musik yang bagus itu seperti apa sih?</strong><br />
Good music is a good music, dari genre apapun itu. Dalam arti musik itu yang lebih dulu berbicara ketimbang image, attitude dan propaganda publisitas yang di lancarkan. Biarkan musik datang menyapa telinga dan perasaan kita tanpa terpengaruh review manapun dan rekomendasi siapapun. Gue respect sama semua musik yang di hasilkan dari akar musikal yang jelas. Musik yang bukan berasal dari trend yang sedang bergulir. Gue yakin saat musisi bikin karya pake hati, biasanya musik yang mereka buat bisa nyentuh hati juga bagi yang denger, gue percaya itu, itu musik bagus menurut gue.</p>
<p><strong>Dari pengalaman yang loe dapat, ada ngga band lokal yang menurut loe bagus, tapi kurang eksposure yang mau direkomendasi?</strong><br />
Kaimsasikun menurut gue, denger demo mereka untuk album kedua-nya gue udah ngerasain kemajuan estetis musikalitas mereka. Wacana lirik yang menarik, keseriusan dari komposisi musik mereka, highly recommended dari gue</p>
<p><strong>last word?</strong><br />
Kita masih di jajah secara ekonomi, ratusan pabrik-pabrik asing yang berdiri, produk asing yang membanjiri, kita adalah jutaan rakyat budak konsumen produk asing. Tapi gue ngerasa berdiri sendiri di atas musik Indonesia, kita udah bisa menjajah Negara tetangga dengan produk musik Indonesia, band-band potensial negeri ini udah bisa di undang main di Negara tetangga. CD dan kaset musik negeri sendiri menguasai pasar musik indonesia. Hidup imperialisme musik Indonesia. Gue bener-bener sudah sesunguhnya merasa merdeka di atas Tanah musik Indonesia.</p>
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<p><a href="http://monster.deathrockstar.info/media/0712_Desember2007/cupumanik-aksara_alam.mp3"">AKSARA ALAM</a></p>
<p>song by : che<br />
lyric by : che<br />
music by : che<br />
recording at : studio aquarius pondok indah dan PALU studio</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
AKSARA ALAM</p>
<p>AIR SELALU MEMBUAT MU DAHAGA<br />
KARENA TAK MEMBERI APA YANG TELAH KAU PUNYA<br />
CINTAI APA YANG ADA DI BUMI<br />
SURGA AKAN MEMBAWAMU KETEMPAT YANG TINGGI</p>
<p>POHON KEBAIKAN BERBUAH BAIK<br />
BEGITUPUN BIBIT KEJAHATAN YANG KAU BAWA<br />
SABDA ALAM TAK PERNAH INGKAR<br />
BAHASA MEREKA TAK LAHIRKAN REKAYASA</p>
<p>reff :<br />
ALAM RAYA, UNGKAPKAN ISYARAT<br />
RASA MEMBERI ESTETIKA RAGA</p>
<p>SABDA ALAM TAK PERNAH BERBUAT INGKAR<br />
BAHASA ALAM TAK LAHIRKAN REKAYASA</p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Apa kabar OK Karaoke? </strong><br />
Galih: As good as future (amin). hehehehehe&#8230;baru aja kelar produksi debut ep, moga-moga bisa rilis  Januari 2008.</p>
<p>Garna: Selalu baik, Eric</p>
<p>Aga: Baik</p>
<p>Baz: Mesti baik </p>
<p><strong>Kalo lu diminta menjelaskan musik kamu dalam satu kalimat, kalimat seperti apakah yang akan lu buat?  </strong><br />
Galih: A Technicolor Lights and Sounds..mix antara keduanya </p>
<p>Garna: Other pop to the max!  </p>
<p>Aga: Musik kami itu musik yang terdengar bersahabat di kuping tetapi tetap memiliki misteri di </p>
<p>setiap lagunya. </p>
<p>Baz: Its a sailing across to bermuda, with a bitter sweet coffèe </p>
<p><strong>Menurut lu, suasana apa yang paling oke untuk menikmati OK Karaoke?</strong></p>
<p>Galih: Ketika feeling lo lagi down banget, dan lo jalan sendirian dibawah sinaran citylight </p>
<p>Garna: Sambil dengerin rekaman hardcorepunk, diputer bareng. Hehehe. Suasana apa ajah kok, sederhana. </p>
<p>Aga: Ada beberapa suasana yang berbeda pada setiap lagunya, tapi mungkin sore hari menjelang petang setelah hujan turun dimana masih tercium bau tanah karena hujan dengan perasaan yang mengharapkan seseorang yang bisa mengisi hidup kita ada di samping kita. </p>
<p>Baz: Dalam kapal ruang angkasa yang sedang menuju intergalasi ke 9, dimana getaran suara tak lagi terdengar dengan baik, dan suhu dibawah 10 derajat celcius.</p>
<p><strong>Apa yang lagi lu dengerin sekarang ? </strong><br />
Galih: Melee, The Wombats, Richard Hawley, RAH Band, The Sundays, Efek Rumah Kaca, Kate Nash </p>
<p>Garna: Tar-tar Lamb, Doomrider, Mono, Lightning Bolt, Santamonica </p>
<p>Aga: The Smiths, Bob Dylan, EBTG, The Rolling Stones, Eisley </p>
<p>Baz: Polyester Embassy, John Mayer Trio, Iron Monkey, Seringai..Hahaha </p>
<p><strong>Lagu Royal Ambassador Mistress itu tentang apa sih?</strong></p>
<p>Galih: Dimana lo terkekang oleh banyak aturan ribet yang mesti lo taatin, dan itu membuat harus berpura-pura menjadi manusia yang super perfect..ya seperti Lady Di lah </p>
<p>Garna: Tentang kehidupan seorang perempuan dalam kerajaan yang diatur menurut protokol. Dia mendapatkan semuanya, tapi dia tidak mendapat pilihan.  Refleksi tersebut ternyata masih terjadi di era mondial ini.   </p>
<p>Baz: Gatau,itu porsinya si vokalis yang sedang berimajinasi dengan kehidupan cintanya sendiri, hahaha&#8230; Absurd as he is </p>
<p>Aga: Tentang seorang cewek, sebenernya vokalis kita yang lebih tau. </p>
<p><strong>Ada pesan-pesan untuk para pembaca? </strong></p>
<p>Baz: Hehe&#8230;Apa ya? Mulailah menanam tanaman, karena sekarang bumi kita sudah mulai panas banget tiap tahun permukaan laut naik hamper 50cm. Jadilah petani yang baik, seperti mereka yang hidup di dataran tinggi Aceh dan Kolombia..Haha..Ceerz Man! Wo yo </p>
<p>Garna: Sepakat! Mari…menanam segala jenis tumbuhan. Dan manfaatkan secara baik-baik. Sayuran baik untuk kesehatan dan pikiran. Semoga rilisan debut EP kami akan resmi beredar pada Januari 2007. Terimakasih Eric dan Ryan, dan para pembaca DRS atas atensinya.  </p>
<p>Galih: Ya! Mari menanam buah anggur merah dan tumbuhan hijau. Semoga DRS selalu menjadi alternatif  media musik dalam industri musik nusantara. </p>
<p>Aga: Ya dapetin lagu-lagunya ok karoke. Tapi lebih baiknya lagi kalo mau beli, supaya ntar kita bisa bernyanyi bersama dengan anda semua ketika perform. Thanx </p>
<p><strong>OK Karaoke</strong> terbentuk pada tahun 2005 di Semarang. Berawal Garna (AK47) dan Baskoro (Suckeatfruit) yang sepakat untuk menyalurkan hasrat bermain musik indiepop atas kegemaran mereka di musik hardcore/punk, yang dimana diantara mereka memang telah menyukai musik-musik indies sebelumnya. Lalu mereka berdua mengajak Galih yang sebagai seorang penyiar di sebuah stasiun radio dengan pertimbangan atas ketertarikan yang sama dan karakter vokal yang berkarakter. Untuk melengkapi pada posisi drum, di rekrutlah Kartun (Vmono). Namun hanya beberapa bulan berjalan, Kartun tidak bisa mengikuti OK Karaoke, mengingat kesibukannya di stasiun radio. Bertemulah mereka dengan Aga, yang sebelumnya adalah pemain drum pada band Numb yang sudah eksis sejak tahun 1996. Hingga hijrahnya Aga ke Jakarta untuk studi bersama bandnya Velvet Tongue. Setelah masa studi berakhir, Aga kembali ke Semarang, dan bertemulah mereka. Mereka berempat sepakat untuk membentuk band indiepop yang dirasa pada saat itu masih sedikit di Semarang, untuk itu mereka mencoba untuk memperkenalkan publik dengan meningkatkan intensitas performa mereka di berbagai gig.</p>
<p>New Order dan The Stone Roses adalah band yang mereka kover untuk mengantarkan beberapa performa awal mereka. Dilanjutkan dengan di rekrutnya Bembi (Terror Incognita) pada Keyboard. Namun beberapa saat kemudian Bembi mengundurkan diri untuk berkonsentrasi di studinya. Lalu digantikan dengan Bayu (Le Bench) pada tahun 2006. Namun dengan beberapa hal, Bayu tidak bisa mengikuti OK Karaoke kembali, namun Bayu telah memberi nuansa baru sejak meninggalkan OK Karaoke. Dengan format Indiepop ala Stars, The Stone Roses, James, dan Ride, mereka merangkai sebuah 6 komposisi lagu. Pada bulan Juli 2007 yang lalu mereka telah merekam beberapa lagu untuk demo yaitu “ The Royal Ambassador Mistress” dan “Milky Way”. Pada bulan Januari 2007, OK Karaoke akan merilis EP nya pada dengan tajuk &#8220;Sail Off The Storm&#8221;.<br />
Kini dengan line-up Galih-Vokal, Garna-Gitar, Baskoro-Gitar, Adiyat-Bass, dan Aga-drum, kini OK Karaoke menjadi lebih solid untuk menapaki jalur yang lebih masif.</p>
<p>Personil:<br />
Galih Astrotamma &#8211; Vokal<br />
Garna Raditya &#8211; Gitar<br />
Bhaskoro &#8211; Gitar<br />
Adiyat &#8211; Bass<br />
Aga Ghozal – Drum</p>
<p>Kontak:<br />
Show – Om Brew [085640900211]<br />
Koresponden – Garna [<a href="mailto:apiaira@yahoo.com" title="mailto:apiaira@yahoo.com">apiaira@yahoo.com</a>]<br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/karaokeok" title="http://www.myspace.com/karaokeok" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/karaokeok</a></p>
<p>Alamat Pos:<br />
Kinibalu Barat 19 (Studio 19)<br />
Semarang 50256<br />
Jawa Tengah<br />
Indonesia</p>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>- How is the electronica/dance music in China nowadays?</strong></p>
<p>Most of the clubs play generic house, tech-house, commercial hip hop &#8212; isn&#8217;t that the same in any country?  Electro is becoming more popular.  Most people don&#8217;t even know what these styles of music are &#8212; it&#8217;s just club music. </p>
<p>There are a few producers here that are more innovative and knowledgeable about making real music.  That&#8217;s one of the reasons we started Antidote &#8212; to promote these independent producers.  We carefully create parties in the right place and right time and promote to the right people, so we can have an audience that is interested in innovative and exciting new music.   You can&#8217;t go into any club and do this.  We&#8217;ve been successful at doing this, but still the audience remains a small percentage of the population. </p>
<p>Another point that a lot of people don&#8217;t realize &#8212; China is a big country, and there are regional differences.  I DJ all over the country, and each region or city has a different reaction to music.  In Shanghai clubs, most people don&#8217;t dance, no matter what you play.  In other cities they go crazy. </p>
<p><strong>- Are you more of a performers or a DJ?</strong></p>
<p>Both really.  We&#8217;re mostly bedroom musicians, so playing live electronic music usually means watching a guy use his laptop.  Most people don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s live electronic music, they think we&#8217;re just DJing.  But that&#8217;s because we&#8217;re also DJs and we mix live electronic music with DJing.  We like to keep a party going, not stop between sets.  I don&#8217;t know why people like to stare at a guy on a laptop anyway &#8212; they should be dancing or flirting or drinking or people-watching, preferably all of that at once. </p>
<p><strong>- Any other great electronica musicians based in China you would recomend our readers?</strong></p>
<p>You can find all these on myspace&#8230;. B6, MHP, Sulumi, iLoop, Mengqi, Dead J, Nara, Nana, FM3.  Check out Shanshui records for starts.  There&#8217;s also quite a few expats (foreigners living here) who are producing good music.  Check out Shanghai_Ultra and R3, for example.</p>
<p><strong>Here a brief introduction about them, as taken from their <a href="http://urgentculture.com/antidote">website</a></strong><em></p>
<p>The Antidote is a group of digital musicians and DJs based in Shanghai, China. We hold a once-a-month music party in Shanghai, and occasionally bless other cities with our music. We started in the summer of 2005 as a reaction to the prevailing norms in modern Shanghai&#8217;s nightlife and music scene. Thus the name &#8220;Antidote&#8221;. </p>
<p>Most live music and DJ club events in Shanghai are outrageously priced, especially by local standards. Most Chinese college students cannot afford a day or week&#8217;s salary to pay for a cover charge or one drink minimum. And there are few choices available that are not big-club, mainstream techno and house and hip hop, usually only with *foreign* DJs and often mostly foreigners attending. </p>
<p>So, Antidote parties are FREE to enter, and the drinks are cheap. And you&#8217;re not required to wear a suit or reserve a table. </p>
<p>Our current regular venue is C&#8217;s Bar. We love the atmosphere here. They were nice enough to let us come in on a weeknight and play our crazy weird music. God bless them. Antidote #1 had about 300 people pack the small bar. We played indie rock, punk, IDM, breakcore, left-field techno, trip hop, synthpop, and electro. </p>
<p>Because of the space and because it&#8217;s 2005, most of our music is played using laptop computers and peripherals &#8212; effects instruments, mixing consoles, and even home-made instruments. Some of our music is orginal live digital, some is DJ mixed live with various software. We are not just DJs, we are also recording artists. So we might be mixing in a song by our favorite artist, with something we&#8217;ve created at home in the bedroom or studio, or just live on the spot. </p>
<p>* Antidote&#8217;s B6 and AMNJK have released new tracks on the Landscape 2 compilation double CD from Shanshui records &#8212; including 24 other cutting-edge electronic music artists from China! </p>
<p>* More of our recent recordings available for listening on our myspace page. </p>
<p>Contact Us ::: <a href="mailto:antidote8@gmail.com" title="mailto:antidote8@gmail.com">antidote8@gmail.com</a></p>
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		<title>interview Zeke and the Popo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>They just release a conceptual <a href="http://deathrockstar.info/space-in-the-headline-zatpp/">album</a> with a breakthrough marketing strategy on a pizza box. With a humble personality and cinematic appearance, their album are well received by Indonesian independent music scene. As now <a href="www.zatpp.com">ZATPP</a> approaching a wider audiences with their video on televisions.<br />
Here is a brief interview with <strong>Zeke</strong> the frontman.</p>
<p><strong>How are you today?</strong><br />
Z: A-Ok sir Eric</p>
<p><strong>A lot of people appraised your music while still criticize your vocal. how do you react about this problems?</strong><br />
Z: yeah i get that a lot. especially when performing in gigs. it doesn’t shake my confidence though coz i specialized in writing lyrics. i guess I can always use the excuse &#8216;beauty lies in its imperfection&#8217; (in regards to the vocal).. :)</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m impressed with your cinematic concepts in the song. Tell me more about how do you interpret the concept in the music?</strong><br />
Z: The last three songs i wrote, hope killer, menu and subtext are all film based music. I fell in love with the concept of cinema watching. You put together 50 or more people in a dark room and they are willingly see,hear and feel whatever the film maker put up there.I was hoping we can do the same thing to zatpp&#8217;s listeners. In the beginnning of hope killer<br />
we want to create an effect of a man being chased on foot by a an angry mob represent by the pounding bass and the fast paced beat. the lyrics provide the explanation of the story.. &#8220;when he sees the police appear, he starts to behave so strangely and he attracts suspicion..&#8221;. that sort of thing I hope can affect zatpp&#8217;s listeners.</p>
<p><strong>What is your top 5 songs on the playlist this month?</strong><br />
Z: 1. There She Goes &#8211; Babyshambles<br />
       2. Jacqueline &#8211; the Coral<br />
       3. Yer Blues &#8211; the Beatles<br />
       4. The Sun Shines Down On Me &#8211; Daniel Johnston<br />
       5. Lush Life &#8211; John Coltrane</p>
<p><strong>The best music purchase this month?</strong><br />
the Coral -Roots and Echoes</p>
<p><strong>What is your version of the best record releases this year?</strong><br />
Has to be Shotter&#8217;s Nation -Babyshambles.. cant imagine how the other half of libertines going to top this one..<br />
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Last word?</strong><br />
Cheers sir Eric, we appericiate you constructive-criticism</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Please meet Levy.</p>
<p><strong>How are you? </strong><br />
happy as tweeter and the monkeyman</p>
<p><strong>You were often described as an anti-folk musicians, there&#8217;s still some question about this anti-folk term, in your own opinion, what is an anti-folk? </strong><br />
i never fit in that whole thing, just like i don&#8217;t feel like i fit in so much now. but i suppose the term implies some kind of coolness of something. there are a lot of singers or performers that take themselves too seriously, or are really skilled in the things that don&#8217;t matter, that appeals to people who don&#8217;t matter. i guess most people that try real hard end up playing bad songs really well, and this convinces a lot of people in a certain way. if i had to say what antifolk is, it would be what most things are, but without the sandpaper. or maybe its just a gang of people</p>
<p><strong>What is on your playlist now?</strong><br />
serge gainsbourg, adam green, turner cody, chelsea hotel #1 </p>
<p><strong>5 records that change your life forever?</strong><br />
forever is a long time, so i guess id have to say; when I was five my parents bought me a 33 of someone singing happy birthday jamie.<br />
                           richie valens: labamba<br />
                           prince: cream<br />
                           techotronic: pump up the jam<br />
                           bob dylan: blood on the tracks<br />
<strong>6. last word?</strong><br />
why</p>
<p><strong>LEVY</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2388/2056097817_6f13f12a69_o.jpg" class=alignleft alt="Cover_levy" width="241" height="238" border="0" /> <strong>GLORIOUS</strong> </p>
<p>Released on September 24th 2007!  </p>
<p>The musical career of James Levy, 26, of New York, has not followed a straightforward route.</p>
<p>“Those dreams are shot through the heart, and it can be a very lonely place”.</p>
<p>James Levy is a man cautious of bracketing himself as a solo artist. The description ‘singer songwriter’ he balks at, akin to a disease.</p>
<p>“Nobody wants to play alone, I’m not suited to it. You can’t get girls playing alone. Not even Bob f***ing Dylan wanted to play alone!”</p>
<p>“Is Beck a solo artist? Sure, but he doesn’t just pitch up with an acoustic and play, he’s got a band. Evolving is so important. Is Bright Eyes a band or solo artist? It constantly changes, and that’s what Levy is all about.” </p>
<p>James Levy grew up in Vermont, a small state in the New England region of North East America. It is famed for its scenery and dairy products. </p>
<p>“I came from a very small town. There are loads of cows, and it’s very rural.” </p>
<p>“Vermont probably hasn’t shaped me. Thankfully I discovered alternative music, mainly grunge around the same time as everyone else did, and it gave me something to do, or least aspire to doing. Vermont was just a backdrop.”  </p>
<p>The sound of Nirvana and their Seattle contemporaries prompted James to start writing. It opened his eyes to a bigger picture that his upbringing had contained. A natural progression was James’ introduction to Dylan. </p>
<p>“’Nashville Skyline’ was the only record that I listened to for a few years. Dylan gave me the confidence to get out of Vermont.” </p>
<p>Moving to the romance and mystery of New York’s East Village, James ostensibly became the face of the bars and boho hang-outs. Alongside peers Regina Spektor, Adam Green and Kimya Dawson, James moved in the claustrophobic anti-folk circles and played nightly from one bar to another, </p>
<p>“It was considered idyllic, but it was lonely. You know everyone says you feel at your most lonely when surrounded by loads of people? It’s so true…” </p>
<p>Sick of the terminal loneliness of the scene, James put together a band and started recording his debut album. </p>
<p>“Rotten Love” was a beautifully stark record of vivid melodies and vivid memories, although the underlying theme was a dark one, </p>
<p>“I tend to write about death and relationships, and the death of relationships. I cannot tell you why. </p>
<p>“Looking back though, “Rotten Love” didn’t represent the band on the scale that it was at live. It was never big or grand enough and it got caught up in something it shouldn’t have…” </p>
<p>Following the release of “Rotten Love” through One Little Indian in 2005 to an underground swell of interest, James disintegrated the band and decided to rebuild,  </p>
<p>“It’s back to evolution. There was too much pressure and expectation on what we were doing and the fun was being sucked out of it. What’s the point of being miserable? It wasn’t an ego trip, I just wanted to keep things fresh.” </p>
<p>Alongside his day job of filling out burial forms and sending them to cemeteries for a Jewish organisation, James filtered the floating ideas that bugged his head daily into songs, and completed the new album, “Glorious”.  </p>
<p>Laced with warm instrumentation, ‘Glorious’ is an assured statement by an artist with the ability to pull on the tainted emotional strings and nestle himself comfortably within your own personal bubble.  </p>
<p>Recorded with a slew of new acquaintances, it takes the template of “Rotten Love” and has made everything that much bigger. So big in fact, that there is talk of something bigger still, </p>
<p>“I want to sell it into Broadway. If you mess with the strings and basic chords, write it in 3-4 time and turn those majors into minors, you’ve got yourself a musical. It’s already written, and would sound immense.” </p>
<p>Embracing the straightforward can only lead you to the conventional. Wherever was the fun in that?  </p>
<p>For More information on Levy, please visit <strong>www.myspace.com/LEVY</strong> or contact <strong>Ruth Birch</strong> at O<strong>ne Little Indian</strong><br />
0044 208 772 7631<br />
<a href="mailto:ruthb@indian.co.uk" title="mailto:ruthb@indian.co.uk">ruthb@indian.co.uk</a></p>
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		<title>interview Nico Vega</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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The sounds of passion of three people that make a soulful and yet powerful songs always attract my ears. And so do the Nico Vega. A trio that gain publicity for their nice and catchy tunes and wonderful live shows. here is a brief interview with Nico Vega</p>
<p><strong>how is Nico Vega now?</strong><br />
We get better every day and the more time we spend together the closer we seem to get. We&#8217;re in the studio right now working on what we believe is an important album. It&#8217;s exciting as hell and we can&#8217;t wait for it to be heard.</p>
<p><strong>some people said that Aja is an edgy modern living Janis Joplin, what is your own opinion?</strong><br />
When you hear a white female sing with that kind of power it&#8217;s an obvious connection to make. You can also draw comparisons to early Tina Turner in terms of attitude and energy. However, no one in this band has ever tried to be anything or anyone they&#8217;re not. When you see us perform, you&#8217;ll hopefully focus on what&#8217;s happening and stop drawing comparisons to anyone else.</p>
<p><strong>any plan about this Janis Joplin&#8217;s thing?</strong><br />
Aja will continue to do the Aja thing</p>
<p><strong>some people keep comparing Nico Vega to YYYs, what is your own opinion about this?</strong><br />
We love the YYY&#8217;s. But I do think it&#8217;s funny that people make this comparison. Both bands are trios and are fronted by bold, aggressive female singers. You realize how important the visual component is in the way people draw these comparisons. If there were only women in the band, you&#8217;d be comparing us to the Bangles or something.</p>
<p><strong>what is your opinion about the free music sharing on the Internet?</strong><br />
It&#8217;s a harsh reality for artists and for the record industry. But this is America, an overwhelmingly consumer oriented culture… there are just so many damn things we want to buy. People generally aren&#8217;t going to pay as much for something they can get for free.</p>
<p><strong>what is your most precious bought records this year?</strong><br />
Loving the new Radiohead… by the way, paid $10.00 for it.</p>
<p><strong>your future plan for Nico Vega as your way of living?</strong><br />
To spread the Nico Vega lifestyle across the world.</p>
<p><strong>please share some tips for a new band that try to step their first step in the music scene?</strong><br />
Pigheaded persistence!</p>
<p><strong>last word?</strong><br />
If it doesn&#8217;t make you happy, don&#8217;t do it.</p>
<p><strong>A brief introduction (taken from <a href="http://www.myspace.com/nicovega" title="http://www.myspace.com/nicovega" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/nicovega</a>)</strong><br />
For us Nico Vega is a way of life. We are 3 people who play music together. We write as a band and help each other develop our ideas. The root of the music is the relationship between us. Nico Vega is about collaboration. We are a family and we honor each other by listening and allowing each other to grow. We push each other to be better and to carry each other when we feel weak. </p>
<p>Nico Vega represents a modern day saint. A warrior that has led us to a more fulfilling, lighter way of being. She represents people and unity. She fights for all of us and teaches us to fight for each other. She is an idea that has evolved into a message and she fuels us in our bellies. She is the person we are all capable of being, but she holds the bar high above our head so that we must reach to be better human beings. We all have honesty inside of us, we all know how to love, we are all made of the same flesh, and we are all stuck here together. Nico Vega reminds us that we can learn to fuse these ideas together and grow more solid as a unit of man. Alone we are lost, we fail, we grieve, we search, we struggle, we feel small. Together we are solid, found, loved, and powerful. We are our own greatest natural resource. Our ego falls away when we listen to each other. It is when we stop believing that we can learn from one another that we stop learning altogether. Only then are we alone. We are no different from each other; the same flesh, the same pain, the same love, the same heart. Our greatness is no threat. The more beautiful we are individually, the more powerful we are together. It is our Ego that betrays and lies and tells us that we are threatened when we are not. </p>
<p>You are a part of our family and we will always make music to communicate our love and gratitude for you. If you come to our show, throw your hands up so we can feel you&#8230; you will feel us.</p>
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		<title>Rising Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<strong>Rising Nation</strong> is totally nobody.</p>
<p>Awalnya, ini cuma ide saya (Eko &#8211; vokal/gitar) yang pengen ngelakuin sesuatu yang bisa dikenang semasa kuliah. Akhirnya saya ngelakuin dua hal: ikutan proyek zine dan main musik. Saya ketemu teman sekampus yang senang old school rock, Mika (gitar), lalu kita berdua<br />
memutuskan untuk membentuk band. Band ini baru lengkap di awal 2007, setelah Cupez (bass) dan Hani (drum) bergabung. Keempat personel Rising Nation rata-rata udah ngeband dari SMP,<br />
tapi cuma meng-cover lagu-lagu band lain. Hani malah sempat jadi ketua choir mahasiswa. Dari awal Rising Nation telah sepakat untuk menciptakan lagu sendiri. Lalu di akhir Oktober 07<br />
jadilah demo tiga lagu yang juga kita kirim ke DRS. Karena dana yang terbatas semua lagu di dalam demo tsb direkam di PC saya dengan tools, pengetahuan dan keterampilan recording yang seadanya. Biasanya yang namanya band kan ikutan gigs di mana-mana dulu baru bikin demo, kalo kita kebalik, demo dulu baru nyari kesempatan tampil di berbagai gigs. Ada dua hal yang<br />
bikin kita ngelakuin ini: pertama karena di Malang kebanyakan adalah acara-acara musik bersifat parade dimana yang mo manggung harus bayar. Mending kalo panitianya bikin publikasi yang OK so walopun kita bayar ada yang nonton, kalo gak? Kedua, Rising Nation tumbuh di luar komunitas musik manapun di Malang. Kita belum punya nama besar, kenalan, atau apapun yang bisa<br />
bikin kita diajak manggung kalo sebuah komunitas ngadain acara. Karena ini juga kita ngerasa kalo memiliki manager dan membuka jaringan adalah sebuah kebutuhan mendesak (fyi, sampai sekarang Rising Nation blom punya manager).</p>
<p>Nama Rising Nation muncul karena semua personilnya nggak mau sekedar jadi konsumen dunia pendidikan (baca: mahasiswa yang cuma bisa kuliah) dan jadi fans musik pasif. Kita pengen jadi produktif dengan nge-band dan punya karya sendiri. Tapi karena kita cuma bisa main musik rock dan saya juga gak jago bikin lirik puitis nan romantis, Rising Nation malah jadi band rock berlirik ancur. Lirik-lirik Rising Nation isinya cuma kotoran kepala saya yang banyak ngelamunin hal-hal aneh kaya adek saya yang 8 jam sehari ada di depan TV. Banyak temen yang bilang kalo Rising Nation nggak mainstream. Apa sih mainstream? Tapi karena banyak juga orang yang bilang kalo musik mainstream Indonesia sekarang isinya cuma membodohi orang, gapapa deh, jadi Rising Nation berarti juga bahwa kita gak ikutan ngebodohin masyarakat sebangsa dan senegara,<br />
tapi sebaliknya.</p>
<p>Oiya, kita cuma bisa main musik rock karena saya penggemar berat Freak Kitchen dan belakangan dengerin Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mika terinspirasi betul sama Blind Guardian, Cupez di jaman mudanya senang sama Helloween, trus ada Hani yang senang Incubus dan RHCP. Influence kita memang standar banget dibanding teman-teman di band-band lainnya, dan pas pertama kali kita ngedengerin albumnya Battles yang &#8220;Mirrored&#8221;, anak-anak pada menganga semua:)</p>
<p>Rencana Rising Nation dalam waktu dekat adalah memperbanyak pengalaman panggung dan mulai membangun fanbase. Itu baru rencana jangka pendeknya. Goal utamanya -untuk saat ini-, adalah tampil di hadapan crowd besar yang menikmati musik Rising Nation, karena sangat menyenangkan bila menyaksikan crowd yang menyuguhkan moshpit untuk penampilan sebuah band. Langkah untuk mencapainya termasuk mencari label yang mau ngasi kebebasan berkarya seluas-luasnya untuk ngebantu Rising Nation dalam urusan produksi, lalu mendistribusi karya kita seluas mungkin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/therisingnations" title="http://www.myspace.com/therisingnations" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/therisingnations</a></p>

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		<title>Bla Bla Blast!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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They are young and full of energy, that ready to blast! here is <strong>Bla Bla Blast!</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. How did you get that funny name?</strong></p>
<p>the concept is actually silly, we don&#8217;t want a name that has a meaning behind it.<br />
at first, ferron only wanted the band to be named bla bla bla.<br />
but then rico had an idea to add blast! into the name, well there it is. our band name lol</p>
<p><strong>2. How do you describe your music in one sentence?</strong><br />
you can dance to metal music. you can headbang to electronica dance music </p>
<p><strong>3. What is on your playlist now? </strong><br />
the three of us has different senses of music. our playlists are too much to answer this one</p>
<p><strong>4. Did you often browsing throught myspace and found some musical treasure from unknown band? tell me about your most precious founds.</strong><br />
of course we browse through myspace music! we found some awesome bands that actually has became our influences in making music.<br />
that would be sky eats airplane and enter shikari. awesome stuff</p>
<p><strong>5. what is your greatest stuff on your shopping cart last months?</strong><br />
well, our latest great purchase is hundreds of blank cds for producing our Paranoia EP (which we produced by our own!)</p>
<p><strong>6.last word?</strong><br />
God Blast! <a href="http://deathrockstar.info" title="http://deathrockstar.info" target="_blank">deathrockstar.info</a>, awesome!</p>
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<p><strong>A short info about them</strong><br />
<strong>Bla Bla Blast!</strong> is a result of an experiment to create a new genre to music with a different point a view. With an electronica basic sound supported with distorted guitars and completed with metal vocals. This band is consisted by three young musicians. Ferron Wesley as vocalist, Rico Julian as programmer, Ditsa Sadega as guitarist. </p>
<p>Ferron currently is finishing his studies in Netherlands. Before considering making a new band, he has been a well-known vocalist of Arck.<br />
Rico comes from Semarang, and he lives there. He has an 8-bit music solo carrier, known as Hellostereo.</p>
<p>Ditsa is from Jakarta, and he studies in Jakarta aswell. He plays guitar for Sherina, a young singer from Indonesia. </p>
<p>Bla Bla Blast! started by the acquaintance of Ferron &#038; Rico by the internet in January 2007. They never really met before but they found same interests into music and decided to start a side project. As Rico has a well capability in making music and Ferron has been a vocalist since years ago, so they agreed on each other then Bla Bla Blast! was formed. At one point in the process of their music making, they decided to start searching for a guitarist to maximize their sound for live performances. Ditsa and Ferron have known each other before, and Ditsa actually offered himself to join. Ditsa has made very good accomplishments in music, so Ferron &#038; Rico recruited him immediately in May 2007.  They worked on making music separately, as they live in distant places (Ferron in Netherlands, Rico in Semarang, and Ditsa in Jakarta) and brought their music for society listening by their online profile on Myspace. They finally met in the end on June and started their relationship from just co-workers to best friends. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2271/2039467658_e68db26cfe_o.jpg" class=alignleft alt="bla-bla-blast_kover" width="240" height="240" border="0" /> Contact Bla Bla Blast! :</p>
<p><strong>Cassey Sadikin </strong><br />
<a href="mailto:cassey_superbunn@hotmail.com" title="mailto:cassey_superbunn@hotmail.com">cassey_superbunn@hotmail.com</a><br />
+628561099939 </p>
<p><strong>Official website :</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/blablablast" title="http://www.myspace.com/blablablast" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/blablablast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.friendster.com/blablablast" title="http://www.friendster.com/blablablast" target="_blank">www.friendster.com/blablablast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.purevolume.com/blablablast" title="http://www.purevolume.com/blablablast" target="_blank">www.purevolume.com/blablablast</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sellaband.com/blablablast" title="http://www.sellaband.com/blablablast" target="_blank">www.sellaband.com/blablablast</a></p>
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		<title>The Brandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<a href="http://deathrockstar.info/album-terbaru-dari-the-brandals-segera-rilis/">Album ketiga</a> ini akhirnya telah dirilis dan beredar di berbagai toko kaset dengan label <strong>Aksara Records.</strong> Berikut ini wawancara singkat dan cepat dengan Eka Annash sang vokalis.</p>
<p><strong>1. Apa kabar The Brandals sekarang?</strong><br />
Baik. Lagi sibuk keliling promo media untuk full album ke-3 Brandalisme</p>
<p><strong>2. Sewaktu review media menyatakan musik Brandals menjadi lebih dewasa. Menurut The Brandals sendiri, apa itu arti pendewasaan dalam bermusik?</strong><br />
Not giving any shit on what other people thought about you or your music.</p>
<p><strong>3. Dengan musik kalian, apa sebenarnya yang kalian lawan dan memberontak</strong><br />
dari apa? dan sejauh ini dari pengamatan The Brandals bagaimana hasil perjuangan tersebut?<br />
Berontak? Ngamuk? Marah2?..We over it, mate. Leave it up to the youngerbands that you guys at DRS so fond of&#8230;hehehe</p>
<p><strong>4. Apa yang lagi ada di playlist kalian saat ini?</strong><br />
   Suicide-s/t<br />
   Pussy Galore &#8211; Dial M for Motherfucker<br />
   Fariz RM &#8211; Selangkah ke Seberang</p>
<p><strong>5. Ada rekomendasi lagu/band oke dari The Brandals untuk pembaca?</strong><br />
Frankie Teardrop -Suicide/ Mencharter Rocket &#8211; Duo Kribo/ Komboi &#8211; Iannis Xenakis<br />
Lucky Annash (The youngest of the Annash family legacy. Check him out live. Hypnotic, jawdropping, profoundly poetic stuff. Also click to his myspace site : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/luckyannashmusic" title="http://www.myspace.com/luckyannashmusic" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/luckyannashmusic</a>)</p>
<p><strong>6. last word?</strong><br />
Whatever&#8230;</p>
<p>berikut ini preview video klip <strong>100% Kontrol</strong>, sutradara oleh Andri Lemes<br />
[video]<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g123-ycLWKg" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g123-ycLWKg" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch?v=g123-ycLWKg</a>[/video]</p>

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		<title>Talking With Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/1994452379_4dea6c959e_o.jpg" alt="Photo 52" width="400" height="300" border="0" /> <strong>Talking With Hands</strong> is the primary creative vehicle of the Nashville, Tennessee born songwriter, Matthew Thomas Smith.  Equally inspired by the pop sensibility and clever wordplay of XTC and the ethereal styles of Air and My Bloody Valentine, Talking With Hands blend intelligent song craft and mesmerizing atmospherics into a sort of pop-art that aims to change the way people think and feel about music.  Talking With Hands began in early 2007 as an outlet for Smith to reflect on his experiences living and studying language in Tokyo and Seoul and quickly grew into more of a musical diary.  As Talking With Hands, Smith has performed at several house shows in the Nashville/Murfreesboro areas of Tennessee (U.S.) and has plans to bring his music to Korea this winter under the name Soo-Hwa (수화).  Talking With Hands’ first single and EP are to be released by Sweeting Records in the United States at the beginning of 2008 with an Asian release following soon after. </p>
<p><strong>Sweeting Records</strong></p>
<p><strong>Here a brief interview with Talking With Hand</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. What makes the far east country so fascinating for you? that they can inspiring your musical diary?   </strong></p>
<p>Actually I’ve been fascinated with Asia since I was a child, but in my adult life I think it was the cultural experiences I had with some exchange students at my university that really made me want to leave the States behind.  I didn’t feel comfortable in the states and neither did they.  I felt like I had more in common with these foreigners than I did with the rest of my country. </p>
<p>Tokyo and Seoul have made such an impact on my life because for me they were gateways to the rest of world.  I never felt like living in the U.S. provided me with a global perspective… Americans are short-changed in this way, but when I was living in Asia I was interacting with people from all over the world on a daily basis.  Apart from that, the deep relationships that I formed while living there have consistently inspired me to create very personal music.  So I guess these two factors give my music a very socio-political and emotional quality. </p>
<p>The way a lot of Japanese music makes me feel is definitely another factor.  I’m a big fan of the Cornelius group and Eastern Youth, who I saw live in Nashville and later at the Shibuya Quattro.  The art and melancholy in Cornelius’ music and the raw emotion of Eastern Youth are inspiring for me.  </p>
<p>… I hope that answered your question in some way.  haha </p>
<p><strong>2. Any good band/musicians you found in Japan and Korea? </strong></p>
<p>Wow… there are so many good bands from both of these countries.  The big names for me are Qururi, Cornelius, Supercar, and Shiina Ringo from Japan.  Qururi and Supercar make amazing pop music and the production on Cornelius’ and Shiina Ringo’s records are absolutely genius.  Rollercoster from Korea make some really interesting jazz influenced pop and most of the bands on the Pastel Music label are fantastic. </p>
<p><strong>3. What is on your playlist now? </strong></p>
<p>At this very minute I’m listening to Wreckless Eric, which I just recently heard about.  Actually I’m taking a class called International Recording Industry this semester so I’ve been listening to stuff from all over the world.  I’ve been really impressed with the hip-hop coming out of the U.K.  I’ve been listening to Roots Manuva a lot.  Kode9 &#038; the Spaceape are great.  I love Darkel’s album (Jean-Benoit Dunckel).  I listen to my own music a lot…  I never understood why people think that is narcissistic.  I made this music because I wanted to hear it! </p>
<p><strong>4. Any Indonesian band you found that is good? </strong></p>
<p>Actually I had no idea that there was a big demand for “indie” pop in Indonesia until recently!  I read an article where Johan Angergard was describing how much he enjoys playing in Indonesia and I was really surprised.  I’m glad this music is finding an audience in Indonesia.  Indonesian bands… I really like what I’ve heard by Alphawaves… very relaxing and R.N.R.M have some serious beats.  I definitely want to hear more. </p>
<p><strong>5. Last word? </strong></p>
<p>…before I walk the plank?  Make art because you love it.  Life is not about money or fame.  Maybe this is a cliché, but these days indie music is mainstream.  I hope that musicians will keep their integrity and continue to make music that is genuine and honest.   </p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/talkingwithhands" title="http://www.myspace.com/talkingwithhands" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/talkingwithhands</a></p>
<p>photograph by : Sun Heaming</p>

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		<title>interview Working For A Nuclear Free City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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They came from Manchester, their album sounds like a raw misture of Stone Roses, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth etc. bla-bla-bla&#8230; as you can read in their <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wfanfc  ">myspace</a> they have tons of influence. and you may wondering how on earth does a band use a long and stupid name (that is cool somehow). but with their brilliant sounds you wouldn&#8217;t care about anything elses but the sounds itself. Here is a short interview with <strong>Working For A Nuclear Free City</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>1. In my own opinion WFANFC play a deep and drowning sound with an impulsive anger, i&#8217;m a kind of wonderung how did you create the mood to recording these pieces?</strong></p>
<p>we just play what ever comes out. it&#8217;s not really pre-conceived.</p>
<p><strong>2. you put a lot of noise in your music, what kind of noise that you do like most? </strong></p>
<p>We like most noises really. It doesn&#8217;t even have to be tuneful really. Sometimes the sound of a tree satisfies us, other times we like the sound of tanks driving over crushed human skulls.</p>
<p><strong>3. i found somewhere in the net that someone already share your album for free. what is your own opinion about these free music sharing? do you have any plan about these music listeners behaviour?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a pain in the arse when you spend years of sacrifice and hard work on something just for the scum and leeches to come and steal it from you. Hopefully they will invent some way to stop it, maybe by putting a load of viruses out there to destroy peoples computers. Im glad Oink is dead. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.</p>
<p><strong>4. what is the best album you just recently bought? what do you think about it?</strong></p>
<p>tv on the radio. it makes me want to break things.</p>
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<strong>5. please mention 5 albums that change your life forever?</strong></p>
<p>Life on a Liferaft &#8211; The barrelhouse BOYS<br />
Tropical Gooses by the Flick Flack Wagon Children.<br />
Gaze at the dead Ape Jimmy (self &#8211; titled debut)<br />
My Gay Horse &#8211; Steven Stevens and his Stolen Stevens.<br />
U2 by Achtung Baby</p>
<p>(we made the last one up)</p>
<p><strong>6. in Myspace, did you ever find an out of nowhere but sounds good band? if so, what is their name?</strong></p>
<p>Nope. I think Myspace is a bit shit really and I think it is full of shit bands rating themselves by the number of plays they get. It is really disheartening. The human race is going to the dogs. I only hope the dog race goes to the humans. Bonanaza!</p>
<p><strong>7. any good, young band from Manchester that you can recomend ?</strong></p>
<p>We find it a bit hard to keep up really. Too many bands around.<br />
I think we would find it hard to name a good band in the whole of the country, never mind Manchester.<br />
Tropical weasels.</p>
<p><strong>8. last word?</strong></p>
<p>zyzzyvas.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1431913668/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/1431913668_a50aa7c7fd_o.gif" class=alignleft alt="ymck_chara" width="121" height="73" border="0" /></a>  The rise of 8-bit scene can&#8217;t be separated from YMCK, their warm and cozy chiptunes are everyone&#8217;s favorite. This year they&#8217;ve just done a remix for <strong><a href="www.sajamacutband.com">Sajama Cut</a></strong> an Indonesian folk-rock band for their upcoming remix album. And now we presenting you a short and simple interview with YMCK&#8217;s Yokemura</p>
<p><strong>1. How are you?</strong><br />
Fine, thank you.  And you?  ;)</p>
<p><strong>I’m fine too. </strong></p>
<p><strong>2. Any plans for future releases? And how is the progress?</strong><br />
We&#8217;re a bit busy working for the forthcoming 3rd album.<br />
The recording is almost finished, and now we&#8217;re planning about the promotion.</p>
<p><strong>3. Why 8-bit?</strong><br />
Because it has a warm and so cute sound.<br />
The modern synthesizers&#8217; sound is a bit too fat and too aggressive, I want it to be much cheaper.</p>
<p><strong>4. What is your most precious bought records this year?</strong><br />
Windmills of my soul / Kero-one :<br />
Rap music with a slight jazzy flavor.<br />
When we YMCK visit Korea, the crew in Pastel Music (from which we release Korean version CD) introduced this one for us. So relaxed atmosphere, good for relaxing at home.</p>
<p><strong>5. Most awaited records release this years?</strong><br />
YMCK&#8217;s 3rd album  ;)</p>
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6. Your all time favorite records?</strong><br />
smallworld001 &#8211; Bangpop! / V.A. :<br />
The compilation by <strong><a href="www.smallroom.co.thc">Smallroom</a></strong>, a record company in Thailand.<br />
Smallroom deals with both Thai&#8217;s domestic artists and overseas artists, and here in this album is compiled with overseas artists&#8217; songs. YMCK offered one song, too.<br />
Besides the fact that our own song is included there, other songs are all beautiful, too, and the song order is perfect, still a strongly recommendable album for everyone.</p>
<p><strong>7. Your recommendation of new acts in the music scene?</strong><br />
Recently, there increases the bands that use video art along with music in live performances.<br />
They&#8217;re more than so-called VJing, but much more closely combined with their music.<br />
Here&#8217;s a good example.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.consumers-studio.com/" title="http://www.consumers-studio.com/" target="_blank">www.consumers-studio.com/</a></p>
<p>(You can see several video clips on &#8220;discography&#8221; page)</p>
<p><strong>8. What did you see about YMCK and 8-bit in the future?</strong><br />
Our goal is to make 8bit music more popular than now.  So far, many people seem to be attracted to 8bit sound only by curiosity and nostalgia. To make 8bit sound more popular, we have to appeal the fascination of the sound itself, which is pure, warm and cute.</p>
<p><strong>9. Last bit?</strong><br />
We hope we can visit Indonesia to have performance someday!</p>
<p>//</p>
<p>There is no more to it.<br />
Thank you.<br />
With best,</p>
