http://melodicpop.multiply.com/ Melodic Pop came after I listened to Pure Saturday - "Enough", and as the fact that I am a fans of Pure Saturday and Rocket Rockers. Both of them are the pionners of their genres in Indonesian independent music scene. Pure Saturday has an Indie Pop influence that sounds like The Cure, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, and Wonder Stuff. Rocket Rockers has a Melodic Punk influence that sounds like NOFX, Blink 182, and New Found Glory. It mixed up to be "Melodic Pop", after Pure Saturday song "Enough" from their debut album "s/t Pure Saturday", 1996, is being covered by Rocket Rockers in their debut album "Soundtrack For Your Life", 2000. <a href="http://yoyok181288.shoutmix.net/" title="View Melodic Pop Shoutbox" target="new"><img src="http://www.shoutmix.com/link/shoutmix_9696.jpg" alt="View" style="border: 0" /></a> <b><a href="http://yoyok181288.shoutmix.net/" target="new">Melodic Pop Shoutbox</a></b> Sun, 4 May 2008 00:09:38 -0000 Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:40:25 -0000 http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/logo http://melodicpop.multiply.com 100 100 Rocket Rockers latest video, taken from their second album "Ras Bebas", "Pesta", one of the catchiest song in their album. Directed by Cerahati, one of famous independent clip director from http://melodicpop.multiply.com/video/item/2/Rocket_Rockers_-_Pesta Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:40:25 -0000 <a href="http://www.technorati.com/claim/m5pwky8zcj" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a> http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/54/Technorati_Profile Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:22:00 -0000 Kartunet.com, (Karya Tuna Netra) the web which is develop by Irawan Mulyanto, M. Ikhwan Toriqo, Dimas Prasetyo Muharam, and Aris Yohanes E, as the administrator, (two at the last are my school friends at Sixty Six High School) shown the high potential of Indonesian youth to be able to compete with this globalization competition. The name “Kartunet” is taken from the fact that all the developers of this web are all blind person. The web is about the media for appreciation. Not only blind person who is the members of this web, but it’s open for everybody who wants to publish their creation on the http://melodicpop.multiply.com/links/item/3/Kartunet.com_-_Karya_Kita_Semua Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:17:57 -0000 This is the song that inspired me describe “Melodic Pop” to the mixed genre between Melodic Punk and Indie Pop. “Enough”, which is taken from Pure Saturday’s debut album in 1996 “s/t” has changed significant musicality in Indonesian independent music scene. Pure Saturday itself, who has an Indie Pop influence from bands like The Cure (their biggest influence), Ride, My Bloody Valentine, in which their era and their music scene are full of hardcore and metal bands, has a huge breakthrough in Bandung and Indonesian independent music scene. The album that is being sold out for 5000 copies from mail order has opened the eyes of Indonesian music industry to the independent music scene. Pure Saturday itself has inspired a lot of Indie Pop band in Indonesia such as Mocca, The Milo, La Luna, Cherry Bombshell, Kubik, Ballads of the Cliche, and Whisper Desire. I hope this song could really meaningful to you listeners! http://melodicpop.multiply.com/music/item/3/Pure_Saturday_-_Enough Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:08:03 -0000 http://melodicpop.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Pure_Saturday_Night Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:23:09 -0000 <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">Because camera and handy cam were not allowed entering PL Fair 2006, I could just present you the report of the latest Pangudi Luhur High School Fair, which themed Batavia (Jakarta Custom), December 2^nd, 2006 by this piece of writing. I went to PL Fair 2006, at their school base at Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan, because I just want to see two of my favorite bands, which are <a href="http://www.myspace.com/homogenic">Homogenic</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/whisperdesire">Whisper Desire</a>, and also to accompany, four of my friends. I arrived at Pangudi Luhur High School at 4 PM, with four of my friends, but unfortunately, I didn’t realize that Homogenic has performed earlier in the afternoon, so we actually missed their show. I actually didn’t know what are the musicians who were going to perform in PL Fair, except Nidji (hehe..). So the band that I wait for its performance is Whisper Desire.