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True heroes of the punk rock, DIY ethic, Jakarta, Indonesia's MARJINAL making a revolutionary change to world around them, while other bands would only sing about it.
Formed in 1996 in direct opposition to Indonesia's authoritarian government, MARJINAL's brand of raucous street punk with its chaotic live shows found expression off the stage with their Anti Fascist Racist Action network that educated and empowered young people.
These are the values that OBSCENE EXTREME was built upon, and like MARJINAL, the festival has worked with like-minded people all over the world to fulfil its dream.
Biography
At first we often play our music or performance in actions street / demonstrations as encouraging the demonstrators. we also play in the middle society, in the community of workers, peasants and the urban poor. basically anywhere, like any place for us is not important, as there is an opportunity to present message to create a study room together and build, we are always ready and consciously to maximize space.
We're in the era of Suharto's regime. at which time the suppression / represivitas the not glorify people's rights as free people. freedom of expression is always faced with guns, jail, or forcibly removed his life. moreover people did not get the rights that should be obtained as an independent nation, such as political freedom, education, healthcare or welfare decent. in circumstances like these that opens our consciousness to using music as a medium for historical documentation, news, message delivery disagreements to an oppressive reality. as well as a communication medium alternatrif for shared learning activities. we stand as a collective music 22 December 1996. and we are open to anyone who wants to join the personnel therein have similar values ?? while fighting in seeing issues exist in this country in particular and the world in general. to humanize humans properly human.
August 2010, a group of activists in germany (berlin, potsdam and leipzig) invited us to do some activities such as exhibitions of paintings and woodcut graphics, presentations about our community (taringbabi), woodcut workshop with illegal immigrants and punk collective, a documentary film about the collective taringbabi, and a few gigs. now we are also working with some friends from Japan, America and Scotland to make a film about the marginal and collective dokementer taringbabi.
Discography
Release date | Release name | Media |
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2012 | kompilasi Hentakan 2012 - Rokes record | |
2011 | kompilasi Bergerak bersama - Mata kiri record | |
2009 | Partai marjinal | EP |
2005 | Predator | CD |
2002 | Marsinah - termarjinalkan | |
2000 | kompilasi Nusantara (hc/punk nusantara) - Berontak record |