Music Stories
Jaranan techno: Raja Kirik is the mad sound of resistance from Indonesia
This sonic mayhem assaulting your speakers is battle music – ancient folkloric resistance, exploding out of the Yogyakarta home base of YES NO WAVE MUSIC.
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Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space
Fahmi Mursyid from Indonesia has been creating oceans of wondrously sculpted sounds on netlabels for the past years. Be sure to watch these magical constructions on nothing but Walkman tape loops with effects pedals and VCV Rack patches – immense sonic drones from minimal materials.
Peter Kirn - November 8, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech Tech
Jam to this: the 90s Sundanese house anthem “Maju Maju Maju”
Behold, the alternative 90s house history you don’t know – unless you’re connected to Indonesia. “Maju Maju Maju” is an impossibly catchy “xta-C” indo tech banger from Java’s Barakatak. And the music video is an easy, all-natural YouTube high:
The vaporwave Windows 98 startup sound remix no one asked for
Peter Kirn - June 27, 2018
DIY + Unusual Music Music tech
Digging the Asian and African undergrounds with C-drík Kirdec
Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - August 24, 2016
Music Music tech
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