DIRTY EDGE

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DIRTY EDGE Formed in the 1990s, Dirty Edge is a hardcore band from Jakarta, Indonesia. Dirty Edge was a metamorphosis of another band called Kardus TV (late 1994), which used to sing songs of old punk bands including Rancid, Social Distortion and Bad Religion. Kardus TV consisted of four members: Coki Manurung (vocal), Fucky (Guitar), Rodrigo Pasaribu (Bass) and Jamaludin Malik (Drum). According to Coki, there was a disagreement over the band’s name but then he unintentionally mentioned the term ‘Kardus TV’. To everyone’s surprise, all team members agreed to make Kardus TV as their band’s name. While Kardus TV slowly built their reputation as punk band in domestic musical events, the bassist player, Rodrigo has told the current lead vocal, Coki to break up Kardus TV and form a new one. Rodrigo hoped that this new band, which played much faster style of music, would be a more serious project than Kardus TV. Rodrigo proposed Dirty Edge as the name of their prospective band. The name ‘Dirty Edge’ was a reflection of political situation in the late 1990s in which most politicians who claimed to be clean and honest in fact were hypocrites, turning a blind eye to pervasive corruption and gross violation of human rights in Indonesia. Dirty Edge is then considered to be a number of young people who choose to be on the dirty side of life, sharing similar perspective with those who are aware of all the problems around us. Through music, Dirty Edge aims to strenghten their sense of

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