R.E.M, Radiohead, Blur, Graham Coxon, Oasis, The White Stripes, Jimmy Eat World, Franz Ferdinand, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, Mew, Metallica, My Chemical Romance, Weezer, Interpol, The Smiths, Say Anything, Silverchair, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, Sunny Day Real Estate, Death Cab for Cutie, Coheed and Cambria, The Who, Thursday, stellastarr*, Alexisonfire, Saves the Day and many others...
The band started in early 2004 in a Performance Arts class room in a Christian private school in the obscurity of Sentul, Indonesia when Ababil Ashari (vox, guitar, bass, drum, programming) handed Kevin Yapsir (guitar, vox, programming) a sheet music for Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" to read because Ababil cannot read sheet music. The next day Ababil and Kevin practiced the composition attracting future band members Alvin Lasmana (drum), Alfonsus Tanoto (bass) and Daniel Sastro (guitar). Needless to say, the Radiohead cover attempt was a disaster. But from it, a band was born.
This five-piece line-up lasted for two years, yielding several singles and EPs. It became apparent that the band can't continue as it was. This was because most of the band had committed to studying overseas after high school. So, as a final hurrah, the band released "Fanfiction: From the Seriously Absurd to the Absurdly Serious" (an album-based upon unfinished fanfiction Ababil wrote in his spare time) in April of 2006 to a lukewarm response. The band disbanded giving Ababil the rights to the band name.
At this point, Ababil was busied by med school and turned to for relief. He wrote a general mock-up of a author-surrogate character named Hanabishi Hideaki and wrote a couple of unreleased short stories. Frustrated with his inabillity to finish these short stories, Ababil wrote them as songs instead. This proved to be a success and Ababil revived the Shorthand Phonetics name.
Ababil proceeded to write and record "Apparently...I'm In Medicine / Love, or the Illusion of the Beginning Symptoms of It" (an album about Hanabishi Hideaki's first year of med school) and released it in May of 2007. Reaction to the album was better than expected. Fledgling Indonesian netlabel Yes No Wave Music offered to re-release "Apparently..." to the Indonesian public four months after the albums original release.
After the re-release of "Apparently...", Ababil started to write songs and concepts that centered around Hanabishi Hideaki and repair the continuity. Fanfiction was retconned as a collection of fanfiction written by Japanese national Hanabishi Hidaki to fit with Hanabishi Hideaki's story. The culmination of this new project has arrived!
Titled "Fire! (I Could Have Died and All I Could Think About Was My Charred Diary)". The experiemental album sees Shorthand Phonetics branching out to post-rock and electronica blending it with the old sounds of powerpop and lofi like chocolate and potatoes...go check it out!
So, what's next for Shorthand Phonetics? Stay tuned to find out!
HAULIN'ASS -- italian non-conventional HC since '99 -- NEW ALBUM OUT NOW & NEW TOUR DATES -- LET'S TAKE A TOUR ON OUR PAGE, will find some interesting shit!!! thanx 4 this space
Twenty-one songs from twenty-one bands all across INDONESIA, “DAY TO EMBRACE” is a journey to the fantastic. worthy for permeate collection around the world.
01. Olive tree - Winter Holiday 02. Natalie - Everyday is Sunday 03. Brilliant at Breakfast - If Monday'd Never Come 04. Dear Nancy - Ordinary Friends 05. Nostrovia - Live The Life 06. Sundae Sunday - I hate this town 07. Marching March - Rainy Sad September [Nobodycansing Mix] 08. Mini Crayon - Friends 09. Greats - ODE TENTANG KECANTIKAN 10. The Jumping Balloon - Send me a message 11. Jodi In The Morning Glory Parade - Sun Flower 12. The Trees & The Wild - Irish Girl 13. Dojihatori - Mr. Edward Robinson 14. New Ride - Shine 15. 1900 yesterday - the romantic moment in ourlife 16. LAMPUKOTA - Definitely my day 17. ar and li - sometimes i feel like a girl 18. Under my pillow - Langit Mendung Dan Senja 19. Spring/Summer - Wrong 20. Personal states - Be there 21. Bad lovers company - Peacefulness Addiction
okay ababil for every what you said, we thanks to you with our full respect, it means a lot to us =)
uh and maybe you should bring our songs to "other's ears" it could probably your friends, parents, or maybe your grandma dude!^_^ keep in touch brother .
1. Spencer Parker - My Heart - Daniel Sanchez Easy Noise Remix 2. Julien Chaptal - Collider 3. Oliver Moldan - Floating Bye (Martin Eyerer Remix) 4. Kanio - Dont You - Original Mix 5. Samuel Knob - No Way - Original Mix 6. Marcin Czubala - Closely Separated 7. Channel X - Mosquito 8. Varoslav - Party Boy (Okain Remix) 9. Matt Rowan & Robbie Lowe - Ground Swell (Pacco & Rudy B Remix) 10. DJ T. - Bateria (dOP Remix) 11. Sinisa Tamamovic - The Truth 12. Rampa - Wife (M.in & Patrick Kunkel Remix) 13. Edu Imbernon, Coyu - Burn Myself - Original Mix 14. Sinisa Lukic And Sasa Radic - Easy But Lazy (Original Mix) 15. Radio Slave - Koma Koma (Steve Lawler Remix)
Check out the new track Sparks ft Adrian Sims, Miss Emily, Sleepy G and King James. Produced by Dinero Productions. If you're feelin anybody right now I promise you will feel this track. Look out of The Talk of the Town Vol 1. and my debut album Second Nature coming 2010!
01. Mirko Loko - Tahktok / Cadenza 02. Pagal & Mihai Popoviciu & Jay Bliss - Set You Up / Level Non Zero Rec 03. Tom Budenn - The Tree Dance / Alive Recordings 04. Ntfo - Filter / Sk Supreme Records 05. Reset Robot - Do The Slot / SCI + TEC Digital Audio 06. Edu Imbernon and Coyu - Burn Myself / Great Stuff Recordings 07. Flavio Diaz - Papu Papu / Loose Records 08. Christian Fischer - Kolibri / Alex Young Dub Rmx / Definition Records 09. Dandi & Ugo - Na Ni Na / Playmobil 10. Santos - Hold Home / Moon Harbour Recordings 11. Vincent Vidal - Pachamama / Quartz Rec 12. Vladimir Acic - Heart / Overdrive Musik 13. Veztax - Round 2 / Sinisa Tamamovic Rmx / Vezotonik 14. Daniel Steinberg - Bailando / Front Room Recordings 15. Sinisa Tamamovic - Ash / Night Light Records 16. Paul Harris & Alex Tepper - Terris / Rekids 17. Sinisa Tamamovic - Motherfucker / Promo 18. Robin Hirte - Green / Stereo Seven Plus 19. Marko Nastic & Dejan Milicevic - The Same Type Of Game / Recon Light 20. Alessandro Izzo - Virto / Alan Fitzpatrick Rmx / Suara 21. Audionova - Anatolia Rezonant 22. Sinisa Tamamovic - Full Moon / Night Light Records 23. Kenny Larkin & Shlomi Aber - Sketches / Shlomi Aber Version / Be As One
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