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Senjata Pemuas Massal Bootleg Tape, Perina Edition

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Bootleg tapes were a staple of 70’s -80’s Indonesian music history. Back then, western music albums weren’t officially licensed locally. So the only way you could listen to foreign albums were either by getting it straight from abroad (which is expensive), or buy the “official” bootleg version that was available at your friendly local cassette stores. Naturally, most people opted for the second option. My father had a HUGE collection of these bootleg tapes. Although I found out later that bootlegging is illegal, those tapes had a major influence on my musical experience. They introduced me to some of the classic albums that I love to this day. “Senjata Pemuas Massal” is currently my most well known song. It was my first song that ever get the music video treatment, and I guess that’s what make it so popular. To this day, I could never walked off from a live stage without performing it. I tried that once, and the audience just wouldn’t let me end my set unless I play that stupid song. I told ‘em that since they want it then I’ll play it, but they’d have to sing it themselves. And they did, from start to finish! It was great. This is “Senjata Pemuas Massal” as if it was release by Perina. 20 years before Aquarius became an Indonesian audio juggernaut in the 90’s, they had Perina as a bootleg record label. One of the oldest label out there, they release all sorts of 70’s music. From jazz to pop to latin to classic hippie artists. I don’t think they were still very prolific by the time I grew up, as I only really seen them on my father’s old time collection.

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