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16.05.17

$LAY LADY $LAY

Bold, bitchy, and bossy with lots of 'tude. Their tunes and lyrics are fire and they're here to stay! Listen to this bold, bitchy and bossy mixtape on Whiteboard Journal's Mixcloud! 01. Bad Girlfriend by Lola Coca 02. Skwod by Nadia Rose 03. 16 Shots by Stefflon Don 04. Mr Flash by Bagheera ft. Lady Leshurr 05. Kitana by Princess Nokia 06. Hot Tings by Paigey Cakey 07. Thang by Yacko 08. Yellow Ranger by Awkwafina 09. Big N Bad by Kid Sister 10 Throw It Down by Dominique Young Unique 11 Execute by Tommy Genesis 12 Forward Back by Gavlyn 13 Purple Light by Elliphant ft. Doja Cat 14 Naive by Sequin 15 BitchSlut by Anna Wise

15.05.17

Seleksi Karya: XL Recordings

XL Recordings merupakan sebuah kolektif turunan Beggars Group yang didirikan Nick Halkes, Richard Russell, dan Tim Palmer pada tahun 1989. Sempat mengalami reformasi genre yang dibawa di awal kemunculan, mereka berhasil melewati lintasan zaman sebelum akhirnya meraih kesuksesan. Melahirkan deretan musisi ikonik mulai dari The Prodigy, Radiohead, sampai Adele, berikut adalah beberapa album terbaik yang pernah dilahirkan XL Recordings.

Loka Suara
12.05.17

Distopia

Episode Loka Suara kali ini berisikan lagu-lagu dari awal tahun 2000'an yang tetap terasa relevan hingga sekarang. Tracklist: 01. LAIN - Train Song 02. The Morning After - Pesawatku 03. C'mon Lennon - Gadis Bertangan Satu 04. Polyester Embassy - Polypanic Rooms 05. The Milo - For All The Dreams That Could Fly 06. That's Rockefeller - Dress Like God 07. The Sastro - Lari 100 08. Melancholic Bitch - Tentang Cinta 09. Santamonica - Wanderlust 10. Pestolaer - Tribute to Amster

Column
11.05.17

Bebal Pemikiran Kategoris

Melalui submisi open column, Noor Adha menuliskan kegelisahannya mengenai pola pikir yang tak jarang menyederhanakan realita dalam dua warna saja: hitam dan putih, serta bagaimana pola pikir seperti ini bisa menimbulkan masalah pada lingkungan sosial yang penuh warna. Tentang kita yang tak jarang merendahkan orang lain sembari merasa paling benar.

10.05.17

That Fat Feline with Many Monikers

We had to conduct this in English because our long friend apparently speaks eloquently in this language. Continuing the hype of Defile for the past 4 episodes, this time the crew will visit Yogyakarta’s scene along with local heroes - Django, Android 18, Moustapha Spliff and not to forget to invite Ones, Ffonz and SKS to stomp the dance floor. For those who know better, Ffonz and Moustapha Spliff are pretty much the same person. But who is he and why he remains mysterious since the first time he got back to Indonesia? We got a chance to ask some fundamental questions to reveal who he is. Vinyl and cats? Let's start with cats. I basically grew up in a hippie-esque household where animals are able to come in and out as they pleased. Being Jakarta, these are mostly cats. So I always played with them as a kid. And when I was in Holland I used to cat-sit for friends before finally adopting a couple of cats myself. So yeah, there's this fascination from childhood. Plus they're strange and arrogant motherfuckers, something that weirdly endeared them to me. As far as records are concerned, I bought them out of necessity. Because it was cheap. Back in 2002-2004, after leaving Manchester to live in Holland, I found that most of the CDs I was looking for (mainly Dylan, Bowie, Pink Floyd, etc.) were going for 10-15-20 Euros each, which was expensive for a student who cleaned toilets for a living. LPs were going for around 5 euros and EPs were 1 or 2 euros. So yeah, it's an economical decision. Ffonz is me, the double F being a typo that I never seemed to bother getting rid of. Moustapha's my cousin from Istanbul. He came here a couple of years ago in a container ship transporting garden chairs. It just so happens that he likes psychedelic rock as well as his native Turkish joints and other middle-eastern crackers. Humphrey's an old neighbour of mine from when I was living in England, who moved to Jakarta a few months ago. He's a weird fellow. He considers marshmallows an aphrodisiac and likes to chirp like a bird every-time he's taking a dump. Ah Red Light Radio (RLR), one of the funnest times of my life. I was lucky because I was introduced to the guys who were running it (Orpheu de Jong and Hugo van Heijningen) just as they set up the station. I was invited as a guest for another RLR regular called Future Vintage to be interviewed and spin in conjunction with that Those Shocking Shaking Days comp.That was my first ever appearance on the station. Luck also had it that I was close friends with another RLR regular, Mark Cremins (aka Nose van Conk, Mark From Middlesex, Carl Cardigan), who was head distributor for Amsterdam's Rush Hour Records. Out of the blue he set up a slot for me at RLR, playing a jazz set with Mo Kolours. During that show Mark introduced me to Hugo and Orpheu, and being the nice souls they are, offered me a bi-weekly spot. Couldn't say no to that. And all those cats I mentioned above had an extreme diverse taste in music. From weird disco to bizarre spoken word records, greek electronica, various shades of hard rock/metal/psych/prog, middle-eastern folk and pretty much everything in between. Plus listening to the other slots on the station just added to that. So yeah of course it opened my eyes and ears. Interesting question as I never really pondered as to why. If I had to put my finger on it, I guess it's because I had a fascination with blues from a very early age. My dad used to play in blues bands so I was always drawn to the blue notes. I mean it's a style of music where the artists sounds sad and happy at the same time. How could you not love that? Jazz in particular has a strong blues influence, with many of early jazz records pretty much being sped up blues music with 4 pounds of swing added into it. Plus stuff by Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, King Oliver and the likes had the name 'blues' within their song titles. St. Louis Blues, Potato Head Blues, Aunt Hagar's Blues, etc. And that blues influence in jazz stayed pretty much up till the 60s. And all the other shades of Black American music I like, be it rhythm and blues, soul, funk, hip hop, disco, house, techno,etc. grew out of those two aforementioned genres. And what all these genres, from blues to techno and hip hop had in common was improvisation. Something else that attracted me from a very early age. The ideal party? One where punters don't ask the guy playing records to "put on some R&B" all the fucking time. - Sabtu, 13 Mei 2017 Taphouse Beer Garden, Yogyakarta 20:30 Django Android 18 Moustapha Spliff Guest appearance: Ffonz (W_Music) Ones (Casual Dance) SKS

10.05.17

Nada Dunia bersama Suarasama

Melalui bunyi dan melodi, Suarasama telah mengangkat khasanah musik lokal ke tataran internasional. Bekerja sama dengan Ruru Corps, Whiteboard Journal berbincang bersama Rithaony Hutajulu dan Irwansyah Harahap mengenai etnomusikologi, warna musik nusantara, hingga salah konsepsi world music.

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