Unknown Artist - Aurora (Free DL click buy)

"Meranggas"

Dengar derap jari
Para peringkik yang berpacu dan mendengus payah
Lihat gedung menjulang lelah
Mesin bergemuruh resah

Angan-angan gentayangan
Tinggalkanmu sendirian
Rapal sumpah:
"Aku tak akan membuatmu kecewa"

Gersang kota meranggaskan hasrat
Asap mengular, melilit sesak
Taring menancap, menghisap sadar
Kini kau rindukan rasa resah

Dihadapkan sekantung darah
Membuatku bertanya:
Apa yang kau pernah selesaikan selain sekolah?

Datang darimu, kembali padamu

Musik oleh Pelteras
Lirik oleh Adam Bagaskara
Rekaman dioperasikan oleh Haryo Widi di Studio Kandang
Mixing dan Mastering oleh Firas Raditya
Artwork oleh Mario Julius

Meranggas

Mogwai - Emergency Trap

It is the year 1998: What might have been the first decade in the history of pop music that was characterized by an overwhelming sense of fragmentation is drawing to a close. Anything goes: guitars & electro, retro sounds or wicked forays into the digitized future. Pop hasn’t sounded this optimistic and upbeat in a while, and there’s currently no need for Weltschmerz in Indie anymore. Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason have been making music together as múm for about a year at this point – though it’s not like anyone really took note of them or cared back in 1998.
The two band mates are basically nomadic drifters: They are constantly moving from one basement studio to the next, traveling through Europe, recording anything and everything that comes to mind. Whenever they feel like getting some fresh air, they go out with their DAT recorders to do some field recordings – only to return to some unfurnished apartment in Reykjavík, Montpellier or Berlin in order to mix and combine all the recorded material. Accordingly, the duo indeed also pushes the level of fragmentation in music. However, múm do not have set ideas or a clear mission. All they do is sample, play around, mix, recombine things, and ultimately marvel at the results. And then, at a theater production, Gunnar and Örvar meet twin sisters Kristín and Gyða. And then there were four.
Early Birds is all about those days: It’s a compilation of 15 tracks, all of them recorded between 1998-2000 and long-lost or extremely rare, taken from demo tapes or limited edition vinyl releases. Accordingly, you’ll find not only a track from the aforementioned theater production, but also the yet-unreleased “Hvernig á að særa vini sína”, a fan favorite ever since, that was included on the soundtrack to the movie The Exploding Girl.
múm had a trademark even back in the earliest days: their compositions were all about melodies. Yet, that’s about the only thing these 15 songs have in common. Especially the first half of the compilation focuses more on the playful, “full of beans”-type of experimental tracks: pastiche and experimentation are key, and it’s anything goes indeed: they go from hyped-up pre-Electronica sound to jazzy Drum & Bass, and they aren’t even afraid to present a double-neck guitar solo à la Hair Metal done kiddie style. However, as said above, all the early experiments nevertheless share a certain signature sound. The second half of the album is comprised of those quieter, rather massive múm tracks, with only a few analog layers, harmonious and blissful, revolving around each other for minutes. These tracks are somehow reminiscent of minimal music, but then again they are simply too charming, too wistful and clearly not made for academics.
Early Birds ends with a contemplative piece that’s 10 minutes long and comprised of field recordings, harmonica, accordion, and lots of room for reverb (you could almost call it Dub). In this case the song title pretty much translates to “No one was listening to the fiddler, because the fiddle-strings were broken (why can’t you be good to your mother?)”. This final track ultimately became the “Ballad Of The Broken String” on múm’s debut album “Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK” (2001), though this early version is indeed quite different. When the debut dropped, múm had found their sound. The rest is history: The band was hailed as a key exponent of “Electronica”, and with every release they sounded more and more unique and complete – only to become what might be Iceland’s most original band today.
Early Birds showcases the formative years and perfectly illustrates this evolution, though at the same time it shows that things could’ve turned out quite differently. Plus, it also proves one other thing: Yesterday was OK, too.
The compilation album comes with nostalgic artwork by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir who experienced the early days of múm first hand. Both the LP and CD version include a booklet that explains how each of the 15 (mostly instrumental) tracks came about.



múm - 0,000Orð

Lucid

Cruel (DEMO)

TWDY fue el tercer grupo de post-rock que encontré. Me gusto mucho la imagen del disco. Ese oso y la cabaña encima de él, me genera calma. El espíritu joven del cual comentan los indios norteamericanos es mágico. 

(05) This Will Destroy You - Happiness- We're All In It Together

Empathize (DEMO)

Remix of @senyawa track Fasih by Kay (@000kay) from "Alkisah Remixes", out February 22, 2021, via SOFT/BRUTE (@softbrute)

Read: http://bit.ly/37ziTU5
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/2NgVMqE

Alkisah will be the first album of Senyawa`s new chapter after finishing the previous chapter with “Sujud” in 2018. This new chapter is called “Dasawarsa Kedua” (Second Decade) where the duo will focus on integrating their experimentations with the idea of self-sufficiency and methods of surviving the ever-changing society. Alkisah tells a story of a society who disbanded themselves from a collapsing civilization and regroup to build a new one for the future. However, that future may not be there because the impending doom is upon them.

Alkisah will arrive on 21 February 2021. The album will be co-released by multiple independent record labels across the globe, as an alternative method of music distribution that is more decentralized and non-hierarchical, allowing it to be more accessible in distance and price, redefining music exclusivity by sharing its ownership, and empower smaller scattered powers to grow and connect. The labels are given full freedom to design their own version of cover art and packaging, and are allowed to do their own mastering. The labels also curate their own remixes/reinterpretations of the album as part of the release.

As part of this co-release project, SOFT/BRUTE will release the Alkisah album and its remixes in a bundle package containing double cassette tapes & the Alkisah universe version of SOFT/BRUTE trading card game's deck. The remix & reinterpretation work was done by several musicians & producers from various sonic spectrum & across multiple cities in Indonesia such as Mahamboro, Guling, Sanjonas, Eversomber from Yogyakarta. TXETEXT from Bali, BAPAK & Anugrah from Jakarta. Furthermore, as the first step in SOFT / BRUTE's future projection to provide space for artists from outside Java & Bali as an approach of decentralization, they invite Kay from Balikpapan for his debut release.

Artwork & layout by Sanjonas
Illustration by Sopeng

Mastering by Alfath Arya at Pepperoni Studio, Bintaro

Released by SOFT/BRUTE

Premiere: Senyawa - Fasih (Kay Remix) [SOFT/BRUTE]

duo, mostly influenced by alternative rock, post rock, ambient music and heavy wall of sound

Empathize (DEMO)

Benjamin

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