Pure Saturday

Indonesian indie darlings. Formed by Muhammad Suar Nasution (vocals, guitar), Ade Purnama (bass), Aditya "Adhi" Ardinugraha (guitar), Yudistira "Udhi" Ardinugraha (drums) and Arief Hamdani (guitar) in 1994, they were pioneers of the Bandung indie scene. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1996, the first 5000 copies of which were sold innovatively via mail-order through a teen magazine. The album was then available on wide distribution after the band signed with Ceepee Records. The single "Kosong" made them household names, with the artistic accompanying video gaining heavy rotation.

Their more complex and challenging second album, Utopia, was released in 1999 through Aquarius Musikindo. Because of family and business reasons, Pure Saturday was mostly inactive for several years, culminating in Suar's departure in 2004. After unsuccessful auditions to find a suitable replacement vocalist, fate intervened one day when Satria "Iyo" NB, the band's manager, filled in during rehearsals. The guy they were looking for was there all along!

With their new lead singer in tow, Pure Saturday released its long-awaited third album, Elora, in March 2005 through FastForward Records.

This made it official: Pure Saturday was reborn and ready to rock again!!.

" After releasing our last record "Time for a change...time to move on", we are now working on a project which involving Bandung iconic metal band "BURGERKILL". The project itself started few weeks ago, and yet still has a lot to work thru. The has been quite an amazing excitement..as well as a though challenge ever since we have to be able to cope with all the ego-matters and ideas..as we know that the 2 bands perform different kind of music style. What would it be in the end? Somehow there's no clue so far..one thing for sure: WE ARE INDEED TRYING TO MAKE A SOMETHING NEW..NOT COLLABORATING !!! JUST WAIT AND SEE. CHEERS. "

DISCOGRAPHY

 1996     Pure Saturday (Album)

              Baccott Management distributed by Ceepee Production

 1997     Indonesian Best Alternatives (Compilation Album)

              Aquarius Musikindo

 1998     Banga (Single Bandung)

 1999     Utopia (Album)

              Aquarius Musikindo

 2001     Pathetic Waltz (Mini Album Bandung)

 2004     Buka (Single)

 2005     Elora (Album)

              Labyrinth Records

 2007     Time for a change..time to move on (Album)

              Lil'fish Records

MOCCA Band

Members


Arina Ephipania Simangunsong(vocals and flute)
born on 4 May 1978 in Bandung, West Java, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Institut Teknologi Nasional (Bandung), together with bandmate Riko. A fan of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, Arina uses stage gestures and musical dynamics often found in jazz and folk-dixie tunes.

Riko Prayitno (guitar)
born on 29 January, 1977 in Bogor, West Java. Like Arina, he also graduated from the Institut Teknologi Nasional (Bandung). He began playing guitar at an early age, and began playing professionally with Arina while still in college.

Ahmad Pratama aka Toma (bass)
born on 27 June, 1976 in Bandung, West Java and has lived there ever since. A product designer by training, Toma has excelled in setting up the key components of their music. His punctual bass tone accentuates the tempo and rhythm set by Indra's drumming skill. His influences include Sting and Phil Collins.[citation needed]

Indra Massad (drums)
born on 31 January, 1976 in Medan, North Sumatra. He and Toma studied product design in Bandung together, and joined Mocca at about the same time. Unlike other drummers that use many tom-toms and cymbals, Indra prefers the simplicity and versatility of a single snare drum. His brush technique during acoustic sessions acts just like seven different mallets making seven different tones

History

While in college, Arina and Riko decided to get together and form a band. For a year, they struggled with performing other people's music, finding themselves bored with the lack of innovation, at which point they decided to write their own songs. In 1997, they composed four songs that unfortunately were not well-received by the rest of the band. After much squabbling and conflict the band split up, leaving only Arina and Riko with their songs.

In late 1999, they asked Indra and Toma to join and Mocca was born. They now had a group with the same vision and awareness of music.

