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April 3, 2013 / Album Review, Music, Review / by Andri Permana

Cocovan – Data Image

With no support from any label, French synth-pop singer-songwriter Cocovan release her first EP. The EP titled Data Image and contain four tracks. Two of them, Roosevelt Hotel and Bang Bang, are brand new tracks while another two, Babylove and Apples, released February last year as singles. Undeniable, Cocovan music is true pop gem. I’m enjoying every tunes she created for this album. Even she’s French, all of the EP materials written in English, which is rare. You can listen [...]

January 13, 2013 / Movie, Recent Released, Review / by Bintang Rafdiazhraf

Gangster Squad

As one of the movies that are released in the first weeks of 2013, Gangster Squad promises a lot of attraction. Its trailer already hailed this film as one of the promising releases in the beginning of 2013, as well as its all-star cast ensemble that may attract wider range of audience despite the genre of the film which is crime film that normally has dark tone and complicated plot. Based on the disclaimer in the opening screen, this movie [...]

December 8, 2012 / Album Review, Music, Music Video, Review, The Bastard's List / by Agun Wiriadisasra

Albums of The Year (2012)

There are so many good albums terribly released in year 2012. Rubbish albums also fortunately unleashed this year. So here i am, as an amateur music lover, try to sort them out to just 13 albums. Why 13? Because 10 is not enough and 20 is too many and i’m too lazy to review them. It is so hard for me to sort them out to only 13. So many newcomers. So many rubbishes. So many reunited bands. So many [...]

September 14, 2012 / Movie, Review / by Adhika Rahadian

Intouchables

C’est magnifique de simplicité et d’honnêteté - Begins with a black Maserati Quattroporte GTS roaring his ferocious engine sound in the city of Paris at night. Inside the car, the driver bet that he could lose the police chase behind them. It’s truly unexpectedly dashing opening scene with great lighting, great editing, and a beautiful score. If I must say it is one of the coolest opening scene I’ve ever saw in film, and yeah I’m a Petrol-head and a big fan of Earth, Wind and [...]

September 9, 2012 / Album Review, Music, Review / by Andri Permana

My Violainé Morning – The Next Episode of This World

My Violainé Morning is an Indonesian experimental shoegaze band based in Bandung, Indonesia. Formed on 2004, they are claiming their sounds as a comprising indie sound scape influenced by experimental shoegaze and post-rock with an ambient dominated and exclusion of delaying guitar. Almost on all of their songs, the band taking every single common instrument into a flowing delay harmonization. Combining two different sound character, wet hard distortion covered up by sparkling clean delaying guitar which we can hear them [...]

June 25, 2012 / Event, Review / by Adhika Rahadian

Star Wars Day Bandung 2012 Review

A number of characters in science fiction film “Star Wars” invading Bandung- Celebrating 35 years of Star Wars, in honor of the 1977 release date of Star Wars, a community for Star Wars enthusiasts called Order 66 Bandung Homebase organizes Star Wars Day, a gathering and art exhibitions for Star Wars enthusiast. This event was held at “Gedung Indonesia Menggugat”, Bandung. The event bundled with art exhibition, Star Wars properties and collectible exhibition, Star Wars Fan films screening, and several Star Wars dioramas from the scenes [...]

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Des Hommes Et Des Dieux

April 25, 2013 / Movie

When Faith Surpass the Human Logic. The French director slash writers in this film Xavier Beauvois succeed to provoke the left hemisphere part to take a war with the right hemisphere part inside our brain. Beauvois intertwined the film and the story really thick and dense until your mind start asking your conscious one set of ‘what if’ question. The story of this film is based on true events in Algeria during the 90′s. Back then Algeria was gripped by a gruesome, protracted civil war between the [...]

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My Week With Marilyn

April 25, 2013 / Movie, Recent Released

You’re Certainly Can Mrs. Williams, Can-Can “This is the story of mine”, said Colin narrating the opening of the film. Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is a 23 years old man who was born in a wealthy family, his father is an art-historian in England. He founded his solace in the small cinema and wanting to be part of the film industry ever since, and decided to leave home to pursue his dream. After being determined in pursuing his career at last Colin [...]