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">I didn’t know why I just amazed with this band. After I saw them perform nicely at <a href="http://melodicpop.multiply.com/photos/album/3">Pure Saturday Night</a> (the last <a href="http://puresaturday.tk/">Pure Saturday</a> performance with th... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/53/PL_Fair_Batavia_2006_Meet_Whisper_Desire Sun, 3 Dec 2006 10:40:00 -0000 First video, from the best melodic punk band in Bandung indie scene, taken from their debut album "Soundtrack For Your Life" in 2000, "Tergila" video clip from Rocket Rockers. Check this http://melodicpop.multiply.com/video/item/1/Rocket_Rockers_-_Tergila Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:09:50 -0000 One of the greatest Melodic Punk albums in Bandung independent scene! This EP is the second album of Buckskin Bugle, and published by My Own Deck Record Label. I got this album from my friend who went to Bandung in 2004. It’s truly worth because the album only cost Rp12.000.000, and contains four catchy songs that will integrate easily in our head. I could say that Buckskin Bugle is truly inspired by NOFX, Blink 182, and New Found Glory. "Satu Anthem" as the first song really turns out our spirit and drives us to a happy mood. The lyrics are also very catchy and easy to remind. A great Melodic Punk song! “Sebait Kata”, as the second song, like the other melodic punk songs, tell us the story of a lonely guy who is thinking about his ex-girlfriend. Although, it has a sad lyric, but without forgetting the high content of musicality, Buckskin Bugle apparently did arrange the song to increase our spirit and not stay at the emo mood. Their additional guitarists, Iwan Turbo, are helpin... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/reviews/item/2 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:53:50 -0000 Dee, penulis novel ternama Indonesia lewat novel serial best-sellernya Supernova ini berhasil mengompilasikan kumpulan sastra cerita maupun prosa selama satu dekade sejak tahun 1995 sampai 2005 dalam sebuah “Filosofi Kopi” yang namanya diambil dari salah satu karya yang juga disajikan dalam buku ini. Sebagian besar cerita yang terkandung dalam “Filosofi Kopi” lebih cenderung mengungkapkan tentang ekspresi cinta, serta gejolak individu melalui tokoh-tokoh cerita berkarakter kuat. Kandungan unsur emosi yang cukup dalam, namun dengan penggunaan kata-kata sehari-hari yang tersusun rapih, membuat karya sastra ini cukup mengalir untuk dibaca. Tidak salah bahwa sang penulis sendiri menyarankan “Filosofi Kopi” sebagai karya sastra yang cocok menjadi teman saat bersantai minum kopi. Di dalamnya, kita dapat mencerna carik-carik tulisan Dee dengan ciri khasnya yang banyak menggunakan metafora, yang dipadu dengan gramatikal yang tersusun rapih, yang tanpa mengurangi unsur sastra yang ada. ... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/reviews/item/1 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:49:06 -0000 Visit PL Fair, the Pangudi Luhur High School Show! Whisper Desire, a beautiful Melodic Indie Pop band from Jakarta, will perform Sunday afternoon - evening at PL Fair. Join the http://melodicpop.multiply.com/calendar/item/10001/PL_Fair_2006_Waiting_for_Whisper_Desire Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:04:06 -0000 http://melodicpop.multiply.com/photos/album/2/Sixty_Six_High_School Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:09:40 -0000 http://melodicpop.multiply.com/photos/album/1/Tri_Handoyo Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:08:39 -0000 This is my MySpace, the place where all the bands meet thier fans http://melodicpop.multiply.com/links/item/2/httpwww.myspace.comtrihandoyo Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:57:48 -0000 This is the place where you can directly do the social networking with people. Not like MySpace, Friendster is a more personal social networking site that allowed you to connect with people you've already know, or the people who do you want to know, becoming your friend. At my Friendster site, you could see my pesonal profile, that some of them use Bahasa Indonesia, to be able to talk with my Indonesian http://melodicpop.multiply.com/links/item/1/httpwww.friendster.comtrihandoyo Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:53:29 -0000 <img src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs1/1.gif?et=sGIO5jpsb5yfRiaVINc8HA"> It’s a great achievement for Indonesia to have very talented youth who exist in this globalization era. Internet is one of the most reliable technologies to be able to access lots of web sites. Although we seen most of them are ordinary, this one is a very special one. This is the website that is fully develop by