Live tracks from two Shitworkers shows in 2000 found in a box of junk. The sound is good! Pretty intense stuff. We believe the first show is with ANNALISE (UK) when we supported then here in KL. The second live show could be a show we did with some others at a club in Ampang.
The Shitworkers were Joe – guitars/vocals, Fendi – bass and Bullet – drums. We didn’t play that many shows, so this tape is quite a find.
Will digitize and share soon.
“”Inginku Rejam Raksasa Kejam!” nyata sebuah produk Punk Rock yang tulen karismanya, luhur pengisiannya, rebel secukup rasa: politikal, radikal & sinikal. Aura Punk DUNG terang benderang, jelas terpampang, teratur dan tidak sesekali berterabur. Inilah Punk Rock yang duduk, berdiri dan berlari dalam ertikata Punk sebenar! Riff gitarnya bermelodi ringkas, kedengaran keras, tersusun dalam aturan 3 atau 2 kord, sekali-sekala diselit solo gitar yang benar-benar menggambarkan tebalnya sifat berontak! Ditambah dengan nyanyian-nyanyian bertenaga dan bermesej, DUNG seakan mengajak pendengar untuk bangkit dan beranjak! Berubah untuk diri, merubah untuk semua! Mereka yang pasif mungkin melihat ini negatif, mereka yang masif pasti mengangkat ini positif. Ini kali-lah!”
- read the rest here: http://nfhzine.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-dung-cd2012.html
Here a taste of the benefit single we’ve been working on. Final mix this week.
On Saturday 21st December 2014 Joe, Fendi & Bullet worked on a song written way back in 1996 and here’s a teaser: two minutes intro to the total six minutes.
The origins of the Gibran Song goes back to when Lee Pilgrims joined us as replacement for Shahlan in the mid-90s. It was also a time when many of us were deeply affected by books of Khalil Gibran’s poems and writings. Joe wrote the song, complete with lyrics and auditioned it to both Fendi & Lee at his house. We recorded the session with Joe on an electric guitar and singing with Fendi bashing lines on an acoustic guitar, while Lee do bits of backing vocals.
The band tried working on the song with our old drummer Ollie when we were constantly jamming at the small rehearsal studio on Jalan Maarof, Bangsar (across the railway line from Brickfields where we lived). Twice we tried to make sense of it but it didn’t work out. The song was then discarded and forgotten.
Somehow in the mid of 2000s, Joe found the recording and digitized it with the mind that it should be worked on and recorded properly. This only happened last Saturday at KerbauWorks.
At the moment, we are still working on it – some changes need to be done in terms of sections of the song, while the lyrics itself needs an overhaul.
Thanks for listening.
Pixs of us working at KerbauWorks:
note: the show managed to raise RM 1070, thanks to all involved. The money was transferred to the Human First Collective for their relief work in the areas of Cukai, Kemaman and Kuantan.
pix by Äkim Halim:
all these pixs by Zaty V Valelly:
IN SOLIDARITY: East Coast Flood Disaster Victims
with CARBURETOR DUNG, TOOLS OF THE TRADE, BERANTAKAN, SHITNOISE BASTARDS, VIRGINIA ON DUTY, CRIMESCENE & FIZI BIN HAKIM (FEASY E)
RM10 // 6PM @ Rumah Api, Ampang
Pix by Encek Kerol – Khairul Fadli:
Pixs by Well Willie
The song we wrote and recorded on the spot a month ago is now called “No One Gets Out Alive!”. At the point of writing this it has gone through two different mixes; one by Bullet and the other by Tom. It will undergo a few more tweaks before release but here’s the advert for it.
The first NOTAFEST’s HOWLING MOUNTAINS DIY FEST! Featuring bands from both the Peninsular and Borneo, along with more bands from Indonesia and Singapore.
*this is will be DUNG’s one and only show for the year end. Do come and join us!
Joe got back to KL late September and we decided to record an EP. Quite an ambitious project since we haven’t jammed for a long time! Anyway, we all gathered at The Greenhouse Studio where our guitarist Tom works as a sound-engineer late-evening Sunday 29th September and wrote a brand new song. Right there and then we straight-away recorded the basic tracks with Joe, Fendi and Bullet. As the night wore on, we decided to ditch writing more songs and just stick to the one captured.
The next night (Monday) we adjourned to our own studio KerbauWorks and had Alak recorded his vocals. The work continued the next Thursday when Joe came back to KL after briefly visiting his family in Terengganu and that night we again recorded Alak and also had our on/off saxophonist Yandsen putting in his contribution.
Round the afternoon of Friday the 4th October, Joe and Tom worked on getting Tom’s guitar parts in. After which we did a rough mix and sent to all the band members. The song is now done!
The song is titled “None Gets Out Alive”, it’s about the cyclic and endless striving embarked by all trapped in the rat-race; constantly in pursuit of trivial concerns, guided by skewed values which discarded personal liberty and empathy towards the other.
None Gets Out Alive!
Down in downer city,
Forsaken sons,
Pale daughters of misery,
Hidden from the sun
The sun, the sun
The sun, the sun
(Solo)
Runaround these sewers,
Ladders to nowhere,
Headless chickens in a vice,
Worshipping the one
The one, the one
The one, no one
(bridge)
Chorus:
Downer city 2x
Downer city 2x
No one gets out alive!
The recorded track is awaiting proper mixing. Once done we’ll make it available on-line.
