Sekatan Muzik 1

InsyaALLAH kalau tiada aral melintang Infinatez akan merantau ke Kedah hujung minggu depan utk memenuhi jemputan show di sana. Charity event dan majlis berbuka puasa, kita bergembira sambil melakukan kebajikan. Difahamkan hari tu ader beberapa artis lagi di jemput seperti Nash, Imran Ajmain, Luscious, Farah Asyikin dan Aishah. Tapi baru2 nie diorang kata Luscious and Farah tak dibenarkan membuat persembahan kerana diorang pompuan.

Dua minggu lepas kita dikejutkan dengan pembatalan concert Avril Lavigne sempena Hari Kemerdekaan (yg mana last2 perform jugak). Issue tersebut memang headline habis sbb pihak pembangkang memang berkeras taknak dia perform on that day. Kononnya dia nie boleh mempengaruhi kepada gejala social. Dan diorang cakap yg dia nie sexy dan utk membuat persembahan pada malam sebelum kemerdekaan dianggap tidak menghormati Malaysia.

I’m not too sure about you guys but if it was me I say that she is a criminal to the music but I wont go to the extend of banning her at my own country. When they claim that she is sexy, owh common guys that word doesn’t even suit her. It’s a big NO NO with all capital words. And beberapa hari sebelum show dia kita nak cancel just because its near to Merdeka is unfair. I believed that this has been planned long ago, licensed and permit has been given lama dah so kalau cakap its not respecting our independence day is actually not her fault. But the government. Issue nie agak headline, there goes Visit Malaysia yg kita promote. And guess what? She still performed. What a mess….

Here are a few website that I managed to dig up ….hmm
http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/music/news/nme/article.aspx?cp-documentid=9260237
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1592957/20080818/lavigne_avril.jhtml
http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/18/avril-looks-better-in-a-burqa/
http://www.nme.com/news/avril-lavigne/39032
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/08/19/lavigne-concert-cancelled.html
http://www.hecklerspray.com/avril-lavigne-is-too-sexy-for-malaysia-malaysia-has-an-odd-definition-of-too-sexy/200815692.php


Then bila dah confirm ada plak cerita pasal sapa nak buat opening act. Supposedly One Buck Short kemudian diorang batalkan atas alasan mereka nie tidak bermoral lalu
digantikan dgn penyanyi nasyid dari Amerika, Rahul kalau tak silap namanya. Tak habis habis. And sebelum ini benda yang sama berlaku di mana diorang tidak dapat dicalonkan di Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM) oleh kerana muzik yang diperjuangkan adalah Punk Rock. Dude !!!! This guys opened up for Fall Out Boys Orang luar appreciate kita, orang sendiri tak. Takpe, there s always a place for our music bro….

Lagi cerita panas, baru2 ini Kedah telah ban semua unsur muzik yang bersangkut paut dgn reggae, rock, pop dan dangdut. Kerajaan negeri tersebut mengharamkan segala persembahan yang melibatkan gelek-gelek dan utk membuat persembahan di negeri tersebut pihak artis perlu mematuhi peraturan yang ditetapkan sewaktu beraksi di atas pentas. Tiba-tiba teringat plak cerita salah seorang bekas pelajar AF, yang tidak dapat membuat persembahan walaupun namanya tersenarai hanya kerana dianggap seksi. Dan pelajar tersebut lelaki ye….bluekss…

Singer/songwriter Shanon Shah telah membuat penjelasan terbuka terhadap diskriminasi
tersebut. I strongly recommend you guys to check out what he wrote.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/31/focus/22205590&sec=focus

Sudah2lah tu. Tak cukup dengan industri yang sememangnya mengangkat karya-karya luar, hasil seni anak bangsa sendiri kita tolak, kita pandang sebelah mata. Pilihanraya baru2 ini kita boleh saksikan keputusannya. Kita boleh rumuskan yg rakyat nak pembaharuan. Benda baru kerajaan baru semua nak baru. Dan mintak maaflah kalau salah tapi saya rasa golongan belia antara golongan yang mengundi dan inginkan kemajuan. Bukan pemikiran yang lebih sempit lagi cetek...

