Tell me you aren't tired of the DIY Indonesian hardcore that's been squatting these pages for the pasts weeks (months?), because there's another box of gold headed my way shortly and I am not even close to finished with the last two deliveries. SE Asian DIY hardcore is a fascinating case study - the countries and scenes that make up the region are completely different in so many ways, the scene in Philippines was popping in the '80s but Indonesian punk didn't really start growing for another decade. Singapore is essentially a "first world" country economically but the scene there is inextricably (and geographically) connected to Malaysia's. And while all of these scenes grew separately, they all influenced one another and they all drew from the resources that were available.....notably the (then) punk scenes from the US, Japan and Europe. Now I'm left to figure out how a band like THE END 32 came to exist in early 2000s Indonesia. The sound is unbridled ferocious DIY grindcrust, and I feel like this was atypical in early '00s Jakarta (though I could easily be wrong). We're talking ASSÜCK level blasting - listen to the way the blasts change speed on "Against Animal Testing" and then ask yourself what the fuck you were doing in 2002. That shit was (is) next level - straight up - and then they do the techno shit on"Stupid 2" and my mind is blown because of the when and the where, you know? There aren't many DIY punk/grind releases that hit this hard regardless of context and/or origin.....this shit is special.
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