Indonesian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_classroom">inclusion</a> student. <a href="http://www.kartunet.com/">Kartunet.com</a>, (Karya Tuna Netra) the web which is develop by Irawan Mulyanto, M. Ikhwan Toriqo, Dimas Prasetyo Muharam, and Aris Yohanes E, as the administrator, (two at the last are my school friends at Sixty Six High School) shown the high potential of Indonesian youth to be able to compete with this globalization competition. The name “Kartunet” is taken from the fact that all the developers of this web are all blind person. The web is about the media for appreciation. Not only blind person who is the members of this web, but it’s open for everybody who wants to publish their creation on the web. We could send some poetry, short story, crit... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/41/Kartunet.com_-_Karya_Tuna_Netra Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:38:00 -0000 <a href="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs4/1.jpeg?et=PuHIX8J0VURAotI6qdWp3w"><img src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs6/2.jpeg?et=0eEvwvc8r72zHVRsjqUYXw" alt="Sixty Six High School Scout enters Tempo Magazine, 20 August 2006" border="0" /></a> I must be proud being a Sixty Six High School student because, fortunately my school is being published by the best national &amp; political magazine, Tempo Magazine (which has the same status of Time Magazine in U.S.) as The most dicipline and active scout organization of all Jakarta 2006. Congratulation! Links: <a href="http://www.tempointeraktif.com/">Tempo Magazine</a> http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/42/Congratulation_Pramadewa_Gugus_Depan_Sixty_Six_High_School Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:05:00 -0000 Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting">Scout</a> Indonesia and 21th Anniversary of Pramadewa Gugus Depan Indonesia, which based in Sixty Six High School, Scout Extracurricular made some kind of volunteer event to the students, which is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation">blood donation</a>. They invited a minibus of <a href="http://www.palangmerah.org/">Palang Merah Indonesia</a> (Red Cross Indonesia) to do blood donation to everybody who wants to voluntarily donate their blood to the people who are in need. The event started at 10.00AM in the morning, and being participated by lots of school members, not only the teachers and the school committee, but also the students. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokenplectrum/212481313/"><img src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs9/1.jpeg?et=M3vSKoH9zUTX9QDA7AhEUw" border="0" /></a> Palang Merah Indonesia’s (PMI) minibus carried 2 persons of doctor, 2 persons of nurses, and a person who does the registration. It also carried 4 folding bed, which is used for making blood transfusion. The PMI team, were also being helped by the Scout team to do the preparation. The event took place in the Common Room of Sixty Six High School. The events went on for 2 hours until 12.00AM. On this eve... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/43/45th_Anniversary_of_Scout_Indonesia_and_21st_Anniversary_of_Pramadewa Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:02:00 -0000 As the day we were going back to school, at the new school year, our school is presenting some kind of yearly program to promote our school extracurricular to the new students. Every extracurricular in our school were showing and promoting their activities and program by presenting their action in the main field of Sixty Six High School. After the clock ticks to 10.00 in the morning, our Vice President for Sixty Six High School announced the student from the microphone that there will be an extracurricular promotion, and our school subject is being postponed until the next day. That’s a sign that we were officially “free” from school subjects at that day. After the school bell rang, the entire students went downstairs to see the action of every extracurricular shows that are promoted in the main field. The crowd started to increase when the Paskibra (Pasukan Pengibar Bendera) 66, as the first extracurricular, were entering the main field. They were showing their firmness and corporat... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/44/Sixty_Six_Extracurricular_Show_2006 Sun, 6 Aug 2006 16:18:00 -0000 We all now, today is 18 of July 2006, the day which every student in Indonesia are going back to school, continuing the next school year. I personally enter the XII class of senior high school in Sixty Six Senior High School, precisely in XII-IPS-III (Social III). I got the absent number 34 from total 35 students in my class, and I also have the same class again with my tablemate at the XI-IPS-I. I think this class is also dominant by girls rather than boys (13 boys and 22 girls) like the same class in XI-IPS-I. I think the friends are pretty good, and until I finished the school today, I haven’t felt any “distortion” at all. Rocky, one of my classmates is chosen to be the chief of the class that we did it on voting. He only had 2 votes’ leading from my tablemate Romi. Now, Rocky is still arranging the hierarchy of the class and (I hope) he also preparing the future plans for the class. We also had a little short brake to make each person of my classmate, recognize each other. Well, I... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/45/First_Day_At_The_New_School_Year Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:41:00 -0000 <img src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs66/1.jpeg?et=MYZ5I8Ts0kQdgJ%2BaRzAdnQ" border="0" /> I found these lyrics in one of my notebook, which is covered with violet paper, when I was cleaning up my room, preparing for tomorrows new school year. I just realized that, this is the book that I used when I was at the orientation session when I enter Sixty Six Senior High School. The lyrics are sung when we were presenting our class in the main field. Check this out! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84714000@N00/190748030/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/51/190748030_9709f7c12e.jpg?v=0" border="0" /></a> Lyrics: Kelas kita 10-H, Ha-ha-ha Kami datang ke sekolah Untuk belajar dengan rajin dan mengapai cita-cita 10-H emang keren Kami anak 10-H Senang tertawa Tapi kami juga senang bekerja Kami datang kesini untuk gapai prestasi Agar menjadi anak yang berbakti 10-H - Ha-ha-ha-ha Just like early days nostalgia! http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/46/X-H_Memories Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:26:00 -0000 The final day of Class Meeting 2006! Today is Friday. Beside “Friday I’m In Love” –The Cure-, this Friday which is 23rd of June 2006, were being celebrated the final day of the Sixty Six Class Meeting 2006. Today, the matches were competing full of Basketball matches. First was the Girls Basketball Final, and then continued with the Boys Basketball competition, and a friendly match between All-Star I and II (which contains the X and XI best basketball players) and All-Star III (the 2005 Sixty Six School team which the members are from the third class). Because this was the final day of the program, every matches that is being applied, were full of spectators. They were very enthusiast seeing every match. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84714000@N00/180709343/"><img src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs71/1.jpeg?et=pSqgxdE7%2BOBvNsm%2C0MN%2C%2Cg" border="0" /></a> I arrived at school at about 7.40 in the morning, and I suddenly heard the committee counting the number, 10 until one. Apparently the X-F Girls Basketball team has entered the main field of Sixty Six High School, and they were waiting for the opponent team, which is XI-IPS-II to en... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/47/Class_Meeting_2006_Final_Day Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:13:00 -0000 Day three of the Class Meeting 2006! Today, there are Boys Futsal, Lari Berpasangan (running with a rope tightened up to each two persons group), and Girls Basketball. The crowd was still standing until the last match pf each competition. The dominant competition today is the Girls Basketball competition, which is never got fewer spectators. Today’s competition started a bit late, for about 30 minutes after 7.30 in the morning. <a href="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs86/1.jpeg?et=agg%2BRpPSAgCI5qPp%2BfrapA"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs86/1.jpeg?et=agg%2BRpPSAgCI5qPp%2BfrapA" alt="" border="0" /></a>The first competition, were continuing the Boys Futsal match which has reached semi final. The first match always an interesting match, because people who were coming earlier always wanted to get satisfied from the first action of the team. XI-IPA-IV met XI-IPS-3 at the first match and this was an interesting game, competing between a science class and a social class. Rian from XI-IPA-IV presented the 1st goal, and being quickly replied by a XI-IPS-3 goal. XI-IPA-IV didn’t give up just yet, and a goal from Beler changed the score into 2-1 for XI-IPA-IV. They se... