Capitalism is not the person who consciously decides to make a profit at the expense of some poor punk label (the common image of the corporate ‘killing’ of punk), but rather imbues all our transactions – down to your recent purchase from AK Press.
[…]
Are we only able to express our political anger through manufactured music? Is there something to the idea that once we have already recorded the performance of music that its true moment of expression has passed? Or was Rage Against The Machine right – that by “selling out” they were able to get the message to thousands of college students who would never have thought to buy an $18 Che shirt? It’s all a bunch of questions for me, and maybe that’s the way to go. Maybe there is something to the process of contradiction, where paradox can drive something forward – where the contradictions that constitute punk itself can supply some means for change or an alternative position – even if only temporarily.
[…]
It seems that this has gotten so easy that we can commend ourselves for running a tiny label, not fucking over bands, dealing with ‘underground’ distributors, and saying/printing all the politically correct things, that we lose touch with how we are so completely integrated into the very formation that we had naively thought we were rushing into battle against.
[…]
Maybe we should merely re-read the lyrics to Crass and others who actually tried (and are trying) to live an alternative rather than trying to sell an alternative; not to copy what they did, but to imagine new ways of living rebellion. Maybe that is this aberration of ‘punk’ that both instills me with hope and haunts me with its inherent contradictions. But ultimately for me, the revolution has to wait – I still have 10 grinding-blast-crust-violence-thrash-core EPs to release onto an already over-saturated commodities market.
“It seems that this has gotten so easy that we can commend ourselves for running a tiny label, not fucking over bands, dealing with ‚Äòunderground‚Äô distributors, and saying/printing all the politically correct things, that we lose touch with how we are so completely integrated into the very formation that we had naively thought we were rushing into battle against.”
kunyah, kunyah dan hadam….. jangan ludah balik… takut jatuh ke muka sendiri…
🙂
the ricecooker lagi bijok berbanding OUTO. tp OUTO pun ok gok…tp org dok paham…!
bagus bnyk kedai diusahakan oleh bdk2 scene skrg dok kesoh la bdk indie ke (free love prod), goth/grind (tools and trade) punk panggang ke (bakal dibuke joe kidd)…at least kite kenal bdk2 ning and senang berkire.
MAK AIH…KAU ORANG NI DAH TAK ADA BENDA LAIN KE NAK DISEMBANGKAN? CUBA BINCANG PASAL
1. KENAPA SCENE ZINE AGAK MALAP DI MALAYSIA?
2. APA PENDAPAT KAU ORANG KALAU RICECOOKER DITERBITKAN DALAM BENTUK MAJALAH DAN PERLU PULA MENDAPATKAN LESEN DARI KDN? MACAM MANA PULA DGN EXPOSURE MAGS/REVOLUTION ETC?
3. KENAPA DIY HCPUNK MALAYSIA SANGAT JUMUD? DIY YANG TAK BERKEMBANG?
4. KENAPA SUKA CONDEMN ORANG LAIN?
5. KENAPA KITA SENDIRI YANG TAK BUAT GIG DIY KITA, DALAM MASA YANG SAMA MENGATA ORANG LAIN TAK DIY?
6. BRO JOE KIDD KENA BUAT POLLS TENTANG DIY…KIRANYA RESULT DIA TU BOLEH JADI UNDANG2 PERTUBUHAN HCPUNK MALAYSIA…
“Jumud berasal daripada perkataan jamad, bermaksud benda keras yang tidak bernyawa. Dari segi istilahnya, ia boleh diertikan dengan berotak beku, sempit, pemikiran masih dijajah atau sebagainya.” – petikan dari Istilah Fekah
dead topic but i just wanna say that diy jeff is actually from Centennial, Colorado, USA. At least that’s where his IP directed me to. Just found a good tracer application and tested it, just out of curiousity. What does it mean tho? Nothing really.
dah dah la tu…just thinking about what ourself bagi pada scene , cukupla…buat apa nk bising2 hal orang if diri sendiri x ada bg apa2…kalo dah bagi, good…then tambah lagi…and tambah lagi..and tambah jugak lagi…and tambah jugak jugak lagi…thats all…my 2 cent comment..
this is a zine, an archive, a blog, an event calendar, a place where rock’n’roll, especially of the fringe + underground, independent, DIY and related, came to be highlighted, promoted and documented.
running as a scene-blog since 2004, this website was operating as The Ricecooker Shop‘s portal from early 2007. TRS was a physical, brick’n’mortar music store first based at the Annexe, Central Market for more than three years, before moving on to two different locations in the city.
three years after the shop closed down in 2014, it morphed into a library/museum or an archive. we call this The Ricecooker Archives – Southeast Asian Rock’n’Roll Treasury (quite grand, we know).