<p><strong>info@ymck.net</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ymck.net/</strong>&#8221; title=&#8221;http://www.ymck.net/</strong>&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>www.ymck.net/</strong></a></p>
<p>Thanks a bunch to Midori who help us to make this interview happen.</p>
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<p>Interview with <strong>Matt Berninger</strong> from <strong>The National</strong>. By our lovely editor <strong>Marcel Thee</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>Even though The National&#8217;s albums hasn&#8217;t been officially released in Indonesia, ever since the release of &#8216;Boxer&#8217; and the &#8216;Mistake for Strangers&#8217; single, you&#8217;ve garnered a lot fans here. Will it affect your writing, knowing that your music are being sung and praised by people internationally? Are you planning on releasing your albums or touring the Asian region, other than Japan?</strong></p>
<p>It is a surreal feeling that our music is being listened to all over the world. When we started we thought only our friends and family would hear it. I&#8217;m very happy that there are so many people who connect to it. I doubt that it will change how we work and write. We only know how to do it this way.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1430597861/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1349/1430597861_cf6c572fcb_m.jpg" class="alignright" alt="thenational_boxer" border="0" height="240" width="240" /></a> <strong>Why the title &#8216;Boxer&#8217;?</strong></p>
<p>My wife Carin thought of the title at the last minute. A lot of the characters in Boxer are in the middle of some kind of struggle so it makes a little bit of sense but most importantly it&#8217;s just a nice simple word.</p>
<p><strong>The druming on &#8216;Boxer&#8217; is incredible and is very prominent in terms of production and arrangement. It seems almost like the main instrument on songs like &#8216;Mistaken for Strangers&#8217; and &#8216;Brainy&#8217;. Was this a conscious thing? Do you arrange the drumming together as a band, or is it all Bryan?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s all Bryan. When he does something good we turn him up in the mix.</p>
<p><strong>The guitar and bass, on the other hand, plays very minimalistic lines that seems more about nuance and ambiance than typical chords playing along. How do you approach the arrangements of these particular instruments? Was there a certain type of sound and players that influenced the guitar and bass playing on &#8216;Boxer&#8217;?</strong></p>
<p>I think on &#8216;Boxer&#8217; we were trying to experiment with more hypnotic meditative guitar and bass lines. Less about licks and more about mood.</p>
<p><strong>What is your personal favorite National lyric?</strong></p>
<p>Maybe <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll bring a nice icy drink to you.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong><br />
&#8216;Slow Show&#8217; has one of your most praised and quoted line, which was lifted from &#8216;29 Years&#8217; of your self titled LP. How did it end up on &#8216;Slow Show&#8217;? What is the song about?</strong></p>
<p>I thought it would be interesting to reuse a lyric from an earlier song to see how it could evolve in a new context. It also was just what &#8216;Slow Show&#8217; needed. It&#8217;s about wanting to just go home to the one you love and stay there.</p>
<p><strong>Your earlier material had more of a country/folk influence on the songwiritng. Do you see The National injecting back more of those influences on your future materials?</strong></p>
<p>We never really know what direction we&#8217;ll be going ahead of time. We usually just start trying things and follow them. There is never a predetermined path.</p>
<p><strong>You don&#8217;t tend to play much materials from your first album live anymore. Any chance of songs such as &#8216;Theory of the Crows&#8217;, &#8216;Bitters &amp; Absolut&#8217;, or &#8216;John&#8217;s Star&#8217; showing up on future setlists? Does the band have a favorite song to perform live?</strong></p>
<p>I doubt we&#8217;ll go back to those songs. We try to focus on moving forward. My favorite live songs are &#8216;Squalor Victoria&#8217; and &#8216;Pacing Like a Pro&#8217; but everyone has different favorites.</p>
<p><strong>Your hardcore fans seem to be torn between those who love &#8216;Boxer&#8217; and those that love &#8216;Alligator&#8217;. If push comes to shove, what is your personal preference? And why?</strong></p>
<p>I try not to pit them against each other but I&#8217;m very very happy with what we did on &#8216;Boxer&#8217;, especially in its warmth and general overall experience. I think its the best thing we&#8217;ve done so far.</p>
<p><strong>The National is certainly one of the most workman-like bands today. What one advice would you give to off and starting bands?</strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t try to be popular. Write stuff that you love and work very hard on it. Eventually people will find you.</p>
<p><strong>Thank you very much for your time, answers, and of course the music! Any realistic chance of touring Indonesia soon?</strong><br />
Maybe. If we were invited and we could afford to come we&#8217;d be there.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Here’s an interview with Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simonsson from </em>Koop<em>, just a moment before their show in </em>Jakarta Crossover Jazz Festival<em> by Ryan Koesuma.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Hi there, how many additional players did you bring for the show in Jakarta?</strong></p>
<p>We brought, um, 5 people, a vocalist, a bassist, a drummer, a trombonist/percussionist, and a vibraphone/marimba player.</p>
<p><strong>Did Yukimi Nagano come along?</strong></p>
<p>No, there is basically just the two of us in the band, and we use a lot of vocalists to fill in our songs, and they have their own bands.</p>
<p><strong>What’s the impact on <em>“Come to Me”</em> to be put on an episode on Grey’s Anatomy?</strong></p>
<p>Well, it’s really great, that episode airs four weeks after the record was out in the US. That’s how the music label works nowadays.</p>
<p><strong>The song <em>“Forces of Nature”</em> reminds me of Benny Goodman’s <em>“Sing Sing Sing”</em> from the drum beats and clarinets; did you sample the song for it?</strong></p>
<p>No, I mean a lot of musicians have used the same drum beats from that song. It’s inspired from Gene Krupa though.</p>
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<p><strong>The songs in your previous albums tend to be more eclectic than Koop Islands, do you have any special theme while you’re making it?</strong></p>
<p>I can see your point; we tend to focus on songwriting nowadays. Koop Islands were inspired by Jazz music in the 30s.</p>
<p><strong>What would be the perfect setting to hear your music?</strong></p>
<p>The perfect setting? It’s just about like when you want to relax, you know, escape from everything.</p>
<p><strong>What does the name KOOP came from?</strong></p>
<p>Actually it’s a shortened form of a Swedish word that means “cooperation”.</p>
<p><strong>Ok, thank you for your time</strong></p>
<p>Thanks man, nice questions.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>What is &#8220;Delta Blues&#8221; according to Adrian Adioetomo? Can you tell us a bit more about it, how do you inte<span lang="IN">r</span>pretate it in your way?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Essentially, to me it&#8217;s like a pure expression. Totally deep and cathartic<span lang="IN">;</span><span lang="IN"> </span>resonates to some of the deepest feeling of just being alive. Otherwise, the original versions of the early exponents’ sound<span lang="IN">s</span> like a weirdly-funky avant-garde recording.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Why did you eventually choose Blues as your platform in music? What message do you want to put out to the listeners here? </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It&#8217;s just something that not a lot of people would want to embrace, for some unknown reason. There&#8217;s no &#8220;educational purpose&#8221; message-wise, but I do want to tease the cliché on how people perceive the blues. Being it&#8217;s a powerful and intense music for me, I find it somewhat superficial when people consider it as macho music for jeans <span lang="IN">TV</span>-commercials or something. Blues matters when you&#8217;re in a feeling that not even you could escape.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1378975023/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1415/1378975023_06fcce7e9c_m.jpg" class="alignright" alt="DSC05704Mod" border="0" height="240" width="175" /></a> <strong><span lang="IN">Five r</span>ecords that changed your life?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Whoa.. it&#8217;s a tough one.. Each new record that changed my life made the previous one seemingly unimportant. I&#8217;ve had <em>&#8220;The Best Of Kiss&#8221;</em> change my life, so did Slayer&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Reign in Blood&#8221;</em>, Chris Whitley&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Living With The Law&#8221;</em> obviously did, Muddy Waters&#8217; <em>&#8220;Library of Congress Early Plantation Recording&#8221;</em>, &amp; John Coltrane&#8217;s <em>&#8220;A Love Supreme&#8221;</em> made me change my perception on Jazz. There are lots of other records. I suppose my life change as much as I pay attention to certain music&#8230;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Music records that you listen recently?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>&#8220;Motorcycle Diary&#8221;</em> soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla, Seringai&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Serigala Militia&#8221;</em>, Keziah Jones&#8217; <em>&#8220;Black Orpheus&#8221;</em>, Chris Whitley&#8217;s <em>&#8220;War Crime Blues&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>What song would you like to be in your funeral?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>&#8220;Rayuan Pulau Kelapa</em><em><span lang="IN">”</span></em><span lang="IN">, </span>I don&#8217;t know who wrote it, but I have a feeling that I won&#8217;t be dead in my homeland.<span lang="IN"><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Seeing the way that you play live, did the devil had any part in it as in Robert Johnson&#8217;s story?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No. God, no. I just like to play around with the intensity between the extreme polarity of Good and Evil<span lang="IN">;</span> God and the devil. You know<span lang="IN">,</span> the thing that almost always affects our decisions in life. Not that I&#8217;m a wise decision<span lang="IN">-</span>maker, that is.. <span lang="IN"><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1378983241/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1240/1378983241_891d438849_m.jpg" class="alignright" alt="DSC03761" border="0" height="240" width="180" /></a> <strong>You&#8217;d probably be bored answering this, but I believe a lot of people would take interest in your live setup, would you mind sharing? </strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not at all&#8230; I got two pickups on my Chinese-made resonator guitar, and both have individual outputs which go to different channels in a Marshall acoustic-amp that I borrow from a friend. My right foot stomps on a piece of board that I&#8217;ve equipped with a piezo pickup so it connects either to a DI box or the bass-amp before it goes to the mixing board.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Did you ever get leg cramps stomping on the stomp box all the time while playing?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Initially yes, but I sorta got used to it when I had to play two nights a week in cafés.<span lang="IN"><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Who<span lang="IN">se</span> picture is it on your guitar neck?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That&#8217;s my beloved wife. It&#8217;s her idea, but somehow it&#8217;s like soul-food for me to always have it on there.<span lang="IN"><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I&#8217;ve once bought a previous version of <em>&#8220;Delta Indonesia&#8221;</em> but lost it somewhere in my room, could you tell me what are the difference between th<span lang="IN">at and the</span> latest version?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some songs have been reworked, and there are a few songs added while some other songs were taken out. Glad you bought it, though.. It&#8217;s like a demo version and you can listen to the way my music develops, if that&#8217;s of any importance to you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Other local blues artist that you&#8217;d recommend?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I got one name that I wish people would hear more about: Alfa deFretes. Sometimes he plays the most annoyingly unimportant music you&#8217;d want to listen to, but when he plays a blues lick, especially electric slide, you can forget about committing to anything else. <span lang="IN"><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Any last words?</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank<span> </span>you. And excuse my absent-mindedness.</p>

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<p><strong>Oliver: </strong>It is all a crazy story that I do not wish to tell anymore. Maybe someone else somewhere has it down on video?</p>
<p><strong>Some people made a comparison about APTBS to The Jesus and Mary Chain, how about your own opinions?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jono:</strong> They&#8217;re an influence obviously. We have noisy guitars and a similar vocal sound but I think that&#8217;s where the similarities end. I think this comparison comes from a somewhat idealized view. JAMC songs are more melodic. Our sound is much more aggressive, if JAMC had just released one record, maybe I could understand it a bit more.</p>
<p><strong>Latest records you just buy? And what do you think about it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Oliver:</strong> The most recent records are all old records, some from garage sales and other super cheap sources. I got a huge stack of 45&#8217;s the archies, music explosion, shangri-la&#8217;s ++ recently for 50 cents a piece the other day. All recent music I hear is from the internet or from friends bands.</p>
<p><strong>Any good records you listen lately?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jay:</strong> Grinderman has really grown on me alot and my best friend a local new york band is amazing.</p>
<p><strong>Do you think MBV would release  new records again?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jay:</strong> It would certainly be amazing if they did.<br />
<strong> Jono:</strong> I heard they were, but I &#8216;ll believe it when I see it.<br />
<strong> Oliver:</strong> No.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1370597353/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1022/1370597353_95aada0233_m.jpg" class="alignright" alt="a place to bury strangers 02" border="0" height="240" width="240" /></a> <strong>Some sources said that you only release the <em>A Place to Bury Strangers</em> to 500 copy is that true?</strong></p>
<p><strong> Jono:</strong> There are more being pressed as we speak.</p>
<p><strong>If it&#8217;s true with appraisal from Pitchfork do you plan to release something wider than it was?</strong><br />
<strong>Jay:</strong> Yes, just wait and see.</p>
<p><strong> Did you read any good book  lately? Why did you think is good?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jono:</strong> I&#8217;m reading <em>Mother Tongue</em> by Bill Bryson.  It&#8217;s an amazing book about the English Language.  I&#8217;m also kind or re-reading a book called <em>An Island Called Smith</em> by Welsh author Jon Gower. It&#8217;s about a Smith Island a small Island in the Chesapeake Bay &#8211; the only one that is inhabited &#8211; that is gradually being lost to erosion. Most of its people live below the poverty line, the book tells the stories of  the island&#8217;s inhabitants.</p>
<p><strong>Please mention some records that put a lot of influences in your music</strong></p>
<p><strong>Oliver:</strong> Xinlu Supreme &#8211; <em>Murder License</em>, The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa &#8211; <em>Susurrate</em>, The Cocteau Twins &#8211; <em>Garlands</em>, My Bloody Valentine &#8211; <em>Loveless</em>, <em>Isn&#8217;t Anything</em>, <em>Ecstacy and Wine</em></p>
<p><strong>Jay:</strong> Brian Jonestown Massacre &#8211; everything, can Anton write a bad song? Ride -<em> Nowhere</em> and <em>Smile</em>, Loz is the man!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1371496228/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1200/1371496228_d62892f840_m.jpg" class="alignright" alt="a place to bury strangers 01" border="0" height="180" width="240" /></a> <strong>Please mention 5 records that change your life forever and the story behind it</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jay:</strong> Rollerskate Skinny &#8211; <em>Shoulder Voices</em>, going to a record store and seeing this record listed as kevin shields brothers band I immediatly bought it, and when i put it on my record player it was unbelievable to hear such beauty in such darkness it really blew me away i think i listened to it everyday for the next two years.</p>
<p>Spiritualized &#8211; <em>Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space,</em> talk about taking drugs to make music to take drugs to this is an even more perfect example it doesn&#8217;t get better than this.</p>
<p><strong>Jono:</strong> Cocteau Twins &#8211; <em>Garlands</em>, I just remember hearing it for the first time and wondering what it was. I&#8217;d never heard anything like it. The guitar sounds the basslines and of course especially the vocals were really mind blowing.</p>
<p>The Sex Pistols &#8211; <em>Never Mind The Bollocks</em>,  the shock, the excitement and the fucking awesome songs. I still find it exciting now. I think it sounds perfect.</p>
<p><strong>Oliver:</strong> The Jesus and Mary Chain &#8211; <em>Psychocandy, </em>I found it at a Church Garage Sale, they must have thought it was something religious and when they found out it was not put it with all the gospel records they had for sale. The turntable I had was one of those complete systems that made everything sound super trebly. This record would be listened to me with the headphones on full blast to cure a headache. Nobody I knew at the time was in to anything like this except my buddy Paul Baker who introduced me to the Jesus and Mary Chain. We were unpopular with what seemed to be the likes of the world but the music that we heard made it o.k.</p>
<p><strong>Any last words?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jono:</strong> The treasure&#8217;s buried under the&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>Interview with Eric Copeland from Black Dice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p>An interview with Eric Copeland from Black Dice, a noise/rock experimental band based in New York. By our lovely Marcel Thee.</p>
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<p><strong>1. Why did you decide to compile some of your 12&#8242; materials for the new album along with newer songs?</strong></p>
<p>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’.</p>
<p><strong>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&#8217;s solo album influence it in any way?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>3. Most Indonesian &#8220;noise/experimental&#8221; 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?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>4. The earlier Black Dice materials was much more harsh and trash oriented, but had a more &#8220;traditional&#8221; song structure form. Do you see Black Dice infusing some of the more traditional aspects of songwriting again into future materials?</strong></p>
<p>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?</p>
<p><strong>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 &#8220;move&#8221; the song from one part to the other? Do you have  it written down?</strong></p>
<p>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..</p>
<p><strong>6. Was there any specific moment/inspiration when you decided this was the kind of music you wanted to make?</strong></p>
<p>No, not really. We’ve been stumbling into these places pretty accidentally.</p>
<p><strong>7. Which of your albums would you recommend to a Black Dice novice as an introduction to your materials?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>8. Would it be okay if you share with us some your live equipment set up?</strong></p>
<p>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..</p>
<p><strong>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)?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>sounds : <a href="http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/players/blackdice/" title="http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/players/blackdice/" target="_blank">www.emichrysalis.co.uk/players/blackdice/</a></p>

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		<title>Alphawaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p>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…</p>
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<p>A Good Music Is ?</p>
<ul>
<li>a good music can be connected to emotions</li>
<li> there is a climax and anticlimax<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1135936719/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/1135936719_5d03a74e4e_m.jpg" alt="15" class="alignright" border="0" height="240" width="160" /></a></li>
<li> can be imagined as a picture</li>
<li> can be imagined as a color</li>
<li> mean something to the writes</li>
<li> the song that he/she sing mean anything to the people who’ll sing them too</li>
<li> our music</li>
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<p>Why Alphawaves?</p>
<p>Dina:</p>
<ul>
<li>my alter ego</li>
<li>practicing piano</li>
<li>mey greymood diary<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1135932769/" class="tt-flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1350/1135932769_9817673587_m.jpg" alt="16" class="alignright" border="0" height="240" width="160" /></a></li>
<li> I believe in Elang</li>
<li> Sometimes digital girl should be often with analog boy</li>
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<p>Elang:</p>
<ul>
<li> Love her alter ego</li>
<li> Practicing writing songs</li>
<li> I believe in Dina</li>
<li> She loves toy and I’m a toy, but not every toy is serious.</li>
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<p>Interview by Eric Wiryanata<br />
Photos by Ryan Koesuma</p>

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		<title>Interview with Karolina Komstedt of Club 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p>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”.</p>
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<p><strong>Hello Karolina, I’ve got a few short question to ask you… how are you?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Would you mention 5 (or more) records that had been influencing you until now?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<ul>
<li>The Field Mice: Coastal</li>
<li> Blueboy: If wishes were horses</li>
<li> The Smiths: The Smiths</li>
<li> The Radio Dept: Lesser matters</li>
<li> Felt: Poem of the river</li>
<li> Leonard Cohen: Songs</li>
<li> Television Personalities: Far away and lost in joy</li>
<li> The Sea Urchins: Stardust</li>
<li> Ingenting: Mycket vasen for ingenting</li>
<li> Mazzy Star: Among my swan</li>
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<p><strong>What is on your heavy rotation playlist lately?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Club 8:<br />
‘The boy who couldn’t stop dreaming’<br />
(the 12 song album which will be out in September)<br />
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.</li>
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<ul>
<li>-Morrissey:<br />
‘Your arsenal’<br />
I just say one thing: the song ‘Seasick, yet still docked’ is so beautiful it hurts. My heart is too small for it.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>-Labrador 100<br />
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.</li>
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<p><strong>Is there any band in mind you would recommend our readers to listen?</strong></p>
<p>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&#8230; and afterwards you will feel soothened, comforted, awakened, cleaned and enlightened, more alive than ever and never lonely again :)</p>
<p><strong>What do you miss about Indonesia after the show a few months ago?</strong></p>
<p>I miss the whole thing&#8230; 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/1049502013/" class="tt-flickr"><img class="alignright" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1288/1049502013_3e42683049_m.jpg" alt="cover_lab108" border="0" height="240" width="240" /></a> <strong>Any plans for the future release?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Thanks for the time.</strong></p>
<p>Sounds: <a href="http://www.labrador.se/sounds.php3" title="http://www.labrador.se/sounds.php3" target="_blank">www.labrador.se/sounds.php3</a><br />
Info: <a href="http://www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3" title="http://www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3" target="_blank">www.labrador.se/artists/club8.php3</a><br />
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>About Olive Tree</strong><br />
It was September 2003 when <strong>Kiki</strong> (Songwriter/Pianist) asked <strong>Bez</strong> (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 <strong>Iman</strong> (Bass) and <strong>Teezar</strong> (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&#8217;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&#8217;s independent music scene.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;s join recording labels: Parc &amp; Kenanga records in their compilation album: Riot The Thursday Riot Compilation in which features 17 old &amp; upcoming Indie artists from independent music scene allover Indonesia.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Short Deathrockstar Q&amp;A with Olive Tree</strong></p>
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<li>Kapan Olive Tree terbentuk?<br />
Oct 2003</li>
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<li>Siapa aja personelnnya<br />
Teezar (guitar), Iman (bass), Kiki-chan (Keyboard and vocal), Bez (Drum)</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Judul album?<br />
Self-titled (Olive Tree)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Lagu Jagoan?.<br />
Winter holiday, Psycho girl, Mimomew</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Track Listings?</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li> rock love song</li>
<li> another story</li>
<li> winter holiday</li>
<li> smile from you</li>
<li> miss you</li>
<li> a boy with a red and a white shirt</li>
<li> my conversation</li>
<li> psychogirl</li>
<li> mimomew</li>
<li> magic of an olive tree</li>
<li> march of the lonely night</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
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<li>Visi-misi dari album (kalo ada)?<br />
Visi misi album: bayar &#8220;hutang&#8221; buat yang suka olive tree, yang selama 3 taun ga pernah berenti nanyain album kita, misinya yah menjadi milyuner dari hasil bermusik.</li>
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<li>Albumnya dijual dimana aja?<br />
<strong> Bandung</strong>: Monik house, Screamous Shop, Airplane, Anonim, DU68 Musik, Riotic, Disconnect, Soho Cihampelas Walk, Arena, 347eat, Ouval research<br />
<strong>Jakarta</strong>: Aksara bookstore (Kemang,Cilandak Townsquare, and Plaza Indonesia)</li>
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<li>Trus ada rencana apa aja dimasa depan?<br />
Bikin album kedua, buat yang jomblo mau nyari cewe, hmm trus&#8230; meningkatkan standarisasi kepuasan pribadi dalam bermusik.</li>
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<p>Olive Tree <a href="http://www.myspace.com/olivetree">Myspace</a></p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p><a class="tt-flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/236948642"><img width="300" height="300" alt="bangkutaman" class="alignright" src="http://static.flickr.com/95/236948642_369230a4b4_o.jpg" /></a> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Which one of your songs would be a good representation of the band?    </strong><br />
She Burns The Disco ? Titik Balik<br />
<strong><br />
What have you been listening to recently? Are there any other bands that have influenced your songwriting for Bangku Taman?  </strong><br />
Francois Hardy ?En Vogue?. And our Influences for the band are: Bob Dylan, The Byrds, The Monkees, and Procol Harum.</p>
<p><strong>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</strong><br />
Nope, I don?t like major label</p>
<p><strong>List the songs that you would like to put on, if supposively there would be a Bangku Taman?s Greatest Hits album.</strong></p>
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<li>Catch Me When I Fall</li>
<li>Satelit</li>
<li>Miracles Should Not Come So Soon</li>
<li>How Strange</li>
<li>Fantasi</li>
<li>Kera</li>
<li>Robby (The Graveyard is What You?ll See)</li>
<li>Solomon Songs (B-side version)</li>
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What is an honest music?</strong><br />
An honest music is.. A music that came with no pressure, let is flows freely, start smokin? pots and take the 1st chord.<br />
<strong><br />
Do you discover any good new band lately?</strong><br />
C?mon Lennon</p>
<p><strong>Please recommend us some of the best songs you had written ever. And please tell us the story behind it.</strong><br />
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.</p>
<p><strong>Lastly?</strong><br />
There?s no last, the music still continues ?</p>
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		<title>Interview with The Adams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What?s the fascination with the word ADAMS?</strong><br />
(They drew the male/mars symbol)</p>
<p><strong>What records have you been listening to lately?</strong><br />
Thin Lizzy</p>
<p><strong>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?</strong><br />
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.</p>
<p><strong>Musically, which bands influences your music?</strong><br />
The Beach Boys</p>
<p><strong>Tell us the five ingredients of writing a The Adams? material?</strong><br />
Harmony<br />
Distortion<br />
Family<br />
Love<br />
Friendship</p>
<p><strong>What legendary band would you say died and were reincarnated as The Adams?</strong><br />
Thin Lizzy, Dedy Stanzah, Enuff Z?Nuff<br />
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What would be the perfect setting for listening to The Adams? records?</strong><br />
Bathroom and Inul Vista Karaoke</p>
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		<title>Interview with Santamonica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Meet Santamonica, a nice indiepop band from Indonesia.</p>
<p><strong> How are you today?</strong></p>
<p>Fantastic, thanks for asking</p>
<p><strong> The band is actually made up of people who&#8217;ve previously been in other bands. How do you think the members&#8217; previous experience influence the music of Santamonica?</strong></p>
<p>Do you mean Iyub? Because I (dita) have never been in a band before. Iyub&#8217;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&#8217;t have any major influence to Santamonica music. I could say that those two bands are like two peas in different pods. :)</p>
<p><strong> What are you approaching differently in Santamonica than your other projects?</strong></p>
<p>I think Santamonica music is very intimate, it&#8217;s very personal and has feminine touch compared to Sugarstar, as there are only two people involved in the song writing process.</p>
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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&#8217;t put on the album?</strong></p>
<p>We never thought of it as one of the best releases, but thank you for saying so. Of course we&#8217;re quite satisfied with it, although it only has three songs in it, and yes sometimes we&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t think we&#8217;d want to add more songs to the e.p.</p>
<p><strong> How does the writing process in the band go?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;d record it in our studio, when the music is done, I&#8217;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.</p>
<p><strong> Musically, which bands would you say influence you?</strong></p>
<p>Antonio Jobim, Stereolab, classic Disney soundtracks, well I lost counts on our influences. There&#8217;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.</p>
<p><strong> Where did the name Santamonica came from?</strong></p>
<p>Iyub told me he&#8217;s been a fan of some Monika records&#8217; bands, like Contriva. So I guess that&#8217;s where he got the name from.</p>
<p><strong> Which do you enjoy more, playing live or recording?</strong></p>
<p>Both have different sensation, but for me I&#8217;d say recording because there&#8217;s where it all started. Playing live is nice too though, as we can interact with the audience and coping with different stage experiences.</p>
<p><strong> What do you think is the benefit from having a female vocalist, who is indeed your wife?</strong></p>
<p>Hahha, this is a tough question. I think because we&#8217;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&#8217;t get cross to him because I know that it&#8217;s for my own benefit, that&#8217;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&#8217;s boyfriend getting jealous to you and forbid her to stay late for recording in the studio, you know all those hassles.</p>
<p><strong> Any last words?</strong></p>
<p>Our full length album will be released this year, and the title is Survivors of the Disco, so please wait! :)</p>

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<p><strong>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?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Album perdana kalian FALL IS THE SEASON baru saja dirilis oleh Fireal records, ada apa dengan musim gugur dan album itu? </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana dengan artwork front cover album dengan foto cewe itu, apakah ada makna tertentu juga? </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>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? </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Siapa personil yang paling dominan dalam urusan musik? Pernah berantem ngga kalo kalian sedang jamming atau bikin lagu? </strong></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p><strong>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?</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>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? </strong></p>
<p>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!!!</p>
<p><strong>Panggung bagi sebagian orang mungkin dianggap sebagai medium untuk menjadi tenar, Kalau kalian bagaimana? </strong></p>
<p>Manggung is fun! How else should it be? Sharing your music with other people is a great feeling, man!</p>
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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? </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Apakah ada personil yang straight edge atau vegan mungkin? </strong></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p><strong>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? </strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>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? </strong></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p><strong>Any recommended bands yang perlu diberi perhatian dari mereka yang mewakili generasi baru? </strong></p>
<p>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..</p>
<p><strong>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?</strong></p>
<p>Terimakasih doa restunya, kawan! Jangan lupa untuk membuka <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fall," title="http://www.myspace.com/fall," target="_blank">www.myspace.com/fall,</a> 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!</p>

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		<title>Interview with The Milo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img alt="The Milo" src="http://static.flickr.com/42/103474959_a6d0d7e386_o.jpg" /><br /><br /> The Deathrockstar interview with Bandung's most notorious shoegazers, The Milo]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><a class="tt-flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/90209540"><img class="tt-flickr" alt="The Milo" src="http://static.flickr.com/40/90209540_763b6002c4.jpg" /></a> </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Apa kabar The Milo sekarang?</span></strong><br />
<span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">The Milo kabarnya baik baik aja. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Bisa cerita mengenai rencana album remix nya?</span></strong><br />
</span><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Album remix themilo berjudul: <strong><em>interpretation</em></strong>. Sampai saat ini album remix belum rilis karena masih menunggu lampu hijau dari pihak produser album tsb. Tapi semuanya sudah beres kok, produksi &#8211; mastering &#8211; copying. Berisikan 7 lagu dan 7 bintang tamu yang me-remix lagu dialbum Let Me Begin. Masing &#8211; masing : Homogenic, Elektrofuxx, Space Astronauts, Nuffnuxx, DJ Tomatoes, DJ Gerry, Love &#038; Affair</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Kalo full album berikutnya?</span></strong><br />
</span><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Sekarang lagi dengerin apa aja ni?</span></strong><br />
</span><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">anak anak sih sekarang lagi pada dengerin: sigur ros ? takk, engineers, coldplay &#8211; x&#038;y, the beatles, muse, foo fighters &#8211; in your honor, malory, pink floyd, dll..</span></p>
<p><strong>Ada rekomendasi album baru yang oke?</strong><br />
Kalo menurut The Milo sih mungkin sigur ros &#8211; takk, ya.</p>
<p><strong>Rekomendasi band buat di tonton?</strong><br />
Live concertnya : pink floyd, muse.</p>
<p><strong>Last words?</strong><br />
Tetap semangat! Hehe, cheers!</p>

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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://static.flickr.com/19/101526153_0e2b008187_o.jpg"/><br /><br />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.]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/85287166"><img width="100" height="96" class="alignright" alt="Friday" src="http://static.flickr.com/6/85287166_e0e8ebc9c2_t.jpg" /></a> Friday (Fr.</span></strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">) 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 &#8220;mindtogetclose.ep&#8221; 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 &#8220;videoready-o. Video klip Fr. Juga beberapa kali muncul di MTV Indonesia.</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">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 &#8220;sitting on anything cold&#8221; yang berisi 12 lagu Ini adalah kelanjutan dari album mindtogetclosee.p. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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<strong>1. apa kabar Friday?</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">baik baik&#8230;.. kita masih kebayang2 les voila 5 kemaren&#8230;.. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">gigs nya keren banget&#8230;&#8230;. great show&#8230;. thanks marin, kewoy, attin, semua panitia, semua band yang maen bareng kita&#8230;.. lucy in the loo, rnrm, lass, bloomingdales, pure saturday. the jokes&#8230;. dll&#8230; thank u very very much</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span class="q"><strong><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">2. ada apakah di hari jum&#8217;at?</span></strong></span><span class="q"><strong><span lang="IN" /></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">something good to reach&#8230;&#8230; &#8217;cause Fr. is the beginning and also the end of the day?.</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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</span><span class="q"><strong>3.apa kabar scene indie di Surabaya?</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">ya&#8230; disurabaya sekarang band-band lokalnya sudah siap release album&#8230;. ditunggu aja&#8230; gak kalah keren ama band-band lain lah. hehehe&#8230;. banyak yang harus di telusuri untuk kelanjutan scene indie di Surabaya? it&#8217;s not even easy as us pride</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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</span><span class="q"><strong>4. ceritain dikit tentang musik Friday dong.</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">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&#8230;..</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">dan itu terjadi begitu saja&#8230;sangat cepat&#8230;&#8230;.. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">kita berawal dari musik rock lawas, shoegaze dan sense of  pop&#8230;.. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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</span><span class="q"><strong>5. kalian kan termasuk sering tur keluar kota. bagi tips nya dong.</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">link itu penting banget&#8230;. sharing sesama community. And do the social business </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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<strong>6. lagi dengerin apa aja nih sekarang?</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">kalo guntur lagi kembali kemasa lalu nya, dia lagi dengerin anthrax, black sabbath, megadeath&#8230;. dan semacamnya lah&#8230;. 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?. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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<strong>7. kalo kalian bisa merekrut satu orang aktor/aktris terkenal untuk jadi anggota band kalian, siapakah dia? dan posisinya apa? </strong></span><span lang="IN" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">hmmm&#8230; richard dean anderson ( macgyver ) pegang gitar, dia kan jago mengutak-atik &#8230;. ya kita beri kebebasan ke si richard buat explore sound&#8230;.gitarnya mau di apain juga terserah dia&#8230; ga penting dia bisa main gitar ato nggak&#8230;. yang penting sense nya kuat&#8230;.hehe</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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</span><span class="q"><strong>8. kalo kalian ikutan survival project. siapakah yang bakal jadi juaranya? </strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">wah kalo omar kayanya ga bakal menang deh&#8230;. jadi kita bakal kehilangan omar pada sesi-sesi awal&#8230; soalnya omar sudah mulai kelaparan dan kecapekan&#8230; mungkin yang bakal menang bram? soalnya dia kan produsernya?. </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><br />
<strong>9. ada album baru?</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">next year&#8230;.. insyaAllah januari rilis&#8230;. doain ga ada halangan ( lagiii )</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">udah selesai proses master dari seattle&#8230;. ya&#8230; tinggal nunggu produksi di jakarta&#8230; mudah2an hasilnya tidak memalukan&#8230;. disini kita juga bekerjasama dengan record label dari dijakarta? </span><span lang="IN" /></p>
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</span><span class="q"><strong>10. band surabaya yang kalian rekomendasikan? kenapa?</strong></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">sheath&#8230;.. my favorite, jenius, oky manusia absurd&#8230; ga jelas ini band surabaya ato bandung&#8230;. tapi oky itu asli surabaya,&#8230;. trus ada lagi nyiur melambai ( sudah saatnya marley menjahjah soeraba jah ), let&#8217;s go common baby ( morrison breakin the numb ), manual ( Fr. featuring manual di salah satu lagu didalam next launch album Fr. ), &#8230;. mereka kandidat kuat icon indie surabaya&#8230;.</span><span lang="IN" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><br />
<strong>11. last?</strong></span><span lang="IN" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Maybe our life is such a great moment that never been reach? it&#8217;s easier to feel the greatest moment by flew with our feelings than logic</span></p>
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		<title>Interview with Polyester Embassy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><a class="tt-flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/deathrockstar/85287165"><img class="alignright" alt="Polyester Embassy" src="http://static.flickr.com/9/85287165_93a6864479.jpg" /></a> Halo Polyester Embassy,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Berikut ada beberapa pertanyaan yang paten, plus beberapa yang agak basi&#8230; tapi dijawab aja yak.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">1. Apa kabar Polyester Embassy?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">Tidak pernah sebaik sekarang&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">2. Album? (ceritain tentang upcoming album gitu)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">album&#8230;masih dalam oven sih&#8230;banyak surprise lah mudah2an</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">3. lagi dengerin apa nih sekarang?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">rock&#8217;n roll mafia materi baru&#8230;.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">4. bagaimana menurut kalian perkembangan scene indie saat ini?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">bagus dan sangat berkembang tapi band baru yang muncul kurang banyak rik&#8230;.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">5. menurut kalian band baru yang bakal gede nanti siapa aja? kenapa?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">waduh itu tadi rik belum ada yang muncul naik ke permukaan dan jedang gitu&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">6. band band lokal yang menurut kamu oke? kenapa?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">rnrm&#8230;materi barunya bahaya&#8230;warna baru di scene elektronik</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">7. kalo loe dapet tugas mewawancara sebuah band yang loe sukai. kira kira loe bakal nanya apa? (band nya apa?)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">drugs favorit&#8230;.? RNRM</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">8. kalo band loe sendiri yang dikasih pertanyaan itu, loe bakal jawab apa?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">banyak soalnya kita combine drugs dengan musik&#8230;we&#8217;re so close to the chemical&#8230;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt"><br clear="all" /> 9. last?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">silent as grave</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">loud as a planecrash</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">easy as 1,2,3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">simply as a,b,c</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">we hearth you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IN" style="font-size: 10pt">thank you</span></p>

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		<title>Interview with Iman Fattah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>HALLO IMAN</strong><br />
hadir!<br />
<strong><br />
APA NIH KESIBUKANNYA SEKARANG? BISA DICERITAIN SINGKAT?</strong><br />
hmmm&#8230;gue kerja di aksara records sbg art &#038; designer sama ngeband2 aja</p>
<p><strong>ADA KABAR APA AMA ?LAIN?? KOK KAYAKNYA VAKUM YA? BISA DIJELASIN? DAN KENAPA DINAMAKAN ?LAIN??</strong><br />
