tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1996255414233014692024-03-13T12:27:39.711-07:00Indonesian Shoegazertales of noises and the bandshow does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-60500225660997658832017-09-19T20:14:00.001-07:002017-09-19T20:35:14.393-07:00Ease<i>Jakarta punya band shoegaze baru yang menarik yang patut disimak, Ease. Materinya tampak pas, tak berlebih-lebihan, dan had to say a good noise pop.</i><br />
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Saya selalu suka ketika menemukan sebuah band shoegaze lokal baru yang out of nowhere, namun dengan materi yang menyenangkan. Dan ketika saya menemukan nama Ease di sebuah pamflet acara, karena kebetulan sedang mencari band-band yang tepat untuk sebuah gig, iseng cek di instagram dan menemukan akun band ini.<br />
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Ada dua snippet lagu berjudul I dan II, well, bagus juga. Mendengarkan langsung materi mereka di soundcloud, memastikan bahwa band ini bisa membuat materi yang oke. Saya merasa mereka haruslah dirilis oleh sebuah label, tentu butuh jam terbang manggung memang, tapi apapun itu, Ease punya hal yang menarik untuk disimak. Seperti mendengarkan band-band macam Inner Sleeve atau Pia Fraus.<br />
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Ease dibentuk 2015 bersama koko (drum) sama ichi (gitar), fade (synth), dinda (vox+gitar) dan angga (bass). Rilisan fisik? Mereka akan main di acara Popcore 10, dan kedua lagu itu masuk kaset kompilasi acara tersebut. <i>So you know what to do rite?</i><br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-13328283653786810982017-09-14T02:28:00.003-07:002017-09-14T23:33:37.084-07:00Seetheye's Social Bribe<br />
Band baru shoegaze Jakarta yang punya potensi, merilis album cdr Social Bribe. Seetheeye.<br />
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Saya kenal dengan gitarisnya, si Danny Yuwanda, bisa dibilang shoegazer akut dan band ini bisa dibilang sebagai penantian yang diharapkan lebih baik ketimbang Deasterina yang ditinggalkannya untuk mendirikan Seetheeye.<br />
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Sebagai sebuah band, Seetheeye, punya hal yang menarik, materi yang tidak nanggung (bagus kok), namun jujur band ini seperti bermain di dunia mereka sendiri. Dan sepertinya ada sebuah hal yang mengganggu band ini sehingga, suatu ketika Seetheeye memilih mundur di acara Popcore beberapa bulan lalu.<br />
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Apapun itu, memang menjalankan sebuah band, butuh seni. Konsistensi dan harus fun, jangan terjebak sama hal-hal utopis. Sejak Deasterina, saya sudah suka materi2nya, sedih juga band itu jadi gak jelas. Entah kapan bisa melihat Seetheeye di stage. Kabarnya mereka sedang mencari vokalis perempuan.<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-47958345839879196432017-09-07T02:07:00.001-07:002017-09-07T19:47:43.477-07:00Heals - Spectrum<i><br /></i>
<i>Sudah lama nggak updating blog ini, sementara ada beberapa rilisan yang menarik untuk dibahas di blog. salah satunya album penuh Heals, bertitel Spectrum. Nu-gaze yang layak disimak.</i><br />
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Album perdana mereka memang sudah ditunggu. Dan saya bisa bisa review stlh beberapa lama dirilis, gegara hilang mood. Album ini tak mengecewakan, khususnya dengan packaging-nya yang total. Materi-materi di Spectrum seperti karakter yang mereka usung, noise pop yang dinamis, satu hal yang banyak dipengaruhi oleh band seperti My Vitriol.<br />
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Track False Alarm menjadi pembuka Spectrum. Sebenarnya single utama mereka seharusnya Void, ketimbang False Alarm, selera pribadi sih. Materi menarik lainnya ada trek Wave, yg kesan femininnya muncul, dan denger lagu ini jadi inget The Sastro (jangan gusar dulu haha singkup dan lead2-nya aja, dan its not like a bad thing tho').<br />
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Tapi ada satu hal, memang rada tricky utk mengatur tracklist dari 10 track di album Spectrum, semuanya materi yang solid. Tapi pengaturan tracklist seharusnya bisa lebih menggigit. Misal track Void langsung jadi pembuka? Materi yang ngebeat kenceng dan yang lebih kalem misal dibagi di awal dan belakang? Mirip susunan lagu di album Let Me Begin's Themilo.<br />
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But overall, the album should be a good sign, kalau ada band baru seperti Heals di Bandung, yang membawa genre satu atap dengan band seniornya Themilo. Dan memiliki materi yang layak didengar, di atas panggung dan di album perdana mereka.<br />
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Dan mungkin di album kedua, harus lebih unpredictable. lebih muncul punch & hook-nya.<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-53835095316709201182017-03-06T17:30:00.001-08:002017-03-06T17:46:18.906-08:00Sugarstar - Delirious Band shoegaze Sugarstar yang menghilang beberapa tahun lalu memunculkan sebuah lagu berjudul Delirious di Youtube. Pertanda comeback atau sebuah materi yang sempat hilang?<br />
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Seorang teman kirim whatsapp jam 1 pagi dengan link Youtube dan berkata, "ini single baru Sugarstar ya?". What? Sugarstar?! Langsung saya klik dan sebuah videoklip art muncul dengan titel Delirious, diposting oleh label Sinjitos. I was like, wtf... Sugarstar muncul kembali? Tahun ini?<br />
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Lagu Delirious betul-betul beyond of my wildest expectation. Salah satu teman bilang lagu ini too mesmerize! Yep, benar sekali, it was like you're having a damn ecstasy trip with a good noise pop on the free way road. Sugarstar di lagu ini featuring dengan Anindita Saryuf, yang juga vokalis Santamonica.<br />
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Delirious sebegitu bagusnya, sampai-sampai (rudely speaking), band-band shoegaze baru (termasuk band saya sendiri) lebih baik minggir sejenak, karena kalau kata teman saya, kasarnya, ibarat remah-remah pangsit dengan lagu baru Sugarstar ini hahahaha<br />
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Dan iya, saya merasa begitu inferior dengan lagu ini. Iyub adalah seorang jenius yang melahirkan band cult seperti Sugarstar. Pertama kali mendengar single Losing Today, saya sampai berpikir, band luar dari mana ini? Karena begitu bagusnya, tak cuma materi tapi soal mixing dan masteringnya (oleh Iyub sendiri). So perfect. Lagu ini membuat saya menerka-nerka, Apa Iyub hendak membangkitkan band ini lagi kah?<br />
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Ketika band-band shoegaze lawas reunian di luar negeri, dan kini Sugarstar memunculkan lagu baru? Oh dear, tahun ini akan menjadi tahun yang sangat memikat jika itu terjadi. Andai saja, Sugarstar muncul di era 90an, mungkin The Pagans (asal Singapura) tak akan menjadi band shoegaze pertama di asia tenggara.<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-48156868504107063012017-02-19T18:09:00.004-08:002017-02-19T18:17:39.678-08:00Belladona is Back!Band shoegaze Jakarta yang kerap manggung di medio 2000-an kembali reuni. Dan akan manggung untuk pertama kalinya sejak vakum lama.<br />
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Menyenangkan juga mendapati Belladona kembali ke atas panggung. Saya pernah posting di blog ini, berikut dengan lagu2 mereka yang saya ripped dari laman Myspace, tentu seijin bandnya. Ambient, ethereal dan dream pop, kira-kira itu khas musik mereka. Dan underrated.</div>
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Dan mereka akan kembali reuni untuk pertama kalinya di acara Popcore vol. 5 Minggu, 26 Februari 2017, di Xabi Space, Lebak Bulus. Terakhir kali saya nonton mereka, kalau gak salah di sebuah acara di sebuah cafe atau pub di Hotel Sari Pan Pasific, lupa tahunnya, tapi kayaknya sih sudah lama banget hahaha</div>
