Brim – Anti GanDJa
I’ve had this collection of funky tunes from Indonesia for about a month and it’s still surprising to me just how deep it is. All of this music was recorded at a period of time in Indonesia when Suharto was leading a very repressive dictatorship and didn’t exactly take a shine to these sounds. Artists kept things underground, which is a major reason why these sounds haven’t really made their way into the collective musicial consciousness until now. Top notch detective work as usual from Now-Again, tracking down heavy tunes from a little known scene. The collection doesn’t quite have the same mix of traditional sounds with funk and rock like last year’s stunner Sound of Siam, but all the funkyness packs a big time whallop, especially this straight up banger, “Anti Gandja,” from a group called Brim.