Welcome to the 12th installment of Heart Attack in this busy month of February! Aside from busting my ass at work and also playing music, lately I'm in the mood for heavier and groove-oriented hardcore. Back in my junior high school, I remember this one time when I strolled around local tape store and came across Madball "Look My Way", I think it was released by roadrunner. On the first listen, I was completely floored and stunned by how much groove and intensity that Madball brought to the table. Since that day, I began discovering bands like Biohazard, Dog Eat Dog, Life of Agony and such...which eventually leads to a more contemporary bands like Terror, No Warning up until recent band like Turnstile (nonstop feeling is crazy good!). You know, one thing about hardcore, it's sort of like hit or miss, when you do things right they will come out really dope, otherwise all you get is a pool of generic hardcore bands that try to sound heavy yet failing miserably. Enclosed are some of the songs that has been stuck in my ears, these songs really kick off so much memories of hanging out with friends, going into their practice space and simply loving hardcore. Last but not least, enjoy!
Tracklist:
01. Turnstile - Gravity
02. Cold World - The Real Deal
03. Backtrack - Welcome to the Pound
04. Soul Search - Me & Mine
05. Twitching Tongues - Distance Clause
06. Bad Seed - Justice Deserved
07. Stout - Block Watch
08. Life of Agony - Here I Am, Here I Stay
09. Trapped Under Ice - Gemini
10. No Warning - Resurrection Of The Wolf
11. Leeway - On The Outside
12. Biohazard - Man With A Promise
13. Crown of Thornz - Juggernaut
14. Terror - Push It Away
15. Madball - Set It Off
This episode of Loka Suara titled "Lihat", started with a fast paced beat and ended with a downbeat acoustic. Take a listen to the episode and do look for the band featured if you like what you hear.
We are looking to find more Indonesian bands to be featured on Loka Suara. If you would like to get your music here, do send your song’s mp3 or a link to your song online at contact@whiteboardjournal.com with the email title: LOKA SUARA.
Tracklist:
01. Megatruh - Wahana Bumi
02. ALICE - In The Name Of Forgiveness, I'll Be Leaving This Secret With You (Pitfall Cover)
03. Heals - Void
04. Pipepole - Concede
05. Mellon Yellow - The Longest Yard
06. Much - Singled Out
07. Bin Idris - Rebahan
08. Wu Ming - ... But I Was Wrong
09. Monday Math Class - 02.00 AM
10. Samiun - Make Believe
A collection of groovy rockin electronic Japanese tunes that are easy on the ears, hard on the synth, and heavy on the experimental.
1. Ippu-Do - Lonely Sea Lion
2. Denki Groove - Shangri-La
3. Yellow Magic Orchestra - La Femme Chinoise
4. Yasuaki Shimizu - 108 Desires
5. Jun Togawa- Sayonara Wo Oshiete
6. Miharu Koshi - Keep On Dancing
7. Tomo Akikawabaya - Dark
8. Picky Picnic - Aischu No Melody (The Setting Sun in Africa)
9. Sadistic Mika Band - Kaiketsu (Silver Child) Breaks
10. Haruomi Hosono - Hurricane Dorothy
11. The Beatniks - Une Femme Nest Pas Un Homme
Aryadu Hata us one of the co founders of Pleasure and the man behind Whatnot and the Uprising149 clothing label. Check out his 90s obscure commercial hip hop selection as he takes us on this quantum leap journey of hip hop obscurity.
Tracklist:
01. Hi-C - Sitting in the Dark
02. Extra Prolific - First Sermon
03. Trendz of Culture - Valley of the Skinz
04. Top Quality - Magnum Opus
05. UMC - One to Grow On
06. Y'all so Stupid - Van Full of Pakistans
Welcome back to another episode of Selected! This time we have none other than Gooodit aka Xing Xing providing a mixtape which includes some of our favorite artists such as Suicide, James Chance, Daft Punk, Kim Gordon, and MIA! Get ready for a mind-bending mix!