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Blog theblogthatcelebratesitself menjadi inisiator yang mengumpulkan band-band dari belahan dunia, termasuk dari Indonesia. Seetheeye membawakan lagu Thorn yang bisa dibeli album kompilasi ini di https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/track/seetheeye-thorn<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-57167559780861792622017-01-09T17:13:00.002-08:002017-01-09T17:14:14.949-08:00The Noises of Your 2016Lumayan juga rilisan band-band shoegazing di tahun 2016. Berikut adalah rilisan-rilisan fisik yang telah direview dan selamat bagi yang telah memilikinya, dan sukses bagi bandnya. Colorful juga, dan semoga 2017 lebih seru lagi band-band yang muncul.<br />
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<i>Materi album EP dari band Jogja Annie Hall bertitel Saudade begitu menjanjikan dan solid. Heavy fuzz and distortion, dan iya, full dosage of reverb. IMO, the best 2016 release from the band!!</i></div>
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<i>Tak pernah terlintas band ini akan memiliki sebuah rilisan fisik. Berbekal sejumput materi yang terekam, dan sesi interview. Band yang ajaib!</i></div>
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<i>“Wave”, single kedua dari band muda Bandung yang paling diantisipasi rilisan debutnya tahun ini, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/healsmusic_" style="color: #d8d7d3; text-decoration: none;">Heals</a></strong>. Album debut mereka akan dirilis oleh label indie lokal yang paling konsisten hingga saat ini, <a href="https://twitter.com/FFWDRecords" style="color: #d8d7d3; text-decoration: none;"><strong>FFWD Records</strong></a>.</i></div>
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Bersama Gerpfast Kolektif, Hellens bersiap merilis EP perdana bertitel Distancia. <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Berasa 90's dan referensi musik mereka tak jauh dari band-band Creation Records dan 4AD. and that's a good thing.</span><br />
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-77868377890959834682016-10-31T18:28:00.002-07:002016-10-31T18:30:35.597-07:00Annie Hall - Saudade EP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>Materi album EP dari band Jogja Annie Hall bertitel Saudade begitu menjanjikan dan solid. Heavy fuzz and distortion, dan iya, full dosage of reverb.</i></div>
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Pagi tadi saya memutar kaset Annie Hall hasil pre order yang bundling dengan kaos, pouch, booklet, pin, dan sticker. Lumayan juga harganya, tetapi saya pikir worth it banget dengan materi di EP Saudade. Ada empat lagu, dimana terdapat single utama mereka, Hollow. Overall, album mini mereka such a beast! Saya suka semua lagu di album ini, dan hasil mixing-nya.<br />
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Sebenarnya kontur musik Annie Hall lebih banyak dipengaruhi oleh warna shoegaze paska era 90an. Beberapa teman saya menyebut band-band seperti Godflesh, Nothing, atau semacamnya, yang saya juga kurang banyak dengerin. Namun itu bukan hal yang buruk, malah saya pikir Annie Hall sudah punya cara mereka sendiri, dan itu patut diapresiasi.<br />
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Tak sabar ingin melihat band ini manggung di Jakarta. Dan jujur, Hema Records, ini adalah rilisan terbaik kalian :D dan saya gembira untuk itu! Oh ya, semoga band ini bukan proyek sementara lalu vakum atau bubar seperti biasanya band-band Jogja lainnya, itu kata teman saya Dede Wastedrockers.<br />
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ps: Hema, banyak yang komplen rilisan ini harusnya di CD juga, jangan cuma kaset. Semoga bisa ditampung saran tersebut.how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-47717982636906469342016-10-17T02:06:00.002-07:002016-10-17T02:40:33.362-07:00Annie Hall - Hollow<i>Jogjakarta kini tak bisa dipandang sebelah mata. Annie Hall menghantarkan gelombang tsunami fuzz dan reverb melalui album mini Hollow. Beautiful noise.</i><br />
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Saya ingin melakukan sebuah pengakuan dosa. Ketika pertama kali saya mendapati band ini, lalu hanya mendengar awalan dari lagu Hollow, saya berucap, "ah, paling postrocker style lagi nih.." Dan begitu salahnya saya ketika Dede dari Wastedrockers memutarkan single Hollow ketika saya berada di kantor labelnya.<br />
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Yang ada saya meminta Dede untuk terus memutarkan lagu Hollow, berulang kali. Saya tak pernah menemukan band shoegaze Jogja yang benar-benar purist (bebas dari hal-hal postrocking) sampai mendengarkan Annie Hall. Yang satu ini benar-benar pengecualian.<br />
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Yang ada di benak saya, Annie Hall seperti pergumulan noises dari band-band macam Slowdive, Chapterhouse, JMC, dan mungkin juga the Fleeting Joys. Dan apapun itu, saya benar-benar senang dengan band yang merupakan proyekan dari para personil the Talking Coasty, Cloud Burst dan Deadly Weapon.<br />
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Saya sudah memesan paket pre order album mereka di situs Hema Records, dan berharap bisa melihat live mereka suatu saat di Jakarta. Dan saya menantikan hal itu. Sangat menantikannya. Karena Annie Hall benar-benar membuat saya kecele.<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-62440742056255100772016-08-27T20:53:00.001-07:002016-08-27T21:01:59.399-07:00Alan Moulder Tentang Loveless, MBV, dan Kevin ShieldsAlbum Loveless bak enigma. Penuh kisah bahkan drama. My Bloody Valentine melahirkan sebuah album yang imho meredifinisikan kembali tentang batas limit eksplorasi tekstur dan proses rekaman yang hanya ada di kepala tiap musisi, untuk hal ini, Kevin Shields.<br />
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Alan Moulder adalah engineer yang berhasil membantu Kevin Shields menerjemahkan kejeniusannya dalam sebuah album warna pink dengan gambar nggak jelas itu. Berikut saya copy paste saja artikel bagus banget dari situs polymathperspective tentang pengalamannya mengawal pengerjaan rekaman album yang dulu Pitchfork di tahun 1999 menyebutnya sebagai album terbaik di era 90an, lalu direvisi nomor dua terbaik setelah OK Computer. Fuck that!<br />
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Twenty years after its release, My Bloody Valentine’s second album, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>, is regarded as something of a masterpiece, yet at the time the story of its production threatened to overshadow the music. Contrary to its title, the album was a labour of love for guitarist, writer and singer, Kevin Shields, who spent two years battling to get the ideas from his head onto tape. Alan Moulder, the engineer who helped Kevin realise his goal, explains how the album that almost bankrupted Creation Records was made.</strong></div>
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“By the time I came in, Kevin was fed up with fighting with people,” says Alan Moulder, reflecting on the problems Kevin Shields was having during the recording of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>; an album that eventually took him two exhausting years to complete. “Creation had just come out of a distribution deal and money was short so they were putting My Bloody Valentine in budget studios and Kevin was struggling because quite often the engineers were also the studio owners and if anything was going wrong they would try and cover it up. So Kevin would not trust them and would move to another studio.</div>
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“Some of those studios were on a shoestring budget so they didn’t have full-time maintenance staff and there were always things that didn’t get fixed. Kevin would say something like, ‘I don’t think that mic is working properly,’ and the engineer would argue, ‘Oh yes it is!’</div>
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“They’d look at him as if to say, ‘Well, what do you know? I’m an engineer; you’re just the guitarist in an indie band!’ But I learned very quickly that if Kevin thought something wasn’t working, 99 percent of the time he was right. He has incredible hearing.</div>
