SEA DIY NETWORK – Report #1 : MAY 10th 2001 ARCHIVE

Ricecooker Note: Back in 2001, there was a yahoogroup called SEA DIY Network which ran a newsletter on the South East Asian DIY scene, featuring mainly the latest compiled news from all over the region. I was a member of the group, but there were only 4 reports made from April to June 2001, after that the group died mysteriously and now it’s full of spammers.There was also a Forum dedicated to DIY but it also dead and the same as SEA DIY Network, filled with spam.

Anyway, Ricecooker decided to put all the old reports here as a documentation. Please keep in mind that all these details are OLD, so the links may not work anymore.

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Hello people,
Here’s the first report. Sorry for the delay. If you have anything new to share, from gigs to releases etc.
do write to seadiy@…

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SEA DIY NETWORK – Report #1

News:

THAILAND:

Item: “A new zine starting up in the South Thailand district of Pattani and it needs a lot of help from you people.”
contact: Mohd Qazafi Hj. Mahmood, 44, M.2 T. Napradu, A. Khokpho, C. Pattani, 94180 THAILAND

Item: “The main underground hang-out in Bangkok is Immortal Metal Bar on Soi Sawasdee (parallel to Khaosan Rd.). This is the centre for the new awakening of an underground scene there.”
contact: Immortal Bar email

New Releases:

MALAYSIA:

band: The Mojos approx.
style: “melodic indie rock” from Kuala Terengganu
media: demo tape with 5 tracks and “neat hard sleeve” called “Cappuccino Sold Here”
price: RM 4 ppd, overseas contact first.
address: Nervous Entertainment c/o Nizang, 911-A, Lrg Kenangan, Jln Sultan Mahmud, 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
contact: email the man

band: JellyBelly
approx. style: “melodic punk rock/indie”
from Kuala Terengganu
media: demo tape with 8 tracks, full-coloured, pro-pressed called The Hooha Hooligans” price: RM5 plus stamps address: Nervous Entertainment c/o Nizang, 911-A, Lrg Kenangan, Jln Sultan Mahmud, 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia contact: Jelly Belly email

name: MOSH zine
statement: “Interviews with BCKS (punk rock), 4-Elm Kids (emo-poppunk), Kindsadist (all-grrrl punk rock), Fastgame (old school HC), Airsick Pilots (punk rock/ska) and etc. Lots of skate photos, self-expressions, poems, artworks and etc.”
price: RM 4 ppd
address: Nervous Entertainment c/o Nizang, 911-A, Lrg Kenangan, Jln Sultan Mahmud, 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
contact: email me

band: Factory Effect
aprox. style: punk rock
media: demo price: RM4ppd/US3 ppd
address: Zulhazmie, Kg.Gua, Padang Tengku, Kuala Lipis, 27100 Pahang, Malaysia.

band: Criminals Squad
aprox. style: “political punk rock”
media: demo called “Siapakah Lanun Sebenar?”
price: send a blank tape, overseas must write first
address: P. Jone, 83, Tmn Cenderawasih, Mk Ulu Melaka 07000 Langkawi, Malaysia.

SINGAPORE:
name: Zerox zine #7
statement: “ZEROX #7 is out! Interviews with Zach Glass (ADP), Joe Kidd (AGE Recs), Loletta Michelle Tang (Singapore DIY nudist) and Derek Harn (Himsa) & friend Todd Porter. Lengthy columns and articles, thoughts, reviews, art, poetry, noise, music, rage and manifested humanintrinsic.”
price: $2
contact: trashkore

INDONESIA

name: Predestine Hour Of Death zine #1, Feb 2001
statement: “Interviews with Phobia (US), Toto of Loud&Freaks zine, Jakarta’s Step Forward and Singapore’s Distrust, plus profile on Japan’s Grubby and US’ Spiral Records” note: Written in Indonesian Bahasa, the person also carry a lot of Indon tapes.
price: USD 1.50 (Asia) or USD 2.50 (World)
address: Bowkore, JL. Pitara Rt 05/14, No. 31 – Depok 16436 West Java, Indonesia
contact: Ari Wibowo

DIY Contacts:

MALAYSIA:

type: DIY Distro
name: Noise Terrorist Distribution
distribution: “DIY tapes/vinyls or cd’s from all around the globe from Hc-Grind/Crust/Anarcho-Punk..etc but no Metal shit..Oi..or any ‘Earth Crishit’s clone” additional statement: “like to correspond with all the friends into music/anarchism/art/politics and anything similar”
contact: papakerma email
address: Aizudin Ali, Rumah Rakit, Lorong Gajah Mati, 15000 Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia

INDONESIA:
type: DIY label
name: No Label Records
info: “No Label is an active cassette label from Bandung which has more than 20 recordings released so far.”
contact: Fitrah

type: newsletter/zine
name: Crust As Fuct
contact: Ragnarok email
address: Dan, Jl. Ketintang, 4c/25 Surabaya 60231, Indonesia.

type: distro
name: Flick Distro, run by Arief Kulla
statement: “Semarang has two new releases, one is a comp called Semarang Independent Youth and Nihil, which is on Punk Invasion label” contact: Flick email
address: Flick Distro c/o Arief/Dedy, JL Bangau Raya No. 5, Runpun Diponegoro, Semarang 50282 Indonesia

type: band + zine
name: Disreject
statement: “hi, i’m CID from indonesia. i just started to make some news letters & fanzine, i wonder if u can give me some infos about HC/punks/crust bands in yer scene or maybe some catalogue or stickers.. soon i will have my demo tapes, DISREJECT, brutal crust band from surabaya, indonesia with cover songs from DISGUST, DISRUPT, ENT we just already record 18 brutality crustcore songs!!, i’m looking for band that want to split with us!!!”
contact: danank baguz

SINGAPORE:

type: distro/label
name: Outcast’s Impact AKA SickNoise Productions (Asia) AKA SICKNOISE ASIA PACIFIC RECORDS
statement: “Outcast’s Impact is now the Asian division of SickNoise Productions! SickNoise is a DIY tape and CD label based in Texas, USA, which has a penchant for grind, hc, noise but not confined to any particular genre.

Besides releasing demos and CDrs of under-exposed but amazing bands, it also distributes.” releases: “JINSEI NO TAMENO NIHON NO SAWAGI” which translates into “Japanese Noisey For Life” in the works, a double compilation CDr featuring the legendary SORE THROAT (UK), CATHETER (US), CONGENITAL HAEMORRHOIRDS (JAPAN), RAAGG (JAPAN), URGExx (JAPAN), D-RIVER (JAPAN), AZRAEL (JAPAN), PLEGH! (US), SAIKAI SURU (US), COMRADES (ITALY), LEAD (II) NITRATE(SINGAPORE) and many others.” more: ”

SickNoise releases will all be distributed from Oucast’s Impact soon. and as a reciprocrate, Outcast’s Impact tapes will be distributed by SickNoise.”
website: here
contact: Shaiful
address: Shaiful, Blk 554, Bedok North St.3, #08-241, Singapore 460554, SINGAPORE

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WARNING AGAIN! : THIS LIST IS FROM 2001!!! These links and emails may NOT work anymore!