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hello there.
this is a zine, an archive, a blog, an event calendar, a place where rock’n’roll, especially of the fringe + underground, independent, DIY and related, came to be highlighted, promoted and documented.
running as a scene-blog since 2004, this website was operating as The Ricecooker Shop‘s portal from early 2007. TRS was a physical, brick’n’mortar music store first based at the Annexe, Central Market for more than three years, before moving on to two different locations in the city.
three years after the shop closed down in 2014, it morphed into a library/museum or an archive. we call this The Ricecooker Archives – Southeast Asian Rock’n’Roll Treasury (quite grand, we know).
The Ricecooker Archives have our own space at 84B, The Zhongshan Building, Jalan Rotan, Kampung Attap, Kuala Lumpur. here we collect, collate, clean-up, digitize, database and archive rock’n’roll artifacts from around the region. our aim is to preserve and to share it with the world.
note: the setting up our physical archives is still on-going, so those who wanna come meet and visit, do get in touch with us first. terima kasih.
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Camp Semangat: The Secret History of Malaysia's Woodstock & War on Drugs says:
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KILLEUR CALCULATEUR / ORBITCINTA BENJAMIN – Split-CD – The Ricecooker Archives says:
- 360º Head Rotation abrasion apparatus Atomic Death bad idea benzoate blackhole radioshow carburetor dung chu crust die wrecked folk-punk ghaust grindcore guiguisuisui hardcore istukas istukas over disneyland jakarta Jalan Sehala jazz-punk-improv kuala lumpur leatherface mass separation mr sterile assembly Osmantikos pazahora philippines pink noize prohibited projects pusher radioshow raivoraittius rumah api s.i.n. sharon stoned shitnoise bastards singer-songwriter steve towson substation terssalahh the bollocks Tools of the Trade virginia on duty wormrot
pemuda pas claimed that the concert now definitely CANCELLED by the protes committee and so does all the other planned activities that they think not suitable to viewed by pas leaders and their supporters.
i hope that pemuda pas would not try to stop you people from bicycling with your other boy/girlfriends, just to show support and solidarity for the this so called protest by the people.
..pihak PROTES telah bersetuju untuk meniadakan semua aktiviti nyanyian yang melibatkan band dan kumpulan – kumpulan sebagaimana yang tertera di poster sebelum ini.. – an excerpts from one the pemuda pas leaders’ blog himself, for more – http://ustaznasrudin-tantawi.blogspot.com
hahaa!! funny.
“I practice on my own, but everyone else should be free to do as they please” -Lena Elmuti from Palestine
“reform! reform! yet nothing’s change! the system remain the same!”
– hazim coppola
It’s happening as we all expected it and we should be all very proud lah: blinded, constipated, mindless religio-fascists are still cowering in fear of our noise!!
Hail Satan! Ahhahahahaha!
“Tambahan pula kumpulan artis yang diundang sangat tidak sesuai untuk tontonan seorang muslim yang soleh dan muttaqin .” – ustaz nasrudin-tantawi
Poodien, Hakim and all,
I wish I could have joined you all for this bike ride like what we succesfully did for ‘crtical mass’ event 27 July last year. However, living far away from my beloved country, I could only wish for another succesful, fun and happening ride. Personally, I ride my bike everyday as the main transportation.
Remember, one cyclist is one less car. “Critical mass doesn’t block traffic,Critical Mass is traffic itself.”
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don’t like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don’t believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties oh yeah!
Fat bottomed girls they’ll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
Bicycle race
You say coke I say caine
You say John I say Wayne
Hot dog I say cool it man
I don’t wanna be the President of America
You say smile I say cheese
Cartier I say please
Income tax I say Jesus
I don’t wanna be a candidate
For Vietnam or Watergate
Cos all I want to do is
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Bicycle Race-Queen.
Can this be the theme song for all bikes’ lover?
Cheers.
anyway, u invite politician eh? sapa suruh.. too bad la. now how ?
skate or die!
to some people who are confused about this, please don’t talk through your arsehole lah. get your facts right or at least ask for more info.
FYI:
What?
There’s a protest rally/gathering/march happening on July 6th.
Where?
Padang Timur, depan Ampcorp Mall, PJ
When?
Apparently it’s starting at 10 am and goes on sampai 12 midnight
Who?
Who’s organising it? Well, i’m not sure. There’s a group called Protes (Gabungan Anti Inflasi) on the net (go here: protes2008.blogspot.com), and they seem to be the mouthpiece for this gathering.
Who’s behind it? Your guess is as good as mine but it’s obvious that the Pakatan Rakyat (the opposition front – PKR, DAP, PSM & PAS) is involved.
Why?
It’s a protest against the recent fuel hike – “seluruh rakyat yang terbeban dengan kenaikan harga minyak,” – as what the site said it.
Bands?