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“Kevin’s comment was always, ‘I just want it to be decent,’ so from his point of view, quite rightly, a faulty microphone isn’t decent. He didn’t want something out-of-this-world, he just wanted everything to do what it should do.”</div>
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Although Creation Records didn’t have the finances to book My Bloody Valentine into major London recording studios, they could see that the band’s fan base was growing rapidly, and that it was worthwhile supporting Shields in his quest to get things right. Their solution was to hire Alan Moulder, who already had a reputation for getting good results. Alan was reassured by Creation boss, Alan McGee, that the project would take no longer than three weeks to finish off, and so he accepted the job and began assisting on the mixing of the band’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glider</em>EP.</div>
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“I got involved because I knew Alan McGee,” Alan explains. “I’d recorded <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Automatic</em> for The Jesus and Mary Chain and Alan thought that that record sounded slick. So I was brought in as somebody who was considered to be a properly trained, posh engineer, who had worked on chart stuff like Depeche Mode and the Eurythmics. To Creation that meant high quality and that’s what they wanted me to bring to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>.</div>
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“So we’d go to a studio and if Kevin found that something wasn’t working properly, he’d leave the room while I’d investigate and deal with it. In the end he trusted me so that if I said it was fine, he could move on without having any niggling doubts in the back of his mind. And most of the time he was right, so I would go through it with the studio until it was fixed, or we came up with a way around it.</div>
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“The first thing I did with Kevin was mix the four-track <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glider</em> EP, and when I say mix, I was doing what I was told! Kevin mixed it and I was the engineer. That’s how we got our trust and a working relationship that was good.”</div>
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By the time Alan started work on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>, some time around the start of 1990, the drums and some of the rhythm guitars were already recorded. Although there had been some problems tracking the drums, Alan remembers that Kevin was reasonably happy with what he had on tape.</div>
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“Even back then Kevin really knew what was good quality was and what he would and wouldn’t settle for,” insists Alan, “so everything was good quality. The rhythm guitars were down and sometimes there was a guide bass, but the rest of the parts were in Kevin’s head. So we went through doing bass on all the tracks. We used a Steinberger bass with no head, so it was very ugly looking and nobody ever used it live, but it had a consistent tone that worked well with layered guitars.</div>
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“Before that they’d been using a Warwick bass which sounded better if you compared the two in solo, but in the track the Steinberger used to cut through. The worst thing about a lot of basses is that certain notes ring out, maybe 20dBs louder than other ones, which drives you nuts. This one was very even up and down the neck.</div>
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“I thought it sounded very good and Kevin liked it, but it had to have these specific Steinberger strings and we were changing them three times a day. Kevin always had to have the strings very fresh on guitars and so he’d change them as soon as they had lost their zing. So we cleared the whole of London out of these strings.</div>
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“He also had a Vox Tone Bender distortion pedal and used that on the bass pretty much all the time. There are lots of different models but he had a great one.”</div>
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“The bass went into a vintage Ampeg SVT amp, which was a pretty standard bass amp in those days. It was a big valve one with an 8×10 cabinet. We rented most of our amps from a vintage guitar and amp supplier called Harris Hire, and I’m sure it was one from them. Ampegs vary a lot but we got a good one.”</div>
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To capture the sound, Alan remembers positioning a Neumann U87 about three inches from the Ampeg and also believes that there was DI recording taken at the same time. The policy for recording was to eradicate the sound of the room and to avoid using compression, hence the need for a very consistent bass!</div>
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“Kevin didn’t like any room sound so the mics were as close as possible,” Alan recalls, “and we may have put a blanket over the whole setup to make it even deader!</div>
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“Compression wasn’t allowed; Kevin didn’t like it. I managed to get away with a tiny bit of compression on the backing vocals because I asked if I could try it and he said I could as long as he couldn’t hear it. But he’d test it by shouting into the microphone and if he could hear it ducking down he’d say there was too much compression! But his singing was about 15dBs lower than the shouting so really there wasn’t any compression at all.</div>
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“And there is no point ever trying to get one over because if you are caught out then the trust has gone, so you can’t do that, but the compressor added a tone that I liked, so I didn’t care. It sounded good and that’s all that mattered. I didn’t really do much creatively as an engineer at all.”</div>
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As for the bass DI signal, Alan can no longer recall whether or not it was used: “I’m pretty sure we recorded a DI but I can’t remember how we balanced it. We didn’t mix it to tape so they were on separate tracks if we did do one.”</div>
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After the bass, Alan remembers recording the lead guitar parts, but says that there was no consistent methodology. “Each song had a different approach. Kevin would have an idea for different amp and pedal setups and we’d try them out. On one song, for example, there were two amps facing each other, quite close together, with different tremolos on each amp and mics in between, so there was some kind of pulsating sound, as if they were pushing and pulling against each other.”</div>
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Kevin’s distortion sound was mostly created using effects pedals rather than the guitar amplifier settings. The pedals Alan most clearly remembers were the Roger Meyer Octave Fuzz and Active Fuzz. “We were using them a lot,” Alan insists. “Kevin used the Active Fuzz and Octave Fuzz together because you could drive the Octave Fuzz so that would respond with a weird gating effect. It would decay to a point and then shut the notes down in a way that he liked.</div>
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“But he had lots of other pedals too and he’d pick certain ones for a track. We had a Digitech Whammy pedal that did octaves when you pushed the pedal down, which he liked. He also had a wah wah and some other fuzz pedals including a Jim Dunlop one, I think.</div>
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“I seem to remember, all the rhythm guitars went through a 1960s Marshall head with an old 4×12 cab that matched the amp, and also a Vox AC30. The signal was split between the two amps and they were close mic’ed with SM57s right on the cone. I always mic guitar amps right on the cone and usually in the middle. If there are four cones I just pick the best one. Sometimes the cones sound different if the cab has been used on the road a lot, but normally they sound pretty similar. Sometimes I put a Shure SM57 and a Sennheiser 421 right in the middle as close to the grille as I can get, because I find that if I balance them 50/50, that generally sounds exactly how it sounds in the room, but on the Valentines I had one SM57 on the Marshall and another on the Vox. The guitars Kevin used for recording were normally a Fender Jaguar or Jazzmaster.</div>