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My Violaine Morning – Lost

April 18, 2013 / Music, Review, Single Review

Last time we heard about them, they were releasing debut album: The Next Episode of This World (2011). Been pretty quiet in 2012, My Violainé Morning send me a good news about preparing their next album. It’s a mini album, titled Episode #1 as they mentioned on their press release. After a while we’ve been busy with preparation of Episode #1 Mini Album we realized that we need to publish our new sounds to all of you as the audiences. So here [...]

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

April 16, 2013 / Classic, Cult, Movie, Review

Penggemar film horror klasik? Tentunya wajib nonton horror besutan Wes Craven yang satu ini. Sutradara yang terkenal akan produksi-produksi horrornya ini mampu mengemas film ini dengan apik. Berbeda dengan tiga sekuel film Freddy Krueger yang diproduksi setelah tahun 1984, bahkan jauh berbeda dengan berbagai remake A Nightmare on Elm Street yang diproduksi pada era 2000an. Craven mampu untuk setia menghadirkan teror klasik yang khas Amerika dari awal hingga akhir cerita. Gaya teror yang begitu tiba-tiba dan di luar dugaan menghiasi [...]

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Submarine

April 16, 2013 / Movie, Review

A teenage romance comedy which its tone of Welsh is very thick –adapted from a novel with the same title written by Joe Durthone. The movie is about the life of a teenage boy, Oliver Tate, whose surroundings are attached with romanticism. Fully aware of his moderate position and potential, Oliver wishes that he could build a romantic relationship with a girl just like the other teenagers do. Beyond of his doubt, Jordana Bevan, the girl whom he has a [...]

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Cocovan – Data Image

April 3, 2013 / Album Review, Music, Review

With no support from any label, French synth-pop singer-songwriter Cocovan release her first EP. The EP titled Data Image and contain four tracks. Two of them, Roosevelt Hotel and Bang Bang, are brand new tracks while another two, Babylove and Apples, released February last year as singles. Undeniable, Cocovan music is true pop gem. I’m enjoying every tunes she created for this album. Even she’s French, all of the EP materials written in English, which is rare. You can listen [...]

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Crimsound – Bang!

March 31, 2013 / Music, Review, Single Review

There’s no much indie rock band we’ve heard from Bandar Lampung, Crimsound is one of Lampung folks that smart enough spreading their first single through the internet. Bang! falling to my lap in an early Sunday morning, my first thought was: it has pretty danceable sounds. The electronic influence that layered their music that become its selling point, those made an appealing intro with a kicking bass after it. I need to give a positive thought about that particular part. Vocal [...]

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Zoo – Prasasti

January 30, 2013 / Album Review, Music, Review

To say that Zoo is abnormal would be cruel. Their music is anthromorphopic, swerving from one edge to the other in a cacophony of sound and Rully Shabara’s powerful, exuberant vocals. From their visceral debut EP ‘Kebun Binatang’ to the wild, experimental sounds of their 2009 offering ‘Trilogi Peradaban’, they have broke new ground in producing some of the most powerful yet enigmatic music yet seen in Jogjakarta’s vibrant art scene. A crazy mixture of breathtaking post-punk, guttural noise, math-rock [...]

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Solterra – Umbra

January 30, 2013 / Album Review, Music, Review

Band rock progresif instrumental Solterra saya perkenalkan pertama kali Mei 2012 lalu, itu adalah ketika EP debut mereka Soul Earth Sun berhasil membuat saya jatuh hati. November 2012 lalu, empat orang musisi asal Fort Collins FL ini merilis EP kedua mereka yang berjudul Umbra. Umbra, mengandung tingkatan awesomeness yang sama dengan Soul Earth Sun, artinya tidak lebih banyak tapi juga tidak lebih sedikit, you can stream (or download) the whole album after the jump. Jumlah track di Umbra separo (berisi 7 track) [...]

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Daughter – Still

January 30, 2013 / Music Video

Last time we give Daughter (Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli & Remi Aguilella) a review, they were releasing their debut EP His Young Heart in 2011. On 2012, they only release one single titled Smother. Now, kickstarting 2013, on January 24th Daughter release a music video from their latest single Still. Here’s a good news, Still is taken from their forthcoming album. The album titled If You Leave, and will be released on March 18th in Europe and end of April for North [...]

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