OAG (Old Automatic Garbage)

http://OAG.COM.MY

Sejarah
OAG ditubuhkan pada tahun 1992. Pada ketika itu kumpulan ini terdiri daripada empat orang ahli, iaitu Radhi (vokal dan gitar), Chi (dram), Ivan (gitar), dan Lam (bass). Pada asalnya OAG dikatakan mewakili "Old Automatic Garbage" tetapi kemudiannya ditukar menjadi Orang Asia Genius.

Pada tahun 1994, OAG menghasilkan sebuah rakaman demonstrasi dan mengirimkannya kepada Paul Moss, yang ketika itu merupakan seorang penerbit di syarikat rakaman Positive Tone. Beliau yang tertarik dengan kebolehan kumpulan tersebut terus mendaftarkan mereka di bawah syarikat tersebut.
Pada tahun 1995, Lam dan Ivan meninggalkan OAG atas sebab melanjutkan pelajaran. Mereka diganti pula oleh Adin (gitar) dan Edmund (bass).
Kejayaan OAG terbukti apabila mereka memenangi anugerah Artis Baru Terbaik dalam Anugerah Industri Muzik 1996. Video klip 60's TV juga dicalonkan sebagai Video Klip Terbaik. Klip tersebut pernah berada di tangga keempat selama enam bulan berturut-turut dalam rancangan Chart Show's Best yang ditayangkan di MetroVision pada tahun 1996.
OAG juga diberi penghargaan untuk mendendangkan lagu tema Kejohanan Remaja Sedunia FIFA/Coca Cola ke-9 yang diadakan pada 16 Jun 1997 di Malaysia. Lagu yang bertajuk Name Of The Game ini digubah oleh Radhi dan liriknya ditulis oleh Paul Moss.
Pada tahun 2000-an, OAG mula menceburi persada lagu berbahasa Melayu, bermula dengan album album Opera Radhi-o Friendly (2002) diikuti dengan Satelit Ink (2005). Pada tahun 2005, kumpulan ini juga diberi peluang merakamkan lagu tema Generasiku bagi filem Gol & Gincu dan siri televisyen susulannya.
Pada tahun 2006, OAG memutuskan untuk meninggalkan EMI atas sebab kebebasan kreativiti,setelah merakamkan album terakhir bersama label tersebut, OrAnG. Pada tahun 2006 mereka dipilih untuk membantu mempromosikan Tahun Melawat Malaysia 2007 di London.
Pada tahun 2007 mereka terlibat dalam pertandingan Nokia You Make It Reel!. Lagu mereka telah digunakan oleh peserta iaitu pengarah video muzik untuk menghasilkan video untuk lagu mereka dan memenanginya. Pada tahun yang sama mereka menjuarai kategori kumpulan muzik di Ikon Malaysia.

Album studio
Old Automatic Garbage (1994)
Opera Radhi-o Friendly (2002)
Satelit Ink (2003)
OrAnG (2006)

Single
"Akustatik"
"Nowwhy2"
"60's TV"
"Beautifool"
"Knocked Silly"
"Nowwhy2"
"Slumber"
"Merdayka"


Radhi (vokal)Haifizul Azim (gitar)Muhamad Nizam

Bekas ahli
Chi (dram, 1992-99, 2002)Lam (bes, 1992-95)Ivan (gitar, 1992-95)Adin (gitar, 1995-99)Edmund (bes, 1995-99)Alim (gitar, 2000-2005)Niki (bes, 2000)Farid (dram, 2000)Andy (gitar, 2001)Miji (bes, 2001)Bakri (dram, 2001)Edwin (2002)Naza (2002-2005)David (gitar, 2002)Rizal (dram, 2002)Orange (gitar, 2002)Jim (gitar, 2003-05)Attan (dram, 2003