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“We’d usually experiment with the sounds for quite a while and then he’d change the strings. Once we’d got the sound right I’d set the tape machine to cycle and leave the room, and he’d practice for about an hour. I’d be sat outside and he’d just be there on his own working it all out. For Kevin, it is not just the way he plays it, but also the way he makes the effects work and the way his guitar responded to the distortion.</div>
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“Eventually he’d say he was ready and we’d change the strings again. We’d record it all from top to bottom three times onto three different tracks. Then he’d pick one and say ‘Yes, that’s it!’ and it was normally the third take. There were never any drop-ins or any track comping – it would always be a complete performance.”</div>
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Throughout the production of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>, Alan received many offers to work on other projects, the most notable of which was the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Hormonally Yours</em> album by Shakespeare’s Sister, which he completed in a couple of months. On another occasion he found time to mix Transvision Vamp’s album<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Little Magnets Versus the Bubble of Babble</em>, again completing it and then returning to carry on with <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em>.</div>
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“I was doing very varied stuff at the time,” he recalls. “I worked on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> in lots of sections because I’d be offered a project and I’d ask Kevin if we’d be finished in time. He’d say, ‘Yes, we’ll be done by then,’ so I’d accept the project and, of course, we wouldn’t be finished and I’d have to go away. But it was good because we were working very nocturnal hours and the pace got slower and slower, so having a break meant I came back re-energised.</div>
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“But I kept coming back because I liked working with him. It was long, weird hours, but being in a studio with Kevin is fun. Even if you are not working you are having an amazing conversation. The guy is very interesting to be around so I felt I was part of something special.”</div>
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Just before Alan departed to work with Shakespeare’s Sister, Kevin started experimenting with a sampler to create some guitar textures for the song ‘To Here Knows When’. This was done by recording lots of guitar feedback to DAT tape, and then turning it into Akai S1000 samples which could be triggered from a keyboard. To Alan’s surprise, the experiments were still ongoing when he returned several months later. Alan attributes the slow progress to the new sampling technology, which not only took some time to master, but also offered the band the chance to try out new musical ideas.</div>
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“We’d started off moving at a fairly brisk pace, doing bass on maybe two or three tracks a day,” Alan recalls, “and then we got into the guitar overdubs and were doing one song a day. But after that Kevin’s energy was sapped and it started to become a slog. When I returned they had already been working on the sampling for eight weeks and I worked on it for another two weeks after that, so it was pretty slow.</div>
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“The sampling was uncharted territory. We didn’t know the gear properly – we had just gone from the S900 to the S1000 which was a massive jump – and there were lots of possibilities to explore. I remember there was what sounded like a blur of notes to me, but Kevin could hear that some were cutting off and weren’t playing properly, and we couldn’t understand why. Now it is obvious: we had overused the polyphony, but at the time we couldn’t work out why it wasn’t playing back. I don’t remember solving it but we managed to get it so he liked it.”</div>
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Alan believes that Kevin’s guitar feedback sampling experiments were an attempt to achieve a sound which had the same qualities as those of the flute, having previously used a flute sample on the track ‘Soon’.</div>
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“Kevin was into the flute,” explains Alan. “There is something organic and pure about it that he liked and the sampled feedback seemed to have a similar tone. The thing about the feedback is that it changes the longer you hold the key down, so you get all these weird changes and a bit of discordance and randomness that he liked as well.</div>
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“In the end Kevin mixed the feedback quite low in the track but it was the right level. It gave the song this bubbling little tone underneath. It is quite subtle but you couldn’t take it out because it was a major part of the track. Of course, the great thing about those records is that there is actually not that much on them. Pretty much everything fits on the 24-track, so, compared with records today, it’s pretty simple. It was all about sound and performance.”</div>
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Although <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> was recorded in a large number of studios, Alan was able to get a consistent result by lining up each tape machine at the start of the session. Most sessions were done on Otari MTR90 24-track machines which, according to Alan, the lower-end studios tended to use because they were considerably less expensive that Studers.</div>
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Before starting work on the lead vocals, Kevin took the unusual step of laying down the album’s backing vocals without any lead vocal guide at all.</div>
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“It was amazing,” says Alan. “I kept saying to him, ‘Do you not want to put a guide vocal on,’ and he would say, “No, I know what it is going to be.’</div>
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“We built a sound booth with a blanket over the top so that it was completely dead, and we had a Neumann U87 going into a UREI 1176 compressor, which was set on 8:1. I always tend to use higher ratios, but if the gain reduction needle moved I’d be amazed. It didn’t really do any compressing, but just running the signal through the 1176 adds a nice sheen to the top end. There was no EQ, or if there was it was very, very minimal.”</div>
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One aspect of the vocal recording Alan recognises as being different to how most people work today was the use of the in-house mixing desks preamps, rather than dedicated preamp hardware. “Nowadays everybody brings in vintage Neve 1073s and API mic pres; but we only ever used the desk,” reveals Alan. “We worked a lot at Protocol Studios which had a Soundcraft and a DDA, so we were not using high-end mic pres. I remember doing the backing vocals in room B at Protocol on a Soundcraft.”</div>
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“The tambourine, which Kevin played, was recorded using the same U87 setup, but without the tent. He’d stand about three feet away from the mic and play. He was very good at playing the tambourine – it’s not easy.”</div>
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The lead vocals were the last tracks to be recorded, by which time Alan was being called away to work with The Jesus and Mary Chain and Swervedriver.</div>
