Wednesday, May 4, 2011

NETRAL

Netral is a band that was formed in November 1991. Early emergence of video clips on the TV station at the time (MTV Indonesia) from the first song on the album, "Wa ...lah", this musical group brings touted alternative rock.

When formed, Neutral only consists of three members, namely:

    * Bagus Dhanar Dhana (Good) - Vocalist and Bassist
    * Gabriel Bimo Sulaksono (Bimo) - Drummer
    * Ricy Dayandani (Miten) - Guitarist

However, the current position of drummer and guitarist had been replaced by Ryanto Gitara Eno (Eno) and Christopher Bollemeyer (Coki). Currently Netral has switched labels to Kancut Records, an independent label, established by Bagus and Eno.

History

Netral play music of the other band, like Nirvana, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, The Cure, and others. They also appear in events at schools and universities in Jakarta. Appearance and their attraction on stage made them admired by adolescents. Including foreign teenagers who attended the Jakarta International School (JIS), which then makes the band is often invited to become regular performers such school named Black Hole.

Number of performances that do made the Netral more mature in appearance. So they start thinking to make their own albums. In 1994, Netral had producers for their first album. Under the auspices of PT. Indosemar Sakti, Netral managed to sell more than 80,000 units of cassettes and compact discs of this debut album.

This makes the promoters of Indonesia and foreign media interested to perform a Netral. There were more than 50 performances in 1 year in Indonesia.

Since then news of the Netral page often meet various media, both print and electronic.

Netral is called by the Indonesian press described as an Alternative Band. Regardless of who supplied the Indonesian press is true or not. What is clear from the results of the band that was formed friendships in SMA 55 and SMA 60 Jakarta is only play music that is really purely out of their own conscience.

Music is a universal language that can be understood by everyone, where the musical voice of the musician's heart who really want to spend and share what they feel to everyone. That's determination that carried the band's early personnel punk is Good Dhanar Dhana bass / vocals, Gabriel Ben Sulaksono drums, and guitar Miten Ricy Dayandani alias.

News of the Netral is also a lot of sounds in electronic media and print media as well as in adolescents. Almost every teen magazine in Indonesia never contain reviews about the band, even Gatra magazine tell about the band includes a full page. The second album titled “Tidak Enak” Netral released on July 30, 1996 and the press conferences at Jazz Rock Cafe Jakarta, attended by almost all the companion press conference in Jakarta and colleagues from other regions.


On 16 January 1998, Netral released their third album with the title “ Album Minggu Ini “and the last hold-tour to 24 cities in Sumatra and Java. With video clips “ Pucat Pedih Serang “ made in Rizal Mantovani, making this album sales continue to grow in the presence of the first songs. This number continues to grow in the presence of other songs are very popular markets such as the song Kau, Selamat Datang, and Dukun Kebo Ijo. Different by previous albums, this album is more easily heard, the hope is able to absorb a wider market.

In July 1998, Bimo left Netral. Netral find permanent drummer to fill the position left by Bimo, then after considering many things, it was decided to invite Eno as Drummer. So starting from March 26, 1999, Eno received an official offer of Netral and replace Bimo.

Along with Eno, Neutral can finally released his fourth album entitled "PATEN" on June 9, 1999. Supported by Additional Musician like Ahmad Dhani and Deasy Fitri, Netral’s single titled "Nurani" was believed to increase album sales over 150,000 units. Especially on this album there are materials such as Babi, '98, Pecah Belah, Yang Enerjik, easy to understand and to represent the voices of young people who have been less audible. Sound Guitar is a unique and dynamic punch Eno’s  Drum makes this album more mature than previous albums.

In 2001, with 2 personnel netral released fifth album, titled "Ok Deh" with their single hits bertarung. This album contains new songs and Bagus and  Eno's work and assisted by some additional guitar.

In 2003, Netral gets a new personnel to position the guitar is Coki, after going through a long audition and a couple of times participated as an additional guitar in several music concerts together with neutral, finally, Coki became a member of Netral. They released album titled "Kancut" their first single titled I Love You.

In February 2005, netral released the 7th album, with the material 7 songs and only distributed in 7000 copies CD only. By becoming a producer of his own albums under the name "Kancut Record", Netral released their album "Hitam", with the first single Haru Biru. The album is accompanied by a bonus DVD containing a movie about the making of this album. So make this album something special and probably the first in Indonesia.

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