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4 articles on Yogyakarta from Loopliner, the English-language voice of Asian electronic music: news, releases, club nights and festival coverage across Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Sanjonas Made a Vow to Keep Making Music. RAMPAK G Releases the Proof on October 15.
Sanjonas' second album fuses gqom, marawis and lion dance music into a nine-track meditation on Javanese self-discipline. It lands October 15 on his own Yogyakarta label RAMPAK G.
RAMPAK G Gave Five Producers the Same Sample Pack. Here's What Yogyakarta's Gqom Label Got Back.
Symbiotic III sent one folder of sounds to five producers in Indonesia and Mexico and let them fight it out. The Yogyakarta label built on gamelan and Durban gqom just released the results.
RAMPAK G Is Giving Durban Gqom an Indonesian Accent
A Yogyakarta-rooted label is taking South Africa's log-drum sound and running it through gendang and Indonesian folk texture. Symbiotic II is the proof, and Mixmag Asia noticed too.
GAUNG Doesn't Want to Be a Festival, and Yogyakarta Is Better For It
Three weeks from now, a Yogyakarta collective called GAUNG will run a festival with no headliner, no ticket price and sixteen collectives sharing the same week. Here's why that's the point.