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“I was there for a couple of the lead vocals,” says Alan. “Quite often you work on tracks that sound amazing, but when the lead vocal goes on it is a disappointment because you have a certain expectation, but none of the<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> ones were like that. They were at least as good as I’d hoped they would be, and some were better. That’s pretty good when you’ve been hearing the backing tracks on their own for about a year. I remember thinking that was quite remarkable.”</div>
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Although Alan didn’t mix the album, he did find time to visit The Church studio in Crouch End, to see how the mixing was coming along.</div>
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“Kevin was sub-compressing the drums pretty hard to get them to cut through,” remembers Alan. “It’s the age-old mix problem that we all have to fight with when there are really loud, overwhelming guitars. It is hard to get the whole drum pattern loud without it taking over, and if you are compressing it hard and you hit a cymbal, that’s all you hear, because the cymbals and hi-hats get through the compression.”</div>
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Another factor which made it even harder to balance the drums and guitars was Kevin’s dislike of panning, as Alan explains. “Getting your drums to cut through is not easy if you have everything in the middle and most of<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> is mono. When I mixed with Kevin on the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glider </em>EP, I said ‘Everything is down the middle, Kevin, do you not want to pan anything off?’ He said ‘No, I don’t like it.’</div>
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“I remember getting away with panning the tambourine slightly to the right because he couldn’t hear the difference, but that was the only thing. If he couldn’t hear it, he didn’t mind.”</div>
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Today, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> is widely regarded as one of the most influential records of the 1990s, but when it was released, at the end of 1991, it received mixed reviews. Alan believes that the recording process overshadowed the music, and that the expectation was too great.</div>
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“As we were making the record, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Glider </em>and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tremolo</em> EPs came out and the band was getting bigger and bigger. Everyone was massively influenced by the previous record, so their reputations and their cool points were going up through the roof. You could feel that, but you also felt the pressure and expectation.</div>
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“When <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> came out you couldn’t read a review that didn’t go on about how long it took to make. Everyone was saying, ‘Why did it take so long?’, but the important thing is the quality of the record.</div>
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“It’s good that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loveless</em> is now so revered because Kevin put his soul on the line. I remember when it was being mixed he was talking to me about how he thought he was losing his mind, and his hearing! He’d toiled over that record and by the end it had just about sapped the whole of him.” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">TF</em></div>
how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-46731117749105224512016-08-08T23:23:00.001-07:002016-08-10T02:43:41.518-07:00See The Eye - Social Bribe<i>See The Eye adalah band nugaze or shoegaze whatever you want to call it dari Jakarta. Single terbaru berjudul Social Bribe yang patut disimak.</i><br />
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Band ini sebenarnya pecahan dari Deasterina, dimana dua personilnya, vokalis dan gitaris, memutuskan mundur dan mendirikan band baru bernama See The Eye. Personilnya adalah Yudhitaprawestiah (Vocal),Harry Zulhazs (Lead guitar),Danny Yuwanda (Ritem Guitar), Abee Kusmara (Bass), dan Arya Adita ( Drum )<br />
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Single Social Bribe menjadi salam pembuka dari band ini. Materinya oke juga, bisa menjadi single perkenalan bagi para penikmat musik sejenis. Penasaran juga untuk melihat penampilan live mereka kelak di atas panggung. Untuk sementara ini, bisa disimak lagu Social Bribe di laman soundcloud mereka <a href="https://soundcloud.com/seetheeye/social-bribe">https://soundcloud.com/seetheeye/social-bribe</a><br />
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<i><br /></i>how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-81098096755727555872016-06-24T00:46:00.000-07:002016-06-24T00:51:01.130-07:00Swervedriver Gig at Singapore, 15 June 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beberapa hari lalu, saya dan beberapa teman menonton penampilan Swervedriver di Hood Bar & Cafe di Singapura. Tiketnya murah, Rp500ribu saja. Secara keseluruhan, penampilan mereka tetap tight dan keren meski hanya ditonton mungkin sekitaran 100an orang (mungkin juga bisa kurang).<br />
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Mungkin karena acaranya memang dibuat dadakan dan memanfaatkan waktu transit para personil Swervedriver sebelum memulai tur di NZ dan Aussie. Tapi malah bikin kami bisa leluasa untuk obrol2, poto-poto, dan legalisir apapun yang kami bawa dari tanah air hahaha<br />
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Jadi saya ingin share saja pepotoan dari konser Swervedriver untuk manteman semua :) selamat <i>ngiri</i> eh maksudnya menikmati! Konser mini yang menyenangkan!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">mick quinn basis supergrass menjadi basis adisional tur swervedriver</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">adam franklin dan jimmy hartridge, dua personil asli swervedriver</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">gitar jazzmaster adam franklin</td></tr>
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-57143518213107418572016-06-06T19:40:00.001-07:002016-06-06T19:42:19.373-07:00How and Why I Love a Band Named Swervedriver<i>Tanggal 15 Juni 2016, Swervedriver akan manggung di Singapura. Dan saya berharap tak ada aral melintang untuk menonton mereka.</i><br />
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Swervedriver adalah band favorit saya jika bicara soal band shoegaze. Ketika dua minggu lalu ada kabar mereka akan manggung di Singapura, saya langsung terhenyak, karena tak terlintas siapa juga yang mau mengundang band ini ke negara terdekat dari Indonesia. Maksudnya, mereka Swervedriver. Bukan Ride atau Slowdive. Tak begitu banyak yang menikmati musik mereka.<br />
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Band ini terlalu penting untuk saya cuekin, bahkan, jujur saja, ketika tahun lalu Ride dan Slowdive manggung di Singapura, meski saya pengen nonton, tapi sebegitu inginnya, tak nonton juga tak apa. Namun Swervedriver berbeda. Karena ada tiga band favorit saya, dan harus nonton mereka, yaitu MBV, Swervedriver, dan Medicine. Semacam bucket list saya!<br />
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Bicara soal Swervedriver, band ini benar-benar memikat saya lewat album-albumnya. Band asal kota Oxford, UK, yang berteman dengan Ride, yang mana juga membantu mereka untuk dikenalkan kepada Alan McGee. Bos Creation Records ini kemudian merilis ketiga album mereka. Jadi jika Alan McGee sudah oke sama sebuah band, bisa dipastikan keren lah hahaha<br />
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Sebelum mengenal Swervedriver, saya sudah mendengar band-band shoegaze macam Slowdive atau MBV dan lainnya. Suatu ketika teman saya menjual sebuah kaset Swervedriver dari album Mezcal Head, dan bilang ke saya kalau band ini shoegaze. Saya beli, dan ketika diputar, cuma bisa bingung, ini shoegaze? Kok beda yah? Nggak ngiung ngiung macam MBV atau berdelay ria kayak Slowdive hahahha<br />
