Otherwise, I was actually one of the people who pioneered the mixing of traditional music with hip hop here, when I came here and started producing almost all rap acts were still trying to sound like House Of Pain (often even doing their Jump Around song on stage) just check the stuff I uploaded a while back "Madrotter"....
Oh jeez, sorry I missed your reply. 2021/2022 were a little confusing! I'll have to go digging around for more Sweet Martabak. Thanks! It's funny, I was having a conversation with this uber driver from Iran about different kinds of crossovers from wayback, like Hindi film music, or when anywhere in Asia (never mind Egypt and Lebanon, which are my specialty, as I play middle eastern music mainly - or used to) got guitars and bass and drums and keys... I was like 'I really like it when they're rapping with the local flavor included, it doesn't happen very often anymore tho, you could get a track from Tehran and the production and delivery is the same as Iceland, or Saskatchewan, or Bandung, or the Congo. BORING! Same could be said for the new wave of Mongolian metal, tho. Oh well. Carry on. And really, thanks for the years of posts here. I initially started listening to Jaipong with Idjah Hadidjah's Tongrerret and back then that was it if you were in the upper midwest of the USA, although I did bribe someone to bring tapes back from Indonesia too... Didn't know what to ask for tho!
Brilliant! Thank you! Are there any other examples of hip-hop or rap from Indonesia that have the 'native elements' mixed in?
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Otherwise, I was actually one of the people who pioneered the mixing of traditional music with hip hop here, when I came here and started producing almost all rap acts were still trying to sound like House Of Pain (often even doing their Jump Around song on stage) just check the stuff I uploaded a while back "Madrotter"....
Oh jeez, sorry I missed your reply. 2021/2022 were a little confusing! I'll have to go digging around for more Sweet Martabak. Thanks! It's funny, I was having a conversation with this uber driver from Iran about different kinds of crossovers from wayback, like Hindi film music, or when anywhere in Asia (never mind Egypt and Lebanon, which are my specialty, as I play middle eastern music mainly - or used to) got guitars and bass and drums and keys... I was like 'I really like it when they're rapping with the local flavor included, it doesn't happen very often anymore tho, you could get a track from Tehran and the production and delivery is the same as Iceland, or Saskatchewan, or Bandung, or the Congo. BORING! Same could be said for the new wave of Mongolian metal, tho. Oh well. Carry on. And really, thanks for the years of posts here. I initially started listening to Jaipong with Idjah Hadidjah's Tongrerret and back then that was it if you were in the upper midwest of the USA, although I did bribe someone to bring tapes back from Indonesia too... Didn't know what to ask for tho!
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