LAIN sebetulnya udah mulai masuk rekaman buat album kedua tapi karena kesibukan masing2 personil jadinya kita recordingnya gerilya jadi satu2 &#038; pelan2 gitu. hehehe&#8230;kita semua kan fans anime. ada 1 anime fave kita judulnya &#8220;serial experiments lain&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>OYA ANDA JUGA TERLIBAT DI APE ONTHE ROOF, ZEKE POPO, dan SEBENTAR  DI SAJAMA CUT. BISA DICERITAKAN AWAL KETERLIBATAN ANDA DI BAND TERSEBUT?</strong><br />
kalo zeke &#038; the popo awalnya kan side projectnya si zeke. dia mau bikin proyek experimental sendiri gitu terus dia ngajak leo (mugeni) buat bantuin main gitar. tapi akhirnya dia ngajak gue juga karena kebutuhan musiknya yg experimen dgn sound2 itu. apalagi, gue &#038; dia kan udah dari dulu sama2 di LAIN. kalo apeontheroof gue sebetulnya bukan personil apeontheroof sendiri bukan band. sebenernya side project aghi narottama (gitaris LAIN). konsepnya adalah open project. jadi si aghi di apeontheroof itu kolaborasi sama banyak musisi. untuk album pertamanya itu, aghi kolaborasi dgn Utari Syaukat, teman kuliahnya di seattle. bahkan sekarang2ini, apeontheroof juga banyak kolaborasi dgn DJ2 &#038; visualizer, tidak menutup kemungkinan buat kolaborasi dgn siapapun. nah, gue disini sbg additional buat live, main synth. Anyway, sajama cut gue juga sebenernya additional player disitu. kebetulan waktu itu LAIN lagi vakum, jadilah akhirnya gue bantuin<br />
<strong><br />
PERTAMA MENGENAL MUSIK DALAM ARTI NGBAND KAPAN NIH? BISA DICERITAKAN AWAL TERTARIKNYA? </strong><br />
wah, kalo kenal musik sih dari lahir kali ya. Hahahaha? smp gue mulai2 ngeband tapi awal ketertarikan gue buat serius kira2 tahun 98. awal2 kuliah.<br />
<strong><br />
INFLUENCE ANDA PERTAMA KALI TERTARIK DENGAN MUSIK APA NIH? LALU SEKARANG INFLUENCENYA APA NIH? ALASANNYA?</strong><br />
hmmm&#8230;gue dari kecil bgt udah dikasih denger the beatles terus sama bokap mungkin itu awalnya kali ya. bisa dibilang the beatles itu influence terbesar gue dari dulu. kalo sekarang sih banyak ya. sama radiohead, the cure, soundgarden, banyak lah. tapi kalo buat permainan gitar, gue sangat ter-influence blues<br />
<strong><br />
MENURUT ANDA INFLUENCE ?LAIN? SENDIRI APA? BISA DIJELASIN?</strong><br />
hmmm&#8230;kita masing2 personil influence-nya beda2 ..tapi benang merah yg nyatuin kita adalah the beatles. owh, sama musik2 scoring film, video game &#038; anime</p>
<p><strong>BAND SEPERTI LAIN, ZEKE&#038;THEPOPO BANYAK MENYENTUH AREA DARKPOP DAN EXPERIMENTAL SOUND. BAGAIMANA MENURUT ANDA? KENAPA CENDRUNG KE ARAH SITU?</strong><br />
dark, pop, experimental&#8230;apalah bedanya, kalo di kuping gue sih musik?hahahaha ya, kita sih cenderung keluarin apa yg enak aja, kalo input kita banyak denger musik2 experimental kan secara gak sengaja kita bikin musik juga terbawa input kita itu, dan lagi, kita semua meskipun beda2 selera tapi cenderung keluar chemistry yg sama kalo ngejam &#038; bikin musik?makanya outputnya gitu</p>
<p><strong>SEKARANG BANYAK MUNCUL LABEL2 REKAMAN BARU DAN TERMASUK INDIE LABEL (SELF RELEASE) BAGAIMANA MENURUT ANDA PERKEMBANGANNYA SAAT INI, DAN KEMUDIAN HARI?</strong><br />
wah, sesuatu yg bagus banget yg akan selalu gue dukung penuh karena gue juga termasuk orang yg berkecimpung di industry ini hahahahahah . menurut gue, ke depan2nya, gak akan ada lagi indie label atau major label. karena orang bikin musik ya bikin aja mau self produced atau enggak, intinya hasil karya kita kan didengar orang bedanya kalo indie itu kan berasal dari kata independent (gak bergantung) sama sesuatu jadi menurut gue, kita bisa lebih bebas ber-expresi aja</p>
<p><strong>PERKEMBANGAN MUSIK INDONESIA SENDIRI, SAAT INI DAN KEDEPAN (TRENDNYA)GIMANA? OPINI ANDA?</strong><br />
menurut gue, akan semakin maju &#038; gak kalah sama musik2 luar. emang, mau gimana juga kita akan selalu ter-influence dgn musik2 luar, tapi pengembangannya kan beda. kalo trendnya mau gimana, gue agak susah tuh liatnya soalnya gue bukan orang yg ikutin trend sih hehehe.</p>
<p><strong>APAKAH SUATU BAND MENGIKUTI JENIS MUSIK YANG LAGI TREND &#8220;IN&#8221; SAAT INI ADALAH SUATU KEHARUSAN UNTUK DISUKAI PUBLIK? MENURUT ANDA?</strong><br />
enggak juga. itu mungkin malah suatu kelemahan menurut gue. kenapa? karena kalo semua band ngikutin arus yg sama, gak akan ada keunikan kan jadinya akan lewat aja tanpa meninggalkan bekas sama sekali. jadi, kalo trend-nya lagi apa, mau ikut atau enggak sih terserah kita. yg penting adalah &#8220;KARAKTER&#8221;. yup, musisi atau band akan terlihat menonjol kalau mereka punya karakter yg kuat yg mencerminkan diri mereka sendiri</p>
<p><strong>OKE PERTANYAAN PERSONAL. POSISI ANDA SEBAGAI GITARIS, ANDA SUKA JENIS SOUND GITAR SEPERTI APA? DISTORSI, OVERDRIVE, DELAY? GIMANA &#038; MENGAPA MR. IMAN?</strong><br />
jadi begini&#8230;&#8230;gue suka sound tua tapi gak terlalu &#8220;twangy&#8221; makanya gue pake fender Stratocaster strat itu kan &#8220;twangy tapi masih tebel  gue juga suka pake overdrive tipis2 yg lebih ke british vintage sound gitu. gue suka karakter warm vintage</p>
<p><strong>ANDA BISA DIKATAKAN MEMILIKI GEAR UNIK, DIPANGGUNG, BISA SEBUTKAN 3 SAJA GITARIS YANG PALING BERPENGARUH DALAM PERMAINAN ANDA? MENGAPA?</strong><br />
JIMI HENDRIX &#038; JOHNNY GREENWOOD (radiohead) ini adalah 2 gitaris yg bisa dikatakan jauh type permainan &#038; soundnya. gue mencoba buat gabungin 2 karakter mereka. ROBERT SMITH (the cure), kenapa robert smith. dia bukan gitariss. tapi dia main gitar juga. buat gue, dia adalah gitaris yg hebat. dia tau kapan musti masukin sound2 yg pas. chord2 yg kadang simple kadang rumit tapi kena dimasukin ke komposisi lagu. itu yg terpenting. gue sangat kagum dgn cara hendrix main rhythm . that&#8217;s right, rythm-nya dia bukan lead-nya. rythmnya almost like he&#8217;s singing with his guitar as his partner. ditambah lagi soundnya dia yg warm tapi jahat tapi lucunya&#8230;dari ketiga gitaris yg influence gue itu settingan gitar, efek &#038; amply gue sama sekali beda dari mereka.</p>
<p><strong>SO TERINFLUENCE BUKAN BERARTI HARUS SAMA YA?</strong><br />
bukan banget. ya itu, influence tuh kan karena kita sering denger, sering dapet input. makin sering kita dapet input tanpa sengaja kita akan makin kebawa sama mereka. makanya gue ambil jalan beda total. karena gue tau, kalo gue ambil settingan yg persis sama gue akan &#8220;menjadi&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>MANA YANG LEBIH PENTING BAGI ANDA, PENAMPILAN FISIK/COSTUM BAND DI PANGGUNG? ATAU TEKHNIKAL SOUND/INSTRUMENT ?</strong><br />
hahahah,?.wuaaaahhh&#8230;buat gue, technic adalah segalanya. eh, teknis sound terutama. tapi, belakangan gue ngerasa kok gue kalo manggung kostumnya itu2 aja ya. kaos, jeans. pengen juga sih gue tampil &#8220;beda&#8221; di atas panggung biar lebih karismatik heheheheh<br />
<strong><br />
JADI MASUKKAN/SARAN DARI ANDA BUAT BAND2X INDIE BARU, DALAM PENAMPILAN PANGGUNG/SOUND?</strong><br />
hhmmm&#8230;paling, ya apa yg paling comfortable di lo aja. kalo soal sound nomor 1 yg paling penting&#8230;CEKSOUND! kedua, soundman. ketiga&#8230;crew saran gue, kalo pas ceksound, lo cari sound yg paling comfortable dipanggung buat lo dulu. karena kalo dipanggung udah enak, mood main juga jadi enak. soal sound keluarnya itu tanggung jawab soundman. tapi kalo udah enak dipanggung sih, bisa dijamin keluarnya enak. dan yg paling penting mood lo main juga enak</p>
<p><strong>PERLU ATAU TIDAK PERSONIL BAND IMPROVE TEKNIKAL SKILL DARI WAKTU KE WAKTU? </strong><br />
PERLU&#8230;percaya atau enggak, skill &#038; teknik sound itu perlu harus 50-50 skill &#038; teknik itu kan tergantung karakter mainan lo gimana<br />
<strong><br />
LAST QUESTION&#8230;. SEKARANG LAGI DENGERIN LAGU APA NIH? BISA DI-LIST 5 LAGU/BAND/ALBUM SAJA? THANKS</strong><br />
1. electric ladyland &#8211; jimi hendrix experience<br />
2. bloodflowers &#8211; the cure<br />
3. 99th dream &#8211; swervedriver<br />
4. OST xenogears &#8220;CREID&#8221;<br />
5. the best of THE DOORS</p>
<p><strong>OKE, THANKS BUNG IMAN FATTAH</strong><br />
sama-sama</p>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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We are from Deathrockstar, and we recently felt, that we need to have an interview with you guys, regarding your upcoming album, and your last nice e.p.</em>]]></description>
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<p><img src="http://static.flickr.com/18/68347239_9a9470b23d_m.jpg" class="alignright" /> <em>Dear Electronic Groove,</em></p>
<p><em>We are from Deathrockstar, and we recently felt, that we need to have an interview with you guys, regarding your upcoming album, and your last nice e.p.</em></p>
<p>And here goes the interview, with some easy questions</p>
<p><strong>1. apa kabar Electronic Groove? </strong><br />
kita baik2 aja, lagi sibuk finishing touch album kita yang baru. Lama kalo semua dikerjain sendiri.</p>
<p><strong>2. siapa aja kah Electronic Groove?</strong><br />
Ade Habibie dan Lawrence &#8220;Random&#8221; Widarto</p>
<p><strong>3. ceritain dikit tentang musik Electronic Groove dong.</strong><br />
wah sejarah nih.. ya kita mulainya itu dulu dikenalin sama temen yang pingin bikin project live PA electronic bareng. Asalnya Electronic itu ada 4 orang,termasuk seorang DJ kondang Jakarta. Tetapi ya karena semua pada sibuk melulu ga pernah bisa ketemu. Kalo kita janjian ngumpul di studio ya yang dateng cuman gw sama Ade. Akhirnya kelamaan nunggu ga kemana mana ya kita putusin untuk jalan berdua aja.  Saat itu kebetulan kita berdua memang baru balik ke Jakarta, jadi kita memang anak baru di scene kita. Jadi kita memang mengisi kesibukan kita dengan ngerjain lagu aja.  Makanya album itu jadi dalam waktu 3 bulan. Asalnya sih kita cuman sekedar bikin lagu dan pingin ngeluarin CD aja. Trus ternyata banyak bookingan untuk manggung setelah itu. Ya jadilah kita sebagai Live PA. Belakangan sih kita memang jarang manggung karena kita memang mencoba untuk konsentrasi bikin album. Ya itulah hampir 3 tahun setelah album kita yang pertama, album baru kita masih belum kelar.</p>
<p><strong>4. 5 track favorit kalian?</strong><br />
Track favorit as in any tracks kan?<br />
Wah apa ya..</p>
<p>21st Century Digital Boy &#8211; Bad Religion<br />
Wait &amp; Bleed &#8211; Slipknot<br />
Girls &amp; Boys &#8211; BLur<br />
Strawberry Field &#8211; The Beatles<br />
Let&#8217;s Stay Together &#8211; Al Green</p>
<p><strong>5. lagu lagu apa sajakah yang ingin sekali kalian re-mix?</strong><br />
lagu lagu classic Indonesia seperti Broery, Titik Puspa, Rafikah Duri, Koes Plus dll</p>
<p><strong>6. ingin kolaborasi dengan siapa aja? (band, dj, animator, sutradara, pengarang novel)?</strong><br />
Goodnight Electric, Agrikulture, Javabass, Kripiek Peudeus, dll</p>
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<p><strong>7. berikut ini adalah beberapa istilah yang kadang sukar dimengerti, bantuin kita dong jelasin artinya secara singkat.</strong><br />
<strong>a. drum n bass</strong> &#8211; musik dengan base breakbeat yang cepet tapi energynya keren dan ga norak. ya seperti lagu metal buat disco<br />
<strong> b. trance</strong> &#8211; Music buat trippin<br />
<strong> c. techno</strong> &#8211; music buat trippin, eeh ngga,  salah, itu terlalu complicated untuk dijelaskan<br />
<strong>d. house music</strong> &#8211; roots dari semua dance music  yah versi modern dari disco<br />
<strong>e. funky house</strong> &#8211; nah kalo ngomong sama orang jakarta itu artinya lagu kota. tapi sebenernya sih house yang funky aja seperti DJ sneak dan mark farina<br />
<strong> f. disco pantura</strong> &#8211; lagu kota (mesti tanya sama jalur pantura.. mereka lebih expert daripada gw.)<br />
<strong> g. garage</strong> &#8211; Soulfull house music dengan vocal gaya gospel dan r&#8217;n'b<br />
<strong> h. progresif </strong>- music geleng kepala<br />
<strong> i.  r n b</strong> &#8211; yah nonton mtv kan? ya cari tau aja dari mtv</p>
<p><strong>8. bentuk acara seperti apakah yang paling ideal buat kalian?</strong><br />
yang gado gado antara band dan dunia per djan (jakmov &#8216;05 is perfect)</p>
<p><strong>9. album kalian nanti apa kabar nya?</strong><br />
baik baik aja. udah 95% kelar. tapi udah stuck di 95% selama 3 bulan sih.</p>
<p><strong>10. rekomendasi dong performer lokal paling keren menurut kalian.</strong><br />
band ato DJ? kalo DJ ya dj Chicco. dia sangat underrated deh. DJ yang technically paling bagus di jakarta menurut gw. Chronic, mereka bener2 dalem dengan hip hop dan turntablism mereka belum ada yang ngalahin kalo di Indonesia. kalo band, Kripiek peudeus seru banget fun and energetic, Step Forward dan juga TOR keren.. Sarah Silaban juga keren banget.</p>
<p><strong>11. last words</strong><br />
thank you ya</p>
<p><em>Interview by : Eric Wiryanata | Photo by: Electronic Groove</em></p>

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<p><strong>Helow strobery! Ada brapa org sih strobery itu?</strong><br />
4? eh 5 sama bijinya fosil! gw,panca,yudhi,fosil (adit :vocal, panca:gitar, yudhie:bass, fosil:drum)</p>
<p><strong>Haha.. eh trs ?pop? nya kmana? (sblmnya nama ?Strawberry? adalah ?the strawberry?s pop? -red)</strong><br />
Pop nya di pake sm iggy..jd yah..di relain aja.</p>
<p><strong>Dulu kan sering maenin lagunya Damon albarn..emang sebenernya lari kmana sih musik strobery ini?</strong><br />
wah bukan Damon..tp blur!</p>
<p><strong>Maap..abis sring liat situ pake nick Damon feat Iggy pop. Influencenya stroberry apaan?</strong><br />
hmh The stooges,new york dolls,the doors,led zeppelin,sex pistols,the damned,sham 69.cocksparer,buzzcocks,dead kennedys,blur<br />
kebanyakan yeee heheh</p>
<p><strong>stroberry  udah ngeluarin album? tu dlm bentuk kaset/cd? pernah ikut kompilasi? </strong><br />
one day in summer ,tapi masih make nama strawberry?s pop. kompilasi pernah &#8212; simplicity jogja indie-pop/brit-pop compilation ( blossom records )</p>
<p><strong>ampe mana aja tuh distribusinya? </strong><br />
jakarta-bandung-surabaya-semarang PP &#8212; tunggu bisnya di terminal Jombor</p>
<p><strong>hahahahha trs motornya ke tahan di tmpt penginepan.ga bs pulang! sring maen ke luar kota.. udah maen dmn aja? gmn animo org2 nya?</strong><br />
di Surabaya, Bandung, Malang, semarang, rata2 mereka apresiatif kok asyik top gilaaaaa</p>
<p><strong>personel paling ganteng sapa?</strong><br />
paling ganteng fosil </p>
<p><strong>loh.. bukannya panca? dia kan mukanya mirip ariel peterpan?! malah gantengan panca</strong><br />
hahhahhahahhahahaaahhahahah gw aja yang mirip damaon albarn ajah diem kok heheh si panca mah donnie ADA Band</p>
<p><strong>kalian pnya web atau apa gitu?</strong><br />
web kita lg bikin.FS ada<br />
<strong><br />
urlnya? emailnya?</strong><br />
<a href="mailto:Thestrawberries_revival@yahoo.com" title="mailto:Thestrawberries_revival@yahoo.com">Thestrawberries_revival@yahoo.com</a><br />
<strong><br />
trs kpn mau buat album yg bener2 strobery nyah?</strong><br />
after lebaran kita rilis alabum Arrogant People Dancing tp sebenernya kita anggep album transisi sih</p>
<p><strong>kapan tour?</strong><br />
ntar lah kl album kluarrr donggssss. mendingan sekarang tour kamar ke kamar hahahahhahah naek bus ber ac.. kaya rockstar..kliling kota pake kc mata surfing! :P</p>
<p><strong>emang peterpan.. ada juga nombokkk.. D.I.Y gitu llhowwww.. binun maw nanya apa lagi..</strong><br />
gw nanya i loe ajah dehh.. loe udah punya pacar belon.. jayus<br />
<strong><br />
ahahahah ce kaya gw disini ga laku dit! Haha! the strawbery apa strawbery?</strong><br />
huasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!! emang yg di semarang loe liat kita maen gimana?</p>
<p><strong>pokalisnya bisa kayang! kalah dah penyanyi dangdut blajar dr mana?</strong><br />
Asuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu bljar di tempat tidurrr hahahhahahahahahahhahah</p>
<p><strong>yg bikin lagu sapa sih?</strong><br />
basicna gw trus buat jadi utuhna bareng anak2 lah</p>
<p><strong>the eyeliners ada yg miripin! kalian nyontek ya?</strong><br />
kita padahall sama sekali belum pernah denger lagu eyeliner yg itu pas bikin arrogant.<br />
yahh namanya nada cuma 7.</p>
<p><strong>paragh! oh ok! tengkiu adit.. maap ga bs dtg ..ga interview face to face.. abisnya situ juga banci ceting!</strong><br />
face to face malah gw ajak yg lain.. bukan wawancara malahan..<br />
<strong><br />
wtf!! pLaks!!!<br />
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<p><strong>Interviewer: Venus</strong></p>
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<p><img src="http://static.flickr.com/24/52423378_58b5962bd5_m.jpg" class="alignright" /><em>Siapakah mereka? Darimanakah asal mereka? Kenapa namanya panjang sekali ya? Kan susah nyebutnya. Udahlah baca aja ga usah banyak komentar, oleh Eric Wiryanata.</em><br />
<strong><br />
siapakah yang pake sepatu putih dan siapakah yang berpasangan?</strong><br />
semua bersepatu putih, dan alhamdulillah semua sudah berpasangan.<br />
<strong><br />
jika bisa melarikan diri, akan melarikan diri kemana?</strong><br />
kemana saja yang penting bisa bersama selamanya</p>
<p><strong>apakah chamber pop itu?</strong><br />
itu cuman istilah.</p>
<p><strong>yang bikin WSATCC spesial adalah?</strong><br />
Kami muda dan telah menikah.<br />
<strong><br />
5 lagu favorit? Mengapa?</strong><br />
Bebel Gilberto &#8211; Lonely<br />
Gorge Ben &#8211; Taj Mahal<br />
Manu Chao &#8211; King of Bongo Bong<br />
Macy Gray &#8211; I try<br />
Ms. Dynamite &#8211; Dy-Na-Mi-Tee<br />
karena kelima lagu diatas adalah lagu-lagu terpilih.</p>
<p><strong>pengen manggung kayak gimana yah? Set panggungya.</strong><br />
ingin sekali manggung di depan orang-orang yang kami cintai, tapi telah tiada atau sulit hadir karena tinggal terlalu jauh di luarkota. kalo sudah begitu set panggung menjadi tidak penting.</p>
<p><strong>5 album favorit?</strong><br />
1984-David Bowie / RCA (1974)<br />
Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan / Columbia ( 1965)<br />
Daydream Nation-Sonic Youth / Enigma(1988)<br />
OST. Gita Cinta dari SMA- Guruh Soekarno Putra / Musica (1982)<br />
Duo Kribo-Duo Kribo /   ( 1977 )</p>
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<p><strong><br />
album apa aja yang kamu inginkan, tapi kamu belum punya?</strong><br />
Do What You Like-AKA  (1974),  OST Tiga Dara &#8211; Ismail Marzuki (1952), OST &#8220;Badai Pasti Berlalu&#8221; (1981)<br />
<strong><br />
band lokal lain yang menurut kamu bagus? 5 atau 6 atau 10 juga boleh</strong><br />
AKA, Gypsy, Koes Bersaudara, Bandempo, The Upstairs, Sekarwati, Kornchonk Chaos, The Jonis, Seek Six Sick, Tomorow People Ansamble, The Adams dan masih banyak lagi.</p>
<p><strong>makanan favorit?</strong><br />
- Soto Lemes, Brawijaya ( di depan Studio Pendulum, Jakarta)<br />
- Bubur Karpet, Radio Dalem<br />
- Bubur Ayam Sukabumi, di Tebet</p>
<p><strong>11 tahun lagi, WSATCC sudah jadi apa?</strong><br />
udah bubar.</p>
<p><strong>ada rencana menjadikan WSATCC sebagai sumber penghasilan hidup? Bagaimana taktik yang dilakukan?</strong><br />
kita membentuk White Shoes &amp; The Couples Company bukan untuk sumber mata pencaharian, jadi kalo untuk itu gak ada taktik apa-apa.</p>
<p><strong>carpenters atau teti kadi? Mengapa?</strong><br />
kenapa mesti Teti Kadi? kenapa nggak Dedi Damhudi?</p>
<p><strong>kalo udah tua nanti dan udah lama brenti ngeband, terus denger radio memutar lagu kalian, bagaimana kira kira perasaan kalian? Apa yang akan kalian lakukan?</strong><br />
Kami akan merasa mujur dan akan menari cha-cha.</p>
<p><strong>biasanya sebelum manggung pada ngapain aja dulu?</strong><br />
biasanya ngumpul disatu rumah, lalu ceksound, kalo nggak ada ceksound, sore-sore yang cowok biasanya pada main bola, buat yang cewek biasanya nonton TV, masak, gosip, terus makan bareng-bareng, baru berangkat.</p>
<p><strong>waktu umur 17 kamu lagi dengerin album album apa?</strong><br />
Rio : T-Rex.<br />
Sari: Thurston Moore &#8221; Psychic Hearts &#8221;<br />
Ricky: Jimi Hendrix &amp; The Experience.<br />
Saleh: Deftones.<br />
Mela : Luluk Purwanto &amp; Helsdingen Trio.<br />
John:  Kitaro &amp;  Lagu-lagu klasik tradisional Cina.<br />
Indra Ameng: The Cure &#8220;Boys Don&#8217;t Cry&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>kalo pengen ngontak WSATCC kemana ya? </strong><br />
ke Tn. Indra Ameng :0818817548</p>
<p><strong>pertanyaan favorit jika diinterview? </strong><br />
<em>&#8220;siapa sajakah yang menjalankan White Shoes &amp; The Couples Company?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><strong>last !!!</strong><br />
thanks<br />
<strong>thanks juga? </strong></p>

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		<title>Interview with Sat NB of Pure Saturday</title>
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<p><img class="alignright" src="http://static.flickr.com/32/52423379_cd6be70bbd_m.jpg" alt="" /><em>Hai kamu semua pasti tahu Pure Saturday, minimal pernah dengar namanya walau belum denger lagunya. Dan sebagian dari yang tahu PS pasti tahu kalo mereka ada vokalis baru, dan sebagian dari yang tahu PS punya vokalis baru pasti tahu kalo vokalis barunya itu adalah Satrio NB.. ini adalah interview bersama Sat NB. by Eric Wiryanta</em></p>
<p><strong>Hai Iyo</strong><br />
Hai eric, seneng banget gwa bisa bagi-bagi cerita sama lu, eh ini buat drs bukan sih?<br />
<strong>Iya ini buat DRS </strong><br />
<strong><br />
bagaimana awalnya Sat_nb masuk jadi Pure Saturday?</strong><br />
Yang paling Awalnya sih, gwa udah berteman sama mereka sejak tahun 94, dari persahabatan kera itu, dikala PS lagi fakum sekitar tahun 99an kita juga bikin THE JONIS bareng anak-anak kampus, &#038; gwa juga berkesempatan buat membangunkan mereka, yang akhirnya gwa jadi manager PS selama 2 tahunan. Kebutuhan album ke 3 kan mendesak ric? sementara abang suar ga bisa ninggalin kerjaan tetapnya sama sekali, ya udah gwa dengan berat hati harus cari pengganti vokalis PS. Kira-kira kita udah dapet 7 kadidat, ada yang kita kenal dan ada yang ga tau sapa? tapi secara skill mereka hebat. Tapi ternyata anak-anak sendiri ga ada yang cocok.  Yang anehnya, tiap gwa minta pendapat sama orang-orang buat siapa yang bisa gantiin suar tuh selalu pada ga mau jawab, selalu bilang ? wah susah tuh buat nyari gantinya suar??  dan kadang ada juga bilang ?ga berani? atau ?takut? lah gantiin suar? ah pokoknya tahi kucing lah keadaannya waktu itu. Sangat sedikit banget buat nemuin orang yang berhati besar buat jadi kandidat. Nah waktu musti latihan band nggak ada suar, ya gwa cuek aja nyanyi, karena gwa juga dulu terbiasa jadi vokalis mereka di THE JONIS. Dan akhirnya anak-anak meminta gwa jadi vokalis PS. kalo lu tau ric? being manager turn to vocalist tuh perasaannya sangat aneh banget! Tapi ya mau gimana lagi, daripada band gwa terlantar dan ga ada progress, akhirnya gwa memilih menyelamatkan band PS.  Se-simple itu kok.</p>
<p><strong>pure saturday termasuk band besar, bahkan saya sudah menemukan dua band yang jelas terpengaruh olehnya. dan suara Suar termasuk dalam trademark nya. ekspektasi orang orang kan pasti besar sekali.. bagaimana loe menghadapinya?</strong><br />
Terima kasih lu bisa berpendapat band kami besar, besar itu mungkin hanya karena kita lebih awal muncul, dan punya banyak teman, thanks anyway. Bener banget ric, banyak orang bilang kalau ada beberapa vocalist yang karakter nya ?suar banget?, karena memang hal itu wajar-wajar aja kalau sampai terjadi, mungkin di Indonesia memang minim sosok untuk dijadikan referensi, dan Suar juga adalah musisi yang hebat menurut gwa. Dan setiap orang yang udah kenal dan suka sama PS, pasti karakter suar tuh udah mendarah daging kayaknya sama mereka, jadi pikiran nya pasti gak jauh dari Suar.</p>
<p>Ketika gwa menghadapi PS sebagai player, gwa berhadapan dengan band yang sudah ?jadi? atau sudah ?terbentuk?, mereka udah punya platform atau batasan yang jelas, jadi dalam bikin lagu juga mereka sudah punya patokan untuk bentuk akhir nya kaya gimana.<br />
Gwa harus ber adaptasi sama mereka, jarang buat ngeluarin sampe pol, blom lagi gwa musti behadapan sama personil yang idealisnya kuat banget. Akhirnya gwa musti masuk sama sudut pandang band itu sendiri. </p>
<p>Tapi semua itu sangat nggak jadi masalah, karena gwa juga udah suka PS dari 11 tahun lalu, trus selera kita juga nggak jauh, jadi ya match aja. Dari segi teknis mereka juga punya patokan, seperti vokal yang sejajar sama musik, atau teknis-teknis yang lainnya lah? yang pada akhirnya banyak juga yang bilang  kalo secara selintas mungkin karakter gwa dibilang mirip , gara-gara mengemas vokal dan musiknya dari album dulu juga cara nya memang sama. Jadi kalau kata gwa sih hasilnya wajar-wajar aja, dan gwa ga ambil pusing tentang itu. Dan kalau ada yang beranggapan warna suara kita sama, ya apa yang musti di rubah? Itu sih bawaan lahir. Tapi kan ini baru album pertama gwa sama si PS, mungkin nanti banyak perkembangan di album atau e.p berikutnya</p>
<p><strong>sampai saat ini menurut loe sendiri apakah hasilnya memuaskan?</strong><br />
Kayaknya sih blom pol ric? karena kemaren kita udah mepet banget waktunya masuk ke recording, blom banyak waktu juga lah buat explore banyak. Tapi gwa seneng banget sama hasil kerja kita.</p>
<p><strong>apakah kepanjangan dari Sat NB?</strong><br />
Itu sih cuman singkatan dari nama panjang gua, Satria . NB tuh singkatan nama keluarga gua. Ga ada maksud yang lain.</p>
<p><strong>apakah album pure saturday yang paling bagus?</strong><br />
Wah mungkin banyak album band lain yang lebih bagus. Tapi kalo maksud lu album PS yang mana ric? Kalo menurut gwa album PS semuanya bagus, tapi memang album 1,2, dan 3 nggak bisa disamakan, misalnya pada album ke 2, kita nggak mau kembali tenggelam ke romantisme album 1, nuansanya juga beda-beda. Begitu juga album ke 3. Album 1 tuh paling mudah dicerna dan catchy, jadi banyak yang di iinget sama orang-orang, kalo kata gua secara musikalitas album 2 &#038; 3 lebih o.k.<br />
 <strong><br />
apakah album ketiga ini bakal lebih bagus lagi?</strong><br />
gua berharap kaya gitu. Tapi kayaknya kita nggak terlalu mikirin itu, kita cuman fokus bikin musik aja, tanggapan sih biar nyusul belakangan aja ric?</p>
<p><strong>kalo anak anak muda jaman sekarang yang baru mau mulai dengerin pure saturday. bagusnya dia nyari album mana yah?</strong><br />
Dengerin semua album kayaknya nggak masalah. Gua harap mereka bisa ngikutin dan menikmati perkembangan musik si PS itu sendiri.</p>
<p><strong>lagu pure saturday yang paling loe suka buat dinyanyiin? </strong><br />
Dari album baru ?Saatnya nanti?. anak gwa hafal banget dan gwa seneng nyanyi-nyanyi sama dia.</p>
<p><strong>lagu orang laen yang paling loe suka buat dinyanyiin?</strong><br />
Paling cuman nyanyi-nyanyi doang sih ric, nggak serius buat dibawain; The cure, the smith, rolling stones, rocket rockers, belle and sebastian, peterpan, common lenon, jeruji, seringai, the sigit, queen, goodnight electric ? tar menyusul lah yang laen..</p>
<p><strong>band band loe yang laen apa kabarnya?</strong><br />
Setiap gwa nge band, gwa pasti menikmati dan senang-senang. menjiwai band itu sendiri juga lumayan suatu kenikmatan juga buat gwa. Jadi ketika gwa bareng sama sama band itu, gwa memainkan karakter  dan mengikuti apa maunya musik dari band itu, THE JONIS lagi rekaman tuh buat sound track nya ?Janji Joni? film nya aktor ganteng nicholas saputra, sah ? gantengan ?Bin lennon? deng? TEENAGE DEATH STAR adem ayem, biasa lah teenager sejati mah banyak kesibukan, dan 8 lagu udah bulukan kayanya di hard disc nya studio 41, band senang-senang sedunia buat gwa.</p>
<p><strong>kalo di interview loe paling seneng ditanya apa? jawabannya apa?</strong><br />
<em>?mau jawab pertanyaannya ngga?? Jawabannya ?enggak, makasih?</em></p>
<p><strong>pertanyaan yang loe pengen, tapi ga pernah/jarang ditanyain? jawabannya?</strong><br />
Ya pertanyaan yang kaya gini nih?  Jawabannya : <em>ric ada pertanyaan lain ngga? huehueh</em></p>
<p><strong>dah pernah ketemu band idola? siapa? terus loe ngapain sama dia?</strong><br />
Devo, kita ngopi sama mandi aer panas aja di lembang?</p>
<p><strong>kalo dapet duit bebas tak terbatas, trus loe diminta bikin acara. loe bakal bikin kayak gimana?  dan siapa aja yang maen? </strong><br />
Wah lu mulai mabok mailing list nih ric, duit tak terbatas? Buset.. gua sewa guruh sukarno putra ama itang yunas aja deh suru bikin acara &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>kalo cuma bisa nentuin 5 band lokal buat maen di acara loe, bakal maenin siapa aja?</strong><br />
Wah tar gua tanya anak ripple entertainment ama si marin aja deh, mereka lebih pol masalah ini..<br />
<strong><br />
kalo hidup loe skarang dijadiin film,. lagu soundtrack utamanya apa yah?</strong><br />
Buahahah romantis aja lu ric, apa ya? Lagu-lagunya bikin baru aja deh, kolaborasi edane, fariz rm, upstairs, seringai, jamrud, sapa aja lah ?trus dibikin kaya ?We are The World? atau ?kemesraan? ? kayanya sound track hidup gue banget toh? hheheh</p>
<p><strong>waktu umur 18 tahun loe lagi dengerin apa?</strong><br />
Pantera, beasty boys, PS, full of hate, PAS, puppen, close minded, smashing, the clash, rick astley, jason donovan walah banyak lah ?. </p>
<p><strong>kalo umur 19?</strong><br />
Sama, cuman gua nyesel ga pernah dengerin nyokap gua.</p>
<p><strong>kata kata terakhir</strong><br />
Terima kasih banyak sama temen-temen PS yang udah nemenin dan support dari dulu, mari kita mulai lagi seperti dulu.</p>
<p><strong>kontak kontak yang bisa dihubungi kalo pengen kenalan sama loe/ pure saturday?</strong><br />
Kalo gwa email aja ke: sat_nb @ripplemagazine.net , sat_nb @yahoo.com. kebutuhan mendadak +62.817.221.489<br />
pure Saturday : buka aja website bikinan temen kita <a href="http://puresaturday.tk">puresaturday.tk</a> , atau mau kirim surat sih ke jalan nilem no. 7 Bandung, </p>
<p><strong>thanks a Yo</strong><br />
makasih banyak buat interview nya ya ric.<br />
<strong>Sama sama Iyo.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>selamat malam. Apa kabar? </strong><br />
Wah..kabar baik, kamu?<br />
<strong>Baik juga lho</strong><br />
<strong><br />
kenapa pake sistem midi? </strong><br />
Komputer, tadinya gw (henry foundation) pengen punya band, karena sulit cari orang2 yang sejenis jadinya bikin sendiri sama bantuan komputer. </p>
<p><strong>dapet ide bikin band karaoke darimana?</strong><br />
Hahahaha. Sebenernya kita gak pengen ada live.Konsepnya cuma recording aja, tapi banyak temen2 deket pengen kita maen, selain itu juga buat promosi lumayan ampuh, berhubung record-nya (H.F.M.F records) punya sendiri, jadi lumayan buat dongkrak penjualan album.biar balik modal.hehehehe.Sebenarnya lebih tebat disebut minus one gitu kali ya, biar kaya penyanyi2 solo atau duo gitu kaya rio febrian. </p>
<p><strong>pernah make out di supermarket?</strong><br />
Hahahaha, itu cuma bumbu2 lirik aja biar seger. sejujurnya belum pernah. </p>
<p><strong>mengapa memilih tema robot robotan?</strong><br />
Otomatis banget emang sama sound yang gw buat, bunyi2an artificial yang identik sama videogames, electronic toys dan robot. Padahal gw gak robot freaks sama sekali.gw lebih suka godzilla, bahkan judul albumnya rencananya Monster of the day, cuma gak jadi hehehehehe. Bukan robot tema utamanya pada  album Love and Turbo Action ini, temanya lebih ke LOVE&#8230;hheheheheeh tapi dilihat dari perilaku robot?! </p>
<p><strong>6 album yang paling loe suka?</strong><br />
Japanesse Whisper &#8211; THE CURE / Speak and spell &#8211; DEPECHE MODE / Freezeepop Forever &#8211; FREEZEPOP / Reconfigurine &#8211; FIGURINE  / Disintegration &#8211; THE CURE / Angel Dust &#8211; FAITH NO MORE </p>
<p><strong>berapa jumlah penari latar yang paling pas? </strong><br />
6<br />
<strong>Mengapa? </strong><br />
3 cewe dan 3 cowo<br />
<strong>Dan siapakah koreografernya? </strong><br />
Anggun Priambodo<br />
<strong>Mengapa juga?</strong><br />
Dia sahabat yang jadi robot di video clip gw. </p>
<p><strong>kalo loe ditinggal di bulan sama roket yang ditumpangi, loe mau ngapain aja disana? </strong><br />
Cari UFO yang cerdas, terus pinjem koneksi Internet ke bumi biar bisa kasi tau pacar kalo gw rindu dan baik2 aja dan bentar lagi pulang sama temen2 UFO baru terus bikin band electroufo bareng mereka. </p>
<p><strong>hari ini kegiatan loe apa aja?  Saat hari baru saja dimulai?</strong><br />
Gak ada, cuma bangun siang males2an karena abis ngerayain Ultahnya MONDAY MAYHEM semalem bareng DJ2 keren kita semua hehehehehe. </p>
<p><strong>pernah pake kostum robot robotan? </strong><br />
Topeng aja sih, gak sampe kostum full<br />
<strong>Kenapa? </strong><br />
Waktu itu gw bikin dan gw pake buat launch album di PARC nyanyiin Am i robot? hehehehe </p>
<p><strong>pengen manggung kayak gimana? </strong><br />
Pake dancer kaya agnes monica gitu&#8230;karena kita cuma minus one. </p>
<p><strong>pengen bisa kolaborasi sama siapa? </strong><br />
Jimi theUpstairs dan Dede Mocca<br />
<strong>Kenapa?</strong><br />
Suaranya bagus2. </p>
<p><strong>kalo pengen kenalan sama kalian, hubungi nya kemana yah? </strong><br />
<a href="mailto:goodnightelectric@yahoo.co.uk" title="mailto:goodnightelectric@yahoo.co.uk">goodnightelectric@yahoo.co.uk</a>  </p>
<p><strong>kalo diminta bikin album cover version. Lagu lagu apa aja yang bakal kalian cover? (10) </strong><br />
Fade into you &#8211; MAZZY STAR / Trust &#8211; THE CURE / Coklat &#8211; PURE SATURDAY / Antah Berantah &#8211; THE UPSTAIRS / Get me away i&#8217;m dying &#8211; BELLE AND SEBASTIAN / Be Agressive &#8211; FAITH NO MORE / Masseges &#8211; A FLOCK OF SEAGULLSS / Detektif Flamboyan &#8211; C&#8217;MON LENNON / See You &#8211; DEPECHE MODE / Close to you &#8211; THE CARPENTERS</p>
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<p><img class="alignright" src="http://static.flickr.com/26/56284487_0b64bfa355_o.jpg" alt="" /><em>Seharusnya interview ini tayang beberapa minggu yang lalu, tapi kayaknya ga apa apa deh baru muncul sekarang, karena semua pertanyaan dan jawabannya masih relevan sampai sekarang. Lagipula album album Kubik bukan termasuk album yang cepat dimakan waktu menurut gue. Oleh Eric Wiryanata, Photo by Bayu Trax Magz</em></p>
<p><strong>apa kabar Kubik?</strong><br />
baik-baik, si lusi sedang menikmati hidup berkeluarga dan bermain dengan anjing2 peliharaannya, gua biasa lagi bikin versi remix untuk beberapa lagu dari velvet words dan bikin kaos kubik yang baru</p>
<p><strong>persiapan album yang sedemikian lama. apa yang menurut loe akan menjadi stand out album ini?</strong><br />
hell yeah&#8230; 4 tahun, mmm the great combination of imagination, individuality, innovation and industrious effort dan gua super proud dengan album ini</p>
<p><strong>mimpi adalah salah satu inspirasi Kubik dalam menciptakan lagu. bagaimana loe merekam mimpi mimpi tersebut dan kemudian menuangkannya kedalam lagu?</strong><br />
memori gua dalam merekam apa yg gua alamin di mimpi sangat baik, gua tahu persis semua detailnya bahkan gua pernah terbangun dari tidur lalu gua tidur lagi dan melanjutkan mimpinya, setelah benar2 bangun gua langsung tulis semuanya ke folder mimpi gua dan kemudian membuat soundtracknya</p>
<p><strong>dengan perubahan personel, dan perubahan perubahan lainnya yang terjadi didalam band, termasuk lebih dominannya loe sebagai pencipta lagu, apa yang bisa menghubungkan karakter kubik di album ini dengan album sebelumnya?</strong><br />
selalu ada dua alam di dalam kubik, feminin dan maskulin, hal itu yang mungkin bisa menjadi penghubung karakter kubik di dalam setiap albumnya, tetapi maksud gua begini si lusi di kubik justru dia mengeksplor sisi maskulinnya dia dan begitu juga sebaliknya gua di kubik juga mengeksplor sisi feminin gua, selalu ada energi yang dihasilkan diantara dua sisi atau dua alam yang berlawanan dan kita tidak bisa memilih salah satunya, walaupun ada salah satu yang lebih dominan</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana caranya loe mengkombinasikan Image, Styles, Music dan Life..</strong><br />
tidak ada cara apa2, semua terjadi dengan sendirinya hidup gua begini karena musik, image dan style gua begini juga karena musik, karena apa yang gua denger dan apa yang gua bikin, begitu juga sebaliknya apa yang terjadi di kehidupan gua mempengaruhi musik yang gua bikin</p>
<p><strong>menurut loe apa sih kejujuran dalam bermusik?</strong><br />
don&#8217;t walk away&#8230; listen to your heart, cause your heart wont lie</p>
<p><strong>seberapa penting hal itu dalam musik?</strong><br />
gua nggak tau yang pasti gua sih ama lusi selalu membuat musik menurut apa yang kita suka dan berkualitas tentunya</p>
<p><strong>apa sih yang harusnya dimiliki oleh sebuah band supaya bisa menjadi besar? </strong><br />
wah mungkin loe harus nanya ke rolling stones pertanyaan ini, ok menurut gua sih stamina untuk ngejalanin semuanya, sangat    sulit untuk bisa mempertahankan suatu band dalam jangka waktu yang lama, kalo bisa sampai besar juga itu banyak faktor yah selain dari bandnya sendiri juga dari sisi bisnisnya ( product, promotion, placing, pricing ), 4p tea lah di istilah ekonomi mah meureun, rolling stones pun mengalami hal yang demikian, mereka bisa besar karena banyak faktor di luar bandnya sendiri, karena pada saat itu juga sebenarnya ada satu band yang punya lagu2 yang lebih bagus dari mereka tapi tenggelam entah kemana karena tidak didukung oleh faktor2 yang lain tsb. Eh gua ngomongin rolling stones bukan karena gua suka mereka, ini mah cuma contoh aja yes, dan ada satu hal yang penting juga dan sangat berpengaruh terhadap karir suatu band yaitu &#8220;keberuntungan&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Kubik memiliki jumlah lagu yang sudah cukup banyak.. ada ngga sih lagu yang menurut loe &#8220;kurang&#8221; ? dan lagu yang merupakan pencapaian terbaik?</strong><br />
kalo yg kurang kayaknya nggak ada karena setiap lagu punya nilai historis sendiri buat gua, mungkin &#8220;the beauty of lost&#8221; adalah pencapaian yg terbaik </p>
<p><strong>apa aja ni yang ada di playlist sekarang?</strong><br />
apoptygma berzerk &#8211; harmonizer and unicorn ep<br />
wolfsheim &#8211; casting shadows<br />
gary numan &#8211; hybrid<br />
melotron &#8211; sternenstaub<br />
cradle of filth &#8211; nymphetamine<br />
kubik &#8211; velvet words and lies<br />
koil &#8211; new killer demo 2005    </p>
<p><strong>seberapa penting menjalin hubungan dengan fans? dan impact kepada Kubik?</strong><br />
our fans is our blood and we give our blood from our veins to our fans, selama ini kita hanya bertemu dengan fans passaat manggung, tapi lebih banyak yang lewat email, mungkin baru tahun depan kita akan merintis kubik fans club berbarengan dengan dirilisnya album keempat</p>
<p><strong>kontak kontak nya Kubik? alamat surat/e-mail/website</strong><br />
alamat surat :  ke jl. sultan agung no.9 bandung-40115<br />
email ke : <a href="mailto:southvoice@yahoo.com" title="mailto:southvoice@yahoo.com">southvoice@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p><strong>last?</strong><br />
put your lipstick on so your velvet words and lies will be pretty </p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenage deathstar. Atau teenage death star? Atau teenagedeathstar. ga pernah jalas bentuk penulisan nama band satu ini? tapi yang jelas mereka punya lagu lagu enerjik yang siap dipakai untuk bersenang senang di mosh pit. Apapun itu ayo kita baca baris baris pertanyaan dan jawaban yang menyenangkan bersama mereka.. by Eric Wiryanata]]></description>
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<p><em>Teenage deathstar. Atau teenage death star? Atau teenagedeathstar. ga pernah jalas bentuk penulisan nama band satu ini? tapi yang jelas mereka punya lagu lagu enerjik yang siap dipakai untuk bersenang senang di mosh pit. Apapun itu ayo kita baca baris baris pertanyaan dan jawaban yang menyenangkan bersama mereka.. by Eric Wiryanata</em><br />
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kenapa diberi nama Teenage Deathstar?</strong><br />
Kenapa? Lu nanya  kenapa? Lewat?.terlalu standar untuk di jawab!<br />
 <strong><br />
loe bertemu orang ga dikenal. dan bermaksud menjelaskan musik TDS, tetapi loe ga bawa rekaman suaranya.. coba dideskripsikan musik TDS.</strong><br />
Kalo gua ga kenal ama orang gimana mau ngomongin konsep musik.ngobrol aja mungkin engga.wah lu aneh?..<br />
 <strong><br />
apa yang didulukan di TDS Image, lagu, penampilan.skill. beri skala prioritas.</strong><br />
Lagu pasti menjadi prioritas utama,lalu image?skill?! Itu ngikut belakangan. Belum tentu yang skill-nya edan edanan bisa bikin lagu bagus.karena makin tinggi skill seseorang makin tinggi juga egonya yang biasanya bikin materi jadi berantakan. Ya? biasanya kan pengen nonjolin kepiawaian memainkan alat musik?.&#8221;skill is dead right now!&#8221;<br />
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siapa yang paling berperan dalam pembuatan lagu lagu TDS?. langkah langkah apa yang dilakukan dalam penciptaan sebuah lagu?</strong><br />
Semua kita terlibat dalam pembuatan lagu biasanya kita bikin lagu sambil latihan. Biasanya kita bikin lagu sambil nge-jam jadi bisa langsung jadi.kalo misalnya vocal atau nadanya kurang masuk bisa langsung dikoreksi,sangat simple.karena musik kita juga simple as fuck! Hahaha&#8230;<br />
 <strong><br />
TDS dicap sebagai band Garage rock yang mengekor the datsuns. your opinion?</strong><br />
Wah lu mulai so tau lagi nih.kalo bekennya sih pengen kaya the datsun,sound mereka keren?tapi sayang kita ga seperti mereka dan gak mau seperti mereka!!!Karena garasi rumah kita hanya berisi sepedah federal keluaran tahun 90&#8242;an,selang air,kardus bekas kulkas,ban serep,tabung gas elpiji kosong,jemuran dll,tidak ada alat band disana jadi maaf saja.<br />
 <strong><br />
lagu lagu berjudul absurd, aransemen yang noise guitar driven, ugal ugalan, mungkin menjadi image band . gimana cara kalian membangun image band?</strong><br />
Kata loe absurb,kita bilang sih engga! It?s fucking real! Mungkin lu ngeliat kita ugal-ugalan sebenernya kita anak-anak manja ,manis??image kita terjadi dengan sendirinya kita ga mikirin kia musti gini gitu.Itu udah bawa&#8217;an lahir semua personil yang ada.Mungkin lingkungan yang keras membentuk kami secara tidak langsung.How To Survive with the hard living!!!</p>
<p><strong>apa hubungan antara asap rokok dan botol vodka dengan musik TDS?</strong><br />
Hei botol vodka tanpa isinya is nothing!!!You know What I mean? </p>
<p><strong>deskriprsikan sebuah suasana paling tepat untuk menikmati musik TDS.</strong><br />
Bar kecil yang penuh sesak,sedikit oksigen banyak asap,aroma ketiak,alkohol,ganja,bau muntah,atau sedikit bau pesing di pinggir panggung. Atau bisa juga dengan mengkondisikan diri anada sehingga anda mengalami fase guided by voices,hampir tdk bisa berbuat apa2 hanya ada muntah disekujur tubuh anda.<br />
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5 band lokal yang bisa kamu rekomendasikan.</strong><br />
1. Mr Chong And The Jupiters<br />
2. Jagger boy Transistor<br />
3. The Bob Uki Sarip Rastaman (Ingat bukan Bob Marley)<br />
4. Virgin Destroyer And The Sex Machine<br />
5. Lodom Rotom!!!</p>
<p><strong>ngomong ngomong diplayer kamu lagi ada album apa nih?</strong><br />
1. The Stranglers<br />
2. The Clash<br />
3. The Romantic<br />
4. Johhny Thunder And The Heartbreakers<br />
5. Motorhead<br />
6. The Stooges<br />
7. The Who<br />
8. Exploited<br />
9. Generation X<br />
10.Bauhaus<br />
11.The Pixies<br />
12.The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster<br />
13.The Moldy Peaches<br />
14.Bellrays<br />
15.The Pattern<br />
16.The Ordinary Boys<br />
17.The Killers<br />
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sebutkan lima kata yang dapat dihubungkan dengan TDS.</strong><br />
Skill Is Dead Mother Fucker!!!</p>
<p><em>Sekian sesi tanya jawab ini kami akhiri? dan kamu sudah bisa memulai mengeksplorasi mereka sekarang? ayo sana buruan. Saya mau jalan jalan menyalurkan hobi pencinta alam seperti si Joni. </em></p>
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		<title>Interview with The Upstairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Di sebuah tempat yang berbeda, dan cukup jauh letanya. Kami berusaha membuka sambungan komunikasi dengan The Upstairs. Dan ini adalah hasilnya. The Upstairs band yang diam diam menyodok ke permukaan. Semua konsernya selalu dipadati orang orang untuk bergoyang. Bahkan ketenaran band ini sudah melewati batas lautan.. iseng iseng sambil joged kita baca wawancara mereka yes. By Eric Wiryanata</em></p>
<p><strong>Apa kabar The Upstairs sekarang?</strong><br />
Baek, baek, pertanyaan lo ini basa-basi banget sih&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana The Upstairs dimasa mendatang?</strong><br />
Waduh kalo pertanyaan begini ngeri gua, takut ngeduluin Tuhan. Mendingan lo layangkan pertanyaan ini pada para Cenayang. Lo musti Ngerti dong. Kita ini sekedar Band Rock yang lagi demam Disco&#8230; Bukan Job Description kita untuk meramal masa depan.</p>
<p><strong>gue denger The Upstairs mau bikin konser khusus. ceritain donk rencana konser The Upstairs nanti, apa ini dilakukan sebagai pembuktian The Upstairs dalam bermusik, bagaimana?</strong><br />
Hmmmmmmm&#8230;. Bukan pembuktian tapi wajar aja kalo sebuah band mengadakan pertunjukan. Kita mengajak orang-orang untuk bersenang-senang.<br />
<strong>Wenz (d?menejer): </strong>Gue interupsi dikit si Jimi Gudel neh, ric. Kebetulan kan organizernya gue juga, Brainwashed Entertainment, jadinya yah pembeberan yang kurang bertanggungjawab oke juga kayaknya. The Upstairs ?Matraman In Concert? digelar hari Minggu, 19 September 2004 di De?Basic Bar, Melawai dari jam 5 sore. The Upstairs bakal maen sekitar 1,5 jam, full concert. Ada tiga opening acts keren yaitu, THE SASTRO, SAJAMA CUT dan MYSEX. Ada juga premiere video-video klip terbaru kita, ?Matraman? (2 seri) ama ?Modern Bop?. Ada sedikit tari-tarian daerah, cuma yang ini nude version sama pesta narkocang, sebagai after show party. You?re invited!<br />
<strong><br />
apa yang akan dilakukan The Upstairs jika ternyata nanti musik kalian ternyata booming, dan banyak band lain menggunakan genre serupa kalian&#8230; </strong><br />
Kita langsung memproduseri sebuah kompilasi bertitel ?Modern Darling, a tribute to The Upstairs?.</p>
<p><strong>dengan outfit seperti yang biasa The Upstairs gunakan , apa penah disangka copet?<br />
</strong>Gak pernah tuh, penumpang kendaraan umum sekarang sudah mulai cerdas, mereka lebih curiga kepada anak muda yang menggunakan t-shirt  berukuran M dipadu celana longgar dengan rantai dompet, trucker cap, dan yang lebih signifikan biasanya t-shirt mereka hanya di print dengan image berukuran kecil, image full t-shirt di hindari agar sesama copet bisa saling berkomunikasi secara parsial. Jadi aman-aman saja ternyata.</p>
<p><strong>oh my goodness. Sorry pertanyaan nya mulai ngaco&#8230; hmm bagaimana kalo diceritakan lagi tentang konser The Upstairs nanti. Apa aja yang bakal menjadi outstanding dari konser ini nanti.<br />
</strong>Oh never mind, dont worry my friend&#8230;. You mixed English with Bahasa Indonesia so i can?t get it clear&#8230;<br />
<strong>Wenz: </strong>Umm&#8230;The Upstairs akan berkolaborasi dengan The The Myth di saat encore.  </p>
<p><strong>ceritain lagi donk tentang konsernya. Karena ini kabar gembira banget.. jarang banget ada band indie yang mengonsep sebuah konser bagi dirinya sendiri.. how about to share some tips about organizing a concert for your own band.</strong><br />
Mendengar kalian GEMBIRA kami jadi turut BAHAGIA, about a sharing&#8230;. mmmmm&#8230;&#8230; ngggggg&#8230;<br />
<strong>Wenz: </strong>Ah, ngent*t lu, Jim hehehe&#8230;Tips? Yang terpenting mungkin menurut gue dalam mengorganizing your own band concert adalah asumsi basis massa penggemar yang mesti akurat. Ini penting biar organizernya gak merugi, seperti orang-orang yang gak pernah sholat ituh. Kalo konser The Upstairs sih kebetulan proyek nekat. Daripada uang yang kita punya cuma habis untuk mengkonsumsi narkocang doang, mending kita jajakan di jalan yang benar ?kan? Biar thayib. Amien. </p>
<p><strong>lagi donk&#8230; uehehehehe&#8230; sory ngaco lagi.</strong><br />
Ngehe lo! Bikin gua kaget, sampai mana tadi?</p>
<p><strong>hmmm.. apa mulut Jimi pernah disambelin karena ngomongnya kotor?<br />
</strong>Ooooooh gak pernah tuh, sebenarnya yang dia bicarakan semua adalah hal yang NATURAL, tapi salahnya yang NANGKEP omongan dia pada NGERES. Padahal dia sekedar melontarkan wacana hidup belaka&#8230;<br />
<strong>Wenz: </strong>Sesungguhnya manajemen tidak pernah bertanggungjawab akan segala sesuatu yang Jimi katakan pada audiensnya. Morally, he is pervert hehe&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>musik The Upstairs seperti gue baca di sebuah majalah memang banyak beredar dalam bentuk Mp3. bahkan gue menyaksikan sendiri temen gue mengcopy the upstairs dari harddiscnya ke harddisc temen gue satu lagi.. bisa dibilang sebagai the most pirated band&#8230; apa ngga khawatir kasetnya dirilis malah ga laku? Apalagi setelah lama CD nya beredar dan MP3.. (maksud pertanyaan nya cuma, kenapa rilis kaset nya baru setelah lama CD beredar dan MP3 nya dimana mana)</strong><br />