Having signed a contract with FFWD Records, helped Mocca a lot to go international. FFWD is previously a distributor for international indie-pop labels from Japan and Singapore to Sweden. All Mocca's album are distributed by FFWD's partner labels : Fruit Records in Singapore, Small Room in Thailand, Apple Crumble in Japan, Beatball from Korea, and My Honey from Italy

Their debut album My Diary contains 13 songs written from a girl's point of view and her diary entries. The lyrics are in English, and the music mixes waltz, bossa nova, 70s disco, and rock.[citation needed] Rolling Stone Indonesia magazine placed My Diary on their "150 Greatest Indonesian Albums of All Time" . The magazine also ranked Mocca's song, "Me and My Boyfriend" at #150 on "150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time" list.

With simple and beautiful songs, all in English, the band gained popularity in neighbors countries especially in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Mocca has performed plenty of times in these countries. In 2006 Mocca collaborated with Swedish singer Karolina Komstedt, lead singer of the Swedish pop group Club 8. In 2007 Mocca performed in Japan as one of the headliners, long before that in 2004 they have performed in Okinawa as well. In 2008 they held in Malaysia and several gigs in Singapore too. Mocca’s latest international show was a solo concert held at Seoul, South Korea on May 2009

in 2010, their songs are used for several movie soundtracks in Korea, including Bandhobi and Personal Taste.

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the SIGIT

Adit (Bass)     Rekti (Voc, Guitar)       Acil(Drums)      Farri (Guitar)

1994-2002
Period of formation. In this period, they met each other, played and hung up together, fought each other, rehearsed a lot, and wrote their song.

2002-2004
In 2004, The S.I.G.I.T. signed to Spills Records and released their self titled debut mini album (EP) and performed many bar gigs and venue. Their first single, Soul Sister soon became a local radio hits in Bandung and Jakarta. MTV Trax Magazine described them as “The Hottest Rock N Roll Band in town”.
By contributing on movie soundtrack for Catatan Akhir Sekolah (CAS), their fanbase grew rapidly. Did I Ask Your Opinion, finally became their first single to be broadcasted on MTV Indonesia.
After leaving Spills Records, they begun to spread their stage performance to bigger venue and region by their own.

2005
NME described them as “Scorching, gonzo Zep Rock from our hot new Indonesian Friend”. 

2006
Signed to FFWD and released “Visible Idea of Perfection” in December under FFWD’s sister label FFCUTS.

2007
Signed to Australian Caveman! and released “Visible..” which distributed by Reverberation. They toured Australia in June to coincide the release date.

2009
Appearing at SXSW 2009 in Austin Texas. Toured California and Hongkong. Released “Hertz Dyslexia” on June followed with biggest concert of their career attended by more than 3000 enthusiastic fans.

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One More Trip

Genre :

Accoustic/Indie

Members : 

Rama Murdock        - Vocal
Koko Crazy             - Bass
Davin Christ             - Rhytm
Kimii Prsya              - Slide

Andika Dili               - Drums

About :One More Trip is an Indonesian Band formed in 2005 by some complicated person who never had a destination. We are fully contaminated by tragedy, sadness, and social problems. Then we try to "convert" it into a song, and "upload" it... into your mind.

Biography :

first formed as one more trip in 2005 when i met Koko, Davin, and Kimi in the college... we're friends since then... start holding guitar and drunk... we sing a completely unnamed kind of song but we think it's great... this is the time when Story of A Dying Boy and Blood Brothers was created.. they named this as one more trip cuz they used to trip together almost everyday... we used to performed accoustic but somehow we need a drummer so we ask Andka to join with us... after made the first record at Begenk Studio, Dying Boy,we tried to still makin' music.. many song we've created such as The Destination but we're out of money so we cannot record our song since we're had no record label... but we still keep tryin' to do better.. and this page was the beginning... of all.. 

Shows

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One More Trip : story_of_a_dying_boy

One More Trip : the_destination