Gooodit Profile:
Aditya Fachrizal Hafiz, famously known as Gooodit, born in 1989. Is an artist who works in a variety of media, ranging from graphic arts, design, photography, video, object, installation, and audio works. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, Gooodit focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting. His artworks often refers to pop and mass culture.
He creates situations in which everyday objects are altered or detached from their natural function. By applying specific combinations and certain manipu-lations, different functions and/or contexts are created. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recog-nised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
Besides that, frequently he involved in the Jakarta art collective called Cut and Rescue, in which it has no boundaries in the case of sharing, researching, developing and working the ideas. He also playing noise tunes in no wave band called TV-OUT, and sometimes switch over to be a disc jockey with a stage name DJ Xing Xing, who playing southeast asia classic sound spectacular. Gooodit currently lives and works in Jakarta.
"Under the influence"
of a controlled substance.
01. Kim Gordon - Song For Reverse Karaoke
02. Emptyset - Collapse
03. Toive - Vladislav Delay
04. For Nam June Paik´s Piano
05. John Lennon - Radio Play
06. Thurston Moore - Aerosol
07. Swan - Half Life
08. The Secret Prostitution - Pemuja Setan
09. Creation Rockers - Four Horsemen
10. The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine
11. Paul Irama - Kabut
12. Senking - V8
13. Sweet Valley - Dimension
14. Freestylers - B-Boy Stance (7" Edit)
15. DJ Sniff - Even More Encore
16. Suicide - Ghost Rider
17. M.I.A - Born Free
18. Indonesia Morning Show .NET TV
19. Daft Punk - Rollin’ & Scratchin’
20. Christopher Daniel Sjarief & Muhammad Ali husni Riza - Mitsubishi Outlander (Feat. KOMBES POL. Wahyu Hadiningrat Kapolres Jakarta Selatan, KOMBES POL. Musyafak Kabid. Dokkes. Polda Metro Jaya, Sumirat Dwiyanto Humas BNN, KOMBES POL. Martinus Sitompul Kabid Humas Polda Metro Jaya, KOMBES POL. Eko Danianto Dir. Narkoba Polda Metro Jaya)
21. Evil Laughing
21. James Chance - Contort Yourself
Episode ketiga Loka Suara Live menampilkan rapper Matter Mos di mana ia bercerita tentang bagaimana ia berangkat dari vokalis band metalcore menjadi salah satu nama penting di skena hip-hop hari ini.
Memperkenalkan salah satu seri video terbaru di Whiteboard Journal, Loka Suara Live. Pengembangan dari channel W_Music yang kini lahir kembali dalam format video.
Polka Wars, which joined the dynamic Jakarta music scene in the beginning of 2010, is one of the bands that attempts to present something new. And though their music is not the kind that would be perfect to accompany you on a slow, Sunday afternoon, the volume of the combined sounds of guitars, drums, and recently, a saxophone, evokes strong emotions without draining your energy. Though they've been active for over two years, in 2012 the group consisting of principal members Karaeng Adjie, Giovanni Rahmadeva, Xandega Tahajuansya & Billy Saleh gained a lot of attention from the media, concert organizers and avid music goers.
We invited Polka Wars to perform at Studio Taman on a Sunday afternoon. Enlisting the help of noisemaker Sawi Lieu to play the synth and Gerinov to play the saxophone, Polka Wars performance brought a full and lively rendition of their momentum-driven music.
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Influenced by The Who, The Beatles - among several other legends of the 1960s and 1970s - these two brothers are recognized in the independent music sphere of Indonesia for their brand of rock and roll. Perhaps the comfort of performing with someone you are tied to by blood has also impacted the way The Experience perform their songs, all of which are in English. The casual, but confident vibe of this two-man band is what makes their performances memorable. Their debut album, Summer of Love, was released in 2007 and their second album, Eye Contact, made it to the third rank on Rolling Stone's Top Ten Charts in 2011. We invited the duo to practice and recording space Studio Taman in Kemang a month ago and they showed us why they are a group that everybody has their eyes on.
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