Rampokan, by Raja Kirik

Rampokan

by Raja Kirik

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Lorenz Ritter Traditional indonesian music meets Einstürzende Neubauten, Test Dept. and SPK. And they all agree on P.I.L.'s epic line from "Rise": Anger is an energy. Fascinating album.

b This album is mindbending. It’s going to take me several listens to make sense of all of it, but I’m certain that every listen will be totally worth it!

Dumb mmmn was this recorded at 112 Ocean Avenue? it sure sounds like it

Anthony Magen so familiar and yet so fresh

mr sterile This is amazing that Nyege Nyege is releasing something from Java - Java is a site of super contemporary and exciting music - Yes No Wave is a great label -check out there webpage for loads of other local releases. Some of the best new music in the world, IMHO, comes from this geographical area.

And this looks like an interesting direction expansion for Nyege Nyege - what's coming next???

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1.	Bujang Ganong 11:50	buy track
2.	Barongan I 04:32	buy track
3.	Barongan II 03:22	buy track
4.	Barongan III 03:35	buy track
5.	Tarian Maut Dari Gunung 03:54	buy track
6.	Tanah Prahara 12:51	buy track
7.	Rampokan I 04:10	buy track
8.	Rampokan II 06:30	buy track
9.	Kubro 06:46	buy track
10.	DOR 08:11
11.	Raja Edan 02:56	buy track

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Video for DOR: youtu.be/lMVi7qTvzUU

Raja Kirik is Indonesian duo Yennu Ariendra and J. Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi, two radical artists who draw on Java's rich cultural traditions and its history of struggle against colonial oppression to create music that surprises, challenges and educates in equal measure. They root their music in the sound of shamanic trance dances, specifically the Jaranan, or Jathilan, a Hindu-Buddhist-era dance from the 11th Century that symbolizes the ways common people could overcome their rulers using evasion and agility.

"Rampokan" is Ariendra and Pribadi's second album, originally released by cult Indonesian label 'Yes No Wave' in June 2020, and now presented in a remastered edition with an additional previously unreleased track in a limited double vinyl edition. The album is inspired by centuries of cultural resistance in Java. When Dutch traders established a colonial presence on the island at the end of the 16th Century, the Javanese used traditional dances to express their opposition. Raja Kirik express this historical friction with a mind-bending fusion of traditional Indonesian percussion, digital noise and over-driven Dutch hard-style. The album roots itself in the stage of Jaranan performance where the players become possessed, connecting to their subconscious mind and the body's collective memory and trauma.

Ariendra and Pribadi reflect this by dousing evocative microtonal clanks from their arsenal of home-made instruments in expertly designed digital noise, and stringing the disparate elements together with the oppressive pneumatic pressure of high-BPM, warehouse-ready kick drums. Like the trance dances that inspired them, these tracks evolve and cycle from misery to ecstasy, spinning distinctive narratives with rhythm, texture and repetition.

The album title is taken from "Rampokan Macan", a colonial-era arena battle between spearmen, criminals and wild animals. The ceremonial fights were provided to illustrate the strength of the Javanese Royal Kingdoms in the face of the Dutch East Indies government; Raja Kirik's sophomore album is a similarly lavish display, offering a charged confrontation of IDM, hard dance music and traditional sounds that spits fire into the face of tyranny.

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released October 22, 2021

Artwork by Enka Komariah
Mastered by Declared Sound

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