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/48/Class_Meeting_2006_Day_3 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:44:00 -0000 Today is a “Gibol” / “Gila Bola” / “Football Crazy” day. It’s not because today is a World Cup 2006 day, but today in Sixty Six Class Meeting 2006, all the contestant of were competing each other in football. Boys and girls were taking part of this competition. Well, although the spectators were a bit lesser then tomorrow, but the crowd still did not decreasing. Today’s matches are for the football lovers only. We were competing Girls Futsal, Panco (Arm Wrestling), and Boys Futsal today. And the crowd still stands until the last minute of every match. <a href="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs123/1.jpeg?et=%2CluwqsbpAt6hfuJEHP45hQ"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://images.melodicpop.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/RWqp5woKCq4AAH-gKMs141/10.jpeg?et=CTBZ35km8Kvmk7VkD2IdoQ" alt="" border="0" /></a> At about 8.00 AM, the competition began with the Girls Futsal, continued from the first day which has not been finished. Today’s Girls Futsal was entering the semifinal competition. The first match were competing the X-D class VS XI-IPA-I class. This first match was a tough match, with the score end 2-1 for XI-IPA-I. Shiva gave the first and the second goal to XI-IPA-I, from her directed long shots, and one goal from X-D is by Faiza. S... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/49/Class_Meeting_2006_Day_2 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:27:00 -0000 Today, our school (Sixty Six High School) made a reunion program called Class Meeting 2006, which is held in our own school. This program is continued for 4 days total and involved all member of the school. This Class Meeting 2006 is like a farwell activities to celebrate our graduation to go to the next class, and for the third class is for the last farwell activities with their juniors. These activities are more physical than mental. We celebrate our farwell with doing some positive activities by making a school competition, which divided into classes, and at this Class Meeting, we were only arranged for sport competitions, which expressed class unity and corporation. "We had 6 types of sport competition that we arranged at this Class Meeting 2006, which is: 1. Basketball 2. Outdoor Futsal (Outdoor Soccer with Indoor Soccer rules) Girls and Boys 3. Badminton 4. Tarik Tambang (Pulling a Rope on each side) 5. Arm Werstling 6. Lari Berpasangan (Running with one of each couples feet ti... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/50/Class_Meeting_2006_Day_1 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:57:00 -0000 At the second day, which was the most tired day at the trip, we went to place like The Artificial Insemination Institute at Lembang, West Java (place for doing artificial insemination for cows), to "Gua Pakar" at Taman Hutan Raya, Ir. Juanda, Bandung (which is a cave that was being used by the Dutch as a place for saving amunition at the colonization era, and one of famous Dutch inheritance in Bandung.), to The Geology Museum at Jalan Diponegoro, and the last is went shopping at Dago, and Cihampelas. 6.00 AM, Went up from bed. I got up a bit late this morning, because of the late night sleep last night. I had a bad sleep last night, because of the unstopable flu that stroke most of room mate, included me. I wonder why so many people had a terrible flu last night. By the way, I sraightly went praying Subuh, in my little room, and than took a shower. When I was taking a shower, one of my room mate was playing an Saosin song "I Can Tell" from his N-Gage, which made me and my friend outsi... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/51/School_Trip_Day_2 Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:23:00 -0000 <p>Me and my friends were going to Bandung last Monday until Tuesday to do a school trip. This is trully the first time we do the school trip in this year of study. At the first time, this trip was arranged unfortunately by my Sociological teacher at school who had a plan for going to some place for doing some research about cultur dynamic. Her name is Bu Dewi, and the first thought was appeared when our class (XI-IPS-I / Eleven Social One) decided to do some holiday trip. We suggested to Bu Dewi to arrange some year end holiday to celebrate our farewell together for our class only. But I think she thinks differently. She spontaneously made some arrangement about a class trip to a place to do a field reaserch. My friend was directly being told to make some kind of voting to choose, where we were going, how long, and the price of it. Well, because it's a collective trip, the price of the trip must be paid by individuals. Because of that, we must vote for the best, the most interesting, ... http://melodicpop.multiply.com/journal/item/52/School_Trip_Day_1 Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:03:00 -0000