Malaysia Underground Music

Underground Music


The Malaysian underground music scene (also known as the Malaysian independent or urban music scene, with the term "urban" introduced only in the late 90s) is an established localized underground culture within Malaysia. This is as opposed to mainstream music, which usually, in the Malaysian context refers to artists with strong ties or are engaged in direct contract with fairly large recording companies, giving them a more commercial and popular image.
Artists and musicians who are involved in the Malaysian underground scene are usually guitar-driven bands with inclination towards rock music, although there are a number of acts with differing musical influences such as Folk, hip-hop, electronica and dance music.
One of the other characteristics of this local scene is that most of the musicians are independent, entirely or partially DIY-driven groups or bands who emphasise on creating, sharing and experiencing music, together and collectively. Materials that they produce, such as albums, demos or EPs will usually be independent works, most of the time funded entirely or to some extend by themselves. Also, small musical performances known as gigs are organized regularly showcasing these bands.

The state of Terengganu was known as the Malaysian capital of punk rock throughout late 1979 and the 1980s, but there were no bands then as the punks were too poor to afford the equipment. The scene then was more a covergence of pioneering punk rockers trading pre-recorded music and fanzines acquired from pen-pals and friends from overseas while dabbling in home-made DIY punk fashion. This early Malaysian punks started in 1978/79. The early punk scene in Terengganu hit its peak in the early 80s before gradually dying out in the mid 90s. A new generation picked it up again in the late-90s with bands, DIY labels and intermittent gigs.
The first rumblings of a bonafide "underground music scene", as in real bands and original recordings. in Malaysia actually started in the city of Kuala Lumpur in the mid-80s with bands such as Punisher, Nemesis, Rator etc. These pioneers paved the way for a huge explosion of bands in the early 90s and it continues today with bands and acts of many different permutations, from political, anarcho punk (Carburetor Dung, Relationsheep, Mass Separation, The Bollocks, FSF, Pusher, The Mindless Show, Injustice System Acceptance etc.), streetpunk/oi! (A.C.A.B., The Official, Roots 'N' Boots, etc.), hardcore (Chronic Mass, Basic Rights, Disaster Funhouse,N.E.T., Reprisal, Noisemonger, Cramp Mind, etc) Metal (Koffin Kanser,Sil-Khannaz) to experimental, avant-garde noise (Amid the Mimic, Maharajah Commission, Ta, Goh Lee Kwang, Eerie etc.) to singer-songwriters (Rafique Rashid, Pete Teo, Meor Aziddin Yusof, Azmyl Yunor, Jerome Kugan etc.) to Chinese indie (Moxuan, Lang Mang, KRMA, Nao etc.) to instrumental post-rock (Furniture, Before The Meltdown Sgt. Weener Arms etc.} to improvised/ eclectic music (The Experimental Musicians and Artists Co-operative Malaysia (EMACM)).Lately, more than half of the underground gigs are coming from the hardcore scene with established bands (Cassandra, Love Me Butch, Second Combat, etc} leading the pack of uprising bands (H.A.N.D., Creamson, I Quit Antartika, etc.); and also from the burgeoning folk singer-songwriter scene with established performers such as Azmyl Yunor, Reza Salleh, and Mia Palencia playing an average two to three gigs a month, a prolific average by the independent or underground scene stand

Band Hujan

Kenali Hujan !!!!!

Ditubuhkan pada awal 2006,Hujan diasaskan sendiri oleh Noh yang dahulunya dikenali sebagai pejuang hip hop,kumpulan ini dikenali sebagai 'The Strokes"malaysia oleh peminat yang mengunakan nama "Rangers" dan "Rantai",mengklasifikasikan muzik mereka sebagai rock alternatif hujan banyak mengunakan bahasa malaysia dan ini tidak menghalang muzik mereka berkembang. Hujan telah menjadi satu jenama yang cukup laris di kalangan peminat kerana keupayaan pihak pengurusan dan kru2 mereka bagi mengembangkan produk berkaitan band Hujan seperti, t-shirt dan lencana.

