Hajar Asyura Scores Indonesian Horror Films by Day. His Techno Project Just Beat the World on Bandcamp.

A Different Kind of Scary

Hajar Asyura's day job is making Indonesian horror films sound worse than they already look. He scored Qorin, Sijjin and Tumbal Kanjeng Iblis, three films built to make audiences flinch. His night job, recording alone as 8110118, sounds like it belongs in the credits of something even bleaker. In July, that side project became the only Southeast Asian record on Bandcamp Daily's monthly rundown of the best electronic music on the platform, sitting next to acts from Belgium, the UK and Georgia. Nobody in Jakarta needed to tell Bandcamp's editors this record was good. They found it on their own.

Jiwa Krungu

The album is called Jiwa Krungu, Javanese for "audible soul," a deliberate flip on jiwa ketok ("visible soul"), a phrase from Indonesian art history about work that reveals what's inside the artist. Self-released on Bandcamp on July 23, it's seven tracks built between late 2025 and mid-2026, and it does not behave like a club record. Opener "Embong" runs 9:13. "Leang-Leang" runs almost ten minutes. Nothing here is built for a DJ to mix out of in four bars.

Asyura has described the record as an attempt to capture what it feels like to live inside "an age of information overload, of endless demands, and of existential anxieties," while also just getting through a normal day in Jakarta, a city he calls inseparable from overstimulation. Musically that means hardcore techno bleeding into trance, breakcore snapping under deconstructed club rhythm, and, on more than one track, an actual metal guitar shredding through the mix. It sounds less like a DJ set and more like somebody working through something, in real time, on tape.

Not a One-Off

8110118 isn't Asyura's first outlet for this stuff. He's also one half of the techno duo 0636, alongside Bimo Pratama, and 8110118 already has a back catalog: Eskatologi, a demon-faced EP of its own, and the earlier Cabak.

The film-composer day job isn't incidental either. Scoring horror for a living means Asyura already knows how to build dread that lands on a specific beat; Jiwa Krungu just points that same instinct at the dancefloor instead of a jump scare. It's the kind of range this site keeps running into in Indonesia, from RAMPAK G bending South African gqom into a Yogyakarta accent to Munir rebuilding Bandung's lost disco archive by hand. Jakarta's clubs get the attention (see our own guide to the city's rooms), but records like this one are made mostly alone, mostly at home, with nobody's dancefloor in mind first.

How to Hear It

There's no Spotify link, no SoundCloud, not even a YouTube upload as of this week. Jiwa Krungu lives on Bandcamp and nowhere else, which is either a limitation or the whole point, depending on how much you trust an artist who'd rather sell you the file than feed a playlist algorithm. Either way, it's the fastest way any of us has heard of an artist on this beat getting picked out by an outlet with Bandcamp Daily's reach, and it happened without a press release crossing our desk. Worth the ten minutes it takes to sit with "Leang-Leang" start to finish.

Cover photo and album artwork: Hajar Asyura / 8110118, via Bandcamp.