The Ricecooker Archives have our own space at 84B, The Zhongshan Building, Jalan Rotan, Kampung Attap, Kuala Lumpur. here we collect, collate, clean-up, digitize, database and archive rock’n’roll artifacts from around the region. our aim is to preserve and to share it with the world.
note: the setting up our physical archives is still on-going, so those who wanna come meet and visit, do get in touch with us first. terima kasih.
Max 625, MRR #280
sila baca dan kunyah petikan di bawah :
“It seems that this has gotten so easy that we can commend ourselves for running a tiny label, not fucking over bands, dealing with ‚Äòunderground‚Äô distributors, and saying/printing all the politically correct things, that we lose touch with how we are so completely integrated into the very formation that we had naively thought we were rushing into battle against.”
kunyah, kunyah dan hadam….. jangan ludah balik… takut jatuh ke muka sendiri…
🙂
the ricecooker lagi bijok berbanding OUTO. tp OUTO pun ok gok…tp org dok paham…!
bagus bnyk kedai diusahakan oleh bdk2 scene skrg dok kesoh la bdk indie ke (free love prod), goth/grind (tools and trade) punk panggang ke (bakal dibuke joe kidd)…at least kite kenal bdk2 ning and senang berkire.
😛
MAK AIH…KAU ORANG NI DAH TAK ADA BENDA LAIN KE NAK DISEMBANGKAN? CUBA BINCANG PASAL
1. KENAPA SCENE ZINE AGAK MALAP DI MALAYSIA?
2. APA PENDAPAT KAU ORANG KALAU RICECOOKER DITERBITKAN DALAM BENTUK MAJALAH DAN PERLU PULA MENDAPATKAN LESEN DARI KDN? MACAM MANA PULA DGN EXPOSURE MAGS/REVOLUTION ETC?
3. KENAPA DIY HCPUNK MALAYSIA SANGAT JUMUD? DIY YANG TAK BERKEMBANG?
4. KENAPA SUKA CONDEMN ORANG LAIN?
5. KENAPA KITA SENDIRI YANG TAK BUAT GIG DIY KITA, DALAM MASA YANG SAMA MENGATA ORANG LAIN TAK DIY?
6. BRO JOE KIDD KENA BUAT POLLS TENTANG DIY…KIRANYA RESULT DIA TU BOLEH JADI UNDANG2 PERTUBUHAN HCPUNK MALAYSIA…
HAHAHA…AKU PUN PENING LER…
err, apa itu “jumud” ah? hmmm.
ok. dapat:
“Jumud berasal daripada perkataan jamad, bermaksud benda keras yang tidak bernyawa. Dari segi istilahnya, ia boleh diertikan dengan berotak beku, sempit, pemikiran masih dijajah atau sebagainya.” – petikan dari Istilah Fekah
You learn something new everyday…
lalala
0-0.selamat hari raya semua.maaf zahir takde batin.ok.hehe..
dead topic but i just wanna say that diy jeff is actually from Centennial, Colorado, USA. At least that’s where his IP directed me to. Just found a good tracer application and tested it, just out of curiousity. What does it mean tho? Nothing really.
dudes, this is so wrong. this topic should be pulled off..
dah dah la tu…just thinking about what ourself bagi pada scene , cukupla…buat apa nk bising2 hal orang if diri sendiri x ada bg apa2…kalo dah bagi, good…then tambah lagi…and tambah lagi..and tambah jugak lagi…and tambah jugak jugak lagi…thats all…my 2 cent comment..
saya suka brayok. brayok cover “johnny”!!
aku suke cover tahe allure of manure…