Andaikata poin nomer10 adalah jawaban maka pertanyaannya begini: ?Apasajakah yang telah dilakukan Sirkus Record pada The Upstairs??<br />
<strong>Wenz: </strong>Kami tidak merekomendasikan band siapa saja untuk bekerjasama dengan Sirkus Rekord. Why? Liat aja yang mereka perlakukan kepada band ini. Untuk semua penyembah berhala indie label, waspadalah, setan maha rakus tidak hanya berwujud dalam korporasi major label. </p>
<p><strong>next release?</strong><br />
Wah, seharusnya ini pertanyaan pada Label bukan Band, coba deh lo baca lagi pertanyaan lo&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>go international? Atau bagaimana dengan kolaborasi. Siapa kah yang kalian pengen banget ajak kolaborasi bareng? Kenapa?</strong><br />
Kenapa tidak?  Jangka panjang sama Teater KOMA, kalo jangka pendek sama sebuah group CHEERLEADERS, kalo ada yang minat bisa hubungin manajemen kami syaratnya ringan:<br />
- Kaki musti bagus, betis Ballerina no way<br />
- Wajah cukup lumayan<br />
- Nenen jangan terlau besar, karena kurang sedap dipandang jika goyang<br />
- Pinggang langsing<br />
- No Piercing di areal muka, kami suka yang natural<br />
- Meki jangan Bokauw<br />
- Jembi boleh dicukur tapi jangan di botakin, di rapiin dikit aja lah</p>
<p><strong>Pernah ngga orang tua kalian nonton konser The Upstairs?</strong><br />
Belum tapi orang tua dari Iman ( bassist Lain ) pernah.</p>
<p><strong>menurut kalian. Apa yang akan dilakukan oleh Iggy Pop jika mendengar The Upstairs atau menonton The Upstairs? </strong><br />
Kalo yang dia lakukan sih standard, paling langsung ajojing, tapi efeknya yang kagak standard. Karena setelah mendengar, apalagi menonton kami pasti usianya akan bertambah panjang TUJUH tahun lagi .</p>
<p><strong>apa si ?modern bob? itu benar benar ada, atau hanya rekaan saja? Jika ada, kenapa hanya dilamunin jorok saja tidak diajak bermain bersama The Upstairs?</strong><br />
Benerlah, tapi kalo kalo diajak MAIN sama the Upstairs ntar bisa jadi sebuah GROUP SEX yang tak bermoral. Hiiiy&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>kembali ke masalah konser. Jika memungkinkan, kalian ingin membuka konser siapa? Kenapa?<br />
</strong>Shania! Karena menurut khabar dari salah seorang wartawati dia paling anti pake kancut.</p>
<p><strong>apa kira kira pendapat anak anak kalian jika kelak mengetahui kelakuaan kalian waktu ngeband? </strong><br />
Ada pepatah import ?Like Father, Like Son? jadi&#8230;.. Yah bisa lo bayangin lah.!</p>
<p><strong>apakah makna angka 18 buat kalian?<br />
</strong>Seorang pria kurus bersama gadis bohay</p>
<p><strong>coba tuliskan 19 judul lagu. Yang ingin kalian ciptakan&#8230;<br />
</strong>1 A Cosmic g-spot<br />
2 Bercinta di kamar kost<br />
3 Hallo Albert<br />
4 No 75 ke Selatan<br />
5 Pulau Sperma<br />
6 Percuma<br />
7 Gadis Sundal<br />
8 Kau seksi namun  payah<br />
9 Lupa pada A.I.D.S<br />
10 Jenny Slebor<br />
11 Disco Hingga Lecet<br />
12 Polisi Cinta<br />
13 M E R D E K A<br />
14 Hey Hey Meki Dong!<br />
15 Kau Tatap Sepatu, ku Hantam<br />
16 Gadis dari Afganistan<br />
17 Usia 16 yang mahir<br />
18 Shinta Bedebah<br />
19 Deathrockstar ( extended version )</p>
<p><strong>trimakasih. Selamat malam..</strong><br />
ahhh dangdut lo&#8230;.!<br />
<strong>Wenz: </strong>Terima kasih juga buat Eric dan DeathRockStar yang udah mensupport The Upstairs sampe hari ini. More power to you. Obrigado! </p>
<p><em>Trimakasih ya atas waktunya berwawancara.<br />
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		<title>Interview with Speaker 1st</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaker 1st. udah pernah denger nama mereka? Kalau belum, berarti kamu butuh mencari mereka dari sumber sumber informasi yang lebih assoy.. mereka cukup memberi kesan yang bagus dari beberapa penampilan mereka di even even yang pernah mereka ikuti. .. dan kabar gossip terakhir, mereka sudah sign dengan sebuah major label local? tapi yang paling penting sekarang kita baca dulu interviewnya.. yeah, c?mon sob. By Eric Wiryanata.]]></description>
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<p><em>Speaker 1st. udah pernah denger nama mereka? Kalau belum, berarti kamu butuh mencari mereka dari sumber sumber informasi yang lebih assoy.. mereka cukup memberi kesan yang bagus dari beberapa penampilan mereka di even even yang pernah mereka ikuti. .. dan kabar gossip terakhir, mereka sudah sign dengan sebuah major label local? tapi yang paling penting sekarang kita baca dulu interviewnya.. yeah, c?mon sob. By Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>apa kabar speaker1st?</strong><br />
Speaker 1st : pretty good,alright !!!</p>
<p><strong>apa kelebihan trend garage sekarang dibandingkan dengan trend trend ska atau hipmetal?<br />
reds:</strong> njis&#8230;menurut gua garage mah udah beredar dari jaman dulu..sekarang aja media2nya nge blow up berlebih..<br />
<strong>Ben: </strong>yah namanya juga trend&#8230;semua sama ..mau trend dungdat kek mo hip metal kek gak jauh beda, pasti ada naek dan turunnya..<br />
<strong>Nton: </strong>teuing ah&#8230;<br />
<strong>Bon : </strong>long live rock n roll!!!!!<br />
<strong>Sandy :  </strong>celana bagian  bawahnya lebih lebar alias cutbray ga kaya thn 80an yg bray cut</p>
<p><strong>gimana album kalian nanti? ceritain donk,<br />
Speaker1st:</strong> just you wait and see pokonya dijamin different class banget lah kata jarvis cocker mah&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
how do you combine between music and attitude?<br />
</strong><strong>Ben : </strong>music come first&#8230;.attitude later&#8230;.<br />
<strong>Reds: </strong>music>joged..attitude>jeger..get it?<br />
<strong>Nton: </strong>sedikit garam dan rempah2 litl`bit alcohol 44%&#8230;adakadabra!!! kamu akan mendapatkan music khas SPEAKER 1ST<br />
<strong>Bon : </strong>attitude kita adalah attitude yang musically attitude<br />
<strong>sandy : </strong>ngga perlu combine combine nan lah saayana wee</p>
<p><strong>apa bedanya speaker1st dengan band so called &#8220;garage&#8221; lainnya?<br />
Speaker1st : </strong>kami beda&#8230;.karena kami merasakan&#8230;kami terpanggil,terpanggil,terpanggil&#8230;.(echo effect)&#8230;&#8230;oleh John Lennon dan haji jeje rasakan aja bedanya&#8230;.. sendiri&#8230;  Speaker 1st domba, band yang lain embe (sarua wae e&#8217;ena baruleud)</p>
<p><strong>trik trik speaker1st supaya bertahan?<br />
Reds: </strong>minum minuman khusus pria&#8230;yah lumayan &#8220;bertahan &#8220;sejam 2 jam mah&#8230;hehehe dan jangan lupa gerakan gerakan maju mundur&#8230;okeh.<br />
<strong>Bon :</strong> weeds,booze,cigarettes, alcohol and don&#8217;t forget about the dolls!!!<br />
<strong>Sandy : </strong>banyak minum jamu kuat</p>
<p><strong>AC/DC or Jet? why<br />
Nton: </strong>AC/DC tentunya!! soalnya they&#8217;re the gods&#8230;<br />
<strong>Reds: </strong>JET adalah AC/DC&#8230;AC/DC adalah SPEAKER 1ST..DAMN WE `RE GOOD<br />
<strong>Ben: </strong>saya mah AC split we lah&#8230;lumayan adem<br />
<strong>Bon : </strong>Both&#8230;.beda generasi tapi musik tetep sama,asalnya juga sama dari <strong>negara batur&#8230;long live rock n roll!!!!(again?)<br />
Sandy :</strong> OR</p>
<p><strong>apa sih yang ada di playlist loe sekarang?<br />
Red</strong>s: The White Stripes, Benyamin S, Warkop DKI, Velvet Underground<br />
<strong>Nton: </strong>Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Speaker 1st<br />
<strong>Ben: </strong>The Datsuns, The Seahorses, Zeppelin, Speaker 1st<br />
<strong>Bon : </strong>The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Black Crowes, Ledzep, God Bless<br />
<strong>Sandy :</strong> Jaco Pastorius, Slank,Stones<br />
<strong><br />
respon macam apa yang kalian harapkan dari penonton dalam tiap pertunjukkan?</strong><br />
respon hokcai olohok bari ngacai&#8230; turun panggung dikasih no telp ama cw&#8230; yah minimal sakecup dua kecup mah apa lagi &#8220;celup&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>rock n doll? </strong><br />
roll nya doang kok yang diganti..gampangkan&#8230; gini gini&#8230;kita menyukai rock nroll seperti kita  menyukai &#8220;doll kesenangan &#8221; ( you know what i<br />
mean) semua sama2 di mainkan dengan suka cita dan berkeringat&#8230;..let&#8217;s rock n rollin with some dolls!!!</p>
<p><strong>last word. </strong><br />
PAKE ROCK DAN BERGULING&#8230;YEAAAAH! Support us will ya!!!</p>
<p><strong>trims lho</strong><br />
kembali oh<br />
ewewewe.underconstruction.teuingirahajadina</p>
<p><em>speaker1st@yahoo.com</em><br />
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hohoho dari membaca interview diatas yang menyenangkan itu, mungkin kalian sudah bisa merasakan hype rock n roll Speaker 1st ini. Sampai jumpa di panggung yeah?</em></p>
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		<title>Interview with Daniel Johnston</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em> Mungkin ga banyak dari kamu yang tau atau mengenal Daniel Johnston, tapi banyak musisi besar terutama dari jalur alternatif atau post-rock/lo-fi etc. yang mendapat inspirasi dari orang ini. Bahkan dia sudah memiliki sebuah album tribute to Daniel Johnston dengan Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Mercury Rev sebagai pengisi nya? maka itu ga salah kalau kamu mulai browsing Daniel Johnston sekarang to discover a new experience I music if you haven?t heard of him before. Here is Daniel?s response. an interview with DANIEL JOHNSTON. By Eric Wiryanata via e-mail</em></p>
<p><strong>how is Daniel Johnston now?</strong><br />
Daniel Johnston is doing pretty good now.  All right, I guess.  I?m doing all right.</p>
<p><strong>many band have copied your music or mention you as their influence and achieve a more comercially breakthrought in the music industry, what would you say about that? and how does it affect your music ?</strong><br />
Well, that?s fine with me [copy or mention me].  I don?t really know completely what all my musical influence is, and I suppose it?s the same with everyone else.   All the  music you?re exposed to influences what you do in your music.   I don?t know how to answer ?how? all that works.   But it is there, the influence of everything you?ve heard.<br />
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what is an honest music? for you? </strong><br />
Well, you know, I don?t really ?make up? songs as much as I write songs about my life.  That?s really what I?ve always done, write about what I?m feeling and thinking at the moment.  I guess is you make it up, that?s not honest.   Maybe it?s not honest if it isn?t what you really feel.<br />
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What have you been listening to/reading/watching? Is there any particular type of art that has interest you lately?</strong><br />
Well, ?everything is art?, you know.  I used to say that, and what I mean is that if you have it in you, you see everything that happens as art ? of sorts.   But you have to ?read? into what you?re looking at and  get it.  That is , what about any thing that appeals to you or makes you ?stop and look?.  </p>
<p>But I know what your asking.  I listen to old records and CDs mostly.  I really don?t follow the music scene these days.  The bands I know personally I listen to of course.   I?m always collecting old albums from the 60?s and 70?s mostly.   I also listen to things people send me, and believe me, I get all kinds of music.   Some of it doesn?t even qualify for ?alternate? rock ? it?s something else.  </p>
<p>I?ve been listening to a lot of Christmas music lately.  I was thinking about doing a Christmas album and so I?ve been listening to a lot of Christmas music.</p>
<p><strong>do you discover any good new band lately? plz write some short review about them.</strong><br />
Oh.  Wow!   I don?t know.  I?m not really the person to write a review about another a band.  Like I said, I really don?t feel close enough to the music scene today ? I mean, what?s popular from day to day.  When I hear a good song, though, I know it.   I just ?clicks? with you, and you know it?s good.   It?s not something I understand myself.  You just trust your intuition and your reaction.   </p>
<p>I don?t really follow all the bands out today very closely.  Usually, it?s someone recommending a band to me.  I don?t know if I could recommend one because I haven?t heard them all.</p>
<p><strong>what is inside your music?</strong><br />
Inside?   I always have something to write about because there is always things happening.  And the music is what was in me at the time.   So, yeah, the music is really is outside of ME, and showing what is inside me..   I just put my life to song.  </p>
<p><strong>recomend your best song ever wrote. and please tell us the story behind it. and please tell us about your worst song.</strong><br />
Grievances, I think, is the best one I wrote.  Worse?  All the others are ?worse? than grievance.s [laughs]</p>
<p><strong>what is other musician best songs? and how it affect you. </strong><br />
Well, of course, I love the Beatles most.   They?re my favorite.  I have many favorites.  All the greats, you know, those that are considered great ? they?re pretty much what I listen to.</p>
<p><strong>there is a never ending debate about piracy and free music share. how is your opinion?</strong><br />
Well.  I don?t know.  I buy bootlegs all the time, you know ? the Beatles.  Once someone hits the big time, there is bound to be bootlegs.</p>
<p>Oh ? like on the internet?   I don?t know how that works, but yeah, I?ve heard about it.   I don?t understand it, though.  They?re sharing music?   Hmmm.   I?d like to get some!</p>
<p><strong>how about and indonesian tour?</strong><br />
I don?t know about that.   That sounds like a long way from home!  I really don?t like to travel.  I do when I have to, I guess.  But I really just as well stay home and write and draw all the time.  </p>
<p><strong>thanks&#8230; plz. include some contact list (web, e-mail, address, phone, etc that is possible for some readers to contact Daniel). and the latest news&#8230; </strong><br />
Yes, please mention<a href="http://www.hihowareyou.com"> <a href="http://www.hihowareyou.com" title="http://www.hihowareyou.com" target="_blank">www.hihowareyou.com</a></a> (?official site?) and <a href="http://www.rejectedunknown.com">www.rejectedunknown.com</a> (?fan site? ? it has the most information), and there is contact info on those sites how to contact Daniel or hear some of his music.  There is a message forum at <a href="http://www.hihowareyou.com/messageboard/index.php">www.hihowareyou.com/messageboard/index.php</a> that everyone should sign up to.  </p>
<p>You can email <a href="mailto:Daniel@hihowareyou.com" title="mailto:Daniel@hihowareyou.com">Daniel@hihowareyou.com</a> or <a href="mailto:Daniel@rejectedunknown.com" title="mailto:Daniel@rejectedunknown.com">Daniel@rejectedunknown.com</a>.   His fan post office box is Post Office Box 583, Waller, Texas 77484.</p>
<p>Please check on <a href="http://www.rejectedunknown.com">www.rejectedunknown.com</a> for the latest news ? you?ll want to mention the Tribute album, of course and all the artists on there.</p>
<p><em>We must say thanks for Dick Johnston for his novelty sothat we have this interview </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2004 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Hellow. Kalian tahu siapa itu Acid House Kings? Hmmm kalau belum pernah mendengar musik mereka ada bagus nya mencoba band Indie Pop swedia ini yang juga memiliki label Labrador Records dan bagaimana kenyataan bahwa Johan suka mendengarkan Mocca.. yeah Mocca band local Indonesia itu,.. Now try to read these short interview with Joakim and Johan from Acid House Kings. By Eric Wiryanata July 2004</em></p>
<p><strong>why &#8220;acid house kings&#8221;?<br />
Joakim: </strong>Because we didn?t want a standard-cute-name like many of the band in late 80.s, early 90: s. We thought Acid House Kings were much cooler than the Springfields for example.<br />
<strong> Johan: </strong>Yes, everyone was called Summer-this or Poppy-that at that time and it was quite boring. I think the name is partly taken from the Biff! Bang! Pow! album &#8220;The Acid house album&#8221; or something like that.</p>
<p><strong>you have such a poetic sense in all of your songs, how do you get all the inspiration to write words for your songs?<br />
Joakim:</strong> From other groups, books, films etc<br />
<strong>Johan:</strong> From life.</p>
<p><strong>you have finished your first 10 years plan. tell us about your next ten years plan&#8230; where would AHK be in the next ten years?<br />
Joakim: </strong>We working on a plan right now.<br />
<strong>Johan:</strong>&#8230; and it&#8217;s not including world domination. It does include a new album before 2004 is over though.</p>
<p><strong>i read that you put &#8220;sabbath bloody sabbath&#8221; as one of your fave albums. how Black Sabbath influencing you?</strong><br />
<strong>Joakim: </strong>I didn?t say that.<br />
<strong>Johan: </strong>It&#8217;s was one of my five fave albums of a certain short period. It&#8217;s not like an all time favourite or something like that. I&#8217;ve discovered that rock music can actually be good lately. It&#8217;s influenced me a little when I write music. But not when I write for AHK cause the others don&#8217;t really like riffs.</p>
<p><strong>tell us about you, why you choose to have a music career. ?<br />
Joakim: </strong>I don?t think Acid House Kings have a music career. We have never earned any money from it. All members have other careers besides the band.<br />
<strong>Johan: </strong>I chose to work with music because it&#8217;s the most pleasureable thing I know. But as Joakim says, Acid House Kings is not a music career, I work with the Labrador label and other bands. Someday I hope I&#8217;ll find out something else to do, but for now this will have to do.</p>
<p><strong>and what is the biggest inspiration to form &#8220;acid house kings&#8221;?<br />
Joakim: </strong>A major interested in music. If you are young and deeply interested in music I think it?s very easy to pick up a guitar and form a band.</p>
<p><strong>why not do a major label deal? remembering that you have a big fan base, even in Indonesia that is far from your country?<br />
Joakim: </strong>Since we have our own label, Labrador we don?t aim for a major record deal. We are happy with Labrador.<br />
<strong>Johan: </strong>I think it&#8217;d become too serious and take the enjoyment out of writing songs. Too much strain.<br />
<strong><br />
the best tips for a band that choose to have an indie career?<br />
Johan: </strong>Write good songs and develop a unique sound. Or at least a sound which too common. Send your music to the labels you like yourself.</p>
<p><strong>have you heard about Indonesian local indie pop scene? what about a tour to Indonesia?<br />
Joakim:</strong> I have never heard a band from Indonesia neither about the local indie pop scene.<br />
<strong>Johan: </strong>I&#8217;ve just heard a few things. I really like Mocca.</p>
<p><strong>tell us five words that would describe AHK<br />
Joakim: </strong>Melodic, happy, sad, self-assured, conscious please say a words to end this interview. and words for Indonesian Readers, words for your fanbase here..<br />
<strong>Joakim: </strong>We think it?s amazing to have fans so far away from Sweden. Thank you for listening.</p>
<p><em>johan@labrador.se</em></p>
<p><em>Thanks for Johan and Joakim for the nice interview. Best wishes to all of you.</em></p>
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		<title>Interview with Sajama Cut</title>
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<p><em>Sebagai salah satu band yang album keduanya merupakan salah satu dalam list ?anticipated albums? kita,  Sajama Cut mungkin adalah satu-satunya band yang merubah sound mereka begitu drastik?, dari musik noiserock eksperimental, menjadi?well, apa sih musik mereka sekarang? Dalam wawancara eksklusif dengan DRS, kami berhsil mengungkap detail-detail kecil tentang lagu-lagu baru mereka yang kabarnya akan dirilis dalam bentuk album, dengan release date, menurut vokalis mereka; Marcel ?Kalau Indonesia punya musim salju, kita akan rilis saat itu?. Uhh..ok, sure. Interview dilakukan di studio DGS, Bintaro, dimana Sajama Cut sedang melakukan ?last minute cleaning up? untuk ke-10 lagu baru mereka. Interview oleh Robert Marcus dan transcript oleh Nita.</em></p>
<p><strong>Apa kabar Sajama Cut?</strong><br />
Baik-baik aja. Trims. </p>
<p><strong>Gimana rasanya menjadi salah satu band yang namanya tercantum di list ?Most anticipated albums? kita?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Senang lah. Tau kalo materi baru kita ada yang ngantisipasi, jadi dorongan semangat yang bagus buat mastiin kalo kita benar-benar ngerilis album yang bagus. Tapi yah, udah lumayan lama juga album kita yang terakhir dirilis, dan perspektif kita sama musik sendiri juga udah berubah, kadang ada sedikit ketakutan yang muncul, yang gue yakin terjadi pada semua band, kalau audiens apapun yang kita sudah dapat mungkin akan teralienasi sama lagu-lagu baru ini. Tapi gue begitu percaya pada kekuatan biasa yang dimiliki lagu tanpa unsur?apa istilahnya? Novelty, kalo lagu dengan melodi yang kuat udah cukup. Gue harap materi ini menunjukan hal itu tentang Sajama Cut, bahwa tanpa sepuluh sample bokep jepang di satu lagu, kita tetap dapat, uhh, ngebuat lagu yang enjoyable.</p>
<p><strong>Tapi lo pernah ngerasa, shit, mungkin kita berubahnya terlalu drastis!?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel:</strong> Mungkin sedetik dua detik pernah. Tapi begitu lo masuk studio dan ngedengerin hasilnya, semua perasaan gak yakin hilang sih. Maksud gue, kalau ada band yang masuk ke studio dengan setengah hati tentang materi yang mereka buat, yah mending gak usah masuk sama sekali! Dan kita juga begitu lama menyiapkan pre-production untuk lagu-lagu ini, sampai gue gak inget lagi kapan kita mulai?.(bertanya ke Yosi, enginner &#038; soundman SC) kapan sih kita mulai rekamannya? Maret taon lalu?<br />
<strong>Yosi: </strong>Januari taon lalu.<br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>2003! Gila, berapa lagu yang kita filter, kita buang, dan lagu-lagu ini yang tetap kita suka?tetep bertahan?sampai sekarang. Kita masuk ke produksi dengan begitu terencana, hari senin ini, hari selasa ini, blabla. Kadang lari dari jadwal. Tapi pada akhirnya, ini semua lagu-lagu yang udah siap untuk diperdengarkan ke orang. </p>
<p>Emang rencana rilisnya kapan? Lo udah ada ide bakal dirilis sama siapa?<br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Gak tau juga. Januari 2005 mungkin? Ada beberapa?, sekitar 2 label yang udah approach kita tentang ngerilis album ini, tapi terus terang kita sendiri belum berpikir sejauh itu. Kapanpun kita selesai, hari berikutnya baru gue mikirin gimana cara ngerilisnya bener-bener. Tapi untuk sekarang, ada enaknya juga kita bisa kerja tanpa timeframe.</p>
<p><strong>Dari lagu-lagu yang udah gue denger, kayaknya memang lagu-lagu lo yang baru kedengaran jauh lebih natural buat Sajama Cut.</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Gue setuju. Dan siapa pun yang kenal dekat dengan kita juga pasti setuju. Sebangganya gue sama kerja kita di Apologia dulu, album itu lebih tentang berusaha sampai ke tempat yang gak bisa dicapai?dan lagu-lagunya?, dan kualitas rekamannya! Ngentot! (ketawa). Siapa yang waktu itu ngereview Apologia di deathrock?</p>
<p><strong>Indra kalo gak salah, kan lo suruh gue tapi gue gak bisa waktu itu.</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Ooo, ok. Anyway, secara lirik juga ada banyak unsur desperation di Apologia yang meskipun bukan eksternal, tapi gak se-internal lagu-lagu disini. Gue tulis materi-materi baru ini, tanpa prekonsisi tentang apa yang bakal keluar?kebalik 180 derajat dengan apa yang gue coba di Apologia, dimana semuanya udah gue rencanain dari awal. </p>
<p><strong>Gak seperti materi-materi baru lo?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Iya. Simplicity-nya adalah sesuatu yang selalu ada di kita, tapi baru sekarang kita bisa tunjukin semaksimal ini. Banyak lagu yang kedengerannya minimalis, tapi itu karena grasp kita tentang aransemen yang, yah?mudahan lebih bagus. Dimana dentingan piano, atau moog, atau Hammond bisa kasih nuansa tapi gak ngambil alih fokus lagi. Kapan musti tarik instrument tertentu, biar yang lain bisa napas. Hal-hal gitu.</p>
<p>Ada yang bilang materi baru lo lebih minimalis. Tapi dari track-track yang lo kasih denger tadi, kayaknya faktanya gak seperti itu.<br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Dari luar, hasilnya gue rasa mungkin akan kedengeran sedikit lebih minimalis. Tapi iya, banyak sekali overdubs dan punch-in leads di setiap lagu yang lebih, for lack of better word ?dewasa?. Kita lebih familiar sama studio dan arasemen yang dibutuhin sebuah lagu. Kapan cukup itu cukup. Maksud gue, di Apologia, kadang ada sepuluh gitar di satu lagu, mono pula! Malah akhirnya semua frekuensi tabrakan dan kedengarannya tipis.  </p>
<p><strong>Lo udah bisa kasihtau lagu-lagu yang bakal ada di album baru lo?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Bisa. Tapi beberapa masih working title. Alibi, Fallen (Japanese ? red), So they took him home and killed him, ummm?, Kyoto, Idol semen, Tokyo Mutherfucker, She was nice-she was a murderer. Ada beberapa lagi, tapi gue lagi gak inget.  Oh! Take care inamorata!</p>
<p><strong>Bisa kasih sedikit deskripsi gak tentang lagu-lagunya?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> ?Scarlett? ngingetin gue sama adegan-adegan film tua yang dibuat di Italia dengan karakter-karakter yang namanya Pablo atau siapa. Ada sedikit line pianika di bagian intro yang gue suka. Fallen Japanese ngingetin gue sama adegan cinta Toshio Mifune (Salah satu actor legendaris Jepang ? red) di Seven Samurai?ada koir di bagian depan yang makan waktu lama banget. Alibi, lagu minor mayor slow. Kyoto, ada sedikit unsur, uhhh? garage?? Disitu chorusnya stakkato gitu, kayak big band musik 50-an. Ada juga ?Fin?, yang bisa dibilang agak berbau the Fall, ?Nemesis? juga kayak gitu. Mungkin nuansa agak off kilter-nya?tuningnya juga agak aneh di dua lagu itu, DADGAD.</p>
<p><strong>Kayak ?Jumpin Jack flash?!</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Bukan, itu kan open G! </p>
<p><strong>Oh iya! (ketawa).  Lo udah nentuin lagu yang mana yang bakal jadi single?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Belum. Kalo sekarang kita liat, semuanya bisa jadi single (ketawa). Tapi enggak, gue rasa, berdasarkan reaksi orang-orang yang udah denger, Fallen Japanese atau Alibi. </p>
<p><strong>Udah banyak juga yang tau Fallen Japanese, pinter juga, semacam test market?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Iya, tapi gak cukup banyak! (ketawa)</p>
<p><strong>Jadi sekarang formasi lo juga udah berubah. Ada efeknya gak ama lagu-lagu ini?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Banget. Iman (Fattah, gitaris Lain, Zeke and the popo, dll) masuk pas kita udah kelar take rhythm track, tapi langsung dia bisa masukin banyak banget nuansa baru. Pianika di ?Scarlett?, dia yang maen. synth, noise gitar di ?Take care (inamorata ? red)? juga dia. Banyak juga harmoni vokal yang dia tambahin. Kalo Reni baru masuk agak belakangan, jadi kita udah kelar take, tapi sekarang gue lagi kontemplasi mau take ulang bagian bass-bassnya.</p>
<p><strong>Kalo bisa di wrap up, apa aja yang ngebuat album ini?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Substance gitu maksud lo? Smile-nya Brian Wilson, Hank Williams, Bonnie prince Billy, Revolver-nya Beatles, Bee Thousand-nya Guided By Voices, Johny Cash, Ledbelly, old country and folk shit. </p>
<p><strong>Jadi apa Januari 2005 itu worst case scenario, atau bisa lebih cepat?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel :</strong> Gak tau, kita liat aja. There?s no rush. Yang penting sekali keluar hasilnya udah maksimal. Selain itu, gue gak peduli.<br />
<strong><br />
>ABOUT THE TRAVELING FREAKSHOW</p>
<p>Gue denger akan ada tour dalam kota di Jakarta tuh. bakal kayak gimana tournya nanti? dimana ajah?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Bukan bener-bener ?tur? sih, lebih ke our version of a freakshow. Namanya Sajama Cut?s Traveling Freakshow. Mulainya sekitar Oktober, di beberapa kafe-kafe di Jakarta. Kita bakal ditemenin sekitar 4 atau 5  band lain.<br />
kalo misalnya tournya ga rame, antisipasi kalian gimana?<br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Yah, paling lihat sebabnya, kenapa kurang animo-nya blabla..trus coba perbaiki di acara berikutnya.</p>
<p><strong>lagi dengerin apa aja sekarang?</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Bonnie ?Prince? Billy, Indonesian Idol, Seringai, Guided by Voices, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Coltrane. </p>
<p><strong>denger denger Guided By Voices bubar yah? Sedih donk.</strong><br />
<strong>Marcel : </strong>Sedih banget?ngentot lu ngingetin.</p>
<p><strong>kapan tour ke kota kota lainnya?<br />
Marcel : </strong>Kalo gak salah tur Aksara (kompilasi JKT:SKRG &#8211; ed), sekitar Desember?bakal tur keluar kota juga kayaknya. Kalo Bandung sekitar Oktober.</p>
<p><strong>Sajama cut dibeberapa review media terkadang disebut sebagai &#8216;emo&#8217; . pendapat kalian sendiri?<br />
Marcel : </strong>Wow..iya dong, kita emo melebihi Chris aye Carambabi, ataupun Jimmy yang makan dunia, Rainer Maria, atau bahkan Rites of Spring! Setiap lagu kita tentang cinta kampus yang tak terbalas. Meeting band selalu dipenuhi dengan sesi isakan tangis dan curahan hati, atau lebih dikenal sebagai ?curhat? antar anggota band.  Goddamn. Hiks.</p>
<p><strong>lirik lirik yang kalian buat sangat erat berhubungan dengan Agatha Christie. apa yang membuat kamu bergitu tergila gila dengan Agatha Christie?<br />
Marcel : </strong>Ada sesuatu yang sangat seru dengan misteri whodunit?damn, 10 orang terdampar di rumah kuno dengan setting tahun 1940-an dan satu-satu mati terbunuh?wow!</p>
<p><strong>buatlah daftar 18 judul lagu paling keren yang pernah loe baca.<br />
Marcel : </strong><br />
1. Goldheart Mountain Top Queen Directory<br />
2. Tractor Rape Chain<br />
3. Lying Down on the Ground of an airplane going down<br />
4. Don?t think twice, it?s alright<br />
5. American English<br />
6. And evening of long goodbyes<br />
7. A good flying bird<br />
8. Prayer to God<br />
9. Take you on a cruise<br />
10. Long gone lonesome blues<br />
11. I see a darkness<br />
12. Another day full of dread<br />
13. Saffron?s curse<br />
14. To remake a young flyer<br />
15. Buzzards and dreadful crows<br />
16. Redeemer = mutherfucker<br />
17. Cosi Fan Tutti<br />
18 Piano concerto in A minor III</p>
<p><strong>siapa aja yang pengen loe ajak kolaborasi baik didalam rekaman maupun panggung.. manca negara maupun lokal.<br />
Marcel : </strong>The Rachel?s, Dylan, Zeke and the Popo, dan the Sastro.<br />
<strong><br />
cuts<br />
Marcel : </strong>Read ?Perfume? by Patrick Suskind.</p>
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		<title>Interview with The Upstairs&#8217; Jimi &#8216;Danger&#8217; Multhazam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Sudah saatnya band yang telah meresahkan masyarakat ini kamu kenal sedkit lebih dekat. Mari kita mengenal mereka sedikit melalui interview kepada vokalis biang keresahan via e-mail. Yuk? By Eric Wiryanata for DEATHROCKSTAR</em></p>
<p><strong>filosofi apa yang ada di balik nama The Upstairs </strong><br />
Gak ada, tapi kalo di amati dengan seksama nama ini feng shui nya bagus</p>
<p><strong>ada apa dengan Matraman? ada apa disana?</strong><br />
Matraman adalah tempat yang crowded, tapi bagi seorang kawan justru Romantik. Jadi kami simpulkan bahwa hal yang romantik itu bukanlah sekedar alasan karena dia cantik, karena dia manis, karena dia kamu, bukan seperti itu. Tapi suasana yang terbangun mengakibatkan cerita pantas di beri gelar romantik.Yah benar, ini adalah romantisme seorang kawan!</p>
<p><strong>image apa yang sebenernya ingin dibangun oleh The Upstairs?</strong><br />
Pembela kaum-kaum resah </p>
<p><strong>orang kribo berpakaian lusuh membawa bunga mawar dengan gaya Don Juan&#8230; musik disco elektronika > ke arah mana musik The Upstairs menuju?</strong><br />
Dari gang sempit penuh tikus ke lapangan luas penuh lampu warna-warni</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana The Upstairs dalam 1 tahun kedepan > 5 tahun kedepan > 10 tahun kedepan?</strong><br />
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, jadi kita tanyakan saja pada rumput yang bergoyang&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>apa saja yang bakal loe lakukan supaya musik The Upstairs dapat terus bekembang?</strong><br />
Buka mata dan telinga lebar-lebar my friend, gila dunia ini memang penuh kejutan. Siap-siap terkejut, jangan latah, norak jadinya ntar<br />
<strong><br />
sebutkan 5 kata yang dapat mendeskripsikan The upstairs.</strong><br />
Satu, dua, tiga, sikat Ben!<br />
<strong><br />
anarki?</strong><br />
Spanduk Polda warna ijo tua, dengan sablonan warna item</p>
<p><strong>menurut loe, apa sih yang seharusnya dimiliki oleh sebuah band indie?</strong><br />
Sinar yang berkilauan, dan warna-warna yang berani</p>
<p><strong>words for DRS</strong><br />
DRS, webzine yang bikin jantung band yang di review gegap gempita</p>
<p><strong>kata kata penutup?</strong><br />
Sesakkan celana di kaki, kenakan warna yang berani, berdansalah dengan resah!<br />
<em><br />
cari tau tentang mereka lebih banyak lagi di ?. <a href="http://www.theupstairs.cjb.net ">www.theupstairs.cjb.net </a></em></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2004 13:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Setelah lama ditunggu. Akhirnya e-mail saya dijawab via Friendster? yo semuanya sama sama membaca interview ini supaya mengenal sedikit lebih dekat siapa mereka?. by Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>kenapa diberi nama Homogenic?</strong><br />
dibaca inggris/indonesia sama. juga waktu jaman2 awal homogenic masih rissa sama dina, mereka berdua kan cewe-cewe, jadi homogen(sejenis) gituh.</p>
<p><strong>which comes first? image, music, style?</strong><br />
music, image lalu style</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana cara Homogenic mendeskripsikan musik Homogenic kepada orang orang yang belum pernah mendengarkan Homogenic?</strong><br />
sebenarnya basicnya pop hanya diramu secara elektronik. jadi kayanya masih gampang dicerna buat telinga-telinga awam.</p>
<p><strong>Homogenic sering disebut sebagai pengekor  Bjork. opini kalian sendiri?</strong><br />
wah bangga sekali kalo disamakan ama bjork,berarti kita hebat ya, adorer by everybody!! haha. sebenarnya ga ngekor2 amat, itu mungkin hanya euphoria massa  orang2 yang belum tau musik homogenic dan menilainya hanya dari nama homogenic itu sendiri. mbak bjork itu out of reach banget lah.. gak mungkin kita ekor-ekorin&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>gue sering dengar kritik. kalau penampilan kalian kurang hidup. karena hanya menggunakan peralatan elektronik. bagi kalian sendiri bagaimana?</strong><br />
ya itu hak mereka yang mau mengkritik, tapi itulah homogenic! mungkin suatu saat nanti di<br />
waktu dan tempat yang pas kami akan melakukan beberapa inovasi sebagai jawaban dari kritikan2 tsb, tapi kami tdk akan pernah merubah image dan trade mark yang ada. tunggu saja nanti..</p>
<p><strong>kiat kiat kalian dalam membentuk sebuah band dan mempertahankannya?</strong><br />
betul2 memikirkan konsep band itu sendiri, setelah itu mempelajari konsep itu baik..buatlah agar kita yang tau segalanya ttg konsep tsb! carilah orang2 yang betul ahli di bidangnya dan sekonsep juga satu visi sama kamu&#8230;untuk mempertahankannya tetaplah menjalin kerjasama yang baik!</p>
<p><strong>musik trip hop model homogenic kan tidak terlalu &#8216;in&#8217; di zaman yang sedang demam emo, punk atau  garage rock.  alasan khusus dalam hal ini? </strong><br />
ga ada..memang kita bukan orang2 yang in fashion..haha..eh kata siapa ga in?? tunggu deh bentar lagi..pasti menjamurr, indonesia lah tau sendiri</p>
<p><strong>if possible. who will be collaborating with Homogenic?</strong><br />
beberapa pemusik kesenian daerah &#8230; liat aja nanti ;) masih kejutan<br />
<strong><br />
how is Homogenic lifestyle?</strong><br />
hmm, sama aja kaya yang lain. kuliah,pacaran,buka friendster,jalan2 ke mall, nonton bioskop,pergi malam mingguan,nongkrong, biasa ajalah.</p>
<p><strong>apa aja proses yang biasa dilakukan dalam penciptaan sebuah lagu?</strong><br />
dina:melamun, duduk manis di depan komputer dan keyboard, secangkir teh manis panas, aromatherapy lavender, beberapa kamus bahasa inggris dan indonesia, jadi. trus transfer via email ke dea. briefing.. tunjukin ke rissa buat masukin vokal</p>
<p><strong>tell us about your upcoming album> </strong><em>(albumnya udah keluar, -ed)</em><br />
more simple but sophisticated. (semoga!)<br />
<strong><br />
kiat kiat yang akan dilakukan Homogenic untuk terciptanya sesuatu yang Fresh dalam<br />
penampilan  dan musik?</strong><br />
penampilan ; maskeran seminggu sekali<br />
musik ; banyak cari tau yang baru</p>
<p><strong>describe the best enviroment to enjoy Homogenic&#8217;s music</strong><br />
malam hari, di kamar atau pagi hari di jalan tol. atau malah di wc? heh&#8230;? yang penting dikelilingi atmosfir yang enak.</p>
<p><strong>hal hal yang mempengaruhi kreatifitas Homogenic?</strong><br />
perasaan, perasaan,perasaan, itu aja</p>
<p><strong>what is in your playlist now?</strong><br />
Deena: mum,goldfrapp,lamb,massive attack,weekend players<br />
dea: tangled out:electronic pop compilation, dubstar, mew, lhb, a few of car park north, sova, rufio, dll..dll..<br />
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opini tentang piracy?</strong><br />
bagus untuk band (jadi terkenal..hahaha) tapi neraka buat label<br />
ps: kebetulan band bukan prioritas kami buat nyari duit. laku syukur, nggak ya apa boleh buat&#8230; yang penting idealisme kita tersalurkan, dan kita enjoy membawakan lagu2 kita sendiri. </p>
<p><strong>click <a href="http://www.deathrockstar.tk">www.deathrockstar.tk</a> tell us something about it. </strong><br />
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<p><strong>thanks</strong><br />
sama-sama ric.. trus berkarya!!</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Setelah Superman is Dead dan Burgerkill, kini Rocket Rockers sebagai band yang juga memulai karir dari jalur indie melebarkan sayapnya dengan salah satu major label terbesar di Indonesia? kita baca saja interview sangat singkat tentang album terbaru mereka nanti dengan Ucay sang frontman dengan aksi panggung atraktif?. By Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>sign berapa album?</strong><br />
Kebetulan kita ditawarin untuk 6 album. And we&#8217;re just enjoy&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>idealisme RR di major label.</strong><br />
Untuk musik, artwork, lirik, sepenuhnya Sony mempercayakan ke Rocket Rockers. Kita juga kaget, sekarang udah lagi rekaman, kok mereka nggak kirim orang untuk ngatur2 musik dan lirik kita yah? (padahal kita sudah mempersiapkan kata-kata mematikan dan stick baseball untuk protes kalo diatur2)eh, taunnya nggak sama sekali&#8230; hahaha&#8230;once again, we&#8217;re just enjoy&#8230; Lirik kita juga kayaknya masih didominasi bahasa Inggris. Lagu Indonesia juga ada beberapa dan gue (ucay) baru nemu celah untuk bikin bahasa Indonesia yang enak untuk dipadu padanin sama musik RR (biar nggak terdenger janggal). So, idealisme RR masih di RR.</p>
<p><strong>berapa lagu?apa aja judulnya?</strong><br />
Sekitar 13 lagu, tau nih lagi nyiapin satu lagu lagi buat bonus track di CD. Judul2 lagunya masih rahasia&#8230;mungkin sebagian judul bisa di baca di merchandise kaos RR terbaru di distro-distro kesayangan anda&#8230;.hahahaha&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>rekaman dimana? kapan sampai kapan?</strong><br />
Rekaman di Bintang 41 Studio Bandung (tempat rekaman album pertama kita dulu dan Burger Kill). Waktunya kita targetin dari April sampe Juni.</p>
<p><strong>produser ?</strong><br />
Duit: Sony Music<br />
Music: Rocket Rockers</p>
<p><strong>single pertama nya&#8230;</strong><br />
Hmmm&#8230;masih rahasia, tapi udah sering dibawain kalo manggung-manggung dari tahun kemaren. Cek terus <a href="http://www.rocketrockers.com">www.rocketrockers.com</a> aja ok ;) </p>
<p><strong>thanks Cay..</strong><br />
sama-sama bos!</p>
<p><em>Visit <a href="http://www.rocketrockers.com">www.rocketrockers.com</a> untuk info info terbaru Rocket Rockers</em></p>
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		<title>Interview with The Jadugars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Kamu suka memperhatikan video klip yang diputar di televisi? kemudian melihat nama sutradara nya adalah The Jadugar.. sebagian besar video klip yang mereka hasilkan memang benar benar layak diacungi jempol. Dan dapat menyegarkan mata dengan video vdeio yang kreatif?. Berikut ini perbincangan singkat dengan mereka semoga dapat memberi inspirasi kepada para calon sutradara muda.By Eric Wiryanata</em><br />
<strong><br />
nama The Jadugar kan artinya magician&#8230; keajaiban keajaiban apa yang telah berhasil loe lakukan?</strong><br />
<strong>Batman : </strong>kita jadi semakin produktif dalam karya video musik, dan karya ini lebih dapat dinikmati oleh banyak orang, terbebas oleh ruang galeri dan waktu pameran&#8230;lalu muncul apresiasi dari banyak orang, dan itu menyenangkan sekali&#8230;klasik dan sedikit romantis.<br />
<strong>Anggun : </strong>kita berusaha menampilkan magic pada visual para penonton video musik mencoba untuk selalu menampilkan sesuatu yang berbeda pada setiap video musik yang kami hasilkan. Kalaupun berkesan biasa, tapi kami selalu membuatnya menjadinistimewa apabila penonton mau merenungkannya </p>
<p><strong>loe bakal paling enak berkarya membuat videoklip kalau?</strong><br />
<strong>Batman :</strong> Musiknya inspiratif dan anak2 bandnya udah ketauan attitude-nya.Jelas dan enak diajak kerjasama. Cuma sejauh ini Band2 yang menurut kita keren banget kebanyakan dari label2 kecil yang gak bisakasih budget memadai, jadi kita terkadang harus menyesuaikan sama budgetnya. Misalnya gw punya ide pengen ngerubuhin Monas terus di shoot pake kamera film 35 mm biar efek slowmo-nya dapet kaya tragedi 11 september, buat videonya Seringai yang &#8220;Membakar Jakarta&#8221;  misalnya lho&#8230;tapi kalo budgetnya cuma 100 ribu yah gak mungkin&#8230;.gitulah  kira2. pokoknya ide-ide untuk memvisualisasikannya tercapai, krn apa yg sebenarnya sudah di imajinasikan lalu menjadi kenyataan, berarti sudah tuntas kewajiban kita&#8230;<br />
<strong>Anggun : </strong>apabila kita mendapat kebebasan untuk berekspresi tanpa banyak pagar yang menghalangi kreatifitas kami kadang-kadang yang susah adalah ketika si pembuat image daripada si musisi itu jadi banyak permintaan. belom lagi kalo musisinya sendiri susah buat diarahkan </p>
<p><strong>dalam mendapatkan inspirasi, biasanya prose apa yang loe lakukan? dan untuk menjaga kesegaran ide ide loe?</strong><br />
Menjaga kesehatan tubuh itu penting, biar otak tetap fresh untuk bekerja dan berfikir. Pijat dan mandi sauna itu menyegarkan, menghindari hal2 yg bikin stres seperti jalan2 sore di daerah buangan 3 in one yang lagi kerendem banjir dan yang penting banyak melihat, mendengar dan  memperhatikan sesuatu hal2 kecil di sekitar kita.</p>
<p><strong>hasil karya loe yang terbaik sampai saat ini apa tuh? dan kenapa?</strong><br />
<strong>Batman : </strong>Kita berusaha membuat semua karya kita dengan maksimal dng eksekusi yang  terbaik, kalau ternyata nantinya ada yang kurang memuaskan buat kita sendiri  atau orang lain, itu akan menjadi pelajaran selanjutnya untuk memperbaiki  kekurangan yang kemaren..yah standar lah..hehhehe<br />
<strong>Anggun :</strong> yang paling sukses adalah kalo kami berhasil menerjemahkan isi lagu dan image si musisi ke dalam sebuah video musik yang dapat dinikmati oleh setiap orang yang melihat dan yang pasti itu engga gampang hehe</p>
<p><strong>teknik video klip yang paling sulit? dan teknik paling disukai?</strong><br />
Teknis yang sulit?hmmmm&#8230;green/blue screen yang sungguh sangat sempurna. Teknis biasanya sih tergantung bagaimana dengan konsep video yang bakal kita  buat. Sejauh ini kita lagi seneng ngexplore stop motion&#8230;tapi kita suka semua  teknik, karena banyaknya&#8230;makanya butuh kesempatan untuk bikin yg beda-beda.</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana loe mengkombinasikan idealisme dengan komersialisme? </strong><br />
dengan langsung menceburkannya, memix keduanya, mencobanya, memulainya, krn dengan itu akan terwujud sesuatu yg nantinya menjadi mainstream, dan itu prosesnya lama&#8230;jadi kalo ga di coba dari sekarang ya makin tambah lama lagi yg namanya komersil tapi idealis&#8230;lalu kalo udah seperti itu, artinya harus segera cabut utk cari yg lain lagi,&#8230;lagi dan terus&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
menurut lo apa apa saja yang harus dimiliki oleh seorang sutradara videoklip yang baru memulai karir nya</strong><br />
Kalo emang udah punya keinginan dan mampu, langsung &#8220;berbuat&#8221; Jangan  kelamaan mikir. Perluas pergaulan dengan teman2 yang se-visi. Banyakin referensi visual dan musik.</p>
<p><strong>the jadugar sepuluh tahun mendatang?</strong><br />
Bikin album rock&#8230;biar kaya the upstairs, the brandals, the miskin&#8230;here  comes the jadugarssss!!!hehehe</p>
<p><strong>lagu apa dan band apa yang loe pengen banget bikinin videoklipnya? dan akan seperti apakah videoklipnya?</strong><br />
Nah itu dia&#8230;kenapa kita pengen bikin band, bikin album terus bikin video klip-nya sendiri. Biar kalo nanti masuk tv di label-nya nama The Jadugar yang  paling atas, gak kayak selama ini selalu di bawah setelah judul album.</p>
<p><strong>monday mayhem?</strong><br />
Penting..Sebuah fenomena di awal tahun ini.Wajib datang!!!!<br />
<strong><br />
last words</strong><br />
There is no one left in the world, that i can hold on to<br />
There is realy no one left at all, there is only you.<br />
<em><br />
Kontak mereka dan curi ilmu nya, atau sekedar ngobrol dan ngucapin apa kabar, e-mail : <a href="mailto:thejadugar@yahoo.com" title="mailto:thejadugar@yahoo.com">thejadugar@yahoo.com</a><br />
Nana 081586229911<br />
Anggun 0818411766<br />
Batman 08129004485</em></p>
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		<title>Interview with The Brandals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2004 13:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Siapa yang ngga tau The Brandals? Yup? inilah interview dengan The Brandals. Interview written by Marcel Thee &#038; Eric Wiryanata<br />
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<strong>Siapa? Kenapa? Kapan?</strong><br />
The Brandals dibentuk akhir 2002, dengan formasi Eka Annash (vox), Rully Annash (drum), Toni (Gitar), Bayu (Gitar), dan Doddy (Bass).</p>
<p><strong>Kenapa kalian milih nama ?the Brandals?? Apakah hal paling berandalan yang pernah dilakukan oleh theBrandals?</strong><br />
Nama Brandals untuk mem-presentasikan musik dan imagenya. Hal paling berandalan?..ada salah satu personil yang pernah kejeremus pakaw dan ngalamain titik terendah dalam hidupnya&#8230;Kalo diceritain secara detaill udah bukan berandalan lagi&#8230;tapi kriminil. Near death experience?</p>
<p><strong>Ada alasan khusus atas ketidakhadiran huruf ?e? di kata ?Brandals??</strong><br />
Ngga ada alasan khusus. Cuma huruf e-nya ngga penting ajah&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana perbandingan dengan grup-grup ?Garage Rock? ? the Strokes et al? Menganggu atau bisa dijustifikasi?</strong><br />
We love those revivalist bands!..dibandingin dengan mereka bagi kita merupakan compliment kok. Mereka ngasih inspirasi buat kita bikin musik. Mengganggu? Ngga lah, karena pada dasarnya genre music itu selalu recycle. </p>
<p><strong>Apa ada sedikit ketakutan terbawa arus trend Garage Rock, yang pasti ada jatuh bangunnya?</strong><br />
The Brandals eksis bukan karena trend. Mungkin timing-nya tepat, tapi trend ngga pernah ngelintas di pikiran kita. Kita lahir dari jamming, kumpul di tempat yang sama, dengerin musik yang sama, berbagi minum dari sedotan yang sama, Jadi lebih kayak pertemuan ide dan kreatifitas di satu titik lebur. Kalo ada yang bilang sekarang trend-nya lagi garage?well, that?s too bad! Where they?ve been?..Garage rock?s always there?</p>
<p><strong>Ceritakan tentang kelebihan dari album kalian yang baru beredar.</strong><br />
