“After all, one genre is just the expansion of other existing genres. The internet is serving as a convenient source for the global audience to listen to their favorite music. People all around the globe have grown a strong fondness for music and the popularity of various singers and musicians proves this point.
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“Our genre could be considered new in Indonesia,” Diegoshefa said. Download full albums free: Music has the power to connect various hearts. The performance was ecstatic and the weight of the theatrics was on the shoulders of the blond-haired Diegoshefa, who enthusiastically danced on stage to the roar of their music, with its low-high dynamics, screechy guitars and Diegoshefa’s subdued singing and rapping. To close out the proceedings, GHO$$ - comprised of Diegoshefa Dilanegara (vocals), Fadhi Perdana (guitar), Diego Aditya (guitar) and Dito Adhikari (bass), with the additional Otin Sinambela (drums) - performed four songs, including “CARE.LE$$,” “Insane” and “Sad Boys Club.” Giring Ganesha from the band Nidji also appeared, co-signing GHO$$ as the band with the kind of music that Indonesia has “seldom heard.” “Whether the bands will focus on their own music is their own decision.”Īside from chats with Gege, Stephan and members of the bands, the launch featured portions of testimonies from musical figures such as Rekti Yoewono from The S.I.G.I.T., Hermawan “Che” Johan from Cupumanik, Gugun Blues Shelter and more. “The process comes naturally,” Gege said. Whether they’ll always tour together as The Mighty Eight remains to be seen. The winners will go on tour across cities in Indonesia sometime in the future. “That we chose eight bands comes from the fact that the judges also hail from different musical backgrounds,” Stephan said. Different disciplines of rock were taken into consideration by the judges. Stephan explained that the judges picked only eight bands because they prioritized quality over quantity. GHO$$, as the winner of the competition’s top prize, recorded their song, “CARE.LE$$,” in studios such as Studios 301 and Hercules Street Studios, both located in Sydney, Australia. “There are a lot of bands in Indonesia that fly under the radar, familiar only to members of their communities,” Stephan said.Įarlier this year, all of the bands except for GHO$$, recorded one song in Aquarius Studio, in Jakarta. Winners: Members of Jakarta-based band GHO$$ pose after a rousing performance.
As for the “different characteristics,” the album features several variations of music, from psychedelic to blues, from pop to hip-hop. The five other bands included in the compilation album are: Yogyakarta’s Kasino Brothers Bekasi’s THE GRGTZ Medan’s Equaliz Bandung’s Radioaktif and Jakarta’s Jakarta Blues Factory. In ascending order, the top-three bands were: The metalcore band from Aceh, Killa The Phia the electronic rock band from Palembang, Meet After the Storm (MA.t.S) and the indie pop/hip-hop band from Jakarta, GHO$$.