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Tanpa sadar selama sebulan lebih kaset itu saya putar terus di tape deck dan walkman. Saya putar terus jika di angkot atau ke rumah teman hahaha Band ini kok berbeda dengan MBV atau bahkan Slowdive. Mereka lebih rough, lebih intense, grungey in some ways, tapi punya feel yang sama dengan band-band shoegaze lainnya. Kayak antara Sonic Youth, Dinosaur jr. atau Husker Du yah. Tapi, maaf, hahaha lebih keren dari ketiga band itu hahaha<br />
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Coba dengarkan lagu-lagu di album tersebut, seperti Duel (pernah masuk lagu di game Road Rash kalo gak salah), Duress (intro wah-nya, adalah yang paling keren sedunia menurut gue), atau lagu terakhir berjudul Never Lose The Feeling. Beberapa lagu bahkan pernah saya cover di Damascus. Materi di album ini bagus banget.<br />
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Sejak itu saya mulai mencari album2 lainnya, dari band yang dimotori Adam Franklin, Steve George, Jimmy Hartridge,, dan Jez Hindmarsh. Album pertama mereka Raise, juga keren banget, bermaterikan lagu semacam Rave Down, Sandblasted dan Son of Mustangs yang rough banget, memancing orang untuk stagediving.<br />
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Album ketiga mereka Ejector Seat Reservation dan keempat 99th Dream, saya suka. Ada sedikit perubahan musik yang pelan-pelan sedikit kalem. Untungnya saya tak kesulitan untuk mendapatkan album-album tersebut, yang ketika itu mungkin 12 tahun yang lalu, dimana siapa pula yang mau dengar band semacam ini. CD macam Swervedriver bisa saya dapatkan hanya 50 ribuan ketika itu.<br />
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Perburuan pun berlanjut dengan mencari vinyl-vinyl mereka. Harga vinyl album first pressing mereka sudah tinggi. Beruntung saya mendapatkan versi reissue limited edition untuk album pertama dan kedua dengan harga bagus yang kini harga jualnya sudah kayak album aslinya di Discogs. Dan koleksi lainnya pun semakin tak tertahankan untuk saya beli yang kebanyakan di Discogs.<br />
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Bicara aspek musiknya, Swervedriver mungkin bisa dibilang paling alternative rock untuk sebuah band shoegaze. Mungkin karena pengaruh dari band2 US yang diatas saya sebutkan yah. Band saya Damascus pun berdiri tak lepas dari pengen punya band macam Swervedriver. Meski pada akhirnya nggak semua lagu kayak band tersebut, tetapi, iya, Damascus memang terpengaruh banget sama musik mereka.<br />
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Mereka kebetulan reuni tiga atau empat tahun lalu, dan baru saja merilis album kelima mereka setelah terakhir di tahun 1998. Meski ada sedikit perubahan di musik, lebih berkembang karena Adam Franklin di album2 solo-nya mulai sedikit psikedelik, namun album kelima berjudul I Wasn't Born To Lose You mendapat review yang bagus, termasuk oleh Pitchfork.<br />
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Nggak mudah juga sih untuk band shoegaze jebolan 90an bisa melahirkan album terbaru yang bagus paska reunian, contohnya The Telescopes atau Kitchen of Disticntion. Swervedriver bisa melewati transisi tersebut, tanpa harus memaksakan menciptakan energi yang sama puluhan tahun lalu.<br />
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Dan kini Swervedriver akan manggung di Singapura, dengan tambahan adisional seperti basis dari Supergrass, Mick Quinn, dan Mikey Jones di drum. Saya sih sempat menonton live mereka di Youtube, dan sepertinya energi mereka masih sama, belum berkurang banyak. Penasaran seperti apa mereka ketika tepat di depan mata.<br />
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Saya sudah beli tiket, dan menonton mereka ketika bertepatan bulan puasa haha Yah, kapan lagi, dan berharap bisa legalisir beberapa koleksi saya bersama band tersebut. Band ini terlalu penting untuk dilewatkan bagi saya. Dan kebetulan saya suka :D<br />
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-18418746477242744212016-05-29T06:57:00.002-07:002016-05-29T07:09:04.864-07:00StrawberryWine - Taste Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Orang-orang di band ini, Bernard (vokal, gitar), Bintang (gitar), Mamat (bass), dan Tiok (drum). Fuzz, distortion, dan lekungan nada dari tremolo arm. Dan single Taste Me, memang mengesankan. Di cd ini, ada materi berjudul Wastage yang direkam dari beberapa live. Jujur, cd ini lebih tepat disebut sebagai usaha archiving dari wastedrockers akan keberadaan band ini.</div>
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-62979739875518710102016-05-23T01:46:00.000-07:002016-05-23T02:04:43.887-07:00Heals - Wave (RSD 2016 Cassette Limited Edition)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>“Wave”, single kedua dari band muda Bandung yang paling diantisipasi rilisan debutnya tahun ini, <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/healsmusic_" style="color: #d8d7d3; text-decoration: none;">Heals</a></strong>. Album debut mereka akan dirilis oleh label indie lokal yang paling konsisten hingga saat ini, <a href="https://twitter.com/FFWDRecords" style="color: #d8d7d3; text-decoration: none;"><strong>FFWD Records</strong></a>.</i></div>
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-22124343287440864332016-05-07T22:20:00.001-07:002016-05-08T00:32:36.313-07:00Kick!<i>Band ini namanya Kick! Menarik..</i><br />
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Mungkin bisa dibilang jarang band semacam ini. Kalaupun ada, biasanya muncul dari band-band yang dinaungi Heyho Records (label ini sudah bubar). Semacam indiepop yang berisik.<br />
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Jika kalian mampir ke laman soundcloud mereka di https://soundcloud.com/kickkickband , ada tiga lagu masing-masing berjudul Rakapoo, Black Hit, dan Behind. Materinya bagus kok, seperti band macam The Suncharms atau JMC, atau mungkin mereka terpengaruh juga dengan band-band Heyho Records. Who knows, tapi Kick! menarik untuk disimak.<br />
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Bagi yang ingin mengundang mereka ke acara kalian, ada kontaknya di soundcloud mereka. Coba diundang, saya jadi ingin dengar live mereka.<br />
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Youtuber bernama Ryoka menaruh link lagu dari Noirless di facebook IndonesianShoegazer. Dia ketik 'bandung, euy'. Well, sepertinya ini menarik setelah kemunculan Heals, band shoegaze apalagi yang muncul dari kota ini. Sudah lama tak muncul lagi geliat band shoegaze bandung setelah era band-band maritime records.<br />
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pas denger, wow, keren ini. jarang juga denger band semacam ini. single indecisive punya materi yang at least nggak akan bikin kita lupa lagu ini punya siapa. materinya kuat. saya akan nekat saja untuk menyebutkan band ini hampir mirip seperti sugarstar. hah, sugarstar!? bukan dalam arti negatif, lebih reminding me a lot bout that fuckin great shoegaze band itu aja.<br />
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saya akan menanti rilisan fisik Noirless yang terdiri dari <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px;">Rama Mazaya (Guitar&Vocal) </span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px;">Aryandra Kareem (Guitar&Vocal) </span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.8px;">Bayu Arifianto (Bass)</span>, dan tentu saja aksi live mereka. jika ada yang tahu kabari yah di facebook grup. penasaran. asli.<br />
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https://twitter.com/noirless_how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-84783716381964192542016-04-02T17:24:00.003-07:002016-04-02T17:24:49.351-07:00Hellens - Distancia EP Pre OrderBersama Gerpfast Kolektif, Hellens bersiap merilis EP perdana bertitel Distancia.<br />