Kelebihan-nya?..err..kayaknya normal-normal aja. I mean?it?s only a rock n roll album, nuthin new. Tapi mungkin yang bikin kita puas adalah absen-nya intervensi kreatif dari pihak lain. Jadi album ini 100% ekspresi musikal The Brandals. Terus dari sudut lirik juga kita lebih terbuka. Gue pribadi sebagai penulis lirik ter-inspirasi banget sama background Jakarta sebagai kota urban, tempat dimana kita lahir. Jadi narasi dan musiknya kayak permukaan kota Jakarta : kasar, dekil, agresif, ngga ada basa-basi.<br />
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bagaimana kalian menjaga kestabilan lagu lagu the Brandals supaya tidak jatuh kedalam monotonitas?</strong><br />
Supply amphetamine, alkohol, pornografi  dan THC. Biasanya selalu bikin kita always ?up to no good?. Which makes good source for ideas in songwriting.</p>
<p><strong>jika ada kesempatan lagu apa yang bakal kalian buat ?cover version? nya?</strong><br />
Cover version?sampe saat ini belum kepikiran. Tapi kalo kita mau cover lagu orang, pengen-nya bener2 jadi interpretasi baru. Jadi bukan asal cover aja. Gue pribadi pengen banget nge-rombak  ?March Of The Pig?-nya NIN. Kayaknya asik. Brutal. Atau ?Helter Skelter??tapi gue pengen-nya bawain itu lagu abis neken nipam atau dumolit. Speed-nya jadi 1200 bpm. Ngebut abis-lah pokoknya, gaya hardcore punk gitu</p>
<p><strong>Apakah 100km/jam bisa dijadikan representasi kuat dari lagu-lagu theBrandals yang lain?</strong><br />
Nah..never judge a book by its cover, budy!</p>
<p><strong>Jika dibuat suatu film tentang the Brandals, siapa aktor2 yang akan memerankan kalian?</strong><br />
RULLY-DRUM : MAT SOLAR<br />
BAYU-LEAD GTR : AHMAD ALBAR<br />
TONI-RHYTM GTR : KOMENG<br />
DODI-BASS : ALMARHUM KASINO<br />
EKA : Alm. JODY ROTOR</p>
<p><strong>Jalan menjadi superstar sebentar lagi baklal terwujud. Apalagi setelah MTV exclusive artist Seberapa jauh persiapan kalian untuk menghadapi groupies dengan oral sex yang maut dan alkohol dan obat-obatan gratis berlebihan?</strong><br />
Superstar?..dengan musik kayak The Brandals?..I doubt it man&#8230; But groupies are always warmly welcomed. Oral sex amatir? Ngga masalah&#8230;kita bisa ajarin. Alkohol dan obat berlebihan? Kita bisa bagi-in ke temen dan penonton</p>
<p><strong>Live show kalian cukup chaotic. Ritual seperti apa yang kalian lakukan di backstage? Seberapa jauh melibatkan wanita-wanita dibawah umur?</strong><br />
Ngga ada acara ritual-ritualan lah&#8230;paling minum pletok atau bir, nyimeng, ngobrol-ngobrol&#8230;a bit of amphetamine kick if we?re lucky? But a good chat is a good reminder of how lucky we are to be placed among friends and doing what we?re doing. Its just music man&#8230;its there to be enjoyed. Wanita dibawah umur?..whatever ..we like our ladies bald and fat yo!</p>
<p><strong>Band apa yang paling mempengaruhi theBrandals secara musikal? Band-band lokal dan luar apa yang sedang sering kalian dengarkan?</strong><br />
Ada bedanya antara ter-inspirasi dan terpengaruh. Kalo terpengaruh kayaknya lebih pasif, tapi kalo ter-inspirasi proses kreatif-nya lebih menyenangkan. Mencuri elemen dan mengolah, mendaur ulang dengan ide dan konsep kita sendiri jadi format yang lebih fresh. Bukan baru atau orisinil, tapi lebih fresh. The Brandals sendiri terinspirasi konsep dan prinsipil band dan musisi kayak VU, JHE, The Clash, The Who, Sex Pistols, Straycats, The Cramps, Elvis, Bowie dll. </p>
<p><strong>Lima album klasik apa yang membentuk theBrandals?</strong><br />
5 Album?..Aaarrrgghhh&#8230;50 album juga ngga bakalan cukup. But u want 5?&#8230;Triple madness from The Stooges, Semua album Jimi Hendrix Experience, Semua album VU with Lou Reed, Bowie?s Berlin Trilogy, Early to mid period Stones&#8230;how?s that?&#8230;hehehe</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana kondisi musik independent local saat ini menurut kalian? </strong><br />
Masih baik-baik aja. Tambah bagus malah. Jaringan kerja-nya makin kuat dan lebih produktif. Tapi yang gue ngga suka adalah prejudisme sepihak, dimana kalo ada band yang ter-ekspos media massa langsung di-cap komersil. It?s a bit shallow and unfair. Padahal kualitas musikal-nya masih bisa dipertanggung jawabkan.</p>
<p><strong>Jika anggota theBrandals berada dalam suatu ?Battle Royale?, dimana kalian di beri waktu 3 hari untuk menghabisi satu sama lain, siapakah Brandal yang akan berdiri terakhir?</strong><br />
Ngga ada yang berdiri terakhir. Yang ada kita berlima bakalan ngehabisin elo&#8230;heheheheeeeh</p>
<p><strong>Apakah kalian setuju bahwa adegan facial di film porno sangat merendahkan wanita? Atau justru sebaliknya?</strong><br />
The money come shots?..haha&#8230;kalo di film ngga ngerendahin lah. Mereka dibayar kok. Tapi kalo sehari-hari, ada juga kali ya cewe yang suka mukanya belepotan sperma. Secara pribadi gua lebih suka ngeliat cewe yang adventurous gitu. It takes guts to swallow girls&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Apakah rencana theBrandals selanjutnya?</strong><br />
Hopefully touring  and shag the groupies</p>
<p><em>thebrandals@yahoo.com | <a href="mailto:thebrandals@hotmail.com" title="mailto:thebrandals@hotmail.com">thebrandals@hotmail.com</a> </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Namanya unik ?Muntah? manggungnya juga menyegarkan, siapa coba yang ngga kepincut buat wawancara mereka? Baca wawancara mereka sekarang, dan nantikan penampilan mereka divenue. By Eric Wiryanata</em></p>
<p><strong>kenapa namanya Muntah?</strong><br />
Jadi&#8230;gini pak..suatu waktu ntah kapan juntrungannya,kebetulan Alex abis makan jeroan,padahal dia kan kolestrol tinggi&#8230;&#8230;trus disitu ada revan,revan ketawa liat muka alex yang bokjer (mabok jeroan).Alex ngajak revan bikin band,(obsesi terpendam alex)&#8230;&#8230;..revannya mau,karena kesenangan,alex loncat loncat trus muntah, eh dapet tuh judulnya&#8230;&#8230;.judul bandnya MUNTAH&#8230;..(harusnya Muntah Jeroan,tapi kepanjangan)</p>
<p><strong>ada rencana bikin show sambil Muntah beneran?</strong><br />
<strong>Dungan :</strong> Pasti&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.pengen banget muntahnya ke muka Alex&#8230;<br />
<strong>Krishna :</strong> Belum gw pikirin&#8230;.masa minum susu bisa muntah&#8230;..<br />
<strong>Revan :</strong> Bisa aja lagi kris&#8230;kalo lu minumnya segalon&#8230;&#8230;<br />
<strong>Alex : </strong>Huekkk..(sambil tersenyum)</p>
<p><strong>minuman favorite sebelum ataupun sesudah manggung?</strong><br />
<strong>Dungan :</strong> Botol ijo berBINTANG campur Sprite&#8230;..<br />
<strong>Krishna : </strong>SUSU&#8230;.Entah itu milo ato ultrajaya&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
<strong>Revan : </strong>Bir juga, tapi jangan yang dicampur dung, yg murni aja&#8230;<br />
<strong>Alex : </strong>heheh&#8230;.(masih tersenyum)</p>
<p><strong>musik Muntah tuh gimana sih? </strong><br />
<strong>Dungan : </strong>kalo lu denger, muntah lah&#8230;&#8230;.<br />
<strong>Krishna : </strong>gw mencoba melogiskan&#8230;&#8230;kami itu seperti trash,agak agak nge rock,hyper-blast dimanamana,tapi lebih jepruuutttzzz&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;yg penting asik.<br />
<strong>Revan :</strong> Bedalah ama yg udah ada,kita pengen bikin sesuatu yang segar di kancah musik indonesaaa&#8230;&#8230;<br />
<strong>Alex :</strong> (Senyum)</p>
<p><strong>referensi Muntah dalam ngeband?</strong><br />
banyak sih, soalnya orangnya berasal dari komunitas yg beda beda, si dungan ama krishna lebih RAWK N RAWL&#8230;.si alex ama revan pokoknya yang GELAP GELAP deh&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;kira kira bandnya&#8230;..fantomas,los crudos,anal cunt,nirvana,the doors,sum 41,hendrix,NOFX,punk jaman jebot,bob dylan,the darkness ama rock 80an,AC/DC&#8230;&#8230;dll</p>
<p><strong>visi dan misi Muntah?</strong><br />
pokoknya, pengen memberikan warna baru dalam kancah permusikan bangsa endonesaaaa&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;juga pengen bikin musik yg &#8220;ngga biasa&#8221; kali ya&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>dalam sebuah pertarungan ROYAL RUMBLE antar personel Muntah. siapakah yang akan menang?</strong><br />
KRISHNA&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.soalnya dia minum susu, yang lainnya minum bir&#8230;&#8230;.(tertawa semua&#8230;..)</p>
<p><strong>band for fun or band for fund? why?</strong><br />
<strong>Krishna : </strong>band for fan&#8230;&#8230;.!!!!<br />
(ketawa semua&#8230;..)</p>
<p><strong>kalau kamu ketemu sama band favorit kamu. pertanyaan apa yang akan kamu ajukan?</strong><br />
<strong>Dungan :</strong> udah siap kalah pamor belum ama MUNTAH ? ntar lagi soalnya gw bakal lebih terkenal dari lu nih&#8230;&#8230;.(heheheh&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..pengennya&#8230;&#8230;)<br />
<strong>Krishna : </strong>Lagi&#8230;lagi&#8230;&#8230;.lagi&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..latian lagi&#8230;&#8230;..!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
<strong>Revan ama Alex :</strong> (saling senyum berdua, trus mulai pelukan)</p>
<p><strong>pesan pesan terakhir?</strong><br />
<strong>Dungan ama Krishna :</strong> Jangan rusuh !!!!!! Sukseskan PEMILU 2004&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Kalo yg lagi nonton kita, tiba tiba mau muntah, muntahin aja ke ALEX&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br />
<strong>ALEX AMA REVAN :</strong> (dah tidur b2, soalnya wawancara sambil bikin pletokan&#8230;&#8230;.heheh)</p>
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		<title>Interview with The Miskins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Inilah band poppunkrock Indonesia, menjadi stand out karena penampilan enerjik diatas panggung, dan lagu lagu yang mempunyai karakter, pelafalan bahasa Inggris yang bagus, sejak vokalisnya adalah Lens orang bule.. yang mungkin bisa menjadi the next big wave tanpa foto foto bokep dulu? Oleh Eric Wiryanata via e-mail</em></p>
<p><strong>nama sebuah band biasanya menggambarkan karakter band tersebut. karakter atau image apa yang pengen dibangun The Miskins lewat nama tersebut?</strong><br />
Anak nakal, , brengsek, Brandalan, mati masuk surga hahaha?.  Bercanda deng? sebenernya gak ada image/karakter yang aneh-aneh yang pengen dibangun lewat nama band kita, kita tidak take ourselves too seriously. Kita cuma pengen main musik dan senang-senang. Toh, nama ?The Miskins? juga Cuma dibikin asal-asalan, waktu itu kita gak punya alat apa-apa, jadi kita suka bercanda bilang band kita ?miskin?, trus dengan penambahan The dan akhiran ?S? biar agak-agak bule jadi deh nama The Miskins. Bener deh, apa yang elo ?liat? itu adalah kita yang sehari-hari. Kalo kurang oke? Ya terserah?.<br />
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pertanyaan standard. gimana cara loe deskripsikan musik The Miskins?</strong><br />
Campur-campur semua ada disini, tapi kebanyakan sih lagunya mengarah ke punk, karena punk maennya simple, Cuma 3 kunci beres ?? huehehehehe. Tapi kalo lagi iseng bisa nyelipin metal atau disko atau apa aja yang mungkin bisa dimainin.</p>
<p><strong>suatu hari The miskins mendapat kesempatan untuk mendesain sendiri venue manggungnya. suasana seperti apa yang pengen loe bangun di venue tersebut?</strong><br />
Theatrikal abesshhh!!! Jadi tiap lagu punya set sendiri, misalnya:</p>
<p>Lagu Loner, kita desain background gedung-gedung kota yang sedang terbakar gitu terus suasananya dibikin hectic banyak orang wira wiri di atas panggung karena panik. Ada yang setengah gosong, ada yang nangis, ada yang nyolot, pokoknya macem-macem. Terus di tengah-tengah lagu backdropnya diganti ama muka orang-orang bertopeng yang merepresentasikan para teroris dan diakhiri sobeknya backdrop. Keren  banget tuh?</p>
<p>Lagu Soap in My Eye, kita bakal taro berpuluh-puluh bath-tub di atas panggung dan di samping bath-tub2 itu ada orang-orang setengah telanjang yang lari di tempat di sepanjang lagu (kayak pake tread mill gitu) terus banyak sabun-sabun yang disemprot ke atas.   </p>
<p>Lagu Hands Up, panggung di desain kayak suasana pinggir jalan raya yang sedikit rame dengan pintu bank di tengah-tengah. Terus ga lama ada mobil jaman dulu beserta perampoknya naek ke atas panggung terus masuk ke dalam bank, dan desainnya langsung berganti jadi suasana di dalam bank.</p>
<p>Pokoknya banyak deh, dan kita pengen banget maen di panggung kayak gini. Sekarang tinggal nungguin yang mau sponsorin dan diajak kerjasama ajah.. Ada ga yah?<br />
Atau untuk versi simpelnya bisa panggungnya ditengah dengan penonton disekelilingnya. Robbi pengenya drumnya muter-muter kayak gangsing.  Reno pengen maen ditengah-tengah penonton.</p>
<p><strong>semua orang ingin mendapatkan yang terbaik. bagaimana cara yang paling nikmat dalam menikmati musik the miskins?</strong><br />
Sebenernya lagu-lagu kita bisa didenger dimana aja. Di mobil, di kamar, di puncak bukit indah berbunga, di kantor yang sialan, di sekolah, di diskotik jedung-jedung, di pantai, di belakang kuda, , tapi sejujurnya paling manteb sih didengerin diperbatasan Depok-Jakarta huahuahuauhahaha?.. dan kata robbi ?perlu dikelilingi sejumlah wanita setengah bugil yang menggeranyangi selangkangan untuk menikmati musik the miskins?.</p>
<p><strong>dalam sebuah kejadian yang sangat darurat loe hanya bisa memilih lima album koleksi loe. album apa sajakah itu?</strong><br />
Lens: Hunky Dory &#8211; David Bowie, Urban Hymns &#8211; the Verve, The Stone Roses &#8211; The Stone Roses, Blue Lines &#8211; Massive Attack, The Best of? &#8211; Brian Ferry and Roxy Music<br />
Bampak: &#8230;And Justice for All &#8211; Metallica, Revolver ? The Beatles, Siamese Dream ? Smashing Pumpkins, Chamber Music ? Coal Chamber, Play ? Moby.<br />
Reno: Stoned and Dethroned ? Jesus and The Mary Chain, The Complete ? The Stone Roses, Rust In Peace ? Megadeth, Song of Faith and Devotion ? Depeche Mode, Dummy &#8211; Portishead<br />
Robbi: Led Zeppelin, Rather be Dead ? Refused, Rust In Peace ? Megadeth, Police/Sting, Cowboys from Hell ? Pantera </p>
<p><strong>oh ya&#8230; langkah-langkah apa sajakah yang dilakukan the miskins dalam menciptakan sebuah lagu?</strong><br />
Biasanya sih Lens bawa lagu dasar dengan gitar kopong, lalu digarap habis di studio rame-rame. Kadang-kadang direkam terus didengerin masing-masing balik ke studio lagi untuk diselesaikan. Pernah juga bikin riff dulu di studio terus dibawa pulang. Yah macem-macem deh. Gak ada yang pasti di The Miskins.  </p>
<p><strong>tema tema apa saja yang biasa diangkat dalam lirik lagu? kenapa?</strong><br />
Macem-macem, biasanya sih cuma kisah-kisah bodoh yang kadang-kadang nyangkut dikehidupan sehari-hari. Karena lens adalah seorang penghayal. Bisa cerita cewek kece, cheap traveling, makan keju di Swiss, perampokan buat seneng-seneng, ke?botal?an aka kegundulan, kisah kasih anak kost pastinya</p>
<p><strong>apa sajakah yang dianggap berjasa dalam pengembangan musik The Miskins? atau dengan kata lain. &#8220;influence&#8221;</strong><br />
kalo untuk The Miskins sendiri mungkin gak ada tapi kalo untuk tiap-tiap personel bisa banyak banget dari Hip-hop sampe Brutal black magic death grind core sampe berdarah-darah. Hidup Soeharto!!! Oye!!! </p>
<p><strong>poppunk yang menjamur dan bahkan disebut sebagai the new millenium boyband. bagaimana opini the miskins akan hal tersebut? dan dimanakah the miskins menempatkan diri diantara fenomena tersebut?</strong><br />
Biarin aja, kita gak begitu peduli mengenai begini-beginian. Pokoknya kita ngeband biar senang. Cuma kebetulan banyak orang yang bilang, kita ini ganteng-ganteng kayak Element dan kita gak sengaja main band, terus gimana dong??? Masa? kalo kita kece-kece begini, kita gak boleh ngeband??? Hah?? Hah?? Hah?? huahuahaauhahahahauauhaau</p>
<p><strong>ceritakan tentang album kalian&#8230;.</strong><br />
bikin Februari 2002 dirilis Januari 2004, kebayang kan? So it must be good, what more can we say??? Hehehe?.. sorry gak panjang-panjang, capek ceritanya. Pokoknya keren (a.k.a promosi!!!)</p>
<p><strong>last words?</strong><br />
Kita berjanji untuk latian yang lebih serius lagi, karena orang-orang yang dengerin kita layak untuk mendapatkan yang terbaik. Amin.</p>
<p><em>themiskins@yahoo.com</em></p>
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		<title>Interview with The S.I.G.I.T</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Band ini walaupun belum punya album, tapi sebuah demo dan menyaksikan penampilan live mereka. Cukup sudah membuat saya ingin tahu lebih dalam dnegan mereka? pengusung apa yang sekarang disebut garage rock, atau kadang Rock Revival? inilah The Sigit. By Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>image apa yang pengen dibangun dengan menggunakan nama The Sigit?</strong><br />
Dengan tanpa mengurangi rasa hormat, maka dengan ini kami menyatakan bahwa  kita berkeinginan untuk membantu proses pendidikan dengan memberikan pemahaman-pemahaman baru dalam musik Indonesia. Bila ada pihak yang tidak mengerti dengan arti harafiah The Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talents, maka bukalah kamus-kamus bahasa Inggris yang akan memberikan pengetahuan baru pada kalian.</p>
<p><strong>trend berlalu, band juga berlalu, seperti halnya dengan trend ska dan hip-metal. bagaimana The Sigit dengan trend Garage Rock?</strong><br />
Siapa yang mengatur dimulainya Garage Rock dan siapa yang mengatur diakhirinya Garage Rock? kalau dikasih batas kapan majunya?</p>
<p><strong>band band garage rock dikenal sebagai band one-hit wonder, satu album lalu menghilang, bagaimana dengan rencana the Sigit sendiri?</strong><br />
Kalau anggapan Anda seperti itu,ya tolong doakan saja kami tidak seperti itu, kami akan berusaha memberikan seluruh kemampuan kami dalam mencipratkan lagu-lagu </p>
<p><strong>apa yang mau didahulukan Attitude atau Musik? kenapa?</strong><br />
Keduanya tampil bersamaan.Kita bukan Band Studio atau sesuatu yang kalian lihat di &#8220;Pop Star&#8221; atau &#8220;Akademi Fantasi&#8221; Lu nilai kita pas main LIVE! Karena keduanya saling mendukung dan memberikan warna</p>
<p><strong>energi energi negatif macam apa yang dihasilkan the sigits dalam lagu lagunya?</strong><br />
Tidak semua  energi negatif menghasilkan dampak negatif, amarah atau teriakan atau keluh kesah yang keluar dari kami merupakan sesuatu yang dapat membuat suasana yang positif bagi kita sendiri, yang penting kita bisa berekspresi, mungkin ekspresi kita dianggap negatif, ya karena hidup kita banyak ditekan oleh sesuatu yang negatif. Tafsirkan sendiri saja ya.</p>
<p><strong>Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin atau The Datsuns, Kings Of Leon? kenapa?</strong><br />
Semuanya. Anggap aja kami gak bisa E&#8217;e, tidur, makan, belajar, dll.  tanpa mendengarkan petikan Jimmy page dan Ritchie Blackmoore, atau Fallowells Bros, atau  pun teriakan Dolf, Soalnya dari kecil udah dicekokin kaya gituan. </p>
<p><strong>apa aja visi misi The Sigits dalam meramaikan dunia musik?</strong><br />
Ah, nu penting mah urang hoyong maen musik Rock N&#8217;Roll, da Aquarius jeung Akademi Fantasi mah ngan nyaho Duit,  teu nyaho musik nu ngeunah.</p>
<p><strong>ceritakan dong tentang album The Sigits nanti.</strong><br />
Materi udah ada, tinggal direkam sama nunggu bantuan hibah dari pemerintah yang tak kunjung datang.</p>
<p><strong>5 album apa yang menurut loe terbaik dari koleksi loe?</strong><br />
Lu nanya cuma lima, udah tau Deep Purple aja ada berapa album, masa gua sebutin Best of Deep Purple atau Box set Led Zeppelin sih? trus BBC session-nya dikemanain? tapi ya kurang lebih :<br />
<strong>Adit :</strong> Koleksi MP3 di Komputer saya!<br />
<strong>Rekti : </strong>1. White Album,(the Beatles) 2.Burn (Deep Purple) 3. Electric Warrior (T-rex) 4.Led Zeppelin(yang logo tea!)  5.Highway To Hell (AC/DC)<br />
<strong>Acil :</strong> 1. Raw Power(Iggy Pop), 2. London calling (The Clash) 3.The Datsuns(the Datsuns) 4.Summer Dreams(32 classic tracks) Beach Boys. 5. The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses<br />
<strong>Farri :</strong> Semua Album yang saya beli secara sadar adalah bagus ; harap maklum</p>
<p><strong>apa aja yang menjadi pengaruh The Sigits baik dalam mencipta lagu maupun dalam penampilan?</strong><br />
Botol Ijo, yang  ada bintangnya itu looooh !;he he he&#8230; harap maklum	  </p>
<p><strong>salam terakhir?  </strong><br />
Salam Pembangunan!</p>
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		<title>Interview with Homicide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Sebuah rekaman kaset cukup untuk membuat saya tertarik untuk mengenal mereka lebih jauh, makin tertarik setelah membaca lirik lirik dan tulisan tulisan mereka diberbagai media newsletter atau cuma selembar kertas. Album yang membuat saya kecewa telah memberikannya pada pereview  DRS yang anti musik sejenis&#8230; Homicide sudah memberikan harapan dan pencerahan baru pada saya tentang apa yang disebut Hip-Hop atau Rap ? kalimat tersebut ga terlalu berlebihan kok? dan melalui interview ini beberapa keingintahuan saya terpenuhi dengan jawaban jawaban yang menyenangkan? Interview by Eric Wiryanata</em></p>
<p><strong>image apa yang ingin dibangun dengan menggunakan nama &#8220;Homicide&#8217;?</strong><br />
Image? apa ya, bingung saya, waktu pertama bikin, dulu taun 1995, ngga ada pikiran mau bikin image apa&#8230;, Sebenernya si Lephe yang dapet nama itu, tadinya Verbal Homicide, terus dianggap kepanjangan ya dipendekin jadi Homicide doang. udah gitu aja cerita dibalik nama sih&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>selama ini Homicide dikenal sebagai band Hip-Hop. menurut pandangan loe sendiri apa itu Hip-Hop?</strong><br />
Buset&#8230;, apa ya? yang ada dipikiran lu apa? buat saya sih hiphop itu ya saya, saya adalah hiphip, pemaknaan atas eksistensi, bukan produk yang dibikin definisi dan eksistensinya ama orang. So that&#8217;s it&#8230;, sori kalo jawaban saya pendek dan ngga memuaskan, abis saya bingung mau dijabarin sedeskriptif apa label-labelan kayak gini&#8230; </p>
<p><strong>lirik lirik rhyme yang Homicide buat, menurut gue unik banget dan menarik. darimana Homicide mendapatkan sumber sumber inspirasi penulisan lirik? dan bagaimana biasanya proses penulisan itu terjadi?</strong><br />
Sumber inspirasi saya bejibun, tergantung dari sumber atas inpirasi model apa, technicly or spiritualy or (dare i say) ideologicaly? contohnya, inspirasi saya untuk nulis rhyme didapet dari pengalaman setengah umur saya dengerin hiphop dari Public Enemy sampai Quasimoto, dari The Last Poets sampai Company Flow. Lebih teknis lagi cara saya nemuin konstruksi rhyme saya diinpirasikan ama Rakim dan KRS-One, lebih teknis lagi cara saya bermetafor saya ketularan El-P, Bigg Jus dan Mr.Len, lebih teknis lagi; inpirasi atas penemuan eksotisme atas rima saya dapet dari sejarah berabad-abad manusia nulis puisi, prosa dan rima tentunya&#8230;, contoh lain; inspirasi atas penulisan musik saya berhutang banyak ama mereka yang menemukan jeep beats, dari Gangstarr sampe EPMD sampe (tentunya) Public Enemy (Long Island sounds rules!!!), cara saya maling kebrisikan dunia dan saya masukin ke komposisi saya terinpirasi the Bomb Squad, Merzbow, Godflesh dan mereka-mereka yang gak betah diam di dunia tangga nada, dan&#8230;. ah banyaklah jadi ya&#8230; inspirasi terhadap apa dulu&#8230; Dan kalo ngomongin proses juga bisa macem-macem, selalu berganti-ganti, dan saya sendiri terus nyari proses-proses kreatif dalam penulisan lirik, ngga mau mentok dan puas disitu-situ aja, tapi umumnya saya berangkat dari beat, selalu beat sebagai parameter, karena saya pengen rima saya merespon sesuatu, dan acuannya kalo ngga orang yang nantangin battle ya ritme atau beat itu tadi. Biasanya saya berangkat dari free-flow freestyle, tapi seringnya saya ngga puas ama format freestyle karena bentuknya sendiri yang ?loose? dan ngga terlalu konseptual dan ngga terlalu ngehajar atmosfer benak orang secara mendalam. Sejujurnya saya lebih suka written rhymes daripada lirik freestyle meski ngga selalu.</p>
<p><strong>membaca lirik lirik Homicide yang tampak sarat dengan pesan pesan yang kadang nyerempet ke politik. apa visi dan misi loe dengan lirik lirik tersebut?</strong><br />
Nyerempet politik?, fuck it&#8230;, my shit is exteremly political, hkahkahkhakhak, ngga becanda, tapi&#8230;, mmm ngga juga&#8230;, maksud saya gini, ini menyangkut banyak dengan persepsi lu sendiri terhadap term &#8216;politik&#8217; dan &#8216;politikal&#8217;. Pernah ngga denger jawaban orang kalo ditanya kenapa lirik lu tentang cinta? pastilah jawabannya: &#8220;saya ngga bisa nulis lagu politis atau tema-tema sosial dsb&#8230;dsb&#8221;&#8230; hkhkhkk, sekarang silahkan pikirin lagi apa bedanya lagu cinta dengan lagu politik atau lagu emo dan lirik propaganda? they&#8217;re the same shit different smell buat saya&#8230;, Buat saya sendiri lirik saya adalah lirik &#8216;personal&#8217;, karena saya tak pernah membuat lirik yang tak ada hubungannya dengan pengalaman personal. Buat saya lirik saya lirik emo karena buat apa nulis lirik kalo emosi ngga jalan dan ngga dipake? Cuman orang tolol yang bikin lirik ngga dijiwai dan ngga dihidupi. Intinya: i really hate the fuckin term!. Saya benci klasifikasi model begini. Seolah-olah sesuatu yang personal itu kagak politis, dan yang politis itu ada dikutub berbeda dengan perasaan personal. Seolah-olah halpersonaldan politis ada di dua kutub berbeda yang berlawanan dan manusia disuruh memilih diantara dua pilihan tadi; &#8220;being personal or political&#8221;. Fuck that. Saya benci pengkelasan seperti ini karena membuat segala sesuatu menjadi didangkalkan seperti tadi. Label lirik politis dan lirik personal membuat kita berfikir seolah-olah yang politis itu tak memiliki hasrat dan bukan manusia. Hanya sekedar sebuah &#8216;mesin politik&#8217; yang kagak bisa nangis dan tertawa. Ini aneh, seolah mereka yang membicarakan cinta itu tak memiliki kebencian dan yang memiliki kemuakan atas sesuatu tak bisa mencintai sesuatu. Visi dan Misi? kok pertanyaannya kayak nanya ke ketua OSIS sih? apa ya visi dan misi saya? mmmm&#8230;. ngarang aja ya? visinya matahari dan misinya bikin sayap yang lebih kokoh dari ikarus&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>saat ini cukup banyak kelompok kelompok yang menggunakan label hip-hop bertebaran di televisi. menurut loe apa yang bisa membedakan Homicide dengan mereka?</strong><br />
Bedanya banyak, mungkin lu justru harus bertanya tentang persamaannya. Lu justru harus mempertanyakan kenapa kami semua dilabelin dan dianggap hiphop, padahal beda-beda. Tunggu&#8230;.hiphop? lho&#8230; bukannya kata orang-orang di scene hiphop indo kami ini band punk? </p>
<p><strong>apakah aliran &#8220;sayap kiri&#8221; itu buat loe? apa Homicide berada dibagian tersebut?</strong><br />
Aduh, sayap kiri? itu bukannya bahasa yang dipake orang di abad kemaren? wah kagak begawl lu&#8230;., udah kagak ngtrend lagi &#8216;bo&#8230;, kami sekarang berada di sayap jibril, sayap ikarus, sayap ababil dan sayap naga. (konon naga punya sayap meski kecil dan dilupain orang&#8230;, kan mitosnya naga bisa terbang, nah pasti punya sayap kan?)&#8230;., c&#8217;mon&#8230;&#8230;!!! WTC udah runtuh, Cina udah masuk WTO, Che Guavara udah ditemuin mayatnya, Osama bin Laden tambah panjang jenggotnya, Madonna tambah tua, anak saya udah dua&#8230; ayolah tinggalin aja left-right-wing bullshit model begitu dan kasiin buat para asshole neo-feodal yang masih pengen tinggal di dunia lama. &#8230;.yaknawwhatamsyn??? tapi kalo pelu deskripsi tentang apa fondasi ideologis saya OK: politik saya lebih radikal dari politik ke-kiri-kirian yang tentu lebih ekstrim militansinya dari politik ke-kanan-kanan-an, dan tentu saja lebih fundamental dari semua fundamentalis yang lebih organik dari semua fondasi filsafat yang pernah lahir di muka bumi yang suka dijadiin ruang pembenaran buat orang-orang yang gemar memilih ditengah-tengah&#8230;.., Hakakakakakakkhkhkhk&#8230;.., </p>
<p><strong>darimana loe mendapatkan inspirasi menggunakan teknik ngerap seperti yang elo jalanin sekarang?</strong><br />
Dari macem-macem&#8230;, anjir sori, tadi saya kebablasan ngejawab pertanyaan nomor dua, harusnya disisain untuk nomor ini. Sori&#8230; sori&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana biasanya proses sebuah lagu jadi. dan bagaimana biasanya loe memutuskan apakah sebuah sample akan digunakan dalam lagu atau tidak?</strong><br />
Biasanya saya berangkat dari lirik. Tapi ngga juga sering juga saya denger lagu atau sample yang menggugah dari apapun mulai dari suara tongeret, soundtrack film atau lagu yang kemudian diloop dan baru nulis lirik, udah nyampe komposisinya baru saya bikin konstruksi utuhnya. Tapi ada juga hasil nge-jam dan nulis lirik sesabetnya. Macem-macemlah, ngga ada proses tunggal.</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana suasana pertunjukan Homicide yang paling ideal. sehingga baik Homicide dan penonton bisa meraih hasil kepuasan yang maksimal?</strong><br />
Pertunjukkan yang ideal itu ngga ada, yang ada pertunjukkan yang asik. Yang asik bagi kami adalah pertunjukkan yang kami bisa komunikasi dua arah dengan yang nonton (bukan penonton). Bentuk komunikasinya banyak, kadang ada yang cuman joged peduli setan sekuriti panggung, ada yang neriakin terus kami timpali, ada yang naik panggung ngambil mik dan ikut nge-rhyme, terserah mau battle sekalipun oke. Pertunjukkan yang asik itu yang bisa ngeruntuhin barikade mitos &#8216;artis-penonton/fans&#8217; antara saya yang dipanggung dan mereka yang diiluar panggung. Pertunjukkan yang asoy kayak gitu susah kalo format acaranya seperti yang selama ini kita alamin, saya pribadi lebih cenderung memilih panggung kecil, pertunjukan sederhana yang ngga banyak orang tapi semua yang datang bisa berpartisipasi aktif didalammnya bukan cuman pasif nonton, ngapain kek bikin kegaduhan ritmik sendiri kek, set-up meja literatur kek, ngajak band debat kek, apa ajalah pokoknya harmoni dari chaos yang jalan begitu aja. Acara model begini banyak yang bilang mustahil, ah itu mah kagak gaol aja hkhkhk&#8230; udah banyak acara begini terlaksana dengan sukses dan rutin, di Bandung sendiri udah sering acara begini terorganisir sampe selesai&#8230;, meski tipe acaranya acara hardcore/punk. Kalo saya dituduh membual-bual silahkan datang ke acara kawan-kawan yang ngorganisir acara benefit buat Food Not Bombs lokal bulan depan, kalo ngga salah nama eventnya Prideless Fest, yang maen dari Cabinet sampe Domestik Doktrin sampe Bones Brigade sampe A Friend 4 Life. Tapi sbenernya sih dari dulu, jauh hari dulu, juga udah sering kejadian fenomena kayak gini cuman kita ngga sadar aja, contohnya dulu di kampus Unpad Dipatiukur setiap malam apa gitu (saya lupa), kolektif/unit keroncongan di kampus itu sering ngadain acara dadakan rutin di lapangan dalem kampus, tapi sekarang udah ngga ada lagi, ?sayang, pada kemana ya mereka?</p>
<p><strong>tolong dong ceritakan tentang album Homicide yang akan datang?</strong><br />
Rencana sih bikin satu album full, udah saya seleksi materinya sekitar 8 atau 9 lagu. Tadinya mau dirilis Groove Records, but something happened then fuck it we?ll do it on our own way. Materinya setengah lama (yang dirombak ulang) dan setengah baru. Dibantu oleh lebih banyak lagi temen dalam proyek ini, beberapa materi musik ada yang ditulis bareng Jojon Balcony dan beberapa ada yang dibantu Udi dari Pure Saturday. Beberapa materi baru yang menakjubkan buat saya pribadi adalah materi yang dibikin bareng Iwan aka DJ E, anggota The Cronic, dia maenin turntable dengan manual-style, offbeat dan buas yang sisanya saya tambahin noise respon yang entah nanti dimixingnya kayak gimana, saya belum dapet gambaran, gimana nanti aja di studio. Album ini saya arahkan secara sound untuk nantinya biar rada &#8216;epic&#8217;. Secara lirikal, seperti biasa, &#8216;political as Hemingway, Kafka and Chairil Anwar did&#8217;, dan &#8216;personal as Debord,  Toni Negri &#038; Tan Malaka did? bedanya secara teknis mungkin kali ini saya menghindari metafor ikonik sebisa mungkin. Rencana sih pengennya masuk studio April ini tapi entahlah biasa&#8230;. ngumpulin dokat kadang-kadang suka memolorkan waktu. Rencananya bakal saya kasih judul &#8220;RISALAH PEZIARAH MAKAM PARA PELULUH LANTAH THAGUT YANG RATA DENGAN TANAH&#8221;, kepanjangan ngga ya?</p>
<p><strong>5 album rekaman yang menurut loe paling berpengaruh buat loe?</strong><br />
Lima? akhhh&#8230; gua kasih sebelas aja yah, karena anak gua yang kedua lahir tanggal sebelas..:<br />
Fear of A Black Planet &#8211; Public Enemy<br />
Funcrusher Plus &#8211; Company Flow<br />
Diskografi &#8211; Minor Threat<br />
Monuments to Thieves &#8211; His Hero is Gone<br />
Lift Your Skinny Fist Like Antennas To Heaven &#8211; Godspeed, You Black Emperor!<br />
Heartwork &#8211; Carcass<br />
Fantastic Damage &#8211; El P<br />
Shape of Punk to Come &#8211; Refused<br />
Dummy &#8211; Portishead<br />
Streetcleaner &#8211; Godflesh<br />
South of Heaven &#8211; Slayer</p>
<p><strong>pesan pesan ?</strong><br />
Election Day is a bitch!&#8230; hoe-ass bitch!!!, makasih udah mau ngewawancara.</p>
<p><em>Kontak Ucok di <a href="mailto:zahrasutresna@yahoo.com</em>&#8221; title=&#8221;mailto:zahrasutresna@yahoo.com</em>&#8220;>zahrasutresna@yahoo.com</em></a>  </p>
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		<title>Interview with Fugazi&#8217;s Guy Piciotto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2004 12:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>F u g a z i. Tidak banyak lagi yang perlu atau mendekati relevansi untuk diucapkan. Esensi punk rock sesungguhnya. Kecepatan dan kualitas jawaban Guy Piciotto kepada pertanyaan-pertanyaan kami adalah bukti akan hal ini. Dengarkan &#8220;the argument&#8221;. Dan check out<a href="http://www.dischord.com"> <a href="http://www.dischord.com" title="http://www.dischord.com" target="_blank">www.dischord.com</a> </a> untuk mengerti Fugazi. Dan untuk mengetahui bahwa mereka pernah hampir main di Jakarta&#8230; We Bring You A Special Interview With FUGAZI by Marcel Thee.</em></p>
<p><strong>What have you been listening to/reading/watching? Is there any particular type of art that has interest you lately?</strong><br />
I hit the movies alot and I thought last year was a great one for documentaries.<br />
Three that I thought were just amazing were &#8220;Etre et Avoir&#8221; from France, &#8220;Bus 174&#8243; from Brazil, + &#8220;Capturing the Friedmans&#8221; from the USA. In a year dominated by political lying, it was cool to see movies that were engaged with reality on some level. I also was happy to see the film &#8220;Battle of Algiers&#8221; by  Pontecorvo restored and re-screened. I think it is one of the most powerful pieces of political art ever made.</p>
<p>Book-wise, I really liked David Berman&#8217;s book ACTUAL AIR &#8211; I&#8217;ve always been into the Silver Jews music but this book of his poetry just kills. Music-wise, last year I listened to the re-issues of the first two Television albums alot because it was nice to hear the extra unreleased songs on there &#8211; Television having such a limited discography. I also really love this band from the UK called the Shadow Ring &#8211; particularly the album  &#8220;Lighthouse&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been trying to check into some guitar improvisational music by Derek Bailey also- I like stuff where you put it on and it makes you think &#8220;what the fuck is going on?&#8221; or &#8220;is my brain ok?&#8221;. That&#8217;s whats cool about a record like Sleep&#8217;s &#8220;Jerusalem&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Is there any particular Fugazi show that stands out for you to this day?</strong><br />
We played in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia once and that show certainly sticks out. It was in the basement club of this insanely deluxe luxury hotel and we weren&#8217;t sure if anyone would know us or come out to the show. The place ended up being packed and the crowd shocked us by singing along like crazy. The energy was really overwhelming. The shows we&#8217;ve played in Brazil also stand out for that same kind of hysterical energy from the audiences. Its like being hit with a warm buoyant wave. Its funny now that we&#8217;ve played so many shows (probably well over a 1000) &#8211; the early shows seem memorable for confrontations or injuries and the later ones for a more positive co-mingled energy with the crowds.</p>
<p><strong>How does it affect you and Fugazi musically? Being acknowledged as an influence by so many bands.</strong><br />
I just think of it as part of the reciprocal process inherent in the way music works. Ideas and inspiration are just handed down the line from band to band from generation to generation. For us, we came up completely in awe of bands like the Bad Brains &#8211; they lit a fire in us and we just did our best to pass that feeling on to other people in our own way.</p>
<p><strong>Lyrically, looking back at your older songs; do you still relate to all of them in the same as when they were written? Have your perspectives on certain issues change?</strong><br />
Once a lyric is written and processed into a song it almost becomes like a piece of furniture that is so heavy and in place that it is impossible to move. I don&#8217;t really revisit them in my head &#8211; they are just what they are. I am sure my opinions and perspectives have probably changed over the last 16 years but there isn&#8217;t any song that I wrote where I&#8217;m completely unattached to the sensibility that put it down on paper.</p>
<p><strong>If a person were trying to get into Fugazi&#8217;s music today, which of your record would you recommend them?</strong><br />
I couldn&#8217;t really say because I think I am probably not the best judge of our music. I never really listen to our records that much and I am always suprised by what they sound like when we end up remastering them or something. Its always kind of a shock. I am partial to the last one we made &#8211; &#8220;The Argument&#8221; &#8211; just because the songs seem the freshest to me at this point in time. Also I might recommend our DVD &#8220;Instrument&#8221; because it really tells the whole history of the band and has alot of footage of us playing live &#8211; its like a quick pill lesson on the group.</p>
<p><strong>How does a typical Fugazi rehearsal run?</strong><br />
If we are about to go on tour then the rehearsals are really militaristic because we have to relearn every song we ever wrote. We never use a set list live so we all have to be able to play any song from any album in any order. So those practices are very intense as we work our way through our entire catalog as fast as we can. When we are writing music its alot different. Generally, we set up some kind of recording gear like our 8 track reel to reel and we just start shooting ideas at each other, taping them, arranging them &#8211; there is alot of discussion because its rare that any one of us brings in a song completely finished. More regularly someone will come in with a part and then we will all attack it and pull on it and try to wrestle a song out of it. Everyone in the band writes stuff, including our drummer Brendan so there is usually alot of ideas floating around to mess with. We&#8217;ve always practiced in basements &#8211; first in Ian&#8217;s house, then my mom&#8217;s house and most recently in a friend&#8217;s group house. We are quite typical in that way &#8211; a basement band.</p>
<p><strong>Are there particular songs that you always look forward to playing live?</strong><br />
I don&#8217;t have any favorites really &#8211; I guess I enjoy &#8220;Arpeggiator&#8221; because its kind of a weird chording and I have to really concentrate. &#8220;Life and Limb&#8221; is a new one that&#8217;s nice to play. I also enjoy some of our older songs when I can put down the guitar and dance a bit. Its nice to be unconstrained. &#8220;Glue Man&#8221; is a kind of a special occasion song that we don&#8217;t play much but its usually memorable for me.</p>
<p><strong>Which other band and record has been most influential to Fugazi&#8217;s music?</strong><br />
Trying to factor in everyone in the band is tough because we all have such wide tastes but a common denominator would have to be the Bad Brains who inspired all of us so much at the beginning. Also other DC groups like the Faith and Void. Also the Minutemen, Black Flag, Sonic Youth, the Ex. We all share a major love of the Beatles. We love dub. Its impossible to narrow it down to one band or record because we didn&#8217;t just crib from one blueprint, we were grabbing ideas from all over the place and then filtering them through our own limited and personally shaped skills.</p>
<p><strong>Is there any chance at all of Fugazi doing a show in Indonesia?</strong><br />
We tried to set up a show in Jakarta a few years back but the political situation at that time was pretty unstable and I believe the promoter had to back out. Sadly right now Fugazi isn&#8217;t working at all or touring anywhere in the world because our drummer has 3 kids now and can&#8217;t really tour with the kind of parenting responsibilities that entails. I am not sure when or if we will get back to doing concerts again but certainly if we do and we make it back out in that direction we would certainly consider Indonesia. We do appreciate the interest and support and one day it would be great to be able to be there in person. People can stay posted on what&#8217;s up with us and with other bands from DC by going to <a href="http://www.dischord.com">www.dischord.com</a> and signing the mailing list on there.</p>
<p><em>Thanks again &#8211; all the best &#8211; Guy/Fugazi </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Ada sebuah band yang baru muncul. Pengalaman manggung yang masih minim, tapi mini albumnya menggairahkan, seperti minggu pagi yang cerah, setelah malam harinya hujan cukup deras, bau tanah yang segar, rumput rumput berembun, dan burung burung pipit bernyanyi (gue colong dan sadur sekenanya dari puisi bikinan pacar gue) yah ga sefantastis itu. Tapi cukuplah membuat gue bergerak untuk berusaha mengenal mereka lebih jauh lagi, dan menawarkan kalian untuk ikut mengenal mereka lebih jauh&#8230; By Eric Wiryanata</em></p>
<p><strong>darimana nama Ballads of the Cliche datang?</strong><br />
Sebenernya nama Ballads of the cliche itu baru aja kita pake. Karena band ini sebenernya band lama yang ganti format aja. Kita udah lama ngeband dan bawain lagu orang terus, jenuh juga bos! Terus juga kita sempet fakum setahun, nah tiba2 aja ada suatu ?gairah yang merupakan pengejawantahan sikap hakiki kita dari suatu emosi yang azimuth? yang mendorong kita untuk ngeband lagi. Tetapi kita pengen ganti format utk bawain lagu sendiri dan juga kita harus ganti nama. Dan secara tiba2 kembali, tercetuslah nama Ballads of the cliche yang kita rasa sesuai dengan lagu2 kita yang ingin membaladakan suatu idiom2 umum yang sering digunakan dan untuk menstilirisasikan menjadi suatu untaian nada yang harmonis. He he he..udah kaya dosen gak omongan gue?<br />
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what kind of music did you guys play?</strong><br />
Musik kita basicnya pop yang dibalut dengan nuansa akustik dengan dibumbuhi oleh suasana pagi yang cerah dan sebatang rokok di tangan.</p>
<p><strong>image apa yang ingin BOTC tonjolkan?</strong><br />
kita sih pengennya mempunyai image yang cool and sweet seperti layaknya bubblegum pop band!ha ha ha&#8230;..tapi lagu kita terlalu balada&#8230;jadi kita pengen kaya Ebiet G Ade atau Franky Sahilatua aja deh&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>resep resep apa yang digunakan dalam penciptaan setiap lagu BOTC? siapa yang paling berperan dalam penciptaan lagu?</strong><br />
Gak ada resep-resep khusus sih, kaya misalnya pas kita buat materi untuk EP ini, anak-anak ngumpul di kosan gua, pada nginep, nonton bokep dll. Lalu pada saat kita pengen bikin lagu, ya langsung bikin aja trus kita rekam manual, didengerin lagi, bikin aransemen trus ngetake deh, biasanya juga di studio timbul lagi ide-ide untuk aransemen. Biasanya sih ide lagu muncul dari gua dulu. Gua punya melodi dan kord sisanya kita diskusikan rame rame terutama untuk bikin lirik. Seringnya sih bobby yang buat lirik palingan gua kasi judul-judul yang indah indah aja, kaya Under The Beautiful Monet Sky, keren kan judulnya?he he&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>apa aja yang jadi inspirasi lagu lagu BOTC?</strong><br />
Matahari pagi, hari minggu, sehabis mimpi indah dan juga suasana abis ujan, wah itu de best banget lho!</p>
<p><strong>retro, gitar akustik, celana cutbray&#8230; apa keterkaitan BOTC dengan image vintage tersebut?</strong><br />
Emang sih konsep vintage yang kita pake di cover dan poster emang kita kaitkan dengan konsep dari lagu lagu kita yang penuh dengan kesederhanaan.  Maksud dari kesederhanaan disini kan musik kita banyak yang pake gitar akustik dengan nuansa folk. Itu kan sederhana banget, misalnya tanpa adanya efek yang numpuk kaya Paul Gilbert kita udah bisa buat suatu komposisi yang manis. (huhuhu..muji diri sendiri..) Lalu konsep kesederhanaan itu yang kita rasa cocok ama konsep vintage yang juga sederhana dengan keluguan dan ketulusan yang ada dari jaman jaman tersebut.</p>
<p><strong>apa saja yang ada di playlist album album yang lagi didengerin?</strong><br />
Kalo gua lagi dengerin beatles yang rubber soul, trus kompilasi northern soul yang baru aja cdnya gua beli di salenya duta suara, 15 ribu aja lho!he he&#8230; Sama albumnya belle &#038; sebastian yang baru.</p>
<p><strong>simon and garfunkel or belle and sebastian? why?</strong><br />
Wah susah juga nih jawabnya, dua duanya suka tuh! Gimana ya? Belle itu gua bilang neo simon &#038; garfunkel  dengan sedikit campuran disana sini, dan simon &#038; garfunkel sendiri gua bilang ?bapaknya? folk! Ha ha ha&#8230;mereka sangat pinter dalam buat lagu yang sederhana tetapi sangat berkesan di hati, telinga dan pikiran, dengan harmonisasi mereka yang ciamik, gak salah mereka menjadi inspirasi bagi band band sekarang ini kaya belle &#038; sebastian atau king of convinience.</p>
<p><strong>apa rencana masa depan BOTC? bagaimana dengan Full Album?</strong><br />
Yang pasti kita pengen buat full album apalagi kalo ada label atau produser yang ?khilaf? dan serius untuk ?meminang? kita!he he he&#8230;.Pokoknya lewat EP ini kita pengen memasyarakatkan ballads of the cliche dan memballads of the clichekan masyarakat! He he&#8230;Pokoknya intinya agar masyarakat kenal ama musik kita yang mudah mudahan bisa menjadi soundtrack di kehidupan anda yang optimis dan penuh  dengan kebahagiaan .</p>
<p><strong>band band yang menjadi main influence dari BOTC?</strong><br />
Rata rata anak anak tuh pada suka Belle &#038; Sebastian atau juga Edson. Simon &#038; Garfunkel juga suka. Tetapi gua paling suka sih sama Onky Alexander aka BOY sang pemuda Orde Baru, baik hati, pinter, rajin sholat, kaya, jagoan berantem, tidak sombong, dan jangan lupa rajin menabung!! (lho kok jadi nyambung kesini yah??!!!)huhuhu&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>apa opini kalian jika dibandingkan dengan band band retro lainnya? seperti Naif?</strong><br />
Retro?? Kita sebenarnya bukan  pemuda retro tetapi kita pemuda metro. Tapi kalo mau dibilang retro juga gak pa2, tapi kita lebih terhormat jika dibilang retropolis. huhuhu&#8230;.Garing ah!! Gini deh gua juga gak bakal nyangka kita disebut oleh DRS sebagi band retro. Karena kita berpikir sound kita gak retro! Tetapi pada dasarnya kita gak mau dibandingkan dengan band2 retro lainnya, ntar disangka kita ngerebut lahan orang lagi, he he..Kita pengennya dibandingkan dengan band2 elektronik kaya Homogenic, Space Astronauts, atau Mobil Derek biar kita keliatan sedikit beda aja! Kan kontras tuh!!ha ha ha&#8230;..</p>
<p><strong>recomend other local indonesian band, and put some short review about them.</strong><br />
Yang pasti anak anak itu pada suka ama Pure Saturday! gitar yang berlapis lapis, sound yang mentah serta lirik lirik tajam membuat kita semua jatuh cinta pada band ini. Lalu kita suka the old Cherry Bombshell, power pop, heavy pop dengan vocal yang girly dengan lirik2 yang kompleks. lalu ada Blossom Diary melalui lirik lirik yang memuat serpihan2 hati yang retak dengan nuansa  twee pop Sarah Records yang kental.  Trus band2 baru kita juga suka seperti Space Astronauts dengan kegalauan elektroniknya, SugarStar dengan kekecewaan, dan kesedihan2 yang berdistorsi, The Sastro, reminds me of Morrisey and Johnny Marr when they work together and last but not least, The Milo with their great ethereal sounds between emptiness and loneliness&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>kiat kalian untuk kemajuan BOTC dalam bermusik?</strong><br />
Kiat kiat kita paling rajin berlatih, buat lagu2 bagus, sering2 manggung dsb. Klise banget ya? Namanya juga Ballads of the cliche! He he he&#8230;..</p>
<p><strong>last word?</strong><br />
