As a Malaysian independent music lover for over a decade, I decided to work on this crazy project at the beginning of 2005.
The idea is to get together various local independent bands to release a compilation album. At the same time, the bands can help one another to promote other bands' music to their friends and fans.
The project was filled with frustration for me. I almost gave up a few times but someone somehow will managed to convince me to carry on. During the project, a favourite band of mine pulled out, I lost the financial backup, lots of delay in obtaining the songs, lots of delay in the production, etc. No doubt I learned about management and music business in the process.
No commercial corporate is involved in the project. The project was done individually by a music lover for music lovers.
With the help of Fathul from Fathullistiwa Soundscapes (former member of Infectious Maggots and Spiral Kinetic Circus), he managed to get Love Never Dies to participate in the compilation and also managed to get his friend to do the remastering in a low cost budget.
The compilation managed to be released around Feb of 2006 around Chinese New Year. There are totally 19 songs from 19 bands.
Songs list:
1. Come On - Bittersweet
EP: Night & Morning Tales
Genre: Indie
2. Paula Malai Ali - Ben's Bitches
LP: National Disservice
Genre: Punk
3. Stand Still - Lucy In The Loo
EP: People & Things
Genre: Indie
4. Slingshot - The Fridays
EP: Bigger Than The Both of Us
Genre: Indie
5. I'll Be Waiting - The Sweetest Thing
EP: The Sweetest Thing
Genre: Indie, Punk, Emo mixture I think
6. Blood - A Mantle The Sea
EP: Take A Powder
Genre: Indie with jazz influence
7. Electro Synapse - Lurks
Single: Synapse
Genre: Electro-pop, Bjork influence
8. Full Throttle - Predicate Not Defined
EP: Childhood of Civilization
Genre: Metal
9. Prisoner of War - Civil Disorder
EP: It's A Warning
Genre: Punk with Reggae & Ska influence
10. Bone Dry - Azmyl Yunor
EP: Tenets
Genre: Singer-songwriter, alternative country
11. Cuma - Fathullistiwa Soundscapes
LP: Romantikarat
Genre: Electro-pop with goth influence, Fathul calls it Pontianak pop
12. Only One - Harmacy
EP: Here To Here
Genre: Indie, folk
13. Point of No Return - Shock System
Unreleased at the time when this compilation is done. The EP is released now
Genre: Metal/Hardcore
14. Stay - Evert
Unreleased
Genre: Indie
15. Exit To Misery - Furion Escalada
Unreleased
Genre: Metal
16. Endless - Criedbaby
EP: Endless
Genre: Indie, grunge
17. Disco Sludge - Maharajah Commission
LP: Dialogue Amoureux
Genre: Experimental , indie, sometimes reminds me of Pavement
18. Sweet Revenge – Love Never Dies
Unreleased
Genre: Electro pop, goth, reminds me of New Order
19. A Night In Shamayin - Eye Of Shamayin
Upcoming EP: Eye of Shamayin
Genre: Lo-fi, dream pop
Price: RM6 only (hand to hand)
Please contact umbrellarec@gmail.com for more details
2 comments:
Cool song list! Maid of New Orleans - OMD! Bitchin'!
Ceremony was originally written by Ian Curtis and performed by Joy Division - there's an execerpt of this song on the Still live compilation. Later released as New Order's first single with In a Lonely Place (another JD number) on the B side.
Hmm...thanks for the info. If this song is not in New Order's compilation album, I would surely think that it's coming from Joy Division's album.
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