Mereka juga pernah membuat persembahan di united kindom bagi mempromosikan dua EP mereka iaitu '1,2,3,Go!! dan 'check check rock rock', persembahan mereka mendapat sambutan yang mengalakkan dari masyarakat malaysia disana.

Lagu2 seperti pagi yang gelap, aku skandal, empayarmu dan dugaannya adalah tidak asing lagi didalam kancah musik indie masakini, bermula dengan lagu2 mereka yang tidak diterima oleh stesen2 radio dimalaysia, band ini kini telah menjadi satu ikon kepada musik indie malaysia,walaupun sekarang ini ditimpa pelbagai kritikan dan tomahan dari sesetengah peminat yang mungkin tidak faham akan perjuangan mereka, hujan tetap utuh dan terus memperjuang kan musik dan kepercayaan mereka.

*kepada peminat2 atau pengkritik2 hujan, aku rasa elok la korang check out http://www.hujan.org/ untuk sebarang kaji selidik sebelum menuduh dan memboikot diorang nie, support our local music and don't destroy it.

28th December Gigs

Check out this gigs,happen on 28th December 2008 at MCPA HALL,hope to see you'll there..... ;p

Indie Band !!!!! Bittersweet ... :p

I never thought that malaysia band can be this good...check out our local indie band , they call themself as Bittersweet !!!!!!

Bittersweet began in mid-2004 with 2 members who had the same musical interests. Both played in an Ipoh band before, and got to know each other well during that time. Herri and Zabil occasionally met to hangout and eventually decided to try their hand at writing music together. Both heavily influenced by British music, the two decided to put their heads together and record an EP, just for fun. After the recording was completed Herri and Zabil distributed the material for feedback, which was mainly positive. When Zabil joined the Malaysian teaching force he had to quit the band, which left Bittersweet with only one of its founding members. Determined not to abandon what they started, Herri set about forming a complete line-up, particularly considering they'd been invited by Pet Projects to perform at Couple's EP launch.

He enlisted Dinie as their bassist first of all, before adding Hafiez (guitarist) to the line-up, Pijie as Bittersweet's vocalist with Emai ..boards. Bittersweet finished recording their 2nd EP (Night and Morning Tales) on November 2004. They?ve been invited for shows at PISA Penang on January 2005. The feedback of the 2nd EP and the shows at Penang which were more massive than before. Bittersweet have been invited for plenty of shows after that in KL and Penang. Starting 2006, Bittersweet been received a rave reviews from the crowd and people mostly in Klang Valley itself. Bittersweet finished recorded their 1st single (A Perfect Match) on June 2006. The singles feedback was heavily impressive and the track A Perfect Match has been played in many radio stations such as Fly fm, Hot fm, Hitz.fm and Mix fm. They also had been invited to play for a show at Baybeats festival 2006. By the end of 2006, Bittersweet has launched their 1st debut album, Perfect Match, on 16th December 2006 during Rock The World 7. Two months later, after the album has released, they started for a tour around the country. The tour began at 10th April which the first place that they gonna rock was KLPAC, Kuala Lumpur. Then,they went to JB(11th March), Malacca(17th March), Penang(8th April), Ipoh(14th April) and the last place was Sarawak on 28th April. The tour was good and successful.

After the Malaysian tour, Bittersweet in planning to broaden their music to the audiences around the South East Asia region. Finally Bittersweet comprises of 5 members that are Pijie(Lead Vocals), Herri(Lead Guitar / Vocals), Hafie (2nd Guitar / Vocals), Dinie(Bass), Emai(Keys / Synth) and a sessionist drummer. (hhtp://www.myspace.com/bittersweet)

*based on bittersweet myspace :p

Bittersweet - Capital E(Original Video) - For more funny movies, click here

Up Coming Gigs and Event.....

Music Addict Charity Gigs !!!!!

Music Againts Racism !!!!!

Colour Of Indie !!!!

Opening Gigs for 2009

Let's enjoy the starting world full of music....2009