With
the above , till 95 I have totally recorded 300 Malay songs and 50 Indo
from shortwaves .I could listen to the VoM before the 1700 LT ie before
the Russian station started. There were days the stations from the
nearby frequencies that were inaudible at least for one hour (VoR or
RFI ).
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On 95 I connected to the internet via the first
ever commercial ISP, Compulink , to which I was a member till their
sudden closure on 2004. I have made some contacts with Malaysia and USA
, and bought or exchanged some Malay tapes via them . One of then has
visited my city, Thessaloniki later.
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Another , from
Malaysia , was very cooperative and was used as a link for buying tapes
and several books including Malay dictionaries . I collected more than
70 tapes
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On 97 one of these friends has sent me two
4hour tapes , recorded from the local TV channels with a total of 16
hrs of music videos. One of these videotapes was full of Chinese music
with little Indian , The other tape was filled with dangdut , pop indo
and Malay (western style!) And this is how I knew dangdut! Please keep
this info for now
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On 99 I friend of me was a nearly
constant user of Napster and downloaded for me about 24 songs including
dangdut . The Malay hits from these were gerimis mengudang (Slam) seiras (Way’s) and the dhut ones were selamat malam [evie tamala ] kopi dangdut [famhi sahab] That was my second acquaintance with dangdut
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On
2000 we made a trip on Spore Bali and Bangkok with my wife. Buying a
new AIWA walkman iun Spore , our first point of the trip , and using it
together with my older walkman , I have recorded about 10 C90 tapes
from Spore, using a ‘geeky’ 2-station recording, in our free time in
the hotel . Visiting also the Malay bazaar place, I have bought 30
original Malay tapes.
MY top station listening on Spore
was RTM#1. Among the 140 songs recorded , my most preferences were
insan (Yantzen) , bilaku rindu (Siti fairuz), ku keudara lagi ( Fran),
kau yang bernama seri (?), Venus(!) and some others I don’t remember .
The
chief person of the Malay music store did not made any discounts tough
I have bought too much material. And they insisted into taking local
money , instead of USD … Among the tapes I bought were penaklukan (
May) , Farra , Kory etc
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In Bali we stayed for 6 days. I there have recorded about 7 tapes including musik from a local dangdut station called Radio R that made me hoook into it with its l[o/i]vely dangdut songs
• 9 song out of 60 are referred into this page http://zlgr.multiply.com/music/item/124
In
Kuta I have bought about 5 tapes with dangdut , that included two
collections from the most popular songs of 2000 , an album from Evie
Tamala . Lilis Karlina .
I still remember that a mini group
who sung on our table , the very first night , refused to sing for us
the song of Tamala’s ‘selamat malam’ and only played ‘balinese’ songs
(these seems as latin at most ! ).
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Returning back I have
converted my collection into MP3s starting from the dangdut songs in
Bali, then for shortwaves etc.
I was quite disturbed into listening always the same series of songs….
My conversions: shortwaves were converted to 8 ,11 and 16 kbs as , as higher bit rates were not necessary
Fm recordings were converted to 96 kb and seemed identical
Cassettes have been converted to 112 and 128 and still were identical to my ears .
I have used a professional quality double deck AIWA to record these albums
•
Moving
to in Retziki after marriage (1998), a mountain point 6 km from the
centre , and though having set a better shack, listening to VoM and RRI
was a bad idea:
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Radio Republik Indonesia seem always changing their minds and transmitting or not in their standard frequencies .
VoM’s signal was much lower in the new house !!
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And then the big but: after 2000 my interest in Malay music passed to dangdut.
•
IN
2001 I tried to buy dangdut tapes from a Indonesian online source.
Until the order about 3 months passed in order for them to collect the
material
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ON 2002 I have made new contacts to collect
several dangdut tapes, found from the newsgroups. One was a girl from
Danemark , She sent me all her dangdut collection, ca 20 xC90 original
tapes. I have converted into MP3 CDs for myself and her , and returned
her tapes back.
•
ON 2003 or 2004 the second person now
from USA has sent as gift 15 tapes with dangdut of mid 80s when he was
living in Jakarta .
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ON 2004-5 I had a continuous
correspondence with a person near Jakarta who sold me a moderate amount
of tapes and DVDs with indo movies etc All original material. About 20
tapes in total , several history books and DVDs
•
ON Sept
2005 , in the local international fair of Thessaloniki, Indonesia had a
pavilion .Many exhibitors. I have made friendships with two of them who
later (5 months after!! ) sold me a total of 60 dangdut tapes.
•
Back
to radio on 2003-4 I found the solution with Warna on times 1400-1600
UTC . I preferred to just listen to the station than making any
recordings. Warna had better program than the latest program schedule
of VoM , as they play older songs , 60s 70s and jiwang that I like
most. . On 2006 this frequency was engaged by VOA Korean till 1500, and
starting summer time 2007 Romania’s RRI transmits on 1500-1600 so no
chance then to listen to them except their other services as City
Sounds – 6000(chinese ) and Oli on 7270 kHz
• I am very happy
however that adding a basic DSL line at the end of 2006 I can listen to
Warna and Ria via the net. Though the quality is for dialup connections
, thus telephonic audio, and despite many gaps in audio , I still
preferred to listen mostly to Warna until…. : .
• ……. When I found
RADIO MUZIK. I do not know if this station is the RTM 2 as I knew from
my radio book sources but the station seems having a nice mixture with
Malay and ‘foreign’ songs. I now prefer listening to this station for
much time.
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