Happy Record Store Day 2021: A Classic Story Behind Physical Release
JAKARTA – In 2007, the owners of music stores in the United States (US) gathered. They initiated a celebration of the physical release of musical works. The holiday they call as Record Store Day. This desire has spread throughout the world, including Indonesia.
The first Record Store Day in Indonesia was held in 2012. Starting from Monka Magic, a small shop in the corner of the legendary bookstore, Aksara, Kemang, South Jakarta, Satria Ramadan and his partner Mayo initiated this event in Indonesia.
Starting from a small celebration, Record Store Day Indonesia grew. Since then, they have regularly held Record Store Day every April 21. The day of the Record Store Day celebration itself actually had a change.
In the early days of its celebrations in the US, Record Store Day was held every April 19. However, the celebration of Record Store Day shifted to April 21 or every third week of April. Record Store Day celebrations also underwent changes in the pandemic era.
In 2020, Record Store Day in Indonesia was held on June 20. The format has also been modified. Record Store Day is held on a smaller scale. The stage action of the musicians was replaced with a spinning session.
Record Store Day also applies the RSD Drops scheme. Musicians and labels can submit their releases to the Record Store Day email address. The releases were then displayed and sold at the Record Store Day event.
Releases on Record Store Day 2021
This year the scheme is not much different. Record Store Day 2021 will be held at Tujuhari Coffee, South Jakarta. The available releases are:
- Deni Taufiq Adi/Lemah Letih Lesu/Tarsius Records
- Jemala/St. Germain/Self Released
- Mutombo/Dreadfully Yours/Tarsius Records
- Hindia/Bayangan/PHR Records
- Mocca/Day By Day/PHR Records
- Lazysofia/When You're Mad/Tarsius Records
- Christian Putra/Ardor/Tarsius Records
- Carrom Club/Self Released
- Ocean Blender/Indonesian Shoegazer Compilation vol.2/Anoa Records
- Dive The Lions: a shoegazing split of Dive Collate (Indonesia) & The Lions Constellation (Spain)/Anoa Records
- Galvanmik x SCND/Self Released
- Humsikk/Teenage Sound/Tarsius Records
- Planetbumi/The Rest and The Worst of../Tarsius Records
- Compadres/Mannasiya Records
- Various Artists (Dhira Bongs, Vira Talisa ft. ADORIA-MLDJAZZPROJECT S01, Aya Anjani ft. Parlemen Pop, Mondo Gascaro ft. Andien, Kurosuke)/Lagu Baru Dari Masa Lalu/Irama Nusantara (fully support by MLDSPOT)
- Sedaka Twist/Chandrabaga Records
- Koil/Second Installment/Warkop Musik
In addition to the music above, there are several exclusive releases prepared for this event. The release came from Sunwich, with an album titled Storage by SRM label. Ivy League Music's pop psychedelic unit Ranu Pani released Departure.
In addition, Eleventwelfth released the CD Everything After by the Japanese label, Water Slide Records. And especially, the latest release Sore, Real, Is It. This song is the first new work after two years ago they released their EP, Mevrouw.
About Real, Is It from Sore
Interestingly, the song Real, Is It, is already 25 years old, older than Sore itself. The song was written by the bassist, Awan Garnida in 1996.
The song was written by Awan with the title Is It Real. Two other Sore personnel, Ade Paloh, and Bemby Gusti, then gave their touch to Awan's old work.
So the song was released with the title Real, Is It. Ade Paloh, in a statement released by Sore, said that this song is a description of the feelings of someone who is dating the opposite sex.
Ade describes the feeling as a swirl of images between the two. "The song tells about our questions when we are close to someone and they go unanswered," said Ade.
"In the end, the questions can only spin in our minds, as if they were dancing," he added.
The creation process for Real, Is It also involved the name of the film's producer, Tia Hasibuan. If we hear the sound of the ukulele at the beginning of the song, that's Tia's touch.
A number of other names were also involved, such as Jason Warowuntu playing keyboards, Gilang Pramudya playing guitar, and Adhi Rahman as backing vocals. On Record Store Day 2021, Real, Is It will be released as a limited number of CDs.
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