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Pre order materi digital via bandcamp mereka sudah dibuka beberapa hari lalu. Jika melirik di laman Gerpfast Kolektif, ada dua lagu yang bisa didengar gratis, dari enam lagu yang akan hadir di EP Distancia. Fadeaway dan Losing Distance (old ver.) benar-benar menarik untuk disimak dari band shoegaze asal Tangerang ini. Berasa 90's dan referensi musik mereka tak jauh dari band-band Creation Records dan 4AD. and that's a good thing, always haha<br />
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Saya pribadi tak sabar kapan bisa melihat mereka manggung secara live. EP Distancia sendiri juga akan dirilis dalam bentuk kaset, dan akan dirilis pada Records Store Day 2016 nanti, tanggal 16-17 april. Kabarnya sih kalau jadi, untuk di Jakarta, kaset EP Distancia akan dijual di booth Anoa Records pada saat RSD 2016 di Pasar Santa hahahaha :D<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-39692030065735416542016-04-02T02:46:00.003-07:002016-04-02T02:46:38.797-07:00Heals - Wave (New Single)Interesting video for their new single, Heals. Single yang patut disimak dari band asal Bandung ini, karena sekarang ada sisi feminin-nya, dengan vokal female melatari Wave. Mari kita tunggu kapankah album penuh mereka akan dirilis oleh ffwd records.<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-76102459726819124802016-02-03T23:46:00.001-08:002016-02-03T23:47:07.305-08:00Gazing on Indonesia's Shoegaze Album on 2015Tahun 2015 berlalu menyisakan beberapa rilisan fisik shoegaze lokal, tahun yang terbilang aktif. Mulai dari rilisan vinyl sampai kaset. Berikut rilisan 2015 yang mengesankan dan telah terekam di blog kesayangan kita semua. Maaf artikelnya gak bisa panjang, rilisan 2015 terbilang banyak. Alasan.<br />
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Indonesian Shoegazer Compilation - Holy Noise<br />
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Elemental Gaze - Elemental<br />
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Intenna - Helter Skelter<br />
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<br />how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-4975880864107606232015-12-22T23:33:00.002-08:002015-12-28T19:43:31.866-08:00Deasterina - Demo EP<i>Band baru asal Jakarta bernama Deasterina merilis sebuah demo EP yang patut disimak. Satu lagi shoegazer baru dengan materi yang tak mengecewakan.</i><br />
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Belum lama saya mendapatkan satu lagu dari salah satu personil Deasterina, dan menyenangkan juga ada satu band shoegazing baru lagi muncul di Indonesia. Lalu dua lagu lagi terkirim, dan okay, band ini punya sesuatu yang layak untuk dinikmati.</div>
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Lahir dari kampus IKJ, dengan nama Babushka, tahun 2013, lalu berganti nama menjadi Deasterina. Musiknya memang condong ke band-band di label 4AD macam Lush dan juga Chapterhouse. Personilnya Ages Bangun - Drums, Timmy Loen - Bass & Vocals, Danny Yuwanda - Gitar, dan Yudhitaprawesti Shah - Vocals.<br />
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-77428274330439671132015-11-25T16:58:00.003-08:002015-11-25T19:52:51.716-08:00Intenna - Helter Skelter<i>Sebuah album perdana dari band shoegaze kota Malang yang memikat, Intenna telah hadir. Judulnya Helter Skelter, a parade of beautiful noises.</i><br />
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Akhirnya yang ditunggu sekian lama, album perdana Intenna. Band shoegaze kota Malang ini sudah bikin saya kepincut sejak dapat informasi dari teman tentang keberadaan band ini. Dan selalu senang mendapati band shoegaze tradisional khas 90s seperti mereka.</div>
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how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-59378097935664298512015-10-06T19:32:00.001-07:002015-10-07T00:35:28.858-07:00Hellens<i>Kota Tangerang juga memiliki geliat shoegaze yang menarik. Hellens adalah nama band asal Tangerang yang dimaksud. </i><br />
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Ada dua lagu di soundcloud mereka, berjudul Spacelight dan Losing Distance. Materinya bagus-bagus, mengingatkan pada band-band shoegaze di label Cherry Records jaman dulu, mungkin semacam seperti Blind Mr. Jones, atau Helium asal US.<br />
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Butuh layanan gojek untuk mengantar saya dari kantor di Cisaranten Wetan menuju Lawangwangi di daerah Dago Atas. Memotong jalur utama, lewat taman makam pahlawan Cikutra, terus saja melaju menanjak menghindari macet sore hari Bandung yang hampir mirip Jakarta. Tujuannya? Peluncuran album band Elemental Gaze.<br />
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Peluncuran album bandnya Luthfi Kurniadi, Fuad Abdulgani, dan Bilfian Sugiana bikin saya kagum. Diadakan dengan konsep outdoor di taman, dengan latar gemerlap kota Bandung di kala malam. Dan menariknya, meski di hari itu bentrok dengan acara musik lain, yang hadir ternyata banyak, sekitar seratusan. Padahal akses ke cafe Lawangwangi tak ada angkot.<br />
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Penampilan Elemental Gaze dengan membawa repertoir dari album terbaru mereka Elemental, dan juga beberapa lagu di luar album, terbilang rapi. Diselingi curcol Fuad yang selalu bikin penonton tertawa, bikin acara ini lebih rileks dan tidak serius-serius amat. Lebih hangat.<br />
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Sepulang rumah, saya coba putar album Elemental. Ada 11 lagu dengan beberapa track dibantu oleh teman-teman mereka dari Tiga Pagi dan Slylab. Opening track oleh Aurora, dentingan piano yang berusaha membangun atmosfir album Elemental. Beberapa track yang saya anggap standout adalah track lagu Ngaben, Winching the Night Away (1), dan God Knows Why This Should Be Kept For All Time.<br />
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Untuk lagu Ngaben, saya suka dengan cara mereka memadukan nuansa nada-nada khas Bali, dan tidak seperti kebingungan untuk meraciknya menjadi sebuah lagu. Dua vokal dan liriknya bagus. Lalu untuk track God Knows Why This Should Be Kept For All Time, adalah favorit saya, lagu tentang mushroom kalau kata mereka saat peluncuran.<br />
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Sementara track instrumental dimana Elemental berbising ria dengan bebasnya, di lagu Winching the Night Away, bisa menjadi trek yang bisa menemani siapapun yang sedang menuju Bandung via tol Cipularang. Beat electric drum dan bass-nya, quite a killer tone di lagu ini.<br />
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Overall, album Elemental patut dimiliki, sebuah album yang dirilis Sorge Records dengan materi yang apik, solid, dan tertata dengan baik. Spacey and gazing, beautiful and noisey.how does it feel to feel 1979http://www.blogger.com/profile/17210821302687078582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199625541423301469.post-48520313871329234002015-06-25T19:38:00.000-07:002015-06-25T19:46:13.253-07:00Feeling The Ride With Arian13<span style="background-color: #a64d79;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><i>Arian13 adalah salah satu dari sejumlah orang di negeri ini yang menonton konser reuni Ride. Singgah di London untuk sebuah festival Metal, vokalis Seringai ini rela beli tiket mahal untuk konser Andy Bell cs.</i></span></span><br />
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Ironinya mewawancarai orang-orang yang sudah nonton konser band-band shoegaze lawas, adalah ketika elo nggak nonton ha ha ha Ngiri adalah manusiawi, asal tidak dengki. Begitulah ketika saya putuskan meminta Arian13 untuk berbagi cerita tentang konser Ride yang berhasil ia tonton di London.<br />
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Arian13 telah dikenal penikmat musik shoegaze. Bagi yang punya kaset kompilasi shoegaze lokal Holy Noise bakal paham jika membaca liner notes yang ditulisnya. Setelah sukses nonton Slowdive, MBV (gue tebak aja sih, tapi pasti udah nonton hahaha), dan akhirnya Ride, pemilik moto #HidupAdalahKonser ini punya kesan tersendiri tentang konser reunian band shoegaze lawas asal Oxford ini.<br />
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Silahkan dinikmati!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>1.
