Indonesia - Yogyakarta

“In my town there are a variety of bands but I do not think there is enough happening here.

There are many good bands here, and some hc bands that I like…

Strength to Strength


Stronger Than Before

Same Direction RIP

Stronghold RIP

Same Direction RIP

Wicked Suffer


Killed On Juarez


Mortal Combat



In Yogyakarta there are also a lot of DIY labels…

Hurdles

Relamati Records

Sewer

Here there are generally rented venues in cafe, halls and other buildings. Many venues have closed because the contract is up. This means there are fewer and fewer venues.”

Indonesia - Jakarta

Always a pleasure to hear news from Indonesia...Dr. Iman speaks with so much experience of the posi spirit...it is so uplifting to see that sxe is so strong!



I’m living in the capital city of Indonesia, which is called Jakarta, in East district...Jakarta HxC scene it’s a huge scene. You can imagine, in the late 90’s era of Jakarta Underground Music, all the people who were into Hardcore Music would go to one place...

Jakarta has 5 district which are East Jakarta, West, North, South, and Center. And also increasing by three new big district around Jakarta, which are Depok, Bekasi and Tanggerang and each district has a lot of hardcore bands, with different characters, sounds, style, it's a personal things, they are free to choose. And also subcultures are growing so fast like Straight Edge, Vegan, etc

I started to listening Hardcore-Punk in the era 90’s, when i was in junior high school, and when I was in High School made a band with my friends called Strong Arm, covered some US HxC bands such Minor Threat, Blag Flag, Warzone, Up Front, etc.

I saw a lot of things happen, especially the people, a lot of changes. In 1993-1999 there were several special places to put on hardcore gigs like POSTER CAFE, HD CAFE, LIPSTICK, M CLUB in Blok M, GOR Pondok Kelapa, etc and wow...it was amazing...

And up to now, I’m still with a band called VICTORIOUS, its kinda family project, all the members are my family, then also my latest band, FOR GOOD REASON, that wanna make a reunion...and anyway at the same time I write a blog, I’m also writing guitar tabs, and some composition.

Jakarta has a lot of amazing bands, and also they have gone on national and international tours across Asia. I will mention a few of my fave Jakarta HxC bands who still exist...

FINAL ATTACK (hard hittin Jakarta HxC band, with deep low noise, and scream so loud)


SENSE OF PRIDE (modern and old skool style HxC, with high-pitched voice)


GRAVE DANCERS (wow, this one of my fave hardcore crossover...)


Artwork: A.Z.E.R

STRAIGHT ON VIEW (cool dude...old skool style)


TAKE DOWN (modern sound, new skool??? Naah, remind me of some European HxC bands, nice crew and fun)


RAIN COAT (alright, classic, sing a long, pointing finger, fast, posi...)


STRAIGHT ANSWER (old guys, great music, never surrender HxC ? ... new material's really cool)


BRAVE HEART (modern sound, brave sound, forthright lyrics, sing a long, great SxE band)


DEAD PITS ( what a old skool HxC...fast...melodious sing a long parts)


THINKING STRAIGHT (and old epic SxE band from Depok City Crew, their guitar player is one of my fave guitar player, best friend ever...)


Design: Bled Art

All these bands are my friends...we have known each other from the start.

Here are also some labels and merch...

TRUE SIDE RECS


FIRST NOTE RECS


SUB MERCH


I hope everyone in the world can see and enjoy...

And oh I almost forgot, I’m also writing some blogs...

MEDICAL CORE LIFESTYLE


ONE LIFE STAND

Indonesia - Bogor

Before I talk about the Indonesian HxC scene, first of all let me talk about my local scene, bcoz the Indonesian HXC scene is huge and hard to explain ;p

Here I'm living in a small town called Bogor, but, bcoz it's always rainy, we have got a nickname "raincity" ^_^ it's only 1-2hours from Jakarta by car/train/bus. Even the scene here is smaller than Jakarta but the positive thing is we can know each other closer, and it's not only hxc music, but for all of the DIY music scene.

Nowadays I think hxc scene in Bogor is getting bigger, seeing as there are a bunch of new potential HxC bands rising. They play so powerfully and are ready to release their EPs or full lengths about now. And bcoz we're living in a so-called small scene, it's the reason why we can keep in touch, helping each other to make DIY shows...

There have been lots of worldwide DIY HxC bands that have to come to our city, like Everybody's Enemy (Japan), Meaning (Japan), Punishable Act (Germany), Channel X RIP (Malaysia), Kids On the Move (Malaysia), Pazahora (Sing), Steve Towson (Aus) and many more..or maybe other bands wanna make part of their tour here? Just contact me! ;)

It's not only music we have, sometimes we do lil' things other than just music, like making a DIY movie show. We are watching movies together at the weekend every 1-2 months, not only hxc movie, but a bunch of genre movies that, after we have watched them, we can discuss together.

Other things that we sometimes do are Garage sales, Earthday movement - such as spreading leaflets, pamphlets about positive movement to save the earth, from our own personal campaigns to Food Not Bombs, and many more...
We have had a big response about that, some positive, some negative but I think that's normal. We live with a lot of argument around, but we know what is the best we can do, right? ;)


For more info about indonesian HxC/Punk scene, you can visit:

SUPERSOUL
*this blog made by me, it's for Indonesian hxc/punk/indie music downloadble



WE ARE BOGORIAN
*another blog about the Bogor scene that is made by my friends


United Blood
*hxc webzine from Jakarta, Indonesian capital city


In Our Hands
*hxc webzine from Malang, a small town far from Bogor/Jakarta, but has a big hxc/punk scene

Jogja Berdikari
*Yogyakarta (a big city with big hxc punk scene) hxc punk music downloadble

Soon, in March the One Voice Asia tour will be in Bogor, it's not a band but its like a hardcore family around the world that is based in Asia, the founder of One Voice Asia, Anis is gonna celebrate his birthday in Bogor...maybe we can write a report then ;)

One Voice Asia

You can contact with them to get some scene reports from Singapore, Malaysia, Philiphines, Thailand, and more ;)

Regards!

Titan Scroat


If you wanna download my band's songs check this out:

JavaxMacha - 4 waysplit indonesia-japan

Revolt - promotape 2000

revolt - mosh!mosh!mosh! we're only young once (unreleased)

Indonesia

You can check these bands and blogs/zines:

Final Attack (Jakarta)

Hands Upon Salvation (Yogyakarta)


Apokalip

Superxsoul

mp3punkindonesia

yesnowave

Betterday

PenitiPink

:) regards
addy!!

First about the HxC scene in Indonesia... well, i could say that it's very huge, we have a huge HxC community here (you know? when TERROR played here, there were about thousand people came to the show) and the progress is very fast as well. We have many gigs and local HxC bands too. For the venue, they play in cafes or clubs and we also have a special place to organize gigs especially for a big show.

I'm living in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia and luckily, I don't need to travel to other islands to watch gigs cos Jakarta is the centre of all kinds of concerts/shows! :D even though sometimes I need to travel to Bandung (West Java) to watch some HxC shows, if the bands don't play in Jakarta. But it only takes 2,5 hours to get there and I have many HxC friends there so it's not a big deal for me! :D ahah

Cheers
Cempaka