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| pizt69 |
 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: Hi - I am from Australia |
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I visited Malaysia last year
and bought quite a few cd's and vcd's of Malaysian bands.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to bands on here that i might like?
My favourite style of music is Punk/Rock/Metal/Indie
but i listen to all genres of music and i love to hear new bands.
Thanks  and don't laugh at the foreign guy 
All the Malay music i bought i have liked.
Some of the cd's i bought were:
Spider
XPDC: Malay Rugged
A.C.A.B: Skinhead for life
4 sides of OI
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| omarjamaludin |
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| Bode |
| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome to i-bands bro! We're extremely elated to have somebody from Australia amongst us!
You can try our site radio to sample a mix and match combination of various genres on i-bands.net:
BODE'S BAND BOX RADIO
The radio does not in any way represent all genres that we have here since it's just a 'snapshot' of what i-bands has to offer. It also does not necessarily represent the best acts here since new cooler outfits are appearing at a faster rate than the what the radio DJ can cope
For Metal, checkout these guys: Virus Sound
http://www.i-bands.net/audiovault/bands/154/music.php
For signed acts, do check out Metalasia(Shred Metal) and hard rock outfits Search, Wings and Lefthanded. There are many more great acts that i will add later when I can remember them.
Hope you enjoy your stay here in the warm and sunny i-bands forums!
P.S. Which Spider album did you just bought?
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:01 am Post subject: |
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I like music alot - so when i went to the record store
i asked the guy working there what some good local bands were
he put me on to OAG, but i liked the look of the ACAB cd so i bought that as well. I know ACAB have changed now, but that cd Skinhead 4 Life is a very refreshing cd.
I was going to go to Rock The World, but i missed it bt a few days 
I am on myspace and i have chatted to the lead singer of Offside - they are a cool band.
Thanks alot for the links i will check them out
I live in Victoria about 300 kms from Melbourne.
My favourite places in Malaysia are Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown, Penang.
It is a beautiful country. |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| Bode wrote: | Welcome to i-bands bro! We're extremely elated to have somebody from Australia amongst us!
You can try our site radio to sample a mix and match combination of various genres on i-bands.net:
BODE'S BAND BOX RADIO
The radio does not in any way represent all genres that we have here since it's just a 'snapshot' of what i-bands has to offer. It also does not necessarily represent the best acts here since new cooler outfits are appearing at a faster rate than the what the radio DJ can cope
For Metal, checkout these guys: Virus Sound
http://www.i-bands.net/audiovault/bands/154/music.php
For signed acts, do check out Metalasia(Shred Metal) and hard rock outfits Search, Wings and Lefthanded. There are many more great acts that i will add later when I can remember them.
Hope you enjoy your stay here in the warm and sunny i-bands forums!
P.S. Which Spider album did you just bought? |
Thanks for the help
The Spider album i bought was a 2cd Live album.
I think it is live in KL, but I can't say for sure, my cd collection isn't in any sort of order
I was amazed that most of the local people spoke about American Bands or English bands - when the local scene is very good in Malaysia.
Even the Pop music there sounds good - it doesn't here
I heard a bit of Traditional Malay music in Kota Kinabalu - and i liked it very much. |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Ridzi
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Ery were great! thanks
Auburn were very good too - the music is wicked |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Virus Sound were awesome too |
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| silbi |
| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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ACAB's old materials that you have are good stufff...sadly they'd suddenly became a brit-pop. It's like THe Exploited suddenly wanted to become Oasis...haha. Wattie and Liam are two different creatures man!
btw - since you're for the land of Oz, ever heard of Cromok? Well, this is a legendary thrash metal Malaysian band which has it roots back to Australia (or is it NZ?) since it was formed when the band members were studying engineering there back in late 80s...
anyone has some sample url links for Cromok to give out bro here? U have to listen to the gorgeous 'Misty'...and the great intro to 'Metallurgical'...
U have XPDC too...great stuff man!
But your malay rock search will not be over if you'd not picked up Search - try to get their older stuff - brilliant!
gidday mate! |
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| OneMB |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| silbi wrote: | ACAB's old materials that you have are good stufff...sadly they'd suddenly became a brit-pop. It's like THe Exploited suddenly wanted to become Oasis...haha. Wattie and Liam are two different creatures man!
btw - since you're for the land of Oz, ever heard of Cromok? Well, this is a legendary thrash metal Malaysian band which has it roots back to Australia (or is it NZ?) since it was formed when the band members were studying engineering there back in late 80s...
anyone has some sample url links for Cromok to give out bro here? U have to listen to the gorgeous 'Misty'...and the great intro to 'Metallurgical'...
U have XPDC too...great stuff man!
But your malay rock search will not be over if you'd not picked up Search - try to get their older stuff - brilliant!
gidday mate! |
i have heard of Cromok
but i don't think i have ever heard them.
I have heard the New ACAB - and though it sounds okay it isn't anything like i was expecting
Thanks for your help
I will check out Cromok and Search |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:30 am Post subject: |
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i have definitely heard of Butterfingers
mainly because there is an Australian Hip/Hop Rock band with the same name
I will check them out
And Koffin Kanser too
thanks for the links |
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| totziens |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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Since you like indie music, here are some of my recommendation:
1. Nice Stupid Playground
2. The Fridays
3. Bittersweet
4. Lightcraft - they're not Malaysians but Indonesians studying in Malaysia
5. The Drives
6. Lucy In The Loo
7. A Mantle The Sea (I have a few copies of the album with me)
Also check out the following young punk band:
1. Civil Disorder
Most of them are still pretty "underground" and you may have problem getting them at the stores. The best way is to contact them directly.
From my following myspace account, you may reach most of them except A Mantle The Sea. I think they have a site in i-bands anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/umbrella_records
Good luck with your quest...
P.S. I am a big fan of Aussie band, Ratcat. Their albums are rare here and I am still searching |
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| pizt69 |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| totziens wrote: | Since you like indie music, here are some of my recommendation:
1. Nice Stupid Playground
2. The Fridays
3. Bittersweet
4. Lightcraft - they're not Malaysians but Indonesians studying in Malaysia
5. The Drives
6. Lucy In The Loo
7. A Mantle The Sea (I have a few copies of the album with me)
Also check out the following young punk band:
1. Civil Disorder
Most of them are still pretty "underground" and you may have problem getting them at the stores. The best way is to contact them directly.
From my following myspace account, you may reach most of them except A Mantle The Sea. I think they have a site in i-bands anyway:
http://www.myspace.com/umbrella_records
Good luck with your quest...
P.S. I am a big fan of Aussie band, Ratcat. Their albums are rare here and I am still searching |
Thanks very much for your links
I will check them out
Ratcat were a cool band - Simon Day the lead singer actually reformed Ratcat for a show in 2006
I think it was just a one-off show though |
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| GryMlock |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| silbi |
| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| GryMlock wrote: | | come again this year. Rock the world is on the 16th of december. I heard this year they're going to put up 3 Stage. 1 Main stage and 2 smaller stage. |
rock the world...hmm...Mawi is already rockin the World......haha
For me personally, for RTW, they just gotta put up these few awesome bands on the playlist...and forget the rest! : -
Search - Metalasia - Cromok - Butterfingers - maybe Wings and LEfthanded...
rock kapak will still rule the world! |
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