SADIS!!! SALAM INDIES!! Hueehh hee heee&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>Interview with the Superglad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Kalian udah liat spot tayangan MTV exclusive artis dengan band bermain di lapangan golf? Atau melihat sampul kaset berwarna pink? Atau malah sudah punya albumnya? ini saatnya untuk mengenal mereka lebih jauh sedikit lagi?<br />
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<strong>deskripsikan musik yang the Superglad mainkan</strong><br />
kami mendeskripsikan musik kami, Teenage Rock, karena dg nama ini kami tidakmengkotakkan jenis musik yg ada. Teenage Rock bs berarti luas dr jenis musik EMO, PUNK, bahkan METAL.</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana proses penciptaan sebuah lagu yang biasa dijalankan the Superglad?</strong><br />
Biasanya kita menciptakan lagu di dlm studio pd saat JAMMING, atau pd saat giting (he..he..)</p>
<p><strong>how do you build the Superglad image?</strong><br />
Sex, Fun &#038; Rockn&#8217;roll. Kita menjalankan semua ini, mewakili jatidiri personilnya masing2.</p>
<p><strong>kalian semua kan alumni dari band band ternama.. bagaimana nasib band band lama kalian? </strong><br />
Ternama?? Ha..ha.ha..!! Menurut informasi terakhir, sisa personil band ternama  tersebut membuat band baru lagi, tp kita tidak tau apa nama &#038; alirannya.</p>
<p><strong>sebagai band yang belum lama terbentuk, ada ngga sih kiat kiat untuk mempertahankan keutuhan band ini? apa tuh.</strong><br />
ML bareng, Mabok bareng, lo pasti akan bersaudara sama personil lainnya</p>
<p><strong>indie goes mainstream. opini loe? </strong><br />
Selama tidak merubah kreatifitas It&#8217;s ok buat kita &#038; menurut kita ada  beberapa hal dr Indie yg kita nikmati begitu juga dengan Mainstream.( Kl di Indie chicksnya yaa dr kalangan biasa, klo Mainstream lo bisa ML ma Sarah Azhari, ha..ha..!)</p>
<p><strong>kiat kiat bagi sebuah band untuk cepat terkenal seperti the Superglad.</strong><br />
Terkenal..!! Ha&#8230;ha.. lagi ahh..! Cari aja sensasi yg bisa masuk Infotaintment, terserah yang negatif or positif ( ex : klo neg nya ya spt Sarah Azhari di atas, positif nya= sumbangan buat  panti asuhan trus diliput tp mnurut kita, nyumbang2 aja kali yaa, ga usah diliput2 sgala, kaya yg baru2 ini terjadi dibulan puasa, ha.ha..jadinyakan malah aroganisme)</p>
<p><strong>how the word Porn, Condom, Alcohol influence you?</strong><br />
Sangat besar pengaruhnya ke kita semua. Semua itu Imagenya The Superglad, kecuali condom. Extreme game lebih cadas kayanya tuh. Asal jangan bayar bo&#8217;.<br />
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lima hal yang mempengaruhi penciptaan lagu lagu the Superglad.</strong><br />
1. Wanita., 2.  Sex, 3. Seneng2  4. Semangat Juang, 5. Bela Negara. Hidup Indonesiaku..!</p>
<p><strong>suasana paling pas dalam menikmati musik the Superglad, baik live maupun melalui record kalian.?</strong><br />
Berantem ma cewe&#8217; or cowo&#8217; lo, trus baikan abis itu langsung ML. ( bisa sampai 15 x lohh, kita udh test drive langsung kok! )</p>
<p><strong>album apa aja yang ada di player loe sekarang?</strong><br />
Dashboard Convessional, All American Reject, The Ataris, Motorhead, The Stone Roses, Mayangsari, dll</p>
<p><strong>band band indie lain yang bisa loe rekomendasikan. dan tuliskan review singkat tentang mereka, kenapa loe pilih mereka.</strong><br />
<em>1.The Brandals,</em> band ini memp attitude yg sama dg nama bandnya. Brutal &#038; brandalan. Aksi panggung mereka keren abis, bukan karena vokalisnya bekas band ternama tadi juga, tp memang mereka cool. he.he..</p>
<p><em>2. Seringai</em>, memp skill yg cukup tinggi &#038; lirik yang sangat dalam serta berbau politik membuat kita ingin membakar Jakarta seperti judul lagu mereka. &#8220;Bakar Jakarta&#8221;</p>
<p><em>3. Fable</em>, jarang ada band seperti ini, idealisme yg cukup tinggi membuat band ini mempunyai warna tersendiri</p>
<p><strong>10. last word.?</strong><br />
Last word from Us: &#8220;Walk Together Rock Together&#8221; </p>
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		<title>Interview with Olive Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2003 12:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>OLIVE TREE is a magical moment. Jika kamu merasa sendirian dan tidak ada teman, datanglah ke bawah sebuah pohon olive ditaman belakang sekolah dan temukan sosok sosok pemberi kesegaran bagai buah strawberry. Setelah penyelidikan kian lama, akhirnya kami berhasil menemukan lokasi tepatnya mereka berada untuk sedikit bertanya tentang aktifitas mereka sehari hari dan semalam malam. Ini dia hasilnya? An interview with Olive Tree by Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>Olive Tree adalah?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Bahasa inggrisnya pohon zaitun&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Kiki Chan terinspirasi untuk bernyanyi karena Judy And Mary. jika tidak ada mereka, apa yang akan Kiki Chan lakukan?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Serius merintis bisnis luluran&#8230; ayo beli lulur aku&#8230; try my spice! </p>
<p><strong>pekerjaan sampingan kalian cukup unik yah, kalau ga salah ada yang menjadi pelatih tinju.melihat seringkali terjadi keributan di sebuah rockshow. menurut kamu, hmmm apa yah? apakah ada pelatih tinju yang menjadi inspirasi anda dalam bermusik?</strong><br />
<strong>Iman:</strong> hmmm ngga ada, kalo petinju ada: Jack Dempsey!</p>
<p><strong>jika Olive Tree adalah buah Strawberry,. maka buah Sawo adalah?</strong><br />
<strong>Semua:</strong> Sawoberry!!!!</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana mungkin buah strawberry bisa ada di pohon Olive?</strong><br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> Mungkin dong ah! baca trubus ga?<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> That&#8217;s the magic of an olive tree&#8230;. magic of an olive treeeeeee&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong>jika suatu saat Olive Tree melakukan sebuah cover version. lagu apakah yang akan dibawakan? (5)  lagu.</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Paint it Black (Rolling Stones) sama lagu2 tradisional India<br />
<strong>Bez: </strong>Coming too close (NUFAN) sama Thank You nya Spice girrrrlls hehehe<br />
<strong>Iman: </strong>Lagu2nya Bang Ben<br />
<strong>Teezar:</strong> Lagu2 Om Morrissey sama lagu2nya A-ha hihihih&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>apakah cowok berpakaian merah dan putih sedemikian menariknya? apakah kamu ada hati dengan pasukan pengkibar bendera?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Ya benar! Ya benar!</p>
<p><strong>ada orang berkata. &#8220;anjing menggonggong kafilah berlalu&#8221; . jika kalian terinspirasi oleh pepatah  tersebut. judul apakah yang akan diberikan pada lagu tersebut?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> &#8220;Helo gukguk&#8221;<br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> &#8220;I&#8217;ll do it my&#8230;. way&#8230;&#8221;<br />
<strong>Teezar: </strong>&#8220;GrrrrrRRrrrrrRRrrr&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>lagu terbaik yang pernah kalian buat? kenapa? dan cerita dibaliknya.</strong><br />
<strong>Semua:</strong> &#8220;Magic of an olive tree&#8221;<br />
<strong>Bez: </strong>Emosional sekali&#8230; kaya mecahin bisul yang udah menahun&#8230;<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> selain itu aku suka &#8220;miss you&#8221; karena lagu itu buat pacar aku yang sedang umroh, aku ditinggal sebulan sendirian memandang bekas cangkir kopi yang kemasukan cicak warna hijau kecoklatan</p>
<p><strong>like father like son, like mother like daughter. kalian ingin anak kalian kalo gede jadi apa?</strong><br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> bikin olive tree junior hahaha&#8230; kaya koes plus!<br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>jadi anak yang ga nakal dan ga suka minuman keras&#8230;euh&#8230; euh&#8230; udah<br />
<strong>Iman:</strong> jadi anak yang berbakti pada orang tua&#8230; dan jadi petinju professional<br />
<strong>Teezar:</strong> saya kasih nama Khong Guan</p>
<p><strong>dulu waktu kecil. dengerin musik apa aja? lagu favorit?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Led zeppelin, Beatles &#038; Stones dari plat&#8230; aku suka sekali &#8217;strawberry fields&#8217;<br />
<strong>Iman:</strong> Trio Libels!!!&#8230; gadisku!<br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> ga tau lagu apa&#8230; saya suka sekali&#8230; pas SMA baru tau itu ternyata Level 42!<br />
<strong>Teezar:</strong> Hmmm..kalo g salah sih Burn &#038; Highway star nya deep purple heheh </p>
<p><strong>tempat belajar main musik terbaik adalah?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Kamar mandi<br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> Tumpukan bantal dan guling<br />
<strong>Teezar: </strong>kamar gw Yang panas dan banyak nyamuk adalah pemberi inspirasi terbaik hahahah</p>
<p><strong>paling asik kalo manggung sambil ngapain?</strong><br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> sambil dikasih sambutan penonton yang meriah! hahaha!<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Aku juga suka yang kaya bez!<br />
<strong>Iman:</strong> sarua!<br />
<strong>teezar:</strong> sambil bawa mama,papa,eyang,kakek,nenek&#8230;hahahhaahah </p>
<p><strong>cita cita Olive Tree adalah?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Disukai semua orang&#8230; manggung diluar negri bareng Britney Spears</p>
<p><strong>jika ditawarin untuk mengisi soundtrack anime. kira kira anime apa yang paling cocok dengan lagu lagu Olive Tree?</strong><br />
<strong>Iman:</strong> Ninja Scroll aja deh&#8230;<br />
<strong>Kiki: </strong>Doraemon versi strawberry!<br />
<strong>Bez:</strong> Urotsukidoji, La Blue Girl atau hentai2 lainya lah<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Aku ga kaya Bez!!! Bez nakal!!!<br />
<strong>Teezar:</strong> Hidup bez&#8230;..hahahahah</p>
<p><strong>salam terakhir.?</strong><br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Oyeye oye yo yo!<br />
<strong>Semua: </strong>Olive Tree!!!! nah ini&#8230; baru enak!</p>
<p><strong>ayo kasih salam lagi.</strong><br />
<strong>Semua:</strong> OYEYE OYE YOYO!!! NAHINIBARRUENAK!!!!<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Aku ngga ikutan!</p>
<p><strong>thanks yah</strong><br />
Sama2 rik&#8230;<br />
<strong>Kiki:</strong> Kamu keren banget&#8230; ganteng&#8230; </p>
<p><strong>iya kamu juga cantik. Sisanya ganteng ganteng deh. Ayo disko lagi </strong><em></em></p>
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<p><em>David Pajo. Dari Zwan sampai ke Tortoise, sampai ke kombo legendaris post-punk Slint sampai sekarang ke PAPA M, pernah dimasuki nih orang. Pemain gitaris &#038; multiinstrumentalist asoy, juga pembalas interview yang slow sekali. Sekarang di PAPA M. <a href="http://www.papa-m.com">www.papa-m.com</a>, cek musiknya. By Marcel Thee.</em></p>
<p><strong>You?ve played in quiet a lot of great bands, from Slint, Tortoise, Zwan, M, to doing stuff with Mogwai and Will Oldham. What is it that makes you want to move around so much musically? </strong><strong>Do you think you?ll eventually ?settle? on a single outfit?</strong><br />
never a single outfit. I always felt it was quite normal to play in multiple bands simultaneously.</p>
<p><strong>Is there a common thread in all the different outfits you?ve played in?</strong><br />
yes. me.</p>
<p><strong>Do you find yourself having to adjust your playing differently in each band/outfit? Did it ever become a struggle, to try to match your playing with the other musicians?</strong><br />
yes, I adjust my playing for the song. its always a pleasant and unpleasant struggle.</p>
<p><strong>For a lot of your hardcore fans it almost becomes a guarantee of quality music when a record has your name attached to it, even when it?s just an additional help like in Mogwai?s ?Rock Action?. How do you feel about this? Does this affect your work musically?</strong><br />
I think that&#8217;s one hell of a compliment you&#8217;ve bestowed upon me. I can&#8217;t take credit for the quality of which you speak, but I surely believe that I&#8217;m fortunate enough to be friends with some of the best writers alive today.</p>
<p><strong>Your recent outings, particularly the singles one &#038; two, seem less somber than your previous albums. What caused this change in mood?</strong><br />
certain life experiences allow me a wide range of moods, and if I&#8217;m lucky I can write a song that reflects it.</p>
<p><strong>Have you ever tried any Indonesian traditional instruments, such as the gamelan? What?s the oddest instrument you?ve played yet?</strong><br />
I have never played the gamelan but I would if I:<br />
1)could<br />
2)had access to one<br />
3)knew how to play it.<br />
I used to listen to quite a bit of gamelan music.<br />
the oddest instrument I&#8217;ve ever played would have to be the butt-hole.<br />
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You play various instruments, but would you say the guitar is your main instrument?</strong><br />
yes, most definitely.<br />
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What?s the fascination with the letter M?</strong><br />
I believe in M as a powerful image, and the Father of Man.</p>
<p><strong>What happened to Zwan? It almost seemed like the perfect band just-having-good-time. Was it just marketed this way or was it really as joyful as it looked from the outside?</strong><br />
it&#8217;s safe to say that it began as a low-key, good-time thing.<br />
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Is Paz a now permanent member of Papa M?</strong><br />
I would say so, yes. as long as she wants to be.</p>
<p><strong>What are the five ingredients to writing a Papa M material?</strong><br />
1. guitar<br />
2. lighter<br />
3. corn cob pipe<br />
4. bag of pot<br />
5. solitude</p>
<p><strong>What?s on your list of the top ten records of all time?</strong><br />
there are certain records, that I don&#8217;t listen to very much anymore because I burnt out on them, that I still consider some of the greatest recordings ever. steve reich&#8217;s &#8216;music for eighteen musicians&#8217; would have to be one of them.</p>
<p><strong>What legendary band would you say died and were reincarnated as Papa M?</strong><br />
jimi hendrix.</p>
<p><strong>What would be the perfect setting for listening to Papa M records?</strong><br />
on a 180 acre farm, late at night, with the bonfire burning, bourbon in hand.</p>
<p><strong>When is the Indonesian tour going to happen?</strong><br />
sooner or later. send me a plane ticket and I&#8217;ll take care of everything else! </p>
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		<title>Interview with Kekal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hmm. Pernah ga Andrenalin dikepala loe tiba tiba bergelombang dan sangat bergairah? Gue pernah, itu waktu gue dengerin album KEKAL. Yang sudah sejak lama eksis di dunia bawah tanah metal. Dan sudah pernah mengharumkan nama bangsa secara Internasional dikeikutsertaannya dibeberapa kompilasi luar negeri. Ini lah Jeff dari Kekal menjawab interview Eric Wiryanata via e-mail]]></description>
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<p><em>Hmm. Pernah ga Andrenalin dikepala loe tiba tiba bergelombang dan sangat bergairah? Gue pernah, itu waktu gue dengerin album KEKAL. Yang sudah sejak lama eksis di dunia bawah tanah metal. Dan sudah pernah mengharumkan nama bangsa secara Internasional dikeikutsertaannya dibeberapa kompilasi luar negeri. Ini lah Jeff dari Kekal menjawab interview Eric Wiryanata via e-mail</em></p>
<p><strong>kenapa diberi nama Kekal?</strong><br />
Waktu nama Kekal kami ambil menjadi nama band di pertengahan tahun 1995, sama sekali nggak ada pemikiran mengenai alasan dibalik nama tersebut.. Hanya kami pikir it&#8217;s just a cool name.. Itu saja.. Belakangan kami sadar bahwa nama Kekal ini sangat berarti bagi band kami dan ini membuat kami menjadi lebih fokus dalam menulis lagu2..</p>
<p><strong>Kekal memakai label &#8220;extreme metal&#8221; tolong dijelasin artinya dan apa bedanya dengan metal metal lainnya?</strong><br />
Sebenarnya term &#8220;extreme metal&#8221; ini bukan menunjuk pada satu sub-genre dari musik metal, melainkan kami pakai karena memang mencerminkan musik yg kami mainkan.. Terus terang saya pikir Kekal memang nggak bisa masuk dalam sub-genre musik tertentu, ada yg bilang kami memainkan progressive metal, terus yang lain bilang bhw musiknya Kekal itu black metal, bahkan pernah dibilang gothic metal juga.. Supaya tidak membuat bingung, kami pikir terminologi &#8220;extreme metal&#8221; inilah yang paling tepat untuk menunjukkan musik yang kami mainkan.. Musik kami adalah metal dan juga ekstrim..</p>
<p><strong>Kekal sudah eksis cukup lama di kalangan musik Underground Metal. apa saja yang membuat kamu tetap mempertahankan band ini?</strong><br />
Begitu kami sudah memasuki usia 6 tahun dan merilis 3 album, kami rasa kami harus mempertahankan eksistensi band ini sampai sebatas yg kami mampu.. Sekarang kami sudah menginjak lebih dari 8 tahun dan sudah merilis 4 full-length album dalam format kaset dan CD, 1 split CD, dan juga best-of album, dan sudah banyak sekali suka-duka yang kami alami.. Rasanya konyol juga kalau kami tidak mencoba untuk pertahankan.. Tapi biar bagaimanapun juga nantinya Tuhan yang akan menentukan..</p>
<p><strong>Kekal dikenal memiliki materi lagu lagu metal yang progresive dan harmonisasi yang kental. apa saja proses yang Kekal lakukan dalam penciptaan sebuah lagu?</strong><br />
Dalam penulisan lagu2 dan juga penentuan konsep musik dari sebuah album, kami hanya menggabungkan ide2 dan mengaktualisasikannya ke dalam musik.. Satu hal, kami nggak pernah membatasi ide2, everything is possible, segalanya mungkin.. Dan kami juga nggak pernah membatasi dalam mendengarkan musik, bisa dibilang influence musik kami berasal dari berbagai macam warna musik.. Jadi ya dengan sendirinya masuk pula ke dalam penulisan lagu..</p>
<p><strong>tolong deskripsikan suasana pertunjukan yang paling cocok untuk menikmati aksi panggung Kekal.</strong><br />
No mosh, no slam, just listen.. Maksudnya, untuk bisa menikmati musik Kekal secara maksimal, lebih baik dilakukan secara individual, bukan dengan interaksi antar sesama audience.. Pengalaman yang didapatkan dari mendengarkan musik yg kami mainkan sangat berbeda satu dengan yang lainnya.. Ada yg bisa menikmati musik kami dengan diam dan duduk sambil memejamkan mata, ada juga yang sambil headbanging, ada yang memperhatikan permainan gitar, ada juga yang barangkali nggak peduli.. Tapi semuanya bersifat individual, jadi lebih bagus kalau suasana-nya bukan yang bersifat kolektif-interaktif seperti moshing, dsb..</p>
<p><strong>album apa saja yang sedang didengarkan saat ini.</strong><br />
Sekarang, pas sedang mengetik ini saya lagi nggak dengerin apa2, tapi sekitar 2 jam yg lalu saya putar album Massive Attack &#8220;100th Window&#8221;..</p>
<p><strong>inspirasi terbesar Kekal dalam bermusik?</strong><br />
Kehidupan ini..</p>
<p><strong>suatu waktu ada kesempatan untuk mengumpulkan lagu lagu terbaik Kekal kedalam sebuah album. lagu apa saja yang akan dimasukkan?</strong><br />
Kalau hanya ada tempat bagi 13 lagu, lagu-lagu tersebut ada di dalam album best-of kami &#8220;Introduce Us to Immortality&#8221;.. Track list dan informasi untuk order bisa dilihat di website kami: <a href="http://www.kekal.cjb.net">http://www.kekal.cjb.net</a></p>
<p><strong>album Kekal mana yang paling direkomendasikan untuk orang orang yang akan memulai pengalaman dalam dunia musik Kekal?</strong><br />
Banyak yang bilang kalau lebih baik untuk mendengarkan musik Kekal start-nya dari album &#8220;Embrace The Dead&#8221;, album ke-2 kami di th. 1999, setelah itu pasti bisa menikmati album2x lainnya.. Tapi kalau mau start dari album terbaru &#8220;1000 Thoughts of Violence&#8221; it&#8217;s ok too, meskipun belum tentu yg menyukai album ini akan juga menyukai album-album lama kami.. Setiap album Kekal memiliki keunikan masing-masing.. Tapi rekomendasi saya, album best-of Kekal &#8220;Introduce Us to Immortality&#8221; ini cukup merepresentasikan musik Kekal selama 8 tahun pertama karir kami.. Dari sini bisa memilih untuk mencoba album yang mana dahulu..</p>
<p><strong>sex, drugs and rock and roll? apa itu relevan dengan Kekal?</strong><br />
Nggak.. Mungkin &#8220;life, death, and metal&#8221; lebih cocok untuk Kekal..</p>
<p><strong>tips tips untuk band band yang baru memulai perjuangannya di scene bawah tanah ini?</strong><br />
Ini sebenarnya tips yang dulu diberikan oleh beberapa A&#038;R dari label di luar negeri, jadi bukan murni tips dari saya, tapi menurut saya baik juga untuk diterapkan bagi band2 yang sedang mencari konsep musiknya.. Mereka hanya bilang &#8220;Be yourself and be proud of it&#8221; atau terjemahannya kira2 &#8220;jadilah diri sendiri dan banggalah akan hal itu&#8221;, maksudnya jangan membuat band hanya untuk sekedar meniru satu atau dua band yang sudah established..<br />
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last words..</strong><br />
Saya jadi salesman aja deh: Ayo beli album Kekal, kalian nggak akan kecewa.. hehehe.. Versi kaset dari album &#8220;1000 Thoughts of Violence&#8221; dapat dibeli di toko2 kaset kesayangan.. E-mail: <a href="mailto:kekal@hotmail.com" title="mailto:kekal@hotmail.com">kekal@hotmail.com</a>  atau kunjungi website kami di <a href="http://www.kekal.cjb.net ">www.kekal.cjb.net </a></p>
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		<title>Interview with Jeruji</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey. Ini dia band cadas kota Bandung, yang masih tetap eksis setelah bertahun tahun di panggung musik keras. Dan tetap keras, dan akan tetap keras? here we goes JERUJI. Eric Wiryanata mempersembahkan sebuah wawancara dengan Robby dan Aldonny "Themfuck", untuk pembaca Deathrockstar..]]></description>
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<p><em>Hey. Ini dia band cadas kota Bandung, yang masih tetap eksis setelah bertahun tahun di panggung musik keras. Dan tetap keras, dan akan tetap keras? here we goes JERUJI. Eric Wiryanata mempersembahkan sebuah wawancara dengan Robby dan Aldonny&#8221;Themfuck&#8221;, untuk pembaca Deathrockstar </em><br />
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pertama tama ada pertanyaan standar, kenapa dikasih nama JERUJI?</strong><br />
Karena teredengar gahar dan keras seperti musik kami, dan juga menggambarkan keadaan negara kita sendiri masih terkungkung seperti dibalik jeruji kapitalisme.</p>
<p><strong>gimana cara kalian mendsekripsikan musik Jeruji ke orang orang yang belum pernah dengerin Jeruji?</strong><br />
Musik jeruji ya itu tadi seperti deskripsi nama jeruji sendiri.</p>
<p><strong>gimana sih cara kalian membuat sebuah lagu? berapa lama biasanya sebiuah lagu rampung?</strong><br />
Banyak berkumpul otomatis kreatifitas membuat lagu akan tersalurkan itulah prosesnya, dan tergantung mood juga kalo lagi mood bisa seminggu dapet beberapa lagu, tapi kalo lagi ngga mood bisa berbulan-bulan.</p>
<p><strong>sound nya Metalica St. Anger sangat mirip album Lawan? apa pendapat kalian?</strong><br />
Itu hal yang kebetulan aja, jangan terlalu dibesar-besarkan lah mungkin pendapat pendapat kamu dan telinga kamu begitu. musik itu universal.</p>
<p><strong>siapa yang bertugas menulis lirik? dan apa sih yang menjadi inspirasi terbesar dalam penulisan lirik?</strong><br />
Yang menulis bisa siapa aja dari tiap personel bahkan si manajer juga bisa, dulu teman kita dari shaggydog juga nulis lagu buat kita *judulnya PAJEKSAN*. Inspirasinya dari pahit manisnya kehidupan dan lingkungan kita sehari hari.</p>
<p><strong>album apa aja yang lagi didengerin?</strong><br />
Hampir semua musik cadas apapun kami dengerin, soalnya tiap hari kagak lepas dari musik</p>
<p><strong>dalam suasana seperti apa paling enak dengerin album Jeruji?</strong><br />
Segala suasana dari mulai bermasalah sampai lagi gembira itu cocok buat dengerin, coba aja</p>
<p><strong>orang akan paling puas nonton jeruji manggung kalau?</strong><br />
Mabuk!!</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;dimanaanakudimanistriku&#8217; apa yang membuat Jeruji mengcover lagu si Unyil ini?</strong><br />
<strong>Themfuck</strong>: Lagu si unyil itu punya makna khusus bagi gua pribadi, ceritanya panjang banget lah<br />
<strong><br />
apa saja yang mempengaruhi Jeruji dalam pembuatan lagu. (band apa, atau apa saja)</strong><br />
Kita terpengaruh secara personal oleh beda beda band dan jenis musik, asli banyak banget kalo diceritain sekarang ini halamannya kurang! Hahahaha</p>
<p><strong>ceritain tentang album berikutnya dong. </strong><br />
Eits&#8230;.album baru? ntar aja tunggu keluar ya, biar penasaran, yang pasti kalo kalian udah pernah nonton kita live, disitu ada beberapa lagu baru trus pendapat kalian gimana? *balik nanya hahaha PUAS SIAH!*</p>
<p><strong>sekarang kan banyak nih band band indie yang bikin video klip buat MTV kalian sendiri bagaimana?</strong><br />
semua orang punya jalan masing-masing, menurut kita sih sah sah aja band indie bikin video klip di mtv, itu membuktikan bahwa kita masih eksis dan berkualitas. masalahnya sekarang anggapan orang itu adalah langkah menuju sell-out padahal kita bikin clip itu sebenernya berusaha meraih teman teman yang ngga bisa nonton live di panggung, begitu boss&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>saat ini jeruji tergolong band yang berdiri dan eksis cukup lama, bagi tips tipsnya donk buat band band yang baru berdiri.</strong><br />
Tetap kompak anggap seperti sebuah keluarga, terus berkarya, jangan patah semangat dan yang paling penting yakin sama musik kamu sendiri dan band kamu sendiri bahwa kalian bisa berhasil dari musik.</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana opini tentang pembajakan?</strong><br />
sucks!! but we couldnt resist it, aint we? negara ini sudah menjadi pembajak buat darahnya sendiri, mo gimana lagi??</p>
<p><strong>campuran minuman favorite. so that people can drunk with power.?</strong><br />
vodka middle+ Orange Squash+Sprite 1ltr+Ice( Resep ini untuk 6 gelas) and enjoy!</p>
<p><strong>manggung sambil mabuk atau manggung dulu baru mabuk? kenapa?</strong><br />
Keduanya juga asyik, as long as you enjoy the gig dats fine</p>
<p><strong>tuliskan 5 album favorite.</strong><br />
EXPLOITED &#8211; BEAT THE BASTARD<br />
SLAYER &#8211; SOUTH OF HEAVEN<br />
BLACKFLAG &#8211; EVERYTHING WHEN BLACK<br />
NAPALM DEATH &#8211; HARMONY CORRUPTIONS<br />
RYKERS &#8211; BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER<br />
SEX PISTOLS &#8211; NEVERMIND&#8230;.THE BOLLOCK is here<br />
dan semua band2 oldskool laennya</p>
<p><strong>terakhir &#8230; last words.</strong><br />
LOUD, PROUD, DRUNK AND FUCKIN PUNK!<br />
TIDAK ADA PAHLAWAN YANG ADA HANYALAH KORBAN PERANG!!<br />
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cheers n beers,<br />
<a href="http://www.jeruji.com">www.jeruji.com</a></em></p>
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		<title>Interview with Free Living Insanity&#8217;s David Kiefer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Hey readers, you must have been familiar with the name FREE LIVING INSANITY, now is your chance to know them better? if you don?t know, now is your chance to know them? as written to Eric Wiryanata by David Kiefer himself</em></p>
<p><strong>how do you introduce your music for a stranger that never even hear your band&#8217;s name?</strong><br />
what we do is rocking and furious punk with melody and ass kick.<br />
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why Free Living Insanity?</strong><br />
our bands name is just what we are and what mankind should not losse in this more or less high teck generation : free , don?t forget real life , what is more than work and school !!!and of course don?t forget to be always a bit insane.<br />
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tell me five things that most influence you in music?</strong><br />
- punk and hc lifestyle and attitude,<br />
- bands we loved as kids and now nofx,social distorsion, dead kennedies,ramones,satanic surfers,die ?rtzte to name a few&#8230;.<br />
- we are interested and critical about politics in germany and worldwide, thats also part of our music in lyrics and aggression<br />
-the friendship we have and the friends we found in the music and the scene as well as the freinds who are not involved with punk rock and still close friends.<br />
-the shows we go to and the shows we play, that athmosphere at a good punk show is impressiv and strong.</p>
<p><strong>How did you choose the other members of the band?</strong><br />
we all found each other in school or as friends, we hang out together, listen to music, change ideas , help with work or future plans, drink and trow up together and of course care about each other .</p>
<p><strong>what kind of enviromental setting would be the best to enjoy your show?</strong><br />
i think the best shows are club shows were there is no big difference between the crowd and the band, because in the hc and punk scene should not be a difference between the guys on stage and the people in the crowd, they all have more or less the same ideas and feeling towards the show.</p>
<p><strong>what kind of intoxicant would you suggest to the people at your party? any favorite mix?</strong><br />
as a german we prefer beer to everything else&#8230;but there are many different kinds of beer !!sometimes we drink vodka but thats the end&#8230;we are all not involved with drugs, everyone can choose his own way but for me i think drugs are more boring and also more dangerous than liquor.i?ve seen people getting stupid and ignorant idiots living in there own world and stoped caring about the scene and friends because of drugs.but its everyowns one choice &#8230;<br />
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what records you have been listening lately?</strong><br />
i listen to 80?s punk and hardcore a lot at the moment bands like D.I., agent oarnge, adolescens,adz,rick agnew,tsol,social distortion,descendens,minor threat, youth of today,7seconds,youth brigade,mdc&#8230; and i love rock?n?roll like turbonegro, backyrad babies,the bones , generators etc&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Indonesia have a bad reputation out there. and we  all glad that FLI set a tour to Indonesia. what is your opinion about our country?</strong><br />
we are very happy to come over ,with the persons i phone and mail from indonesia i have very good experience, they are all very nice and care al ot. the main problem is , that the indonesian hc-punk culture is not very much know in europe, maybe we do a documentation video about the scene for germany and europe, that may help the bands , fanzines and labels to be more known and take foot in europe.</p>
<p><strong>what is the first thing you want to do in Indonesia?</strong><br />
give a big hello to erick from no madness records, i hope to meet many people from the underground scene to change ideas and change music, and of course we want to do a little sightseeing at your country, we have some books and it looks beautiful.</p>
<p><strong>please share a short tips about &#8216;tour accross the sea&#8221;</strong><br />
so far its also our first tour across the sea, but for some touring, you always have to have some people you can trust in every country. thats the most important thing, and some friends that share the van.</p>
<p><strong>thanks man.</strong><br />
thanks too and i hoipe we meet and have some beer together &#8230; </p>
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<p><em>Sebuah interview via e-mail dengan Al Ucay, vokalis band Rocket Rockers. Dipersembahkan dengan bangga ke hadapan anda oleh Eric Wiryanata.</em></p>
<p><strong>Sepenting apakah image pada sebuah band?Apakah lebih penting dari musiknya sendiri?</strong><br />
Sepenting semangkok baso tanpa sambel atau pizza tanpa saus sambel. Bayangkan baso atau pizza tanpa sambal, rasanya akan &#8216;flat&#8217; dan nggak ada yang menendang emosi untuk memakannya. Ya paling kalo dimakan rasanya akan gitu-gitu aja dan mudah lenyap dari pikiran. Begitu juga dengan band, gue pribadi ga mau band hanya flat dan tidak memberikan berkas/ingatan apa-apa ke orang lain. Untuk seukuran rock, attitude itu penting..sebagaimana jelimetnya skill tapi kalo attitudenya ga nembak, wah susah juga diingetnya. Itu yang gue rasakan setelah hampir 8 tahun mendokumentasikan acara-acara &#8216;rock/underground/bazzar&#8217; pake handycam butut sampe akhirnya ilang. Yang gue dapet dari pengalaman gue ya itu, attitude bisa menyihir pola pikir sesorang. Untuk musik, memang jangan dilupakan juga, musik juga tetep no.1 dan harus terus progres dan inovatif.</p>
<p><strong>Diperhartikan dalam beberapa show RR, seringkali Ucay memamerkan pantatnya kepada penonton. Apakah maksud dari perbuatannya tersebut?</strong><br />
Mungkin bukan memamerkan, tapi memberi simbol aja. Ya itu tadi, semua ini karena attitude. Mungkin dengan memperlihatkan pantat gue, band gue bisa lebih menjual hahaha&#8230;!! Pantia acara dihadapkan pada 2 pilihan; undang band ini karena aksi &#8216;pantat&#8217;nya atau jangan undang band ini karena aksi &#8216;pantat&#8217;nya karena menyebalkan. Itu saja. Jadi aksi itu ada unsur tes psychology-nya juga untuk membaca pandangan orang terhadap RR&#8230;hehe. Sampai akhirnya aksi itu banyak band yang menjiplak, dan gue mulai malas untuk melakukannya lagi.</p>
<p><strong>Apa yang akan RR lakukan apabila mendapat tuntutan dari penerbit kamus Bahasa Inggris, karena telah mengutip isinya sebagai nama band?</strong><br />
Haha,&#8230;kami akan bawa kepengadilan! hahaha&#8230;siapa tau perkara ini berhubungan dengan pengadilan di Inggris, kan kita jadi bisa ke Inggris tuh! Ketemu sama pakar-pakar new wave disana&#8230;haha </p>
<p><strong>Apa saja proses yang dilakukan oleh RR dalam menciptakan sebuah lagu.</strong><br />
Prosesnya ngga ribe2 amat sih. Hanya tinggal masuk kamar, kunci, ambil gitar dan teriak2 atau nyanyi asal-asalan sampe nemu nada yang bagus, baru rekam ke walkman. Abis itu persentasikan ke band, sampai akhirnya perang urat! Ya, perang urat soal keinginan dan idealis. Nah, biasanya lagu menjadi fix karena perang itu, ketidak setujuan akan fix-nya lagu itulah yg menjadikan lagu itu direkam. Maklum 5 otak, 5 aura dan 5 idealis&#8230;anjist!! susah!!</p>
<p><strong>Apakah RR akan terus berusaha membuat sesuatu yang lebih segar,. Ada teknik khusus untuk membuat sesuatu yang fresh?</strong><br />
Secara teknik mungkin ngga ada. Kita hanya berusaha progress. Membuat sesuatu yang sama terkadang menyebalkan juga. Makanya kita ga mau terpatok. Kita memang meng-klaim sebagai band College Punk yang intinya hanyalah buat keren-kerenan aja. Tapi kalo soal musik, yeah! kita punya ramuan sendiri dan kembali kepada 5 otak tadi. Setuju tidak setuju. itulah yang bikin kita fresh: Terus ada perdebatan!. Ada yang didebatkan berarti ada yang dibuat kan?</p>
<p><strong>Apa saja Pengaruh terbesar RR dalam berkarya? *Pengaruh terbesar dari musik:</strong><br />
-Aska: dulunya dia punya band grindcore, dia penyuka Pearl Jam sampe sekarang dan dia punya pengaruh besar juga di RR.<br />
-Ucay: gue lebih ke suntikan attitude band. Soal musik&#8230;arrgghh! gue bebas bersyarat! Paling cerewet sama musik RR hahaha..<br />
-Bisma: Dia dibesarkan oleh lingkungan punk!<br />
-Lope: Lebih indie rock dan ugal-ugalan.<br />
Influence: Pulley, Lagwagon, A-ha, New Order, Devo.<br />
Pengaruh lain: Film, Girls and Money&#8230; (money? yeah..bales e-mail ini juga pake money kan? hehehe)kenapa lagi si ucay teh? hahaha&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana cara loe menyikapi label band ?punk? pada RR saat ini? Apakah akan menjadi adil apabila RR dibandingkan dengan band band seperti April Lapigne, Busted yang notabene lebih manis? Mengapa?</strong><br />
Label &#8216;band punk&#8217; pada RR? Hmm&#8230;sebenernya males juga sih ngebahas hal ini. Tapi mending gini aja deh: Punk itu sendiri yang gue liat hari ini ada 2 hal, yang satu kemasan attitude yang menyangkut dandanan, perilaku, musik (lebih kepada kemasan). Yang satu lagi lebih kepada movement..ada yang into politics, kemanusiaan dan mendalami punk lebih ke personal dll. Kalo kita lebih ke enjoy, enjoy disini lebih ke gimana kita aja! selama orang ngga rugi-rugi banget sama kita, ngga papa kan? Disebut punk kita seneng2 aja, ngga juga enjoy kok. Yang jelas kita tetep punya kontrol dan tau apa yang harus kita lakukan dengan RR. Toh lirik kita juga macem-macem, enjoy-nya ada, pergerakan/movement-nya juga ada&#8230;ya balance lah,..ngga cinta-cinta amat deh. Masalah adil apa ngga dibandingin ama Neneng April atau Akang Buset, wah itu ga adil! hahahaha&#8230;perjuangan kita lebih susah dari mereka dan kita lebih keren ah dari mereka! haha&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Apa RR ada rencana untuk Go Internasional? Langkah apa saja yang dilakukan untuk mencapai reputasi pengakuan Internasional?</strong><br />
Go International? Hmm..Jelas! tahap untuk ke arah sana. Propaganda kita dulu seperti apa. Nah, untuk sekarang kan RR sudah menjalin hubungan kontrak dengan Volcom dan Electric hampir 2 tahun, dan mereka cukup membantu mengenalkan kita ke dunia Internasional. Kita sudah dikenalkan kepada band-band yang berada di bawah bendera Volcom Entertaiment di USA dan band yang pernah di endors seperti Pennywise, Strung Out, NOFX..mereka setidaknya sudah mengetahui keberadaan RR di Indonesia dan mereka memberi respon positif, juga cukup mendukung kita untuk terus berkarya. Nah, tinggal dari RR-nya propaganda-nya seperti apa? Kita sendiri sekarang masih kewalahan masalah money dan untuk mendapatkan hasil rekaman yang &#8216;nyaman&#8217; di telinga bule. Tapi kita terus usaha lah,&#8230;debat terus!! haha. Oh iya, kita juga sekarang sudah masuk kedalam SODA MUSIC DEVELOPMENT, suatu badan yang menangani management (keuangan, merchandise,stage,label), friendsclub dan propaganda newsletter. SODA MUSIC DEVELOPMENT berisikan; Robin Malau a.k.a Low Robb (ex-Puppen), Chaerul (Guitarist-NoinBullet)dan Tommy Prahara. Mereka sebenernya ingin mewujudkan tata management yang sebenarnya dan profesional (seiring dengan pengalaman mereka makan asam garam tentunya). Semua ini kemajuan bersama. Dan propagandannya adalah mem-blurkan masalah tentang indie, major, minor atau underground. Biarin ajalah, karena musik adalah musik dan kita harus enjoy didalammnya. Jangan sampai karena kita indie atau kita major atau kita u.g, tapi kita ngga enjoy didalamnya,..wah males kan? Makanya diblurkan saja&#8230; </p>
<p>Band yang termasuk kedalam SODA saat ini adalah: Burgerkill, Rocket Rockers dan The Bahamas. Siapa tau SODA juga bisa membuat propaganda sampai ke Internasional,..who knows&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
Cita cita terbesar apa yang dimiliki oleh RR?</strong><br />
Bisa membuka konser NOFX!! hahaha&#8230; Kalo cita-cita lokal mah, yah,&#8230;bisa beli rumah sendiri, studio sendiri, bikin label sendiri, istri dan tour-tour juga propaganda terus ke luar nagri!</p>
<p><strong>Bagi bagi ilmu teknik menyanyi loe donkCay.</strong><br />
Arrgghhh&#8230;ga ada teknik! kalo dibandingin ama band-band lokal lainnya yang serupa, gue termasuk yang agak buruk&#8230;atau paling buruk? entahlah yg jelas, gue ga pernah puas ama vokal gue. Gue lebih prefer kepada nyanyi asal keluar ludah. Makanya gue ga mau les vokal, takutnya jadi lembut,..hmmm<br />
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Seberapa pentingkah keberadaan fans? Dan dimanakah RR meletakkan posisi Fans dalam proses bermusik RR?</strong><br />
Fans?..Oh my God,&#8230;sejak awal kita enggan menyebut mereka fans, maka dari itu kita membuat rocketrockfriends, yah..sarupaning (semacam) &#8220;Sobat Padi&#8221; gitu lah! hahahah&#8230; Kita meletakan posisi mereka sebagai nyawa kami. Lagian siapa yang mau beli merchandise kita atau mau ngedengerin kaset kita selain mereka. Klise memang. Tapi emang gitu lah,..yah..keun weh&#8230;hehe</p>
<p><strong>Dengan lebih terbukanya market terhadap musik indie sekarang-sekarang ini, apa lo rasa ini akan lebih baik untuk scene independent secara umum atau malah melonggarkan filter untuk band-band yang mediocre/pas2an untuk lolos?</strong><br />
Wah-wah,..berat nih,..hehe. Ya itu semua kembali kepada kontrol masing-masing, biarpun indie kalo kitanya ga punya kontrol ya sama aja gendeng. Kontrol disini dari segi musik/band yang akan kita bawa. Kalo untuk masalah filter tentang band pas-pasan wah gue ga ada ide. Soalnya kalo band pas-pasan itu mo ngerilis sendiri gimana? ga ada yang larang kan? toh semua yang pas-pasan itu adalah proses menuju yang ngga pas-pasan. Apa lagi RR, dulunya pas-pasan berat..ada kok rekaman latihan kita dulu,..anjist..ga layak dengar! sumbang semua! Tapi sekarang, lumayan lah.. ngga segitunya banget. Intinya: kontrol masing-masing dan jalani prosesnya!</p>
<p><strong>What is your most intoxicant on your musical experience? Saat manggung atau menulis lagu.</strong><br />
Intoxicant? wah,..wah,..gue goblok amat ya ga tau artinya. Sorry, gue cukup bingung nih sama pertanyaan ini (aduh..malu nih, bodohnya saya). Yang jelas dalam menulis lagu kita cuma berusaha &#8220;sedikit jujur&#8221; soalnya kalo jujur, bullshit banget,..pastilah ada influence/sesuatu yang ingin ditiru. Pernah juga depresi gara2 bikin lagu susah dan ngga kelar2. Kalo manggung, gue berusaha mengeluarkan soul yang ada&#8230;lepas aja gitu. Ketakutan untuk dilemparin atau dibenci atau ga ditanggap sudah ngga ada sekarang,&#8230;kalo dulu masih sih. Kalo sekarang mah, keun weh! (biarin ajalah!)<br />
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Lagu terbaik RR adalah.?</strong><br />
Kalo gue pribadi: &#8220;It&#8217;s Just Another Holiday&#8221; (soalnya gue ngerasa orisinil pas bikin lagu itu)<br />
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Band yang gagal adalah band yang ?</strong><br />
Band yang ngga punya kontrol, attitude dan ngga niat (numpang sana-sini mulu,&#8230;cari job sendiri lah! Ngga usah manja..huhu)struggle man!</p>
<p><strong>Rekomendasikan band-band lokal yang menurut loe layak untuk mendapat perhatian lebih.</strong><br />
Wah, bingung juga euy,..but i&#8217;ll do my best:<br />
-The Upstairs (That&#8217;s my man! New Wave!)<br />
-Full Of Hate (wah tua amat, tapi gue sayang ama band ini)<br />
-Disconnected (seharusnya mereka lebih bergerak)<br />
-Electric Youth (band selingan gue, disco,emo-new wave)<br />
-Shaggy Dog (Ngga ada duanya!!)<br />
-Sajama Cut (cool di recording, tapi dari segi live kayaknya butuh sedikit pembenahan)<br />
-Homogenic (seharusnya band ini menyajikan yang lebih &#8216;aneh&#8217; lagi dari sebelumnya)</p>
<p><strong>Ada saran kepada band band indie lokal</strong><br />
yang baru memulai debutnya? *Propaganda-nya di perganas!!</p>
<p><strong>Setelah membaca DRS Webzine. Apa pendapat loe sebagai pembacanya? (kritik, saran dan pujian)</strong><br />
Kritik: <em>Hmm,..untuk review udah bagus, tapi apa ya?&#8230;sebagian ada yang masih gimana gituh,..eh,..ya agak gimana aja gitu..hihi&#8230;susah neranginnya.</em></p>
<p>Saran: <em>Propaganda terus!</em></p>
<p>Pujian: <em>Niat berat! pol!! bravo !!</em></p>
<p><em>thanks</em></p>
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<p>An Interview with The New Year. Brought to you by Marcel Thee for DRS Webszine.<br />
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Due to the limited distribution of records to Indonesia, only a select few here have had thechance to listen to your records fully, both from Bedhead and especially The New Year. How would you go about introducing or explaining your music to unfamiliar music fans who might have only heard 1 or 2 songs?</strong><br />
I would say the rest of the songs are in the vein of the one or two songs that this hypothetical fan has already heard.  Or I would find some other smart-ass way out of your question. Most musicians I know hate describing their own music.  I&#8217;d rather go streaking at a public sporting event.</p>
<p><strong>What?s the biggest difference in approach, writing for Bedhead and the New Year?</strong><br />
If you had asked that right after the first New Year record was done I would have said that songs for the new band tended to originate on drums, with the guitar parts coming later.  It wasjust the opposite for Bedhead.  But I think now after just havingrecorded the second New Year record, which has more songs on it that began their lives with guitar, I&#8217;d say on balance the song writing method forboth bands is the same.  Lyrically the approach has been even more consistently the same.</p>
<p><strong>Why the name the New Year?</strong><br />
Bubba came across it in print and liked the way it looked.</p>
<p><strong>How did you choose the other members of the band?</strong><br />
After Bedhead broke up Bubba and I gave up on the idea of having another band.  But we both kept playing music and eventually got to the point where we wanted to record another record. Neither one of us could imagine making a record without playing live, so we thought maybe we should get a live band together, and that thought quickly led to me thinking that, although I play drums, I would rather have someone else play drums on the record we were gearing up to record.</p>
<p>My first thought was to call Chris Brokaw.  He had been afriend for years, he lived in Boston, where I lived and still live, and I had a suspicion that he might want to play drums again since for thelast decade&#8211;this was around 1999&#8211;he had mainly been playing guitar. We naturally realized that we also needed a bass player, and our friend Mike Donofrio came to mind.  Mike lives in New York, but New York and Boston are close enough that Mike, Chris, and I were able to get together and practice a few times before recording the record.  So really we went  from not wanting a band, to wanting a live band, to assembling one that ended up recording the record.  Peter Schmidt from Dallas was always our choice for third guitar.  He had been the unofficial sixth member of Bedhead&#8211;&#8221;Substitute Scmidt&#8221;&#8211;filling in for Tench when Tench was working in Russia.  We&#8217;ve had a rotating cast of sixth members, I think  more sixth members in all than the permanent five. Andy Cohen from  Silkworm, another longtime friend, was the sixth on a two week US tour. And more recently Josh McKay from Macha, who we&#8217;ve known since we were in junior high school, has been the sixth, playing keyboards, guitar, and random percussion.</p>
<p><strong>Was it due more to their skills or were you friends with most of them?</strong><br />
It was both.  We would be friends with every one of these guys  if we didn&#8217;t play with them.  In fact we were friends with all of them before we all started playing music together.  But we&#8217;re blessed in that Chris, Mike, Peter, Josh,(and Andy) are all stunningly good at what they do.  Playing in this band is almost effortless.  Bubba and I fret for weeks before we play a set of shows or a tour, worrying about not having practiced and things like that, but the other four guys are  always so much more on the ball that Bubba and I are.</p>
<p><strong>The New Year seems a little bit more ?rock? and the melodies simpler and catchier. Was this a conscious decision?</strong><br />
It just happened that way.  Maybe the fact that, like I said, most of these songs originated with drums, and drums playing usually heavy beats, had something to do with the record being more rock.</p>
<p><strong>How much do the other members (other than Matt and Bubba) influence the songwriting?</strong><br />
Not really at all, but that&#8217;s not what they signed up for.  And they all have other bands in which they&#8217;re the principle songwriters.</p>
<p><strong>What kind of environment setting would be the best place to listen to the New Year?s ?Newness Ends??</strong><br />
Sitting in a comfortable chair or lying on a couch in a room with incomprehensibly good speakers, like Andy Cohen&#8217;s new B&#038;Ws.  Andy played part of Newness Ends for me the other day to show me his fancy new speakers and turntable and I have to say that the record sounded as good as it ever did in the studio, which is sort of what you think of at the optimal sound zone for anything you record.</p>
<p><strong>What records have you been listening to lately?</strong><br />
I really like the last two Deerhoof records. And the latest Nina Nastasia record.  &#8220;Deceit&#8221; by This Heat, a record made over twenty years ago, sounds like it was made yesterday, and besides being precocious is incredible for its odd rhythms and sounds.</p>
<p><strong>What kind of things other than other music influences your music and lyric writing?</strong><br />
I think just about everything in the external world is an influence of some kind.</p>