Apparently the organising committee wants to have a lot of different cultural performances happening at the gathering. From the website again: “Selain itu, persembahan drum India dan drum Cina, persembahan kompang, nasyid, dikir barat dan lagu-lagu politik juga akan turut mengambil tempat bagi mencuri perhatian rakyat”
And as you can see if you saw the earlier flyers, some bands were also included in the program lah. However, some influential people in PAS are against having “rock” bands. Go read the arguments here (please do read the comments also lah): ustaznasrudin-tantawi.blogspot.com.
That’s the story so far.
Now, we have the police threatening people with arrest if they join the gathering:
“Ketua polis Selangor menasihatkan orang ramai supaya tidak menyertai perhimpunan membantah kenaikan harga minyak, yang dijadualkan Ahad ini di Petaling Jaya.
Menurut polis, perhimpunan sehari suntuk mulai 10 pagi di padang depan kompleks membeli-belah di depan Amcorp Mall merupakan perhimpunan haram.” – from MalaysiaKini report (http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/85519)
So the authorities are trying to stop it while PAS people don’t wanna rock’n’roll.
Will the gathering happen? Will the ‘rock” bands play? Will PAS people have a slam-pit?
At this point, it’s still up in the air lah. We don’t know.
PAS – POLIS AGAMA SEMELAYU !!!
apa persamaan PDRM dan PAS ??
jawapan kamu ???
bagi aku ini lah sebenarnya threats yang paling terang di depan mata. bila agama, bangsa dan negara dijadikan alasan untuk melarang dan menjadi sangat fasis apabila menggunakan label-label “beban-tanggungjawab” tadi.
kanina!
jawapannya.. saya ingin guna talian hayat. kejap eh! mau call kawan saya dulu!
jawapannya.
Selamat Datang ke Malaysia, Tahun Meliwat Malaysia 2008. Amen.
masa untuk berubah…kena lebih radikal ..hiburan tak berkesan..go anwar be our PM.
Dua Kali Lima la!!
Latest news: from Malaysiakini
http://malaysiakini.com/news/85560
The ‘one million people’ protest which was previously scheduled to be held at Padang Timur, Petaling Jaya has been moved to the Kelana Jaya Stadium.
According to PKR Youth Chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, the decision to relocate was made during a party meeting held last night.
It is believed that the meeting was held at PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim’s residence in Bukit Segambut . The Kelana Jaya stadium has some 50,000 seats and its field can also accommodate the same amount of people. When contacted, Anti-Inflation Coalition (Protes) secretary Dr Hatta Ramli also confirmed the relocation but declined to elaborate.
The protest is against the recent fuel price hike.
BTW; As someone who will be there and maybe taking part in the cultural show, I just wanna say that my attendance is NOT about getting Anwar or PKR into power nor I’m down with PAS’ Islamo-fascism. As far i’m concerned, it’s rock’n’roll with the people!
stadium?
aiyo.
dah la perfomance semua membosankan.
dalam stadium pulak.
dah mcm malas nak pegi.
haha.
alang alang dalam stadium, baik bagi band main!
apa kata ustaz nasrudin tantawi?
fukk!
apa bezanya dahulu dan sekarang?
Fuck PAS and fuck Islamofascism-they already ruined Kelantan now they’re gonna ruin the other states they won-honestly..honestly…PAS has more in common with the BN crime family than it does PRM (centrist), Keadilan (Anwar Ibrahim personality cult), or DAP (leftwing/socialist)-they’re two sides of the same filthy, rusty coin-arrogant, patriarchal, self-righteous BULLSHIT. For the life of me I cannot understand why those parties would align themselves with PAS- to them everything is ‘haram’ this haram that-remember Mat Sabu and his horny little ass-or when a PAS senior member made an absurd claim to the effect that ‘angels’ had been at the polling stations when they won a certain election?-I mean…these people need some serious psychiatric help. I could go on and on about this but…back to your regularly scheduled comments-one last thing-I bet Penglipurlara is wetting his pants with joy right now. As a matter of fact, they probably banned it based on info given by him….
they will.
Joe, what happened actually yesterday? Your vocalist’s showmanship become headline now. Is it the case of being at the wrong time and wrong place?
Anyway, could anyone please update on the ‘bike trip’ yesterday? Was it happened?
Cheers!
Yeah I read about that shit here:
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2287244/Article/index_html
It’s kind of become an international incident I guess-I’m fucking surprised but of course the PAS supporters overrreacted-they live on an entirely different planet-either that or they got all hot and bothered by the show…or they were angry because he wasn’t a 12-year-old boy…but either way fuck them. They seriously need to get expelled from this opposition coalition A.S.A.P….they’re of no use at all-hopefully the partner parties will consider it after this show of lack of respect for freedom of expression and intolerance…if they don’t then they might as well kiss the coalition goodbye because PAS (Pembawa Ancaman Sial) is gonna kill it dead. So maybe this display did serve some kind of purpose i.e. people are exposed to this piece of shit excuse for a political party and know what they really are-fascists with a different angle. So..benefit show for Alak p’raps?