some of the best HOMEGROWN BANDS in Big O's New School Rock

[echoist]

here's the Stoned Revivals... "Golden Love Songs From The Evil Island Of The Handsome Tropical Cannibals" album. longest album title ever by a local band i think! hahahhahahha... loved them the 1st time i saw them live at Singapore or Ngee Ann Poly in the 90's. Esam with his white strat and there's a trumpet player playing jazzy stuff like they guy in Stings' live 9-11 DVD. i think there were some girls doing some dance or backing vocals on-stage with them too! i can't remember...

anw, they kind of give me a rush, like the 1st time i heard acid jazz! (same feeling when i 1st saw Force Vomit too!) one of the really original bands we have in Singapore. still waiting for another album from them. Munir is with the Parking Lot Pimps now i guess. (v good guitarist) and Kamal used to work in Gramaphone. (make me listen to stuff i would have ignored: Jason Mraz and John Mayer)

talking abt Esam illustration style, the CD sleeve's illstrn was done by him. (check-out the image) u guys have to check out the "4 steps when approaching a 50ft cannibal woman" in the inner sleeve! hehehehhhe... nice stuff! i remembered the Bushmen illstrn he did for BigO front cover with the same distinctive style... nice...

 

[bongman]

so who is the top seller?

 

[echoist]

hahahahahhha! i dunno man...
but does it matter? hmmmmm...

 

[AgingYouth]

so who is the top seller?

Taufik Batisah...

 

[echoist]

Lion City Hardcore (LCHC) - Together At Last.
this CD was given out with BigO mag in 1993. it was released later on its own if i'm not wrong. i have not listened to this for ages! just got to dig this back from my mum's place a week back! (thot i've lost this forever!) it blows me again no less... just like the 1st time i listened to it! the most interesting stuff will be the 2 songs by Soulfire. (featuring Suhaimi frm Stompin' Ground) more Industrial than Hardcore actually...

 

[bongman]

so who is the top seller?

Taufik Batisah...

not the runner-up bad boy SLY meh?

his Chinese album not bad, okay!

 

[AgingYouth]

so who is the top seller?

Taufik Batisah...

not the runner-up bad boy SLY meh?

his Chinese album not bad, okay!

I read on da papers that Mr Batisah sold 30,000 albums while Mr Sim only sold 15,000. But okay lah, just one guy thrashes the entire sales of the whole band community in Singapore.

 

[echoist]

one of my fav local bands. love their surfdangdutrockdikirbarat style! remembered the 1st time i saw them performed at Singapore Poly in the mid 90s. remembered most of the hardcore/indie guys laughing at them for their 'style'. but i was impressed by their originality then. LOVE their 1st album. still LOVE it now! hahaahhaha...

 

[rottenramone]

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I have Force Vomit's first demo on cassette lying around somewhere. Lemme encode it.

 

[rottenramone]

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The only time I remember when skinheads, punks and metalheads got together to mosh was in 1996 at the Radio Heatwave gig. Featured this super old school mat rock band "Inspirasi".

Ariffin, the lead guitarist, works in the Ngee Ann Mass Comm dept. When he revealed to us that he was a speed metal freak, we just laughed (if you look at him you'll know why). He was asked to do the gig by the Heatwave Station Manager...

So the day came, and when it was time for them to come up, the pit saw these couple of old farts and was like "wtf". Wah lau... super happening man, guitarists were shredding away like sashimi chefs. vocals were going sky high...even the bassist throw his bass in mid-air all. By the time they ended, everyone was in awe of them man....

Ariffin's still working in Ngee Ann. If you're studying in Mass Comm or FSV, do drop by and say "Rock neva die!!" HAAHAHAH

 

[judaspiss]

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The only time I remember when skinheads, punks and metalheads got together to mosh was in 1996 at the Radio Heatwave gig. Featured this super old school mat rock band "Inspirasi".