Ceritaain dong awal mula lo berniat nonton Ride yang sekarang sedang tur
reunian.</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Justru awalnya gue nggak tahu ada konser
reuni Ride ini di London, tahunya mereka akan reuni di Primavera Festival di
Barcelona, Spanyol. Gue ada jadwal menonton Swans dan Temples Festival di UK,
dan ternya ta ketika sedang membeli tiket konser Swans, di venue yang sama ada
konser reuni Ride. <i>Excited</i>, tapi pas
dicek ternyata tiketnya sudah <i>sold out</i>.
Ketika sudah di London, teman kami memberi tahu kalau ada beberapa tiket yang
masih available tapi sedikit lebih mahal, dan akhirnya kami beli saja. Dan
ternyata di Roundhouse mereka masih menyediakan tiket untuk mereka yang tidak
bisa order online walaupun harganya juga lebih mahal daripada harga tiket yang
kami beli. Ya akhirnya malam itu kami berhasil menonton Ride.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="im"><b>2. Berapa harga tiket
Ride-nya?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Harga
tiket yang gue dapat itu 27 pounds, harga aslinya 25 pounds. Harga di venue pas
hari H, 30 pounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="im"><b>3. Sempat beli merchandise
nya Ride gak di lokasi konser?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Iya,
beli, tour edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="im"><b>4.
Sejak kapan lo suka Ride, dan apa yang bikin lo suka, secara lo dikenal sebagai
penikmat musik keras.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dari era '90an gue memang sudah
mendengarkan musik-musik seperti ini. Indie pop, twee pop, shoegaze dan lainnya
selain metal dan punk. Suka musiknya, biasa saja sama fashionnya. Pada dasarnya
memang gue suka berbagai musik hanya saja kalau <i>passion</i> gue memang musik metal dan punk rock. Ketika lo
mendengarkan Slowdive, Lush, My Bloody Valentine begitu kan pasti akhirnya
terkait juga dengan Ride. Dulu pertama dengerin ya album <i>Nowhere</i>, awalnya suka memang dari hitsnya, "Vapour Trail"
dan "In A Different Place". Dapet CDnya, tapi nggak ingat dulu beli
atau dapat dari mana/siapa.</span></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-size: small;"><b>5.
Kesan lo saat nonton live Ride, kayak apa sih? Seberapa epic mereka manggung di
depan mata lo.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Malam itu mereka <i>tight</i> sih, tidak seperti band yang sudah lama tidak manggung. Setlist-nya
ok, walau ada beberapa lagu yang gue berharap dibawakan tapi ternyata nggak.
Durasinya sekitar 1.5 jam, standar lah. Tapi kalau boleh gue bandingkan,
kerenan konser Slowdive di Singapura tahun lalu, terutama soundnya. Atau
mungkin karena memang gue lebih suka sama Slowdive kali ya. Haha.</span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-size: small;"><b>6.
Penampilan mereka kayaknya rada kalem yah (secara sudah berumur juga sih),
bagaimana dengan tingkat kebisingan mereka?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mereka nggak terlalu bising, kecuali
bagian <i>noise</i>-nya sih. Maksudnya,
sound systemnya besar dan kencang, tapi bukan kayak bising seperti konser My
Bloody Valentine atau Sunn O))). Kalau mereka kalem, bukannya dari dulu live
mereka memang kalem ya?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yang seru itu pas nunggu mereka on stage
di teras luar atas di Roundhouse, nampaknya banyak <i>scenester-scenester</i> indie pop London yang reuni, udah pada tua-tua
gitu. Nggak kayak konser-konser metal, para <i>old
school</i>-nya ini nggak banyak yang pakai tshirt band. Ada sih beberapa yang
masih pakai tshirt band atau berdandan <i>cutting
edge</i>, tapi nggak banyak. Dan <i>surprisingly</i>
nggak banyak anak muda atau juga hipster yang menonton konser reuni Ride.
Mungkin mereka hanya muncul di festival-festival musik, sementara kalau waktu
itu memang die hard fans-nya Ride saja yang datang.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="im"><b>7. Penuh gak yang nonton
konser Ride? </b></span></span></div>
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venue besar, dan penuh dan tidak sesak. Sepertinya tidak <i>sold out</i> tiketnya, tapi ya itu, penuh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="im"><b>8. Kira2 band macam Ride
atau Slowdive bisa dibawa gak yah sama promotor lokal hahaha</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kalau
event festival gue rasa bisa. Tapi kalau die hard fansnya yang beli tiket hanya
1000-1500 orang.. bad business.</span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-size: small;"><b>9.
Moto lo, #HidupAdalahKonser. Ceritain dong soal
Hidup Adalah Konser. Sejak kapan lo menjalani 'umroh' ini, konser pertama lo
apa, lalu setiap tahun apa lo ada target harus nonton konser?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sejak gue nonton konser Slayer formasi
original di Singapura tahun 2006 nampaknya. Sejak itu sering menyisihkan uang
buat nonton konser di luar. Kalau target, mungkin mulai sejak tahun lalu ketika
melihat headliners awal Temples Festival dan Hellfest. Akhirnya memberanikan
diri berangkat walau hanya sendirian. Tahun depan sih kalau berhasil menabung
lagi ingin datang ke Maryland Death Fest di USA. Kalau 'hidup adalah konser'
itu lebih ke ungkapan gue untuk mereka yang mengejar <i>passion</i>-nya menonton musik live keluar negeri, mereka yang memang
niat banget mengejar menonton band-band favoritnya yang rasanya punya
kemungkinan kecil untuk main di Indonesia atau Asia Tenggara.</span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-size: small;"><b>10.
Di sosmed lo sering banget tiba-tiba di luar negeri nonton konser. Kasih dong
tips dan trik buat kita-kita (tsah!) bisa merasakan serunya nonton konser di
luar negeri hahaha</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tips pertama: rajinlah menabung! Haha. Nggak
ada trik sih, kalau sekalian liputan juga rasanya media musik lokal nggak
banyak ngasih kemudahan kecuali band/musisinya mainstream. Ya kalau gue sih,
nonton konser ke luar itu sekalian traveling. Jarang gue traveling keluar kalau
nggak sekalian nonton konser. Memang enaknya sih sekalian pas summer, karena
banyak festival kan. Kalau akomodasi bisa diakali sih akan lebih enak dan irit
ya. Gue karena nggak mau rugi, akhirnya banyak
ke museum juga, apalagi rata-rata gratis kan.</span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-size: small;"><b>11. Dari berbagai band
shoegaze yang reunian, band apa yang menurut lo paling bersyukur telah
nontonin, atau berharap bisa reunian?</b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Slowdive,
tentu saja. </span></div>
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