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Rhoma Irama - Begadang: Soneta Group Best Songs 1975 to 1980
Rhoma Irama - Begadang: Soneta Group Best Songs 1975 to 1980
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Remastered audio, pressed and printed in Indonesia.
The 13 tracks contained in this compilation Begadang: Soneta Group Best Songs, 1975-1980 are some of the most innovative music that came out of Indonesia’s music scene in the 1970s, tunes that have cemented Rhoma Irama’s status as the king of the genre.
Dang dut is the biggest musical genre in Indonesia. And in this genre of dang dut, the name Rhoma Irama looms large. He is the undisputed king of dang dut and his role as pioneer of the music is already in the history books. In fact, there's one book documenting the outsized role of Rhoma in establishing dang dut as the father of this music. The book is aptly titled Dangdut Story, written by Pittsburgh University music professor Andrew N. Weintraub.
From a technical point of view, Rhoma not only replaced the acoustic elements from Melayu Music with electric instruments but also created new synthetic sounds that have never been attempted before in Indonesia’s music industry.
Notice how Rhoma reproduced funk, which was all the rage in early 1970s, in the song “Santai” (Relax), this album’s closer or “Credit Title (Instrumentalia)” which opens this Darah Muda (Young Blood) soundtrack. The rubbery bass lines that open both songs can easily find home in any Sly and the Family Stone’s or Isaac Hayes’ tunes from that era.