Ariffin, the lead guitarist, works in the Ngee Ann Mass Comm dept. When he revealed to us that he was a speed metal freak, we just laughed (if you look at him you'll know why). He was asked to do the gig by the Heatwave Station Manager...

So the day came, and when it was time for them to come up, the pit saw these couple of old farts and was like "wtf". Wah lau... super happening man, guitarists were shredding away like sashimi chefs. vocals were going sky high...even the bassist throw his bass in mid-air all. By the time they ended, everyone was in awe of them man....

Ariffin's still working in Ngee Ann. If you're studying in Mass Comm or FSV, do drop by and say "Rock neva die!!" HAAHAHAH

Hey, I think I freakin played in this particular gig!
Now I remember the band. It was pretty hilarious, all the cliche rock poses that you can think of, they did them onstage and the crowd went wild too. Not because they liked the band, they were pretty much laughing their asses off at them. Or maybe they did liked them. I dunno. But it apparently didn't matter to the band though, they might as well had been playing in an arena on their sold-out world tour concert for all they cared...\m/

 

[rottenramone]

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wah... which band were u in man?

 

[echoist]

whenever i think of this band, i think of Ride, My Bloody Valentine or Curve. i guess they're Singapore's answer to them. and i still can recall the time when i saw them performed live and see a string of pedals in front of the frontman. i was thinking: wahhhh!

 

[judaspiss]

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wah... which band were u in man?

Aiyah, I rather keep my anonymity in this forum.
It was actually my old band, I remember I just got out of the army a couple of days before that gig, so I was happy as a duck haha!

 

[edder]

whenever i think of this band, i think of Ride, My Bloody Valentine or Curve. i guess they're Singapore's answer to them. and i still can recall the time when i saw them performed live and see a string of pedals in front of the frontman. i was thinking: wahhhh!

ooooh yeah... he had something like a metal bar across all his BOSS pedals so that one step turns it all on? hahaha... I particularly like the EP better than the album.

They came back for a while as Starr and I saw their first and maybe last gig at the Substation. They sampled the kickdrum into something but I couldn't hear much of a difference. Still cutting edge at that time.

edwin(drummer) now is with Muon.

 

[AgingYouth]

You is sooooo informed...

 

[echoist]

our very own DnB outfit. Quadmix with the album 'Rocking The 3rd Floor'. this CD was released in 1997 when Chemical Brothers' 'Dig Your Own Hole' and 'Exit Planet Dust', and also Prodigy's 'The Fat Of The Land' was all the rage. they get constant airplay by FM 98.7. i dunno how many singles was released by them (besides this album), but i own 2 of them plus this album. a great listen...

 

[echoist]

a CD i thought i've lost forever. but instead found it stashed in a drawer at my mum's place! love it to bits! there is even a pic of Suhaimi with Ian McKaye of Fugazi/Minor Threat fame. (bottom 3rd from right) incidentally, they cover Betray in this CD. one of the best CD from a local band i ever own!

 

[GrimBrody]

ok i lost this lor..

somebody borrowed it and never gave it back.
and that Betray cover is THAT DAMN GOOD. Syed's vocals on it gave it a totally fresh melody.
the first track attacked me..ayong's drums..kiwek dasyat beb.

strength through unity
one love da!

 

[jalisetan]

The Mother

Hi peeps,
I'm writing on behalf of The Mother. Glad to know that some people are still listening to our old stuff. Just to let you know that we're still alive and we're working on our second album. In the meantime, you can visit this site and check out some old and new stuff:>> http://homepage.mac.com/jalisetan
No issues on copyright because we bloody own them! haha!

Flush: the two songs on Flush After Use
DarkTrip: three songs from our first album A Dark Trip On The Ill Tip
Lost Shadow In The Dark: sneak preview of our next album (pre-mastered). expected release: September 2006
Evil Stuff: just some of the commercial stuff I do which bankrolls the more serious stuff which I do with The Mother

feedback, criticisms, love, email to jalisetan@mac.com
btw, some copies of the first album is still available. email me if interested.