<p><strong>Is there any books or movies you?d liken you?re records to?</strong><br />
What is your favorite line that you?ve sang in a Bedhead or the New Year record?<br />
I don&#8217;t really have one.</p>
<p><strong>How was working with Steve Albini like?</strong><br />
He&#8217;s one of the great ones and it&#8217;s always incredibly fun and edifying to record with him.<br />
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What kind of influence did he bring to your sound?</strong><br />
Before we actually started recording with him we were going for what could be characterized, among other things, as the &#8220;Albini sound&#8221;&#8211;ambient drums, guitars that sound like guitars, vocals that sit in instead of on top of the mix, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to go with ?Touch and Go??</strong><br />
Trance Syndicate, Bedhead&#8217;s label, the only label Bedhead ever considered, closed shop right after that band broke up.  Trance was distributed by Touch and Go, we knew and liked all the people up there, and so when we had a new band Touch and Go was the only label we ever considered.  Much like Electrical Audio, Albini&#8217;s studio in Chicago,  Touch and Go is one of the world&#8217;s greatest institutions, businesses, collections of people, I&#8217;m not sure exactly what you call it.</p>
<p><strong>You?ve toured Europe and America. Any plans for touring Asia or Indonesia?</strong><br />
We would love to but I&#8217;m not sure how realistic it is since we&#8217;ve never had our records distributed in either place.</p>
<p><strong>If you had to choose, which is your favorite Bedhead album?</strong><br />
I hate to have to chose but I guess I would say &#8220;WhatFunLifeWas.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>What?s next for the New Year?</strong><br />
A new record in February followed by select shows in the US.</p>
<p><strong>Thank you very much for answering these questions!!</strong><br />
You&#8217;re welcome. </p>
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		<title>Interview with Pretty Girls Make Graves&#8217; Derek Fudesco</title>
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<p><em>Marcel Thee, Editor in-chief DEATHROCKSTAR webzine, an interview with Derek Fudesco of Pretty Girls Make Graves.<br />
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<strong>The band is really made up of people who?ve previously been in other bands. You yourself were mostly known as the bass player from the Murder City Devils. How do you think all the members? previous experience influence the music of PGMG?</strong><br />
I guess because we all write the songs, we all bring a little bit of our own styles to it. I don?t think any of our previous bands influence us.</p>
<p><strong>What are you approaching differently in PGMG than your previous bands?</strong><br />
Just the writing, non of us have ever been in a band were it was such a collective.</p>
<p><strong>Good Health was, in our opinion, one of the best releases last year. Were you satisfied with the album? Or were there some ideas you couldn?t put on the album?</strong><br />
I think it is a great album, I do wish we could have had more time with it, I think it could have been ten times better.</p>
<p><strong>How does the writing process in the band go? I?ve read that you guys go into huge arguments and discussions whenever you write new songs.</strong><br />
Yeah, we are getting better about it though.</p>
<p><strong>Even though PGMG still sometimes gets tag as ?Emo?, a lot of reviews tend to really praise the emotional value of the music. Do you agree with this? Do you think there?s an extra emotional value that a lot of other bands just don?t have?</strong><br />
That word just paints an awful picture. But yeah, there is a lot of emotion that goes into what we do.</p>
<p><strong>Musically, which bands would you say influenced you?</strong><br />
Me personally, Its changing all the time.. right now it&#8217;s Gary Numan, New<br />
Order, Can, Souls of Mischief</p>
<p><strong>Where did the name Pretty Girls Make Graves come from?</strong><br />
The Smiths</p>
<p><strong>What records have you been playing lately?</strong><br />
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wilco and New Order</p>
<p><strong>Lyrically, what influences PGMG? Are there any specific books or movies or records you?d recommend?</strong><br />
Thats a question for Andrea</p>
<p><strong>What do you think is the benefit from having a female vocalist?</strong><br />
Nothing, but theres a lot of benefits of having a great singer.</p>
<p><strong>Do you enjoy playing live or recording more?</strong><br />
They are both kind of the same, The feeling you get when you finish a<br />
song and can sit back and hear everything.. Is almost as great as playing a really awesome show.</p>
<p><strong>Which one of your songs would be a good representation of the band?</strong><br />
All of them</p>
<p><strong>Thanks a lot for your time!! Good luck always!!</strong><br />
Thank you.. </p>
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		<title>Interview with The Liars&#8217; Angus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jarang emang gue mulai sebuah interview dgn intro2 macem ini, gak penting lah, toh yg penting yg keluar dari mulut si pemusik. Tapi sekedar info, Liars adalah band dari Amerika, yang saat ini ada di barisan depan musik yang dgn tidak adil, bersama dengan Out Hud, the Rapture, !!!, dan dance Disaster Movement dilabel sebagai "Dance Punk". Iyah, dance punk ini memang trend mid-2003 banget lho! Garage rock mah 2003 awal banget sih..apalagi huip mental, wahh itu mah jaman bahula, sekarang mah gayanya mustinya Gantungan Kunci sama dance punk, ini tuh pertengahan 2003 banget deh, kalo topi supir truk itu? wah itu mah 2003 awal, ketinggalan deh kamu....ya udah, Liars:band dengan sound gitar noise gila, beat elektronika, dan vokalis sinting, gak jelas? Beli aja CD-nya di Aksara atau internet, atau check <a href="http://www.liarsliarsliars.com ">www.liarsliarsliars.com </a>
 
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<p><em>Jarang emang gue mulai sebuah interview dgn intro2 macem ini, gak penting lah, toh yg penting yg keluar dari mulut si pemusik. Tapi sekedar info, Liars adalah band dari Amerika, yang saat ini ada di barisan depan musik yang dgn tidak adil, bersama dengan Out Hud, the Rapture, !!!, dan dance Disaster Movement dilabel sebagai &#8220;Dance Punk&#8221;. Iyah, dance punk ini memang trend mid-2003 banget lho! Garage rock mah 2003 awal banget sih..apalagi huip mental, wahh itu mah jaman bahula, sekarang mah gayanya mustinya Gantungan Kunci sama dance punk, ini tuh pertengahan 2003 banget deh, kalo topi supir truk itu? wah itu mah 2003 awal, ketinggalan deh kamu&#8230;.ya udah, Liars:band dengan sound gitar noise gila, beat elektronika, dan vokalis sinting, gak jelas? Beli aja CD-nya di Aksara atau internet, atau check <a href="http://www.liarsliarsliars.com ">www.liarsliarsliars.com </a></p>
<p>-Marcel Thee,<br />
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<p><strong>Everyone hates this question. But how would you describe, in a nutshell, the kind of music Liars play?</strong><br />
Honest.</p>
<p><strong>Liars, along with other bands such as Out Hud, the Rapture, and !!!, have been tagged ?Dance Punk?. If anything, do you feel that there?s at least correctness in this ?tag?. Is there a certain combination of element of dance and punk in your music?</strong><br />
I don&#8217;t know what punk is anymore. We just try and make music we like. Sometimes we enjoy a good bass-line but sometimes we don&#8217;t want one at all&#8230;.We are definatly not interested in &#8220;dance  Punk&#8221; as a way of making music or as a way of indentifying ouselves in the broad spectrum of music.</p>
<p><strong>There?s a major amount of guitar and sound experimentalism in your records, especially Fins to Make Us More Fish-Like. Were you influnced by noise experimentalist such as Massona and Merzbow?</strong><br />
Oh yes, and so many others&#8230;..Aaron likes to play his guitar in an attempt to revert back in time to when  he didn&#8217;t have a know who a guitar was&#8230;.<br />
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These experimental noises; does it come naturally and spontaneously to you guys or is it more of carefully planned out thing to ?enhance? the songs?</strong><br />
Often we start with a noise, a rare noise, and build from there. We try to let as much of the song rely on that noise as possible so as not to complicate the idea and distract it with regular sounds.</p>
<p><strong>When a certain sound works great on a song. Do you tend to repeat the method on other songs or is it a >case of ?use just once and destroy?? Because each song on the records, especially They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, seem to have a character of their own but relate to each other sound-wise.</strong><br />
Well generally, yes, one sound per song, then case closed&#8230;but the continuity you hear in certain sounds through Trench is actually a vocal pedal effect that really was a staple for our overall sound for a long time.</p>
<p><strong>There?s definitely a head fuck element on most of the songs, going from almost a quiet-comforting noise to full-on-chaos. Do you guys enjoy fucking with the audiences head sound-wise because there?s such a sense of confrontation in your music?</strong><br />
Thats all just song-writing with an idea in mind&#8230;.holding things back, waiting for the right time to give and take, its like drama but without the soap.</p>
<p><strong>Where does Angus get the inspiration for the lyrics and song titles like ?Pillars Were Hollow and Filled With Candy, So We Knocked Them Down? or  ?We Got Cold, Coughed, and Forgot Things? ? Is there anything specific you try to convey with it?</strong><br />
Just a starting point for thought. A place to begin to think a little differently&#8230;<br />
<strong><br />
The one-sentence song-titles and minimalist sleeve art, is almost a kind of trademark of Liars. How carefully do you shape the band?s image? Is it important according to you?</strong><br />
No, those things happen very unconciously till suddenly people notice and make it into a&#8221;thing&#8221;&#8230;.We extend ourselves into not trying to shape a band image..,..we are who we are and thats how it comes across.<br />
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Which of your records do you suggest a new listener should start with, and why?</strong><br />
Interesting&#8230;.hmm, maybe &#8220;Atheists Reconsider&#8221; split EP with Oneida would forwarn any innocent listener about whats to come.<br />
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What kind of Australian-ism has Angus brought to the band?</strong><br />
Weird words for stuff.<br />
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What?s next for Liars? Any chance you?ll have you records officially released in Indonesia, or even play a gig here?</strong><br />
I wanna wanna wanna, we will be in Japan/Australia in Oct &#8230;. our new full-length comes out Feb 2004 on Mute&#8230;its called: They Were Wrong So We Drowned</p>
<p><em>big cuddle&#8217;kiss<br />
love<br />
LIARS/angus</em><br />
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Thanks for the answers, we really-really appreciate it!!<br />
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		<title>Interview with Eric Gaffney from the Field Of Gaffney</title>
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<p><em>Interview with Eric Gaffney from the Field Of Gaffney. An ex-member of Sebadoh. By Marcel Thee, via email.</em></p>
<p><strong>Can you tell us a little about the FIELDS OF GAFNEY for those who only knew you through Sebadoh? How did you meet the other members (Jessica Cowley and Richard Marshall) of the band? </strong><br />
Yeh.  I&#8217;d been working on the &#8216;Fields&#8217; for 3 years before meeting Richard, who used to play guitar in Alice Donut in New York, and Jessica, who played bass in one band and drums in another when we met.  They&#8217;re both quite versatile like myself.  I met them both here in San Francisco. </p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to form a band rather than continue as a solo artist? </strong><br />
Well, I like being in a band ya know.  I&#8217;ve been in bands on and off for 20+ years and it had been awhile.  I did go solo for 2 or 3 years back in the mid-90&#8217;s.  Had no idea when and where a band was gonna happen.  I performed a buncha shows as solo guitar&#8230;standing up which although being sort of surreal and fun in that it&#8217;s just you an amp and your car, isn&#8217;t the same as the full sound with a group of any sort.  </p>
<p><strong>Is it mostly YOUR band playing your material, or is it more of a democracy where everyone collaborates in a band setting? </strong><br />
So far I&#8217;ve written all the songs for the group and sing them.  We&#8217;re adding more background vocals since it started and eventually we&#8217;ll be presenting material we&#8217;ve written together.</p>
<p><strong>Did you consciously approach your songwriting differently than when you were in Sebadoh? And did affect the songwriting knowing some of your older fans may have certain expectations as far as your ?songstyle? goes? </strong><br />
No, my songwriting stays about the same more or less.  It has nothing to do with what band I&#8217;m working with.  I&#8217;ve always approached songwriting as a variety pack grab bag, pulling from all sorts of influences, styles, and angles to keep it interesting as what I write isn&#8217;t all too complex really.  For example I&#8217;ve always mixed acoustic-based recordings along with noisier more rocking material with little to no forethought.</p>
<p><strong>As a solo artist, you nearly signed to the bigger indies; Sub Pop, Domino, and a major; Atlantic. Why did you choose not to go through with it? </strong><br />
All three of those deals fell through for one reason or another.  Either because I asked for one-off deals with a slightly higher percentage or for whatever other reasons you might imagine.  Aside from which I like having my own pretend label.  Nothing left to the imagination as far as getting screwed over.</p>
<p><strong>Some people may think that with you and the Sebadoh name it would be easier to get a deal, is this the case? </strong><br />
I don&#8217;t know.  We&#8217;ve been doing home recording and dabbling in touring for a few months but the labels who contact us most often are offering a track on a comp or with a zine.<br />
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Are you planning to go on tour soon? You really should stop by Indonesia, the punkrock / indie scene is growing rapidly. </strong><br />
We just toured the southwest and a short northwest weekend thing and are busy working on distributing the new cd.  (Nature Walk)  We don&#8217;t have reviews, radio play or enough interest in it yet but working on it.  Yeah someday we&#8217;ll consider Indonesia.  Especially if we can sell a few thousand records there first of course.</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to specifically cover ?I did acid with Caroline? by Daniel Johnston? </strong><br />
Oh, I had performed it once with Sebadoh, in Denver, CO. on a Firehose tour after sleeping 10 hours straight through the Rockies.  Also, we were asked to be on a D. Johnston tribute which didn&#8217;t work out, plus I opened for him last year so was reminded that I liked that freaky LP it was from, at that time.</p>
<p><strong>What have you been listening to recently? Is there any bands that has influenced your songwriting for Fields of Gafney? </strong><br />
Not much really.  I don&#8217;t buy much of anything, so I listen to radio and the reduced collection I haven&#8217;t parted with.  There is relatively little that has particularly influenced my songwriting.  Rather everything I like or am intrigued by.  Lately I&#8217;ve been listening to Charlie Patton.  A record I&#8217;d had that&#8217;d been sitting around collecting dust.  </p>
<p><strong>How was Noisepop 2003? Is the festival-type setting more relaxing for the band than doing club shows? </strong><br />
It wasn&#8217;t a festival at all.  The shows were all indoors.  We have played outside once, in El Paso, Texas for a handful of students at the University.  Outside shows sound not as good usually.</p>
<p><strong>In your opinion why, in the end, did Sebadoh disintegrate? Did living so far away from each other influence this? </strong><br />
I figured after I quit they would&#8217;ve disintegrated sooner but they kept at it.  I hesitate to guess why they disintegrated.  Maybe it was because their fans outgrew them or because of the last record?</p>
<p><strong>Do you ever see Sebadoh working together again as a unit? </strong><br />
No.  I doubt it.  Maybe, you just never know.</p>
<p><strong>What do you think of the loobiecore website? There?s a lot of great vintage Sebadoh stuff up there. Would you ever consider putting some of your rare Sebadoh material on your site? </strong><br />
I would distinguish between my new band and what I was doing 10 to 15 years ago as far as putting Mp3&#8217;s or whatever on our site.  It would be too cluttered.  At some point I&#8217;ll probably release some really old 4-track recordings but in no hurry to.</p>
<p><strong>How important is the internal band relationship to you now? Did your experience w/ Sebadoh affect how your aproach your relationship w/ the other members of Fields of Gaffney? </strong><br />
We try to make sure to give eachother anough time apart and not overdo it.  We&#8217;re not about to live together anyway.  I use whatever past experiences in music, touring, or with how to deal with business to our advantage.</p>
<p><strong>What was the ultimate Sebadoh album for you? </strong><br />
The first one because it was done before it was brought to a studio.  (cassette tapes) III was good because the studio (Fort Apache) sounded good and was cheaper to rent back then.  I played all those songs using electric and acoustic guitars and sort of went all out.  We&#8217;d practiced those for two years before that record.  Smash Your Head I never liked much, even though I wrote three songs, put together the front cover and cd booklet stuff.  </p>
<p><strong>Which Sebadoh album did you enjoy working on the most? </strong><br />
Bubble &#038; Scrape maybe.  It was a weird album on my end in that I wrote most everything on the spot using a whammy pedal effect, with no idea what it would be, or a few songs were recorded in Berlin when I had a sore throat.  One of those songs got sped up which ruins it for me.  I came up with the title, added my childhood photos, and wrote a 1/3 of it.  I should be happy with it but one never is.  It may not have been properly mastered.  As I remember it was a few d.a.t. tapes I brought in to Fort Apche and then they were sequenced.  Nothing much else.  </p>
<p><strong>Sebadoh was, in a way, a part of the (or lumped into) the ?lo-fi? movement. Did it bother you? And are you using the same recording techniques in Fields of Gafney? </strong><br />
No dammit.  I like the Lo-Fi tag.  I&#8217;d been doing cassette taping as far back as 1979.  If I&#8217;d had a proper home studio all along that&#8217;s mostly what I would&#8217;ve used.  You make do with what you have.  We used 4-track recordings for the  &#8216;Nature Walk cd.&#8217;<br />
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What inspires you lyrically? Do you take care of the lyrics in the songs as much as the song itself? A lot of people would to love to know the meaning behind songs like ?Cecilia chime in melee?, and ?Telecosmic alchemy?, or at least how you got those titles! </strong><br />
It can take me years of re-doing lyrics until I can stand it.  There is little to no meaning  behind those songs&#8230;&#8221;You too can have Telecosmic Alchemy&#8221; is an ad from a 1970&#8242; comic book.  &#8220;Cecilia&#8221; was a joke.  Jason and I recorded that in ten minutes during a recording break.  I could&#8217;ve had a song there instead but used that.  Some of my worst keyboard playing there.</p>
<p><strong>Lastly, what are you planning in the future for the band? New songs in the can yet? </strong><br />
Yeah.  Another record being planned.  Still working the new one or just starting to.  Be sure to check out our website for anything new.   <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/indie/ericgaffney">www.angelfire.com/indie/ericgaffney</a>.  Thanks Indonesian listeners.  Remember!  &#8220;Don&#8217;t let nobody control ya.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Thanks a lot Eric, good luck with the band! </em></p>
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<p><em>Interview with Greg Werckman from IPECAC RECORDS. An Indie Label that released Fantomas, Melvins, Young Gods, Kids of Widney High and much more good stuff. Brought to you by Marcel Thee for DEATHROCKSTAR.</em></p>
<p><strong>Its been 4 years since you started Ipecac. What has been some of your proudest achievements?</strong><br />
The biggest is that we are still around and that we have been very successful. With the type of music we put it out, it has been pretty astonishing. The other thing that are we proud of is how happy the bands we work with are. It is great to writ royalty checks.</p>
<p><strong>Ipecac has an image of releasing a spectrum of weird-experimental music, except for a few artists. Do you ever see yourself releasing a basic pop-rock record?</strong><br />
Have you heard Kaada? We just release things we like and we have very eclectic tastes. Stay tuned! As long as it is unique.</p>
<p><strong>Does this image of a strictly-experimental label bother you?</strong><br />
Nothing bothers us. We really don&#8217;t care about our image. Anyone can call us anything you like as long as people enjoy some of the music. We certainly don&#8217;t try to be &#8220;strictly experimental.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>You?re an independent based label, yet your releases have reached countries such as ours (Indonesia), more so than a lot of other indie-labels. Do you concentrate your sales and promotions as much in the outside American-market?</strong><br />
It is our goal to reach the whole world. People all over are looking for something unique.</p>
<p><strong>Tell us what goes on during a working day in the Ipecac office</strong><br />
The same thing as any other office in the world. Out of control parties!!!</p>
<p><strong>Why did you decide to release the Young Gods record? Have you always been a fan of theirs?</strong><br />
Mike and I have always loved the Young Gods. More people should learn about great bands like Young Gods. One of the coolest records we&#8217;ve released.</p>
<p><strong>What are the most important criteria for a band wanting to sign with Ipecac?</strong><br />
We look for unique and creative music. It might be a popular stlye but as long as it is done in a unique way. We also look to work with nice people who share our same outlook about music. People that are realistic.</p>
<p><strong>How do you (Mike and Greg) divide your duties around the office? Are you planning on hiring more staff? Indonesia is filled with cheap, uneducated and easily exploited labors!!</strong><br />
I run the day to day business. We have an office in New York and one in California and also distribution offices in London and Sydney Australia. Mike is on the road or in the studio almost always but I speak to him a couple times a day. He is very involved in artist side of the biz. We have other people that work with us too. Might have to look into Indonesia, Nike does right? The music biz is all about exploitation.</p>
<p><strong>Greg, how is working in Ipecac different from working at Alternative Tentacles?</strong><br />
Well, ATR was not my label, it is Jello&#8217;s, so I did not have the same amount of say in who we signed or how things should run. Having said that, ATR was and still is a great label. I learned a lot there. Jello is a great person. We have a similiar outlook in a lot of ways.</p>
<p><strong>What is the most important lesson a person should learn before starting an independent label?</strong><br />
Don&#8217;t do it unless you have a distributor you trust. Don&#8217;t do it to get rich.</p>
<p><strong>Which part of releasing a record is the most difficult? The promotion/etc?</strong><br />
Finding good distribution and finding money.</p>
<p><strong>When is the new Fantomas album going to be released? What can we expect from it?</strong><br />
October</p>
<p><strong>Was the whole Phantomas name change into Fantomas true?</strong><br />
There is so much drama behind the scenes. Psychis help with a lot of the drama.</p>
<p><strong>Does Mike do most of the artwork/art-direction for the records?</strong><br />
No. We let the bands choose there artwork but try to give some guidance. Mike comes up with great ideas but we also work with some great artists.</p>
<p><strong>How superstitious are you? E.g. would you release a record containing black magic mantras?</strong><br />
VERY! If it was good, hell yeah. We are actually working on something pretty scary.</p>
<p><strong>Are the Kids of Widney High going to release a second record? We loved the first one!!</strong><br />
You mean third record? We put out their second. They just fished their third but we will not be putting it out. Find it on their website.<br />
<a href="http://www.kidsofwidnetyhigh.com ">www.kidsofwidnetyhigh.com </a> They are great and deserve your support!!!</p>
<p><strong>What?s the first word that comes to mind, when someone says Melvins? </strong><br />
BINGO!</p>
<p><strong>What are the plans for 2003? Are you planning on signing new artists?</strong><br />
Oh my. All kinds of things. The rest of the year we have some BIGGIES. Mondo Generator from Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age), Desert Sessions from Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), new Fantomas, new kid 606. We have a couple new bands that will come out next year. Did you hear Kaada yet?</p>
<p><strong>What is the most common intoxicant in the Ipecac office?</strong><br />
Caffeine</p>
<p><strong>When are any of your artists planning on touring Indonesia-really!! We are depraved of good music.</strong><br />
When they get a good offer, they will go anywhere. Our bands love to travel!</p>
<p><strong>Lastly, how many bad rap-metal demos do you receive per-day?</strong><br />
Too many! It is sad and scary. Also a lot of unlistenable noise.</p>
<p><strong>Are you planning on releasing them as a Christmas compilation album?</strong><br />
A Christmas record would be great, huh?</p>
<p><strong>Thanks so much for answering these questions!! And thanks for releasing great music!!</strong><br />
Thanks for your support and go to <a href="http://www.ipecac.com">www.ipecac.com</a> to stay up to date.</p>
<p><em>best.<br />
Greg Werckman<br />
Ipecac Recordings &#8220;making people sick? since 1999<br />
PO Box 1197 Alameda,California 94501 USA<br />
<a href="http://www.ipecac.com">www.ipecac.com</a></em></p>
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<p><em>Interview Sebentar antara DEATHROCKSTAR dengan Marcel dan Opi personel Sajama Cut, di markas mereka&#8230;</em></p>
<p><strong>coba definisikan Sajama Cut.. sebagai band.<br />
</strong><strong>marcel:</strong>Definisiin gmn? Susah ah. Paling kita coba buat lagu sebagus mgkn. Ga ngebosenin (buat kita lho- buat orang lain ndak peduli). Kita juga temen dkt, jadi bisa ngeband kesempatan bagus utk lebih deket. Kalo ga ada band tp nongkrong brg trus nanti disangka homo lagi. Biarpun kt suka gayporn. Seksi kan? Seksi khan? Lagu kita jujur, itu garansi, soalnya kita gak peduli ama yg rokkstarr bisa peduliin. Kita ga demen cewek cakep ama uang. Kita cuman demen wanita dan foyafoya + wine. juga jas armani.tau ah, gimana pi?<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>Mau kamu seprti apa ya? Kita cuma sekelompok pemuda yang malas dan mencoba bermain band biar keren&#8230;.hehehe. Ya mulanya dari ketemu dari kecil (Marcell baru bisa jalan, opi keliling2 naek sepeda, Beta entah dimana) trus waktu kita menjelang dewasa kita ketemu alat musik&#8230;..nah dari situ kita liatin aja biar para musisi yang mainin&#8230;.trus ada orang baik nyumbang duit untuk kita buat bikin album nah jadi deh  &#8220;apologia&#8221;&#8230;.dari situ kiat santai2 lagi foya-foya dan jadi fans AV-porn</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana awal mula SC?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Standard. Kita temen. Mgkn kalo ga ngeband skrg udah gak temenan. Mgkn dulu krn musik yg kt suka rata2 sama (melvins, altrock kuno, rem, deus)kt yah seneng bisa buat bising rame2 + maen lagu2 band favorit-syukur2 tiap latihan bisa buat 1/3 lagu sendiri. (hore). sejak latihan pertama ga ada balik lg/no turning back dong. asik dehhh.itu 97. sekarng 03.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>kita suka musik dan mungkin musik tidak suka kita&#8230;karena itu kita bikin band dari 97 sampai sekarang 2003&#8230;kiat nyoba bikin lagu sendiri &#8230;eh ada juga orang  yang senang (terima kasih semua yang menjadi fans &#8220;SC&#8221;)&#8230;dah gitu lah</p>
<p><strong>apa yang membuat Sajama Cut berbeda dengan band lainnya?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>mkgn krn anggota bandnnya beda.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>hmmmm apa yaaa? pertam kita sekelompok pemuda ganteng yang main musik..heeheh (serius)<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Kt juga masih cari suara sendiri. ga bakal ketemu mudahan. pencarian selalu yg plg seru.nyangkut diantara jatuh cinta sama Brain Wilson &#8211; GYBE &#8211; SilverMountZion &#8211; DanielJohnston. Jd mkgn band lain mau jadi profesional. Kalo kita mau ttp naif. faux-naive. Kalo udah ketemu suara kita, kalo udah mulai jadi parodi diri sendiri, kita dengerin musik lain lagi, jaipongan juga boleh, biar tetep seru, berkembang trus lah&#8230; kita juga lebih ganteng dari banyak band lain. coba liat itu boomerang.iih geli deh jelek amat sih.kan udah kaya, operasi plastik dong.<br />
 <strong><br />
mengapa Sajama Cut menjadi cenderung lebih pelan dibandingkan album apologia?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Krn kalo main lagu pop kan gampang laku. Dan krn kita selalu cinta beatlesbeachboysthehollies sama dengan kita cinta cradlerottingchristhighonfire. Mgkn kita lebih jujur ama diri sendiri. Gmnapun kt kurang bagus menurut gue kl maen lagu 8 menit tareak. Abis Apologia, gue re-evaluasi, ternyata di laci cd/vynil/kaset lebih banyak pop katro 60-an daripada postrock 90-an. Masalah be true to yerself gitu deh.re-evaluasi.vokal gue juga jelek kalo dipaksa teriak, orang lemah gini gue, lebih bis anyayi kalem.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>tadinya gw pikir  musik keras yang marah2 gitu keren kita bisa tereak2 lebih energik&#8230; lama kelaman kok kaga nyambung bikin musik yang time-traknya lama sampe 7-8 menit cuman bikin budek pas latihan pas kita manggung kita pada  kecapean&#8230;maklum bodi kita kecil bukan orang macho kaya band jaman sekrg yang kalo maen gitarnya ngangkang..jadi kita coba re-evaluasi diri kita sendirilah.<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>iya, gak kuat lah.stamina butut kita.Tapi yah ga tau, suka kok gue ama lagu2 itu&#8230;suka bgt malah</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana anda meberikan benang merah antara album apologia dengan album berikutnya?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Mgkn kl yg dgr ngeliat lbh jauh dari perbedaan bhs, ga ada beda yg drastis sebenrnya. Sekencengnya APOLOGIA, kt berusaha memasukan melodi sekuat mgkn. not planed outrage.Sama juga ama lagu-lagu baru. Kt cuman ngebuang presengki2 yg gak perlu mgkn. Intro intrumental 20 menitnya misalnya, kita ganti jadi verse-chorus trus udah. Lebih langsung. enang merah perkawinan=melodi+lirik seputar cewek seksi.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>benang merah apaan tuh?????(tidak ngerti) kalo hubungannya adalah apologia dan berikutnya kita sama2 Sajama Cut&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>menurut elo, Sc itu identik dengan apa?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Hmm,kalo liat review mkgn &#8220;lirik puitis&#8221;-ngutip itu lho.Itu mgkn yg plg sering gue baca. itu jg kita berterimakasih ada yg merhatiin, krn gue juga sgt mengargai kalo ada band yg tulis lirik yg gak seadanya, tapi put some thoughts behind it lah&#8230;tp gue udah ga bis a nyayiin lagi kebanyakan lagu disitu, nginget liriknya terlalu personal, ga enak buat gue inget2 Maunya sih kt identik ama &#8220;lagu bagus&#8221;. udah. ga usah identik ama tampang keren atau gaya gimana gituhhh. Kayak rem atau papaM atau idlewild. Selain lagu bagus, org kan ga ada yg bilng, ihh dandanannya keren lho.Ihh band sok matching gitu lho, geli dehhh.gak seksi akh. sc identik ama:novel detektif,porno jepang,noir,seksi,pornojepang,lagu bagus, porno jepang. tau dah, gimana pi?<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>yahh memang waktu pertam org ngedenger kita banyak yang ngopmong lirik kita puitis&#8230;.ya tapi gak pa2-lah, tapi kita bangga sama tuh lirik&#8230;.identik kita tidajk sama satu sama lain gimana bisa dibilang identik<br />
marcel:iyah, apaan sih identik identikan?</p>
<p><strong>akhir akhir ini banyak band yang cenderung memberi aksi panggung desktruktif. bagaimana pendapat elo? </strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Terserah mrk mgkn yah. Kt udah lama engga sih. Kl dipikir mgkn selama ga ada preplanning yah gpp. Abisnya yah itu, namanya juga msuik, rokkk apalagi, kalo udah segitu emosinya, kadang kayaknya yah ngeluap gituh lah, rok n rol. Tapi kalo udah ada koreografinya..ihh malu dong. Apalgikalo sampe latihan banting gitar, banyak tuh skrg kayaknya, Dibanting tp gitarnya ga ancur gitu. Buat apa tuh. Sampe ancur dong, kalo perlu dibor pake titit trus dilempar ke kepala anggota badn yg nyebelin / mukanya ga gantengsampe pecah berkeping. kayak dulu si opi (bass) supaya gitaris lama kt gomez keluar band. daripada kt pecat mending kt buat dia pengin keluar. tp ga sengaja sih, abisnya si opi bilang &#8220;eh, bass gue licin nih, ga sengaja kelepas ke kepala si gomezzz&#8221;. emang mgkn krn bass murahan jadi keringet gampang nyerep./Sori, kt emang dulu agak kampungan sih.rok n rol.man.oh yehh.si opi juga akhirnya di gebukin abangnya gomez.lucu juga sih, dia tau bakal digebukin, jd dia megang di kantong walkman sekitar 3 hari, jadi kalo pas digebukin dia bisa ngerekam suaranya sendiri minta tolong sama ributnya orang2 yg nendang. akhirnya kita jadiin sample trus ditaruh di lagu judulnya &#8220;kurang semangat hidup&#8221;.mau kita rilis, cuman ga tau nih mau dimana, mgkn kalo ada kompilasi yg keren kali yah&#8230;<br />
<em>(DRS pun diberi kesempatan mendengar lagu ini, dan benar dibagian tengah lagu ini keluar sample gila ini-gilanya kedengeran suara si opi malah tertawa terus menerus selama dipukuli)</em>.<br />
&#8220;aw aw, haha ampun mas, gue gak sengaja, hahaha tangan gue keringetan bang!!&#8221;.&#8221;diem ngentot, sok jago lo ama adek gue?&#8221;hahahaha.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>oh itu terserah gimana kreasi mereka diatas panggung asl bisa keliatan keren ama fan s mereka jalan aja trus peduli teeuing ama org lain lah&#8230; kalo SC sekarang dah kaga lagi kita kurangilah sebisa mungkin dari pada keluar biaya banyak buat betulin alat2 belum lagi dah di black list ama panitia&#8230;abis itu kita pikir lagi itu tolol udah duit abis untuk banting2 mending untuk alkohopl apa gak lu banting cewe lebih asyik </p>
<p><strong>trus akhirnya gimana?opinya gpp?</strong><strong><br />
marcel:</strong>gpp, kita jugalangsung pada nolong , trus rio dan anak2 jg pada nenangin + ajak omong tuh orang.<br />
<strong>opi:</strong><em>http://us.f131.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=&#038;???!!!!@#$*!!!!</em><br />
orang timur item ngen(sensor)<br />
<em>(semua ketawa)</em><br />
<strong><br />
rencana band ini kedepannya?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>rilis album,maen dimana mana. kayaknya kt udah bbrp bulan ini pemanasan. kmrn bulan maen lagi ngetes masih bisa<br />
gak.ehhh ancur bgt.mgkn krn baru pertama bertiga doang.tp skrg kita ber-4 meskipun add.gitar kita agak ada masalah bau<br />
badan.tapi jago .semua yg gak perlu, dan emang kita payah ngurusnya  jg udah diberesin, ada yg bakal urus secara &#8220;pro&#8221;. jd yahtinggal rekaman, maen,rilis.etc etc. Ceritain ttg aldy lah Pi..<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>Horeeee&#8230; besok si ALdi balik(ini satu lagi kawan kecil kita) yah pertma dia jadi add personal kita jadi mudah2an kita maen kaga jelek kaya kemaren mungkin bagi pada yg datang mafkan kami itu belum maksimal Mungkin sug\dah panjang jangka waktu vakum kemaren yah skrg dah tambah krew pro jadi yah kita tinggal men aj&#8230;pokoknya kita buat live yg lebih ok gitulah</p>
<p><strong>band mana saja yang menurut elo dekat secara  musikal dengan SC</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>ga berani ngomong ah. nanti mrk ngerasa terhina lagi. kalo band yg kt suka lokal mgkn snorg ama klepto opera.tp ga deket kali secara musik.lebih ke friendly creatures we like to be around with.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>sebuah band di bdg, tapi mereka deket ma kita<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>snorg&#8230;snorg </p>
<p><strong>kalo elo bisa memberi nama untuk sebuah planet. akan lo kasih nama apa? dan kenapa? </strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>gue kasih nama planet mercury. atau pluto. keren yah kedengerannya.tapi kok tiba2 jadi ngomongin ttg astronotlogy sih.<br />
<strong>opi:</strong>ini satu pertanyaan yang gak nyambung dari drs jadi gak perlu saya jawab gimana kalo saya ganti jadi dungurockstar</p>
<p><strong>pembajakan menurut loe?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>gue dari dulu plg suka novel bajak laut. kapten haddock di tintin tuh. keren kocak. seribu kepiting rebuss!!hahaha. krmn gue malah bintitan jd terpaksa pake eyepatch. udah sembuh skrg&#8230;gak bakal gue lepas. jadi trend sebentar lagi. tunggu aja deh imbesil2 di mal mal terdekat bentar lagi bakal make tuh eyepatch trus supaya bisa beli bilang ke mama-eh ma mataku bintitan ngintip si mbok lagi beraks&#8230;. tp tenang kita udah copyright.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>yahhh kita sih gak pa2 asal mereka ngomong dulu ama kita itung2 ngurangin biaya distribusi&#8230; abis dari dulu biaya ini<br />
mencekin kita karena kita kurang modal&#8230;hehehe&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>pembajakan kaset,, dodolz. bukan bajak laut,,,gimana sih? menurut loe gimana? ga sexy banget otaknya</strong><br />
<strong>opi: </strong>wah untuk para pembajak kalo mau ngebajak yah jangan ama band indie&#8230; band2 yang besar kalo dari luar yang susah carinya di sini atau mereka males release di sini karena takut ama &#8220;lu-lu semua&#8221;&#8230;. Yah<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Apaan sih? Ini ngomongin apa?Copy kaset ama cd ga minta ijin yah maksudnya? Yah jgn lah, apalagi band2 indie. Simple aja, musisi perlu makan, makan dapat dari uang, uang dapet dari penualan karyanya. Kalo yg protes anti komersil2 segala biasanya yg masih tinggal ama orangtua trus masih nete mubngkin yah, dikasih uang jajan tiap hari buat ngeband.</p>
<p><strong>bagaimana trend musik saat ini?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>lumayan. media2 yg sompret2 jg udah mulai kasih exposure ke band2 indie, jadi pasti yg bagus ada di jln. Mgkn krn lagi ngetrend kali yah. tp gpp lah, daripada ga ada yg tau. maksudnya abege plasa senayan mana tau mobilderek atawa kekal atwa upstairs kalo ga dari mtpi.Yg jelek juga bakal mati, yg bagus idup Masalah evolusi darwin aja deh.kalo yg di tv dan radio ga tau gue. sori. ga pernah liat-cuman diceritain. gue khan elitist kalo soal musik.yg gue liat ihhh gokil deh bowww, kok beitil gituh sih yah musik kta skrg.nanti deh , kalo vklip kt diputer baru gue ntn tipi.<br />
<strong>opi:</strong>lumayamlah sekarang dah banyak band2 bermunculan, sesak dikit euyyy tapi keren,,, kemaren waktu promonya acara drs gw suka tuh ama Henry foundation manggungnya keren&#8230;&#8230; aku tampan dan kamu tidakkkk&#8230;..hahahaha waktu itu saya ketawa setengah mati waktu si batman nyanyi itu trus si Arian masuk &#8230;wahahahaha</p>
<p><strong>tips tips untuk band band indie lain?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>hey sodara, jgn menyerah, ngeband emang berat kok. tenang aja, kalo kerja keras, mudahan 10/15 tahun lagi kamu pasti sukses.kalo mau berhasil jgn diem aja-tulsi lagu sendiri-kirim kemana2 ama surat ttg band you you pada-kenalan ama orang2 musik-buat acara kalo perlu.yg plg penting muka badak.kalo ada gengsi ga bakal berhasil&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
<strong>opi:</strong>jangan menyerah memang mermakan aktu lama tapi senang2 aj&#8230;  nulis lagu trus&#8230;.rilis album sendiri,bagiin gratisan yang banyakkkkk&#8230;..yahhhh intiny jangan menyerah<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>kecuali band lo jelek,,,nyerah mungkin bagus</p>
<p><strong>gue denger syarat ikut sc gapenting bisa maen alat , yang penting ganteng gimana tuh?</strong><br />
<strong>opi:</strong> gak lahh kita cari yg levelnya menengah yaitu gak ganteng gak jelek banget bisa maen alat gak usah kompleks lagipula lgu2 kita pada simple yang penting feelnya asik buat org seneng banget tergila2 kalau bisa, kalo gak bisa kita ganti am org laen &#8230; gampang aja&#8230;..satu lagi kalo bisa kaya trus hartanya di bagi2 am org2<br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>ga lah, itu sarkasme, penting lah, ga usah jago kayak van halennn, yg penting feelingnya jago, ga usah dijarain udah bisa, orang gitar-part kita kangampang bgt, orang musti congek banget kali sampai ga bisa. JAdi sala gak bego dan orangnya baek, ya  udah, beres aja, Kedengerannya gampang kali yah, tapi susah lho cari orang yg kompatibel, cocok gituh, Apalagi anak muda seumuran kita sekarang jarang yg kurang seleftik tastenya, korn suka, ini suak, itu suka, wahh males, kita maunya sih orangnnya original gitu tastenya. Misalnya dia suka Rites of Spring atau Tobin Sprout gituh lah, biar seksi.</p>
<p><strong>beberapa temen gue banyak yg nanya, kalo album greatest hits itu dapetnya gimana? kapan rilis </strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>hmm, itu emang maksudnya cuman buat promo aja sih, ga bakal dijual, tapi bisa dibilang lah kalo mgkn semua lagu disitu bakal sirilis dlm bentuk yg lebih, umm, jadi lah. Album gituh, tunggu aja. Sabar napa&#8230;<br />
<strong>opi:</strong> itu cuman buat promo aja, kita gak untuk jualan euuyyy&#8230; yah mungkin nanti bentuk lagu sajama cut gak bakal jauh2 dari album itu&#8230;.Yah untuk albumnya nanti saja ..<br />
marcel:bego ah&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>image porno jepang dikarenakan apa? mengapa SC menggunakan image porno jepang? </strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>abisnya iamge laen udah kepake semua sih. kita rapat panjang&#8230;gimana nih man?kok image band 60,70,80 semua udah ada, aduh bingung deh, ya udah lah&#8230;kan belum ada yg pake image bokep. ga tau lah, sibuk image mah, buang waktu&#8230;mending juga diem di studio berusaha buat lagu yg bagus.Kita terlalu hobi aja mungkin jadi sampe keliatan dari luar.<br />
<strong>opi: </strong>pertama kita ngomongin bareng2 &#8230; kita duduk2 bareng trus masang bokep &#8220;dream shower&#8221; wah tuh bokep asoyyy seksi banget huhu&#8230; nah kan image band dateng dari kebiasan tuh band sendiri gak dibuat-buat lebih natural gitu malah lebih kerennn &#8230;.. nah udah deh kita langsung kena.</p>
<p><strong>si opi gimana tuh abis digebukin? </strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>kan tadi udah nanya, gimana sih&#8230;ahhh tuli nih&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>si opi itu sodaranya leon koil? Kok mirip?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel &#038; opi:</strong>bukan.<em>(menjawab dengan malas)</em></p>
<p><strong>ada ngga pertanyaan favorit waktu interview?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong><em>&#8220;kenapa orang yg baik selalu jelek?&#8221;</em><br />
<strong>opi:</strong> ada sih .. pertama kita ditanya <em>&#8220;bersediakah anda menjawab interview ini&#8221;.</em><br />
jawaban <strong>&#8220;tidak&#8221; </strong></p>
<p><strong>12. kalo mau ngundang manggung SC gimana tuyh caranya?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>kontak kita aja, atau erik, atau label, plg gampang ke <em>http://us.f131.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=sajama_cut@yahoo</em>, nanti dikirimin kontak info.<br />
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gimana pendapat lo tentang review album lo di Deathrockstar?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>tepat sih&#8230;maksud gue, si erik juga milih orang yang ngereview pinter, yang gak kenal kita sama sekali, jadi yah&#8230;bagus banget, gue juga pengen sih kritik yang jujur. Kalo yg gue denger cuman, &#8220;ah,musik lo bnagus man..&#8221;blablabla, yah gak bakal maju. Kayak dulu si Beta ama Aldy (bassis lama SC), kalo ga suka lagu langsung bilang &#8220;ah..jelek&#8221;,sakit juga tapi yah..bodo amat,khan gue jadi maksain diri gue buat lagu yang mereka ga bakal anggap jelek. Kalo reviewnya sendiri tepat banget kok. Album kita yang dulu waktu Roswell (vaginal thoughts) emang jelek banget. Kalau gue yang ngereview bisa lebih gue ancurin lagi. Kalo APOLOGIA,..setuju juga&#8230;meskipun lagu-lagu disitu mungkin lagu ter-emosional mungkin yang pernah gue buat..istilahnya semua luka ama dosa ama aib gue, gue taruh lah disitu, semua anak cowok culun sensitif cengeng yang sedikit aja punya lebih banyak otank dari mahluk2 yang ngandelin titittstosterone..kayak gue pasti  ngerti &#8230; dan gue rekam di APOLOGIA untuk diliat semua orang&#8230;bagian itunya gue bangga, tapi rekamannya emang ancur banget&#8230;jadi cocok&#8230;7 kan nilainya? yah, pas lah&#8230;<br />
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band lokal yang bagus donk&#8230; kalo bisa sama kontaknya sekalian&#8230;</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>yehh, emangnya gue manajer band sedunia&#8230;yg bagus, klepto opera, seringai, snorg, henry foundation, theMemeks,VintagePussy, KillingLittlefurryAnimals, dll ,dll&#8230;yg jelek lebih gampang mungkin buat didata.</p>
<p><strong>loe pada lagi ngedengerin apa sekarang?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>Masih guided by voices, atau apa aja yg ada robert Pollard, Interpol, the Shins, sparta, scud montain boys, snorg-friendy creatures, a silver mount zion, the backstreetboys, rachmaninof, joy division, fields of gafney, plus the Rachel&#8217;s.udah ah&#8230;..</p>
<p><strong>rencananya kapan mau rilis album?</strong><br />
<strong>marcel:</strong>minggu depan&#8230;<br />
engga sih&#8230;tahun depan&#8230;yang penting mungkin kita bisa ngenalin lagu-lagu ini sampai tahap dimana mungkin orang-orang udah<br />
mulai nungguin albumnya.</p>
<p><strong>oke deh,segitu aja, trims mau jawab interviewnya&#8230;</strong><br />
<strong>marcel+opi:</strong>makasih juga&#8230;dadah&#8230;makan yuk&#8230;. </p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2002 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Koesuma</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Interview eksklusif editor DEATHROCKSTAR Marcel Thee dengan Arian13, ex-frontman Puppen, yang sekarang menjadi frontman Seringai. Dan juga kini bekerja sebagai senior editor sebuah majalah musik.<br />
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<strong>Seberapa jauh tekanan yang lo rasakan untuk reach up to the expectations of para fans Puppen yang sekarang mungkin mengharapkan musik dan tentu saja kualitas yang sama dari band baru lo Seringai ?</strong><br />
Terus terang gue dan Seringai justru nggak merasa ada tekanan apapun, we only play the music that we really like, and basically that is rock, high energy driven music. Puppen adalah part lalu dan menyenangkan, much fun! Dengan Seringai, sepertinya fun part akan berulang, hehe. Orang-orang yang mengikuti Puppen dan kemudian sudah mendengarkan Seringai biasanya berkomentar kalau secara musik memang cukup berbeda walau dasarnya tetap musik keras, dan yang menyenangkan adalah ketika mereka bilang, ?Gila lo ya Yan, ternyata lo nggak berubah, masih keras ya!? Dan gue pikir sebuah komplimen. It is fun being 28 and still have that fuck you and rockin? attitude when I was still 15 years old.</p>
