Bringas, Ugal - Ugalan and what characterizes "The Jems" through the Album "Malah Petaka"
- BeelzebubMedia

- May 30, 2022
- 2 min read
The Jems is a hardcore unit from Tangerang, although formed since 2020, The Jems has just invaded the digital world by releasing a single entitled 'My Self And I' at the end of 2021 through the bandcamp platform. Together with Dito on vocals, Kesid on guitar, Ijal on bass, and Didit on drums, The Jems are ready to strike and tear the listener's ears.
When it comes to the music of Fugazi, Minor Threat, and a band called 'Q' as the main focus of their music, the tempo is reckless and full of emotion, it's nice to be able to perform songs like that and exchange sweat and energy with the audience. Actually, they prefer to be called Post-Hardcore, but to be honest they're not as sophisticated as Fugazi, or Husker Du, but never mind, they can still pretend to be Post-Hardcore.
'Malah Petaka' is an album containing 8 tracks with reckless tempos and low-middle lyrics. There are various genres in this album, from Hardcore Punk, Post-Hardcore, to Hip-Hop Punk, in the album 'Malah Petaka'. this.

Some of the tracks include, What Are U Talkin' About, My Self And I, Halah!, Malah Petaka, Kau Salah, Piston, Sok Jagoan, to the song they made for the first time also included in this album, namely 'Trash!' . The color of 80s Hardcore music is very thick in this album, sweaty tempo and populist lyrics are the identity of this album. In this album we also chose to record material live record, because according to them recording with the live record method can record various elements, such as the human feeling that will be more pronounced, such as small mistakes that may be recorded, to Element Of Surprise which is easier to create. . Like in the song Piston, there is a self-improvised lyric, namely lyrics that should sound like ‘Hey kau mau apa?! Kulihat kau datang semalam.’ Malah menjadi ‘Hey kau mau apa?! Kulihat engkau datang semalam.’
The process of recording the album 'Malah Petaka' itself happened quite quickly, it only took about two hours for all the tracks that were present in this album.
Behind the speed of the recording process of this album, there is a process of maturation of the album and the material in it which took about 5 months, inviting friends to the house, and making noise in the boarding room with distortions and drum sounds being our daily food when we were there. the maturation of this album.
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