TEMPO Interactive, Bandung - Sundanis, hip-hop group from Bandung that regular use of Sundanese, will be on stage in a number of countries. That opportunity is now coming from a Dutch artist who attracted by the appearance and musical groups that stood since 2007.
"God willing, in August or September we will be brought concert tour to Singapore, Malaysia and the Netherlands," said Rudi Sanjaya, 29 years, vocalist Sundanis told Tempo last weekend.
Since its establishment, Sundanis consistently brought the songs and rhythms Sunda. From the release of four albums, games flute, drum, gamelan, gong, Karinding, and sinden, with audio software Fruity Loops which are familiar in the digital musician thick sounding.
On his latest album, Hip Hop Sunda ... Wani Ngadu launched last May, the music feels more viscous karawitannya. If there is no hip-hop label on the cover of his album, people might have guessed as Sundanese songs. "Now more conceptualized. I invite Abah Odong, Sundanese musicians, to direct the music, "said Rudi is also known as the Ghetto Rude.
He claimed initially did not like hip-hop. Tastes change when 5 th grade, after the jump Mc Hammer You Can not Touch This, and Vanilla Ice with Ice Ice Baby in 1993. When in junior high school and became a musician at Jalan Pasir Koja, Bandung, in 1997, he began making his own hip-hop and race-track race. A year later, Rudi and Gaia to form the hip-hop band D'Army themed songs of social protest. Before finally disbanded in 2005, they had spawned two albums. After that, Rudi forming Sundanis.
The use of native languages and musical traditions in the group, said Rudi, aims to raise the language. He also wants fans prefer the language of each area, especially among youngsters whose tongue was accustomed to say elo, gue. Outside of West Java, Sundanis fans scattered in Jember, Surabaya, East Nusa Tenggara, Papua, even to Japan, the Netherlands, and Australia. "Most native people there, the others are the Sundanese," he said.
Typically, each working on a song, Rudi brings his music first. Following the lyrics of the theme of social reality in Bandung wrapped sense of humor. Hits from the first album, "Kamana atuh Style" who still likes to be asked concert-goers, for example, sarcastic young people who are concerned with the appearance though not yet worked. While the song called "37B" from his latest album, teasing based on the vocabulary contains Sundanese starting from point b, as bolenang, bald buleneng, belenong, bencenur, bedegul, bengep bajret, and others.
Nearly 90 percent of the material each album tilled Rudi, the rest taking input from fellow group or another musician. Racikannya it was not considered a hip-hop by another group of hip-hop community in Bandung, but the song as a joke to accused twit. "If there is an assumption like that, people do not understand is the hallmark of Sundanese people who like hereuy (jokingly)," said a big fan of hip-hop band the Dead Fresh when found in buildings Tempo Rock House, London, Wednesday, June 22, 2011. After all, in the realm of local hip-hop music fans are narrow and limited, the sale of each album Sundanis quite in demand, ranging between 5-10 thousand CDs and VCDs.
Pentasnya experience has penetrated into various areas, ranging from folk Majalaya party in the bamboo garden, the launch of automotive products, food, surfing competitions, up to event officials. For staging large, Rudi bring the whole crew up and sinden gamelan players. While at small staging, she simply accompanied by a disc jockey and 1-2 background singers. One of them Aditia Arya Yuda, 23, who joined since 5 years ago.
Had felt the hard hip-hop received the man's ear while playing at the Polytechnic Bandung until pelted the audience, Rudi and his friends had also left behind a steering committee when invited to Palu in 2005. They can not purchase plane tickets until two days stranded in the hotel. "Loss because the committee wants to play there was a bomb fitted Palu," said the father of one. They can finally go home after the committee back to the hotel to give a ticket, though without honor in his pocket.
The experience definitely gave him a lesson. Hip-hop music can not be relied upon as a major work. "To be alone and extracurricular business marketing objectives," said the musician who had studied at Ariyanti, Open University, and it STIMIK Ganesha. His income is now resting from the effort convection, such as a blazer and dress sandals batik berkain Revenue from that business was greater than the rate for the group that ranged berpentas USD 1-3 million.
