Style: Interview Portrait
Yes No Wave Music: Free Music from Indonesia
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Have many people in Indonesia access to the internet? And how is the response to your music?
Internet is very popular in Indonesia. In many big cities there are lots of places, like campus, cafés, artspaces, that provided a free Wi-Fi-access to the web. Almost every office has an internet access. In Yogyakarta, where I've lived, affordable internet cafés can be found everywhere.
After six months, Yes No Wave Music gets lots of attention from the music scene. Some of the national media interviewed me and wrote articles about my label and the netlabel. One of the media was the Indonesian Rolling Stone Magazine. They also noted Yes No Wave Music in an article about record labels and the music industry in Indonesia.
The Upstairs is the first mainstream band who released their music on Yes No Wave Music. Yes No Wave Music also became the label of the month in Dogmazic, a netlabel portal from France.
Who releases on your netlabel? Do you focus only on musicians from Indonesia?
Yes No Wave Music never had a limitation to a certain music genre. We also get in touch with any band, either mainstream or underground, as long as we love the music and the musicians are unique and interesting characters. We also aren't limited to any country, race or nation. One of our release, Very Expensive Porno Movie, came from Croatia. Of course, music from Indonesia provides the biggest portion because the promotion of Indonesian music to an international audience is one of our aims.
What are your three favorite releases on Yes No Wave Music and why?
- [yesno013] "Music Beyond No Borders Vol. 2"
- "This compilation shows the various genre of music in Indonesia."
- [yesno005] Zoo "Kebun Binatang"
- "Zoo is my favourite math-noise rock band."
- [yesno008] Shorthand Phonetics "Apparently...I'm In Medicine / Love, or the Illusion of the Beginning Symptoms of It"
- "This is a one-man band, a bedroom musician who didn't play digital/electronic music and had been released all his good-and-clever-lyrics songs through The Internet Archive since 2003. This is a very rare ways in Indonesia. Our encounter was like adam and ever!"
Links to Yes No Wave Music
Netlabel: www.yesnowave.com
See also: http://demotape.yesnowave.com
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About the Author
This article was written on 12.November 2008 by mo..
mo. is a music-lover. The journalist and author from Cologne/Germany enjoys supporting the global netlabel-phenomena. For years he has explored the netlabel underground and has written numerous articles on the free music culture. He is the main-editor behind Phlow. Read more articles written by mo..
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13 comments
interesting that this came out today. i found yes no wave music this morning while searching for indonesian music on archive.org. there are definitely some great stuff out there from our southeast asian neighbors.
12. Nov 2008 at 3:54 pm
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i guess, Phlow had a good timing :)
12. Nov 2008 at 4:19 pm
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super! well done boy, very interesting...
12. Nov 2008 at 5:41 pm
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Definitely one of the most exciting netlabels at the moment! And I was several times on their merchandise site thinking about if I should purchase one of those cool sweatshirts :)
12. Nov 2008 at 9:47 pm
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thanks a lot Mo for the interview! and thanks for all you guys out there who spend your time for downloading and appreciate our releases!
12. Nov 2008 at 10:45 pm
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hi roland. i'm on my way to find out how to deliver our stuffs overseas in a good price. i'll let you know if its available.
12. Nov 2008 at 10:52 pm
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Yeah...finally YNWM at here.
I don't know maybe they're the 1st netlabel in Indonesia and maybe not. But i'm sure they're fully committed in Indonesia music especially at independent music scene. And they're through YNWM always provides new release.
Well netlabel in Indonesia isn't just YNWM but I think they're the one which still exist until now. I also did some reviews of their best release at my music blog and put them at its blogroll.
Congrats for Wok The Rock & Bagus Jalang. Keep up the good work bro!!!
Cheersss...
13. Nov 2008 at 8:38 am
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congrats wok! you've been interviewed by this popular website. mo, you can listen to our stuff there on my link. my band's YNW artist (glad they released our single there). also, our mini album released by eDogm (www.edogm.net).
13. Nov 2008 at 9:56 am
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13. Nov 2008 at 4:11 pm
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yes, there are some netlabels in Indonesia:
http://semarangonfire.net/web/content/blogcategory/17/31/lang,en/
http://www.rys.apokalip.com/
http://oneloop.net/
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