This is my alternative space exploring Garage/Dubstep/Grime an other Bass influenced sound.



Originally Digital Ivy started from music project called Harmonic Distortion in the late 05, but latter split up because different carrier pursuing, well I didn't intended to make a career from making music, but it was one the things that I was passionate about, the other thing was design & skateboarding. That was the thing I made a living from. But music always kept me alive, and from time to time I always try to find some time in the middle of my work deadlines to make music.

In the early years Digital Ivy played IDM, trip hop in early 05/06,influenced by sounds like massive attack, telefon tel aviv and other chilled out music.

While producing tunes over the years by accident I fell into drum & bass. It was a joke kinda when my girlfriend asked me to make a dnb tune,and so I tried and tried until now. And like a young child i was curious to find more about it. The more I dug the more I found out, It was also so fun how so many sub genre's from dnb are, like liquid,funk,darkstep?minimal,jump up, I don't even know how to name them one by one, but I just enjoy making them.and it made me fell in love with the music, people, hype of the party's and the people behind the scene.

Phunktion was the first dnb gig I ever went to in Jakarta, it was like a new universe for me. And at one point I gathered up my tunes ad gave Dj Jerome (javabass) my demo.(At that point I didn't realize how shity my demo was), but I gave it anyway. I didn't expected a warm feedback from them (after a few weeks thou).

But it kinda made me exited and wanna learn more about dnb. And kept me learning and digging thru the archive and stumbled upon oldskool jungle, uk funky, garage, breakbeat etc.

The blur between genre's is what makes Digital Ivy unique, besides that...you will hear lots of reverbee sounds combining with analog and digital sounds to create a whole atmosphere.

The Clouds - A Beginning

It was started from a jam session called “Miserables“ by Aji Wiweko -  (guitarist of an old school hardcore band named Empty Message), Agus Marrdian – guitar (Cambridge Revolt ), Aris Widyawisesa – drums (Cambridge Revolt), Wiranata Agung Tyas a,k,a Diaz - bass  ( ex.Subrooster's bassist ) ,Rio Vanessa a.k.a Echa (guitarist of Suck Of Society – he was the keyboardist of the band) . They finally changed the name from “Miserables“ into “The Clouds“ to represent their hallucinative and absurd but real lyrics.. They played pop songs popularized by The Smiths, Morrissey, The Cure, Lightning Seeds, James, Pulp, etc. Unfortunately, in 2001, Aris decided to leave Miserables because of his professional job and he was replaced by Ibam Atmanugraha, a  drummer of a jazz band named Protaque .

In a cloudy windy night in Aji’s terrace the dynamic duo (Aji and Marrdian)   started to play their sad interlude to interpret one of their poem called “Samar“ which inspired from a true story about their best friends, who were trapped in hallucinative and addictive poison and it changed their way of lives a lot. It was a gloom and depressive poetry but it was the breakthrough in Miserables’ musicography.


Most of their lyrics told us about the reality in this life. For examples: “Sisi Yang Hilang (about a grey area in our lives), ”Uncertainty“ (about boredom in our lives that could kill our feelings, energy and creativity), Prelude for Negative Minor (instrumental track), “Sepi“ (a description about loneliness and hope-loss that often comes into our days and it tortures our soul), “Garden of Eden“ (an imaginative poem about a nowhere lands,an endless heaven that brings us true peacefulness), ”Silusi “ (a temporer addiction of hallucinative substance but it could be a deadly poison if we can’t control our self-which written by Andri Mulyana a.k.a Cheppy – guitarist of ”Ten Holes” and a pop band named “Strangeways”) and “I Wanna Be My Self“ (an optimistic and egocentric statement in every human’s character).

The Clouds recorded  their singles in 2004 in a music studio in the eastern Jakarta and they performed in several indie gigs in the city. Unfortunately, in 2008, three of  band members which are Made Widya,Rio Vanessa and Ibam Atmanugraha stated to leave The Clouds,  but it didn’t turn Aji, Marrdian and Diaz into hopeless. They kept their spirit and tried to fulfill the vacant positions. They recruited their old friends, Rizal Hands a.k.a Ijal (The Forgotten Fear’s drummer) and they had jam-session with Ahmad Fadholy a.k.a Dolly Plester and Yodham Moux ,a music programmer and a lead singer of Jakarta's Japanese pop band called Junon.

 They  recorded  a new single called “For My Soulmate (a love song where The Clouds collaborated with Yodam’s passionate voice) . The Clouds then contacted their old long lost friend named  Ipang Bona Drag ( The Firm ) to help them re-record their singles   such as Samar, Sepi, and Guide Me To Your Door, Lelah Melangkah, and Silusi and to make their music videos.

KarnaTra "Api di Dalam" album out now on iTunes klik https://itunes.apple.com/id/album/api-di-dalam/id890230513

KarnaTra is a Rock/Indie/Alternative/Pop band originated in Jakarta, Indonesia. Still holds some of substantial elements of the 90's indie music, KarnaTra attempts to portray their odd and cynical world, in a more poetic and clement ways.

KarnaTra :
Aditya Naratama - Vocal
Teguh Putra Alliansich - Guitar
Ricky Rahim Putra - Bass

Info :
karnatra@gmail.com
Kentung : 081284949717
Octa : 087883904315 
Ricky : 083894258046

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