<p><strong>When push comes to shove, apa perbedaan yang paling utama dari Seringai dan Puppen secara musical? Apa ada hal-hal yang sengaja di approach denga beda?</strong><br />
Apa ya? Seringai mungkin punya riff-riff yang ?kuno? ala Black Sabbath, Motorhead, dikemas dengan sound modern. Kalau lirik, mungkin nggak jauh berbeda sih, tapi sejauh ini juga memang penulisan lirik belum selesai. Hehe. Dibilang approachnya beda, ya memang sengaja, soalnya gue sendiri nggak pengen main musik yang sama dengan Puppen. I?ve been doing that for 10 years, nggak masuk akal kalau mainin sesuatu yang sama banget.</p>
<p><strong>Apa ada rencana untuk merilis EP/LP dekat-dekat ini? Major/indie?</strong><br />
Fuck yeah! Pertama kita pengen bikin rekaman lagu-lagu yang ada, udah ada sekitar 7 buah. Dan pastinya masih nambah, soalnya kita berempat, Ricky [gitar], Kemod [drum] dan Toan [bass] lagi punya banyak ide. Masalahnya memang karena sekarang kita semua udah kerja, agak ribet juga ngatur waktunya. Major atau indie, we don?t really give a shit. Siapa saja yang bisa ngerti musik kami, pengen bantu, dan punya tawaran fair, it?s allright with us. We got to pay the bills, you know. Kalaupun tidak ada major atau indie yang mau merilis, kami selalu bisa merilis sendiri. </p>
<p><strong>Bagaimana dengan tag stoner rock untuk Seringai, apa bisa dijustifikasi atau ini cuman sebuah over-simplifikasi yang kurang adil? Apa lo ada rencana untuk membuat band yang memainkan musik sepelan the Melvins?</strong><br />
Kadang memang pelabelan digunakan untuk lebih memudahkan orang membayangkan musik, tapi kadang malah menjadi membingungkan. Untuk Seringai, kami banyak terpengaruh banyak band ?vintage? seperti Black Sabbath dan Motorhead seperti yang tadi sudah disebutin, tapi untuk sesederhana melabelkan stoner rock, nggak juga. Ada teman yang mendeskripsikan Seringai memainkan musik rock alkohol! Nah. Kayaknya pas juga tuh. Sebagian besar lagu-lagu Seringai tuh high-octane energy, beer soaked rock. What do you think? Gue sendiri sih banyak dipengaruhi band-band doom kayak Saint Vitus, Grief, Noothgrush, atau sludge kayak Sleep, 13, Cavity, Toadliquor. Nah semua itu mix dengan semua yang pernah kita dengerin, jadinya mungkin emang acak juga, tapi masih punya benang merah yang jelas. Eh, nangkep gak maksud gue? Hehehe.</p>
<p><strong>Apa yang paling sering lo dengerin sekarang-sekarang ini? Band local apa yang menurut lo cukup menjanjikan?</strong><br />
Wah banyak! Rata-rata masih rock sih, malahan banyak yang cenderung kontemporer menurut gue. Gue lagi seneng The Blood Brothers, JR Ewing, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Electric Wizard, ARE Weapons, The Faint, Dance Disaster Movement, Panthers, Interpol, Her Space Holiday, Elliott.. Kalau lokal, gue suka Boys Are Toys! Kayak apa ya? The Runaways-nya Indonesia? The Milo, The Upstairs, Sajama Cut, Homicide [I guess <a href="http://hiphopindo.com" title="http://hiphopindo.com" target="_blank">hiphopindo.com</a> can eat their hearts out after hearing ?em!], Teenage Deathstar, Domestik Doktrin, Homogenic, Henry Foundation, The Sastro. Banyak band lokal baru yang bagus!</p>
<p><strong>Dengan lebih terbukanya market terhadap musik indie sekarang-sekarang ini, apa lo rasa ini akan lebih baik untuk scene independent secara umum atau malah melonggarkan filter untuk band-band yang mediocre/pas2an untuk lolos?</strong><br />
Gue pikir baik secara umum, jadi pencinta musik bisa punya alternatif lain selain musik yang sekarang ada. Dan nggak hanya independen tapi juga mainstream. Dan gue nggak liat hal itu sesuatu yang buruk. Orang yang sudah terbiasa dengan musik mainstream kan jadi bisa lihat perbandingan lain dengan adanya musik yang boleh dibilang berbeda dengan yang biasa didengarkan. Ter-edukasi? Ahahahaha!  Kalau anggapan yang kedua sih, ya biarin saja, toh pada akhirnya akan ada seleksi alam. </p>
<p><strong>Lo bekerja pada media yang bisa dibilang mainstream, apa kadang lo merasa ada bentrokan dengan tuntuan kerja lo dengan ?idealisme? lo? Atau lo merasa bahwa ini malah memberikan lo kesempatan untuk mengenalkan musik indie ke masyarakat yang mungkin belum terekspos musik-musik tsb?</strong><br />
Kerja di MTV Trax terus terang memang ada beberapa ?tekanan yang bentrok dengan ideal gue, tapi so far gue bisa memaksimalkan apa yang gue mau disana. No big deal sih. Toh apa yang gue mau sangat masuk akal buat orang banyak. Dan gue bisa jalan-jalan keluar negeri meliput Big Day Out, Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Glastonbury? for free! Aha! Nah, dengan media tempat gue bekerja, gue bisa memperkenalkan nggak hanya musik indie lokal, tapi juga banyak musik mainstream bagus yang ternyata nggak terlalu mainstream disini! Diluar negerinya beken abis, disini ternyata adem ayem, karena media lokalnya nggak tertarik membahas dan mengeksposnya. Kayak Radiohead, misalnya, udah jelas jelas influencenya buat banyak musisi lokal tapi eksposnya disini masih kurang banget. Terus The Strokes, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, banyak deh. Lagian ternyata printed music media disini masih kurang banget.</p>
<p><strong>How intoxicated do you have to be before a gig, or before writing a song?</strong><br />
Ahahahaha! Intoxicated? Usually beer, cuman manggung dengan lagu-lagu gue sendiri kayaknya udah cukup bikin gue bersemangat! Alkohol and stuff sih cuman cemilan, ahahahaha! Jangan pernah manggung, apalagi kalau lo vokalis, sambil make LSD atau amfetamin! Bukan perpaduan yang bagus! Hehe.<br />
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How valid is ?sex, drugs, and rock?n?roll? to you? What?s the most rock?n?roll thing you?ve done?</strong><br />
Quite valid!</p>
<p><strong>What?s the ultimate Puppen song?</strong><br />
 The unreleased songs! ?Memar Terpatri? dan ?Tercitra?! Gue suka banget itu dua lagu, sebelum Puppen bubar kayaknya kedua lagu itu ?Puppen banget?, hehehe. Kalau lagu-lagu sebelumnya apalagi seperti dalam Not A Pup EP masih mencari-cari, nah dalam 2 lagu yang unreleased ini sepertinya sudah kena. Suatu saat kami rilis.</p>
<p><strong>What would it take for you guys to re-unite? Would 3 pounds of heroin and a room full of underage naked girls suffice?</strong><br />
You have to freeze hell over! Hehe. Selama gue dan Robin belum pengen reuni, ya enggak akan reuni. Jadi jangan berharap [emang siapa yang berharap? Hehe]. Mungkin ada reuni, mungkin juga enggak. Paling enggak, tidak dalam waktu dekat. Nanti kalau kalian semua sudah punya anak! Huehehehe!</p>
<p><strong>Apa hal mendasar yang membedakan band yang berhasil dan yang gagal menurut lo?</strong><br />
Menurut gue band yang berhasil itu adalah band yang punya impact buat banyak orang dengan karyanya sendiri. Itu band yang berhasil. Slank berhasil. Dewa berhasil. Pure Saturday berhasil. Koil berhasil. Nike Ardilla-pun berhasil. Band yang bukan sekedar cover version. Band yang diinget orang, mau banyak mau sedikit. Band yang nggak pengen jadi band lain seperti kebanyak disini.</p>
<p><strong>What?s the one album you can?t live without? What would you want to be played at your funeral?</strong><br />
Waduh. Susah amat, secara gue kolektor musik. Slayer yang Reign In Blood deh. Untuk lagu pemakamn gue, gue pengen ?Machine Gun?-nya Slowdive.</p>
<p><strong>Terakhir; pelajaran apa yang paling penting yang lo pelajari selama menjadi musisi independent?</strong><br />
Wah. Bingung juga gue. Menjadi diri sendiri, akan selalu lebih menyenangkan. Itu kali ya? Hehe. Dunno. </p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2001 07:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>DEATHROCKSTAR meng-interview SUPERMAN IS DEAD. Oleh Eric Wiryanata via e-mail</em></p>
<p><strong>tolong jelasin konsep musik SID itu. apa lebih dari sekedar punkrock, atau apa?</strong><br />
Di istilah pribadi SID menamakan genre yang dianut sebagai: 3-Chordsabilly Beer Punk Rock. Deskripsinya? (baca biografi yang diselipin di e-mail ini). Sementara itu secara perspektif sosio-musikal bisa dibilang SID hampir tak menyuarakan pesan apa-apa kepada publik kecuali: jadilah diri sendiri. Pula SID gak bakal mencoba menyuarakan slogan anti narkoba, anti ini anti itu. Sebab hidup adalah pilihan. Biarkan orang melakukan apa yang mereka suka. Dan SID semampunya menghindari stigma mendikte atau menggurui publik. SID menganggap Generasi Y telah cukup pintar utk memilah-milah yang mana baik yang mana buruk. Jangan ketika banyak band menyuarakan politik lalu kita ikut-ikutan melakukannya semata untuk membuktikan bahwa band kita intelektual plus banjir peduli pada kelangsungan negara ini. We have nothing to prove. You are who you are. And be proud of it. </p>
<p><em>gue pernah ngobrol ngobrol dengan beberapa teman, terjadi sedikit perdebatan tentang album terbaru kalian, satu bagian menyatakan album baru kalian tidak memiliki greget lebih dibanding kan rilisan sebelumnya (bad bad bad). sementara yang lain menyatakan lebih enjoyable.. menurut SID sendiri bagaimana?</em><br />
SID sendiri menganggap album &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221;&#8211;sejauh ini&#8211;adalah pencapaian artistik tertinggi di jazirah berkesenian SID (yah, paling kita kurang puas ama sound di album itu aja, maklum, namanya juga putra daerah, masih gagap teknologi dan tata suara he he he&#8230;). Seandainya ternyata di kecenderungan komunal ada pro-kontra tentang kualitas estetika &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221;, well, tiap individu berhak punya pendapat berbeda, kan? Apalagi jika menyangkut faktor selera, wih, amat subjektif sifatnya. Dan di sini tak ada pendapat absolut tentang siapa benar siapa salah. Tapi lebih tentang soal suka tidak suka.</p>
<p><em>ada pernyataan lain yang menyatakan itu adalah akibat kalian masuk major label..pendapat SID tentang itu?</em><br />
To whom it may concern: ketika hendak menyimpulkan sebuah fenomena emang sebaiknya dimunculkan niat menghargai proses alias peduli pada elemen kronologis yang disebut pra-kondisi terlebih dahulu. Coba investigasi secara holistik, pasang kuping lebih lebar, buka mata sampai jauh, serta terus tegar loyal pada akurasi informasi. Jika sudah, baru deh menyertakan estetika seni subjektif di situ lalu baru kemudian gagah berani mengambil kesimpulan: album ini yummy yummy, album ini yucky yucky, album ini not so yummy not so yucky. Let me get this straight, Major bisa dibilang nihil andil di proses berkesenian SID. SID dipersilakan berkreasi suka-suka hati. Dari bikin lagu, bikin desain cover, bikin vidklip, semua dikerjakan SID sendiri (Sony cuma supervisi dalam skala bukan artistik). Nah, kemerdekaan berimprovisasi segitu dramatis&#8211;ngomongin so-called pra-kondisi nih&#8211;didapat oleh SID lewat negosiasi yang alot dan menghabiskan banyak energi dan riuh botol bir. Look, dude, proses negosiasi sampai sekitar 4-5 bulan. Melelahkan. Tekanan mental ultra tinggi. Asli. Dus, jangan pernah lupa, SID ndak pernah yang namanya nyodorin demo ke label mana pun. Never. No, dude, never. Sebab dari awal SID telah sadar, jika SID nyodorin demo ke label (Indie, Major Indie, Major, whatever) maka posisi tawar menawar SID akan jomplang sejak mula. Kesannya SID yang perlu pada itu label. Padahal sama-sama butuh. Dan hierarki yang natural muncul nantinya adalah bak atasan dengan bawahan. Kalo diilustrasikan, persis kayak pegawai yang butuh pekerjaan. Sementara yang SID pengen adalah partnership yang notabene hubungannya bakal sejajar. Kayak manajer berprestasi yang dikejar oleh sebuah perusahaan besar. Selanjutnya sang manajer bakal berani mati bilang: &#8220;Lu berani bayar gue berapa?&#8221; Seperti itu, dude. Kenapa SID menyanggupi bekerja sama dengan major label? Sederhana, SID itu band miskin. Kalo SID setajir Setiawan Djody, wih, ngapain juga kerjasama dengan Major??! Nah, karna SID adalah band yang secara finansial pas-pasan (baca: duit honor manggung dan penjualan album cuma cukup buat beli bir dan berdandan fully Rock Star, lain tidak), on the other hand SID pengen melulu hidup dari musik, ya sudah, SID memilih realistis lalu menjalin kerjasama mutual dengan taipan bernama Sony Music Indonesia. (Dude, lu gak tau gimana demi mempertahankan idealisme &#8220;pantang nyerahin demo ke label&#8221; ini sudah bikin SID nangis darah, muntah keringat, vertigo akut, hingga 8 tahun&#8230;) Sekarang sih SID udah sedikit hidup lebih enak karna SID cuma mikirin tentang:<br />
1. Giat berkesenian.<br />
2. Giat berkesenian.<br />
3. Giat berkesenian. Sampe mati.<br />
Urusan distribusi dll udah diurusin Sony. Dengan 24/7 fokus berkesenian an sich, niscaya diharapkan hasil yang muncul lebih opitmal&#8230; Hey, esensial diingat, independensi tak serta merta pararel dengan eksistensi institusi di situ. Maksudnya, ketika sebuah band berada di bawah&#8211;katakanlah&#8211;Major (baca: institusi) bukan otomatis berarti band tsb katro&#8217; (seperti kecurigaan komunal di Indonesia juga dunia pada band-band di bawah Major). Sebab jika demikian itu sama aja dengan nuduh rakyat Indonesia (baca: band) yang tinggal di negara paling korup di dunia bernama Indonesia (baca: institusi) adalah bagian integral dari axis of evil alias poros kejahatan. Negara Indonesia = korup > Rakyat Indonesia = korup. Begitu? Se-stereotype itu? Oh, come on&#8230;. Furthermore, saatnya nanti jika SID sudah tangguh secara finansial SID bakal bikin label sendiri dus akan mengimplementasikan obsesi SID selama ini.<br />
<strong>PS: </strong><br />
<em>1. Sarwono Kusuma Atmadja pernah bilang, &#8220;Saya pada prinsipnya lebih peduli pada proses serta pra-kondisi dibanding hasil akhir&#8230;&#8221;<br />
2. Rancid saat sudah gabung dengan Major, mereka tetep Punk Rock, kan?</em></p>
<p><strong>apa sebenarnya peran masing masing personel SID dalam membuat sebuah lagu>?</strong><br />
Kronologinya kerap seperti ini:<br />
-Bobby bikin musik<br />
-Jerinx bikin lirik<br />
-Eka kadang ikut serta bikin lirik juga musik<br />
-Bir Bintang (botol besar dan dingin) menyatukan harmoni ketiganya</p>
<p><strong>apa yang menjadi inspirasi kalian dalam membuat sebuah lagu?</strong><br />
Dominan tentang keseharian SID a.k.a. old school Punk Rock principal: Sex, Drugs and Rock &#8216;N Roll.</p>
<p><strong>apa yang menjadi acuan kalian dalam menulis lirik? pengalaman pribadi kah, atau harapan, atau apa? </strong><br />
Ya keseharian itu tadi: Sex, Drugs, and Rock &#8216;N Roll. Drink beers, crank up Punk Rock and having a good time.</p>
<p><strong>dalam banyak artikel saya baca, kalau kalian selalu memainkan lagu karangan sendiri. dan telah memiliki beberapa rilisan. apakah akhirnya SID berhasil mendapatkan &#8216;cara paling baik dan termudah membuat lagu bagus ala SID&#8217;.? bisa di tuliskan disini?  dan bagaimana cara SID tetap memiliki sesuatu yang fresh?</strong><br />
From the beginning, cara kita bikin lagu ya sama saja: Bobby dateng bawa lagu baru, kita nge-jam, minum bir, setelah aransemennya dapet kita ngerjain liriknya. Abis itu ya minum bir lagi&#8230; plain and simple.</p>
<p><strong>SID terkenal sebagai band yang bersedia dibayar murah. bahkan bersedia bermain tanpa dibayar dalam event tertentu, bahkan dalam beberapa interview saya baca kalian mengalami proyek rugi., . ada alasan khusus dibaliknya? apa tuh?</strong><br />
SID hidup dari musik. SID udah gak disubsidi lagi oleh ortu tercinta. Untuk mengakomodasi kebutuhan hidup layak SID ya cari duit dengan bermain di event-event besar (itu pun dengan syarat-syarat khusus, contoh soal: SID pernah diajak sebuah event organizer untuk jadi band pembuka Ari Lasso serta dibayar sesuai standar SID. Tapi SID nolak. Bukan karna Ari Lasso seperti ini seperti itu. Bukan karna pilihan musikal Ari salah. Bukan karna SID gak butuh duit. Lebih karna imej SID beda dengan Ari. Dan SID selalu coba sekuatnya loyal pada brand image. Simple as that. Not a judgemental decision). SID rela dibayar murah bahkan gak dibayar jika sifat dari pertunjukan tsb non-komersial atau DIY. Alasan kenapa mau main dalam kondisi macam begitu, roots SID emang dari event kayak gitu, dan SID akan terus mempertahankan itu. Hell yeah, kacang yang mencoba setia pada kulitnya.</p>
<p><strong>apa yang sedang SID dengarkan saat ini? musisi/band.. dan apakah itu mempengaruhi musik SID?</strong><br />
Stereo SID sekarang sedang dipenuhi band-band Rockabilly/Swing macam Reverend Horton Heat, Living End, Rocket From The Crypt, Supersuckers pula Brian Setzer Orchestra. Jejak mereka di &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; kental tercuat salah satunya di lagu &#8220;Graveyard Blues/Vodkabilly&#8221;. Dan yang tak pernah sirna dari stereo SID adalah album-album Social Distortion. Kilas balik, SID pada awal kemunculan masif dipengaruhi NOFX dan Green Day. Sejalan waktu, SID bergeser ke genre a la Social Distortion, Living End dan Supersuckers. Tentu saja grup-grup tadi punya andil dalam proses kreatif SID, hanya saja seiring meningkatnya kepercayaan diri SID, band-band yang disebut di atas pada akhirnya lebih berposisi sebagai suri tauladan dalam konteks psiko-sosial. Pengaruh musikal mereka telah jauh menipis. Sampai kemudian akhirnya muncul yang SID sebut sendiri sebagai &#8220;3-Chordsabilly Beer Punk Rock&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>trend musik saat ini yang banyak memunculkan band band berimage punk dengan tampilan yang lebih manis.. seperti simple plan, busted, dan hmm Avril&#8230; apakh itu berpengaruh terhadap kalian?> dan opini kalian tentang trend tersebut?&#8230; </strong><br />
They ain&#8217;t got nothing on us. SID gak ada sangkut pautnya dengan mereka baik konsep musikal ataupun tampilan visual. Opini SID terhadap utamanya Busted, hmm&#8230;, jangan-jangan mereka cuma rekayasa produser&#8230; </p>
<p><strong>walaupun tidak banyak yang beredar luas, tapi dari media massa orang mengetahui kalian mempunyai rilisan yang tidak sedikit&#8230;album apakah yang paling kalian nikmati hasilnya, dan pembuatannya.? </strong><br />
Ya, kita udah bikin 3 album indie (&#8220;Case 15&#8243; thn 95, &#8220;Superman Is Dead&#8221; thn 99, &#8220;Bad Bad Bad&#8221; thn 2002> &#8220;Bad Bad Bad&#8221; dirilis ulang lagi dalam bentuk single oleh Spills Record, Bandung), ikut serta di beberapa album kompilasi, dan 1 album Major yaitu &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; thn 2003. Secara popularitas album &#8220;Bad Bad Bad&#8221; yang mulai mencuri perhatian publik. Saat pembuatan album &#8220;Bad Bad Bad&#8221; juga SID sudah lebih merasa lebih dewasa dalam bermusik (Punk Rock). Kalo secara duit, belom ada yang kita nikmati hasilnya. Album satu sampai tiga duitnya tau lenyap kemana. Untuk &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; belom kebagian royalti nih. Denger-denger sih udah laku puluhan ribu kopi hingga minggu ke-3 ini. Mudah-mudahan duit bisa cepet masuk ke kas kita. Bosen banget miskin, euy!</p>
<p><strong>dan rilisan apakah yang akan kalian sarankan kepada orang orang yang baru akan memulai mendengarkan SID? dan kenapa?</strong><br />
Album &#8220;Bad Bad Bad&#8221; sebab di situ SID pribadi merasa proses pendewasaan musikal mulai menunjukkan taringnya. Setelah itu baru deh ikuti dengan mengkoleksi &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; sebab proses pendewasaan musikal sudah makin gahar.<br />
<strong><br />
kalau punya kesempatan membuat album lagu lagu terbaik versi kalian.. lagu apa sajakah yang akan kalian masukan? dan kenapa?</strong><br />
Oh well, sejujurnya, SID belom kepikiran sampe ke situ. Maaf.</p>
<p><strong>sebutkan band band lokal terutama indie yang kalian rekomendasikan?</strong><br />
Kebunku<br />
Pitstop<br />
Navicula<br />
The Brews<br />
Shaggy Dog</p>
<p><strong>kalau band luar?</strong><br />
Social Distortion<br />
Stray Cats<br />
The Clash<br />
Brian Setzer Orchestra<br />
AFI<br />
Reverend Horton Heat<br />
Green Day<br />
Rocket From The Crypt<br />
Johnny Cash<br />
Living End<br />
Supersuckers<br />
No Use For A Name<br />
Alkaline Trio</p>
<p><strong>sebagai orang indonesia, pasti kalian tau kalau indonesia adalah surga pembajak. apa opini kalian tentang hal tersebut, dan apa yang kalian lakukan apabila SID menjadi korban pembajakan?</strong><br />
Lucu juga kalo liat kecenderungan yang terjadi pada sebagian musisi anak negeri. Mereka agresif pula bangga mengadopsi falsafah band luar tanpa filter seraya menyarankan: &#8220;dude, bajak aja album ini!&#8221; tanpa pernah sadar saatnya nanti ketika benar-benar hidup melulu dari bermusik&#8211;ketika karya seninya dibajak&#8211;baru deh kelojotan setengah mati. Emang enak udah capek-capek bikin sesuatu yang menurut kita rockandroll-estetis-luhur-suci taunya orang lain minus penghargaan pun belas kasihan langsung main bajak aja. You have to experience it yourself so you know how bad it is! Pada prinsipnya SID menganggap pembajakan itu tak dapat dibenarkan dari sudut apa pun. Sayangnya negara Indonesia tercinta adalah masih tergolong dunia ke-3 (baca: miskin rupiah berkesadaran hukum rendah beli bir saja susah), tentu saja masalah ini terjebak jadi duh dilematis.</p>
<p><strong>pendapat kalian tentang konflik Aceh?</strong><br />
Terhadap politik, jujur saja, SID benar-benar miskin minat. Memang sih pada awal kemunculan SID sempat cukup vokal menyuarakan nafas politik. Namun sejalan dengan waktu SID kemudian menyadari bahwa fenomena politik dan sejenisnya gak pas dengan suara hati SID. Sebab di atmosfer berkesenian SID (juga Bali/Kuta Rock City pada umumnya) yang paling dominan adalah&#8211;in no particular order&#8211;tentang minum bir dan bergembira bermain musik. Begitulah keseharian SID yang paling sejati. Dan SID gak akan coba lagi menyuarakan hal yang SID tak paham. Namun yang paling hakiki di sini,&#8211;dalam konteks konflik Aceh&#8211;SID sejak awal tak pernah setuju dengan budaya kekerasan. Sebisanya segala persoalan diselesaikan dengan bicara hati ke hati dan dengan kepala dingin untuk menuju satu titik kesepakatan. Perang adalah opsi paling paling paling akhir. Make Rock &#8216;N Roll Not War. </p>
<p><strong>setelah membaca DEATHROCKSTAR. apa pendapat SID tentang webzine ini, beserta kritik saran dan pujiannya. </strong><br />
Webzine DEATHROCKSTAR ini pekat merepresentasikan sosok khas Generasi Y, jujur sekaligus cerdas. Salut. Bravo. FYI, emang sih SID sempet gak enak hati saat &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; dapet nilai kurang memuaskan dari DEATHROCKSTAR sementara SID tidak satu pendapat dengan apa yang kritikus DEATHROCKSTAR ungkapkan tentang &#8220;Kuta Rock City&#8221; (he he he&#8230;) Ah, tapi apapun itu SID musti tekan ego pribadi dan mempersilakan orang lain meneriakkan suara hatinya. Yup, in order to respect so-called democracy. Yup, in order to respect so-called Freedom Of Speech. Yup, in order to keep life going on interestingly.</p>
<p><strong>final words?</strong><br />
Ini klise namun signifikan: <em>Be who you are. Do what you please. And drink beers when you are in doubt. </em></p>
<p><em><strong>SUPERMAN IS DEAD: Young, Drunk, and Handsome<br />
Biografi-Diskografi-Hierarki-Jagat Seni</strong></p>
<p>Bermarkas di Kuta Rock City. Beranggotakan 3 pemuda asal Bali berusia 20-an, baik hati, bijak bestari, tepo seliro, dan jarang sembahyang, yaitu:<br />
-Bobby Cool (beer drinker, lead vvocal, guitar, well-known as &#8220;The Bastard Child of Fat Mike&#8221; since his voice sounds pretty similar with that NOFX frontman)<br />
-Eka Rock (beer drinker, bass, baacking vocal, warm smilin? Rock ?N Roll bandman)<br />
-Jerinx (hairwax junkie, drum, beeer drinkin? Rock&#8217;N Roll prince charming)</p>
<p> Nama tendensius Superman Is Dead (SID) dicomot dari Stone Temple Pilot?s ?Superman Silvergun?. Namun karena dianggap miskin konotasi, zonder rasa bersalah secara sewenang-wenang nama tersebut lalu diganti menjadi ?Superman Is Dead? ? yang seenak udelnya dimaknai sebagai: tak ada manusia yang sempurna. </p>
<p>Pada mula kemunculan, akhir 95, SID pekat teracuni warna Green Day &#038; NOFX. Seiring beringsutnya waktu, inspirasi musikal SID bergeser ke genre Punk &#8216;N Roll a la Supersuckers, Living End &#038; Social Distortion. </p>
<p>Imej yang frontal hendak ditonjolkan oleh SID ke publik, self-described as: ?Blitzkrieg 3-chordsabilly Beer Punk Rock? (think raw energy of Ramones vs Living End meets Supersuckers + Sid Vicious? nihilism yet supersonicaly fueled with beer-soaked Rockabilly attitude? Ribet, kan? Horeee?) </p>
<p>SID sendiri telah menerbitkan 3 indie album (Case 15 &#8211; thn 95; Superman Is Dead &#8211; thn 99; Bad, Bad, Bad &#8211; Maret 2002, berformat mini album ? berisikan 6 lagu). Menuju pelebaran skala wilayah pencapaian publik, fajar 2003 SID ? bekerjasama dengan Spills Record ? merilis ulang ?Bad, Bad, Bad? dalam bentuk single (4 lagu). Maret 2003, SID menandatangani kontrak dengan Sony Music Indonesia. Yang oh mengejutkan, Sony Music berbesar hati mempersilakan SID riang gembira terus bernyanyi dalam lirik mayoritas berbahasa Inggris. Tepatnya 70% Inggris, 30% Indonesia. Wow. Sony Music nekat (namun terukur)? Atau beranggapan sudah saatnya menancapkan jejak monumental? Atau semata capek/males/bosen/ngantuk dibombardir ewuh pakewuh etos adiluhung Punk Rock oleh kontingen big badass Balinese beer band bernama SID? Whoa&#8230; (Hey, whatever it is, the history of Indonesian Punk Rock has just begun. And miracles are real, mind you)</p>
<p>Kilas balik, pra-tragedi bom SID agresif diundang berkiprah di kafe-kafe internasional di seantero Kuta yang mana SID dipersilakan memuntahkan gubahan sendiri (baca: bukan sebagai cover band). Esensial dicatat, untuk skala lokal hal ini belum pernah terjadi sebelumnya di Bali. Di masa silam, legiun band yang beraksi di pub-pub di Kuta hanya diijinkan mengusung ciptaan orang lain an sich. </p>
<p>Popularitas SID perlahan kian menjulang ketika satu demi satu tembang SID ? yang dominan berlirik Inggris ? ultra frekuentif diputar di radio-radio lokal berpengaruh ya di Bali ya (melebar) ke Jawa >dus, percaya atau tidak, lagu-lagu SID malah telah gencar juga diperdengarkan di radio-radio di Australia, Swedia dan jazirah Skandinavia lainnya.</p>
<p> Langkah fenomenal SID bisa disebut dimulai pada Agustus 2002 saat menjadi band pembuka Hoobastank di Hard Rock Hotel, Kuta, Bali. Kemudian tengah September ?02 SID duhai mencengangkan sukses mengobrak-abrik Senayan di acara Puma Street Games. Berlanjut Desember 02 SID digjaya meluluhlantakkan PL Fair. Berikutnya diwawancara oleh MTV Sky, M97 FM, Prambors, dsb, serta masif diekspos oleh hampir seluruh majalah remaja populer nasional. Di Hai edisi tahunan 2002-2003 ? bersama Rocket Rockers ? SID dimunculkan sebagai The Next Big Thing. Pun oleh MTV Trax SID dinobatkan sebagai band potensial 2003. </p>
<p>Epos Punk Rock paling mutakhir, SID telah merampungkan proses rekaman bersama Sony Music dengan judul album ?Kuta Rock City? dan hingga minggu ke-3, um, telah terjual puluhan ribu kopi. Oh, coba juga beli majalah Time (Asia) edisi pertengahan Juni, SID disebut juga di situ. Gak banyak sih, tapi lumayanlah buat diceritain ke anak cucu: ?Biar gini-gini bokap lu dulu Rock Star lho?? Kebanggaan domestik yang cukup untuk membuktikan bahwa kita ada di dunia tak sekadar jadi aksesori doang? Whoa!</p>
<p><strong>Dikisahkan secara bersemangat dan penuh gairah narcissism oleh Rudolf Dethu</strong><br />
<strong>(Serta?terima kasih Tuhan?sama sekali nihil pengaruh alkohol) </strong></em></p>
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<p><em>Klepto Opera, band asal Surabaya. Interview via e-mail oleh Eric Wiryanata</em></p>
<p><strong>perkenalkan lah diri anda.</strong><br />
saya biasa dipanggil emak saya yy. saya orang biasa</p>
<p><strong>coba jelaskan konsep musik Klepto Opera. </strong><br />
Konsep? kami hanya ingin bercerita apa yang terjadi pada kami, apa mimpi2 terburuk kami dengan diiringi musik yang sekenanya.. that&#8217;s all</p>
<p><strong>pengaruh pengaruh dalam musik Klepto Opera? </strong><br />
-hidup sehari-hari<br />
-mimpi-mimpi buruk<br />
-masa lalu<br />
-kisah-kisah cinta</p>
<p><strong>darimana klepto opera mendapatkan inspirasi dalam penulisan lirik?</strong><br />
ngga tau! tiba-tiba saja melintas.. kadang sehari bisa 5 lirik lagu tapi ngga jarang pula berbulan bulan ngga bisa nulis satu lirik lagupun</p>
<p><strong>pendapat kamu tentang pembajakan.? dan bootleg record?</strong><br />
yah.. kita semua adalah pembajak!! kenapa musti ribut? ide-ide yang selalu kita anggap fresh sebenarnya kalo mau jujur itu semua adalah suatu pembajakan secara sadar maupun melalui otak bawah sadar kita yang kemudian mengalami pengembangan. tapi kalo pembajak yang mencari keuntungan sebesar-besarnya dari suatu karya seni tetap saja bajingan!!</p>
<p><strong>darimana dapat ide menggunakan nama Klepto Opera? dan apa artinya? </strong><br />
kami waktu itu pusing banget nyari nama band yang baru kemudian nonton film yang udah lupa judulnya yang salah satu dialognya &#8221; every one is clepto&#8230; every one live in the opera..&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>seberapa besar pengaruh Iggie Pop. dan kenapa Iggie Pop?</strong><br />
pertama kali dengerin iggy pop waktu baca interviewnya cobain yang katanya mengidolakan dia trus dengerin lagunyasonic youth yang mengcover lagu dia. kemudian penasaran beli kasetnya.. dengerin.. lalu&#8230; BANG!!kena dihati.. ya liriknya.. ya musiknya.. &#8221; i never fall in love again..&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Cobain mati bunuh diri. komentar kamu?</strong><br />
no comment..!! udah basi..</p>
<p><strong>sebutkan lima hal yang sangat kamu inginkan terjadi.</strong><br />
- dirawat saat sakit<br />
- cinta kasih saat rapuh<br />
- senyuman saat terluka<br />
- kepedulian saat tersisih<br />
- mati saat sudah benar-benar siap</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;e&#8217; frontman eels. adalah orang yang mempunyai pengalaman hidup sangat buruk. dia mengalami banyak kematian dalam keluarganya. bagaimana kamu menyikapinya apabila itu terjadi terhadap diri sendiri? atau sikap anda terhadap kematian?</strong><br />
yang jelas aku ngga akan bisa seperti &#8220;e&#8221;. aku terlalu rapuh untuk menerima kenyataan seperti itu, mungkin aku akan gila atau kalo ngga gitu pasti jadi seorang drug junky. album2nya itu benar2 proyek jenius yang mainin perasaan kita. setiap albumnnya mempunyai konsep yang berbeda-beda. &#8221; this is lovely day to run.. cut your hair.. and get new name..&#8221;. tentang kematian?? engga tau.. mungkin cuman refleksi dari hukum daur ulang yang ada dalam ekosistem alam semesta.</p>
<p><strong>menurut kamu mengapa sebuah band dibilang komersil? apa arti komersil itu sendiri? apakah komersil itu salah?</strong><br />
apabila band tersebut hanya mau tampil jika dibayar mahal pada suatu pentas musik amal yang murni buat bantuan sosial kemanusiaan.komersil itu identik dengan harga.. &#8221; ente bayar sekian maka kami akan tampil seperti ini..&#8221; . komersil itu ngga salah juga!! komersil ngga selamanya salah!! contoh nih hanya band bodoh dan ngga percaya diri yang mau tampil dalam suatu acara yang diadakan kapitalis, dengan sponsor yang seabreg tiket pun mahal tapi bandnya hanya dibayar murah bahkan mungkin hanya ucapan terima kasih.</p>
<p><strong>seberapa besar peran  komunitas dalam mempengaruhi Klepto opera?</strong><br />
sejujurnya kami benci suatu komunitas!! hanya melahirkan sikap persaingan yang tak sehat.. menikam dari belakang.. dan kemunafikan serta sikap diskriminatif.. tapi bohong juga kalo kita ngga butuh suatu komunitas. mereka juga bantu kita.. walau sedikit banyak pasti mengharapkan sesuatu.</p>
<p><strong>apa saja yang dipersiapkan Klepto Opera dalam setiap shownya?</strong><br />
latihan meski ngga rutin itu yang utama.. ketemu anggota band tiap hari buat sekedar ngobrol ide apa saja nantinya yang mau dipake buat pentas.. selanjutnya improve diatas panggung</p>
<p><strong>ceritakan tentang pengalaman manggung kamu yang paling berkesan.</strong><br />
tahun 2000 di salah satu acara punx,hc, ska party di kota ponorogo!! dimana band pembuka sebelum kami tampil diseret dan dipukuli aparat dengan gagang senapan gara-gara neriakin &#8220;polisi tai!!&#8221; tiga kali tembakan peringatan buat bubarin massa yang nonton tapi dalam suasana chaos tersebut kami tetep tampil.. teriak2 hal yang sama cuman cas..cis..cusnya pake bahasa inggris jadi polisinya ngga ngerti ( kuper Lo!!).. suasana makin keruh lalu saya nyoba stage diving tapi sayang terlalu mabok tau-tau nyadar udah dibawa ke klinik yang paling dekat dengan gedung ( padahal klinik yang paling deket dengan gedung tersebut adalah.. klinik bersalin.. ha..ha..) mendapat beberapa jahitan dikepala karena sobek waktu berstage diving.</p>
<p><strong>apa itu &#8216;Do It yourself&#8217; menurut kamu. dan aplikasi dalam hidup kamu?</strong><br />
kerjain aja apa yang selama ini kita coba dengan meminimalkan masuknya pihak lain dalam proses berkreatifitas. dalam hidup ini kita terbentur kenyataan bahwa kita adalah makhluk sosial. jadi.. sepandai-pandainya kitalah dalam mengakali situasi seperti ini.</p>
<p><strong>apa yang bisa dilakukan orang orang yang ingin mendapatkan album kalian?</strong><br />
sampai dengan detik ini kami masih menyukai sistem mail order dan membatasi distribusi melalui distro untuk mengupayakan kedekatan batin antara kita dengan pembeli produk kita. semoga dalam full album agustus nanti mulai bisa didapatkan di toko-toko kaset dan distro-distro terdekat</p>
<p><strong>pesan terakhir.</strong><br />
Pesan terakhir: <em>jangan terlalu percaya semua omongan saya di interview ini</em></p>
<p><strong>buatlah sebuah petanyaan, sebuah pertanyaan yang kamu harap ditanyakan dalam interview. dan apa jawabannya?</strong><br />
pertanyaan : <em>udah nyoba pake kondom rasa buah-buahan yang iklannya sering nongol di TV?. </em>Jawab : <em>BELUM!!</em></p>
<p><em>bye.. makasih atas interviewnya semoga menambah wawasan, serta khasanah ilmu pengetahuan dan membukakan pandangan politik kita serta menyadari bahwa kita tidak sinting sendirian di dunia ini.. salam..</em></p>
<p><strong>klepto opera:</strong><br />
jl. karang menjangan 3b/33<br />
surabaya<br />
email: <a href="mailto:kleptoopera@freakscene.net" title="mailto:kleptoopera@freakscene.net">kleptoopera@freakscene.net</a></p>
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		<title>Interview with Idlewild&#8217;s Roddie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2001 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Here?s an interview with Idlewild, great indie rock band from the UK. Via email by Eric Wiryanata.</em><br />
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how do you introduce idlewild&#8217;s music for stranger that never heard of you?</strong><br />
I&#8217;d say take a mixture of loud guitars and add them to a pile of old novels &#8211; it&#8217;s there somewhere.</p>
<p><strong>please tell us about the your music grow. from the first album to the last one.</strong><br />
It&#8217;s now about something and has better tunes.</p>
<p><strong>please tell us five thing that influence your music.</strong><br />
Being outside looking deep into the nothing in front of me. That and<br />
whiskey, records, films and books.<br />
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please tell us five great musician/band that you like.</strong><br />
The Smiths, AC DC, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, REM</p>
<p><strong>what is idlewild&#8217;s lyrics interest?and why?</strong><br />
Why people lose understanding the older they get.</p>
<p><strong>what is your opinion about piracy. and your comment about self reproducing for non comercial purpose.?</strong><br />
Musicians should be paid or there&#8217;ll be no more new music.</p>
<p><strong>what will idlewild be in the future?</strong><br />
More records in more ways.</p>
<p><strong>please tell us your favorite question and the answer.</strong><br />
Q: <em>Why Poland? A: It&#8217;s always the man without his jacket on isn&#8217;t it.</em></p>
<p><strong>what is you like. and what you hate? </strong><br />
I like peace and love. I hate violence, animals and sweet corn.</p>
<p><strong>your line up please</strong><br />
Roddy, Rod, Colin, Gavin, Allan.</p>
<p><strong>any chance idlewild have a tour in indonesia?</strong><br />
Hopefully one day yes.</p>
<p><strong>your last message for the reader.</strong><br />
Be nice to one another and always judge books by their cover.</p>
<p><strong>thanks</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.idlewild.co.uk">www.idlewild.co.uk</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Lou Barlow of  Foke Implojun, Folk Implosion, Sentridoh, and Sebadoh.. By Marcel Thee via e-mail.</em></p>
<p><strong>I had a discussion once with one of friend, who?s a big Sebadoh fan. He said, while he loved most of Sebadoh?s LPs, none of them has ever really had all the member?s songwriting simultaneously at their best. One member?s songwriting tend to ruin the enjoyment of the album as a whole. For instance, he argues that, he loved your songwriting most on ?Bubble and scrape?, but thought that it had Jason?s weakest songs. What do you think about this dumb theory? Is there a particular Sebadoh album, where you though ?wow, the other guys writing will really compliment the record, and my songs are damn good too?? </strong><br />
i  enjoyed eric and jason&#8217;s songs, i liked how different they were from my own&#8230;.i understood that some people didn&#8217;t share my opinion but i didn&#8217;t care..the records were meant to be extreme..i loved it and am proud of all of them..i didn&#8217;t think it was our responsibility to make it easy on the listener..i hated albums that didn&#8217;t challenge me at that time..</p>
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If the internal band relationship had been better, do you see yourself still working together with the rest of Sebadoh? Or was it just a matter of time no matter what? </strong><br />
the members of sebadoh never all lived in the same city ..eventually we couldn&#8217;t afford to continue travelling great distances to keep the band together..there&#8217;s plenty of other reasons we needed to split but for me,and perhaps only me, internal tension was not one of them..not even with eric gaffney..he just became very unreliable during a time when jason and i wanted (and needed) to tour and record as much as possible&#8230;<br />
the important thing about sebadoh was keeping things free and democratic which, as almost anyone in a band will tell you, is very difficult..i think we did quite well..</p>
<p><strong>Your songs tend to be/sound very personal. Is it matter of sitting down to write a song, and trying to tap into certain moods or feelings, or is it more an automatic thing where these feelings just come to you?</strong><br />
the feelings come and i try to describe them..it can take 5 minutes or 5 years..by describing what i&#8217;m feeling i feel like i can cope better, that i can grow..</p>
<p><strong>After the success of ?natural one? did you find yourself having different perspectives on songwriting or ?success?, maybe caring more about people?s opinions about your songs. Not in trying to sound more ?accessible? or more ?commercial?, but just knowing that there will be a lot more people listening to your songs and lyrics?</strong><br />
for me there&#8217;s not much difference between sharing my songs with 10 people or 100,000..i&#8217;ve always cared what people thought but i can&#8217;t say i ever did anything to please them..except for my mother ( &#8220;willing to wait&#8221; )..</p>
<p><strong>What are you listening to mostly now? I read somewhere that you love the Shins. Would you collaborate with them if the occasion arises?  Because some of the Shins catalogue ( e.g ?caring is creepy? and ?weird days?) wouldn?t be out of place at all if you performed it. </strong><br />
they&#8217;re better off without has-beens trying to sponge off thier audience..i can only collaborate with close friends anyway.. i listen to Quix*o*tic these days..as far as current bands go..</p>
<p><strong>When push comes to shove, do you love Foke Implojun, Folk Implosion, Sentridoh, and Sebadoh equally? Which band do you think you gave the most into? Who would you tell your grandkids you sang for?</strong><br />
love &#8216;em all equally, that&#8217;s the truth..the grandkids need only know i was a musician..they can find out any details themselves..it would be far more interesting and fun for them that way..</p>
<p><strong>A lot of great bands we love, tend to be on an indie label, and with their limited distribution power, would you consider signing with and obviously corporate major label (we know you have with Interscope, but would you do it again), just for the sake of reaching a wider/diverse audience? Or is ?Control? more important to you? </strong><br />
no label has ever taken control from me&#8230;..i got what i needed from interscope: money to make a big , shiny pop record..that&#8217;s what i wanted to do and they made it possible..i wouldn&#8217;t do it again, i don&#8217;t need alot of money to make  records now..no label would sign me anyway..which is good, they waste money and , generally, have no taste..<br />
if people want your record they will find it, you don&#8217;t need corporate distribution to sell records..you need a good record..they sell themselves, eventually..</p>
<p><strong>What do you think of the new ?garage rock? trend? Do you enjoy the ?back to our roots? approach of these bands?</strong><br />
yea, i&#8217;ve been listening to 60&#8217;s garage, 70&#8217;s punk+ post-punk since i was 13..</p>
<p><strong>How has your fans reacted whenever you change bands? Especially now, how has the reaction been towards  Foke Implojun?</strong><br />
they don&#8217;t like it, i don&#8217;t change in ways that most fans want me to, or imagine i will..<br />
 because they often form deep attachments to certain songs +sounds  they feel betrayed..not all, but most..at this point my records are selling less than they have in 10 years and most shows i play are for 50- 100 people..because i have done so many different things there is nothing for people to hold on to and no reason for them to trust me..<br />
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You?ve been really great at giving fans a chance to find very rare songs from your catalogue, giving us free mp3?s. What?s your take on mp3 sharing? Would it bother you if Foke Implojun?s songs were leaked before they?re officially released? Do you think it?ll really affect sales?</strong><br />
of course it affects sales..they can preview an album , find out they hate it and not buy it..years ago you had to buy an album to find out it sucked..things have changed and i am O.K. with it..i fully support file sharing , MP3&#8217;s ..i prefer to buy albums but that&#8217;s my choice..</p>
<p><strong>Is Foke Implojun more of ?band? than Sebadoh was? Or do you write most of the materials? </strong><br />
 it is more of a band..i write most of the songs but the sound of the band is more unified and consistant than sebadoh..</p>
<p><strong>Would you ever operate  in the same manner as you did w/ Sebadoh again? You know, having each Foke Implojun members bring complete songs, kind of a ?white album? method?</strong><br />
only if sebadoh was to reunite would i do that again..</p>
<p><strong>You?ve been writing songs for years now, do you ever scared that you might have found the ?perfect Lou Barlow songwriting formula? and might become a parody of yourself? What approach do you give yourself in order to keep things ?fresh?? </strong><br />
calling me a parody of myself is a critics job..i think i&#8217;ve managed to keep from repeating myself better than most musicians.. but REAL people LIKE bands that repeat themselves..<br />
 to keep things fresh i switch instruments (right now i play bass more than guitar)..find new partners..i let nature take it&#8217;s course..change happens without me trying to force it..</p>
<p><strong>As Indonesians, we?re very interested in what your opinion is about the war on Iraq. Do you have any strong opinions about it? Or is it just a no right/wrong issue? </strong><br />
i think the current american goverment is corrupt and deeply insensitive to the plight of the poor..the war was a blatant act of imperialism and really, really stupid..they could have removed saddam in other ways.. they never found any weapons of mass destruction..it&#8217;s typical republican paranoia, idiot christians with too much power.</p>
<p><strong>Do you find yourself consciously operating in a democratic way as a result of your experience w/ Dinosaur. Jr?</strong><br />
i&#8217;ve always considered the Beatles a perfect band model..so when i wasn&#8217;t in dinosaur it seemed natural to start a mini-fucked-up beatles..<br />
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Would you ever consider coming to, say Indonesia, to do a lo-key acoustic set? </strong><br />
 yes i would..</p>
<p><strong><br />
Which Lou Barlow record would you recommend to a Lou Barlow virgin? </strong><br />
depends on the person..young experimental kids should hear Sebadoh III.. a mother might like &#8216;one part lullaby&#8217;..</p>
<p><strong>What do you think is the ultimate Sebadoh album? </strong><br />
sebadoh III<br />
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Any chance of Sebadoh re-arising?</strong><br />
yes..don&#8217;t know when , don&#8217;t know how..but, yes<br />
<strong><br />
Lastly, Which songs would be on the ?Sebadoh:greatest hits?album?</strong><br />
we didn&#8217;t have any hits..i don&#8217;t know really, there is too many choices.. i considered each record a greatest hits&#8230;.really </p>
<p><em>great thanks to Lou Barlow, who is willing to answer the interview. </em></p>
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		<title>Interview with Mocca&#8217;s Arina</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wirjanata</dc:creator>
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<p><em>Sebuah interview dengan vokalis sekaligus pembentuk band yang berirama swing jazz. ARINA dari MOCCA oleh Eric Wiryanata, via email.</em></p>
<p><strong>gimana cara kamu jelasin musik mocca ke orang yang sama sekali belum pernah dengar atau melihat mocca?</strong><br />
Sebuah musik yang bercerita</p>
<p><strong>apa yang membuat kamu tertarik untuk mebentuk sebuah grup band yang akhirnya bernama mocca? diluar dari ketertarikan akan musik?</strong><br />
awalnya saya &#038; riko hanya ingin mewujudkan lagu2 yg sudah ada kedalam bentuk rekaman audio. tidak lebih.jadi mocca itu tidak dibentuk, tapi terjadi. Faktor diluar ketertarikan dunia musik? mungkin tidak ada. sekedar ingin mewujudkan idealisme bermusik.</p>
<p><strong>faktor dari luar yang turut mempengaruhi musik mocca?</strong><br />
Lingkungan. Apalagi dari segi konsep, mungkin karena kami semua punya latar belakang pendidikan desain, dimana dalam membuat sebuah karya kami dituntut untuk bertanggung jawab dan berusaha se-konseptual mungkin.</p>
<p><strong>secara lirik musik mocca cenderung mellow. Apa  yang mempengaruhi kamu membuat lirik yang sedemikian mellow?</strong><br />
ah? masa? coba dicerna lagi. mungkin karakter suara saya yang membuat lagu2/lirik yg dinyanyikan seakan-akan terdengar mellow. mungkin ada 1-2 lagu yg mellow, tapi sebagian besar liriknya optimis kok.</p>
<p><strong>apa kamu membuat rencana jangka panjang terhadap band kamu? kalo boleh tau apa tuh?</strong><br />
ingin album kami dipasarkan ke luar negeri. Manggung di Jepang. dan Mancanegara lainnya&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>5 hal yang sangat penting dalam hidup kamu?</strong><br />
Musik, sahabat, cinta, tertawa dan keseimbangan.</p>
<p><strong>5 aktor penting dalam musik kamu?</strong><br />
Soul, Lirik, melodi, aransemen, dan prosodi</p>
<p><strong>sempatkah kamu memikirkan sesuatu untuk dibenci? kenapa?</strong><br />
PEMBAJAK! Mereka adalah pencuri yg paling terhina danterkutuuukk sepanjang masa&#8230;<br />
(Kaset mocca telah dibajak! ada di alun2!bahkan cd yg belum kita produksi pun sudah diperjual belikan disana..) Mending kalo kita udah laku sejuta copy, ceban aja belon..udah miskin dirampok..sedih ah..:(</p>
<p><strong>punya hobby? apa tuh?</strong><br />
Masak! (apalagi kue).</p>
<p><strong>tolong deskripsikan siapakah Arina itu kepada pembaca.</strong><br />
Manusia yang kompleks!</p>
<p><strong>motto dalam hidup?</strong><br />
segala suatu akan tiba pada waktunya</p>
<p><strong>pesan terakhir kepada pembaca?</strong><br />
JANGAN BELI KASET BAJAKAN!</p>
<p>***<br />
<strong>Data Pribadi:</strong><br />
Nama Lengkap: Arina Ephipania<br />
Panggilan: Dede<br />
Tempat/tgl Lahir: Bandung, 4 Mei 1978<br />
tinggi/berat: 155/48<br />
Binatang kesayangan: anjing-ku (si: Zeus)<br />
Cita-cita sejak kecil: Punya toko kue<br />
e-mail: <a href="mailto:ephipania@yahoo.com" title="mailto:ephipania@yahoo.com">ephipania@yahoo.com</a></p>
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