Pemikiran juga harus baru.....

Guamuzik and Momogun

It has been quiet a busy week for us. Lets just start with what happened with Infinatez this couple of days.

Last Thursday, we performed for Gua.com. Gua is a portal whereby you guys can search for the latest info especially the show biz. So after a year, they celebrated their one year
anniversary at Restoran Nelayan Titiwangsa and did buka puasa and makan-makan as well for the orphanage. We arrived there before maghrib and perform slightly after ishak. There were a few big shots who came as well. I saw Paul Moss and Norman Hakim who was seated right beside us. But yeah there were a few other performers that night such as Akasia, Farah Asyikin and Imran Ajmain. And we performed our song Ada Masa, and a piece of acapella ‘anugerah yg terindah’. But the highlight of that event is actually the prizegiving. They gave away a few gifts and we wanted the Plasma TV. Too bad none of us won. Haha. But for more info you can checkout www.gua.com.my

Saturday we were at Berjaya Golf Club Bukit Jalil for an event organized by MSM. It’s a dinner show for the Momogun, which consists of all the Sabahan that is currenty staying in the peninsular. Amongst the VIP that attended the night was Dato Bernard Dompok. It was truly an amazing show and I must thank Alvin for introducing us to the culture, before falling in love with it. The performance was great. The crowd was supportive and awesome. And all of our merchandise including BBKK was practically sold out. The dinner and party was fun and to all the Sabahans that are reading this now, we love ya’ll and thank you for the endless encouragement for Infinatez…..

Now imagine BoyzIIMen singing in dusun? Hows that for a surprise? hehehe

Ada Masa?

Ada Masa - A Letter by Alvin aka Defoo

Notice: My blogger friends, I would really appreciate it if you could post this letter at your respective blogs. Thank you very much (from the deepest of my heart) for your help and support!!

To all my beloved friends,Be it from Sabah, Sarawak, KL and semua di Semenanjung Malaysia. I would really need your help, I'm representing Infinatez and our INF team.

Alhamdulillah Infinatez now is moving in a correct direction, we are getting invitation to appear in various events, shows, interviews etc. To those yang sudah dengar our songs "Paparazzi", "Ada Masa" & "Sayang Kinabalu", we hope you enjoyed it. Kalau belum you can listen to it here - myspace.com/infinatez

Ok, the help yang I need from you guys is to request our songs to be played in radio stations. To be exact we would like you guys to request "Ada Masa" as it is our latest single, tapi you guys boleh juga request our other songs.

One way is to request it at Xfm (previously known as Xfresh), ni link dia - http://www.xfresh.com/radio/zpx.asp

One thing at a time, we can focus on Xfm first. But if you prefer other stations like Suria fm, you can do so. You probably get a listen to it at DJ Hairil's Suria Intro every Sunday. To listeners in Sabah, you can ask DJ Othoe to play it @ Suria Pagi Kinabalu 105.9fm.

Guys, we really need your help on this one. Again, do have time to listen to it at our myspace and if you like it, kindly do request for it. We hope that our songs could be heard all over the country, and the rest of the world.

ps: Infinatez will be back with more sounds. We promise.Thank you.

Yours truly,
Alvin MY aka Defoo
defucious.blogspot.com

FreedomFilm Festival 2008

Baru-baru nie berlangsung FreedomFilm festival di Annexe KL. Festival nie is about freedom to express your thoughts thru short documentary. That night they were a few finalist and one of them is my client, DNA. DNA is from Blastoff Astro and the movie they did explores the state of music and art as a form of freedom of expression in an Islamic context. They appointed me as the producer, and I made a song which combines hip hop with dark sound and islamic content.During the production of the song I discovered new stuff and even though its my first hip hop track I manage to pull it thru and the song got thru to the final. We also shot a video clip for that song. Its called ‘Genggam Bara’

Alhamdulillah, with lots of effort from everybody that night we won “Most Outstanding Human Rights Film” of the year. We ve helped each other and I must say im very proud of them. Ill upload more story, clips and their song later but meanwhile if you wanna know more you can go check out this link

http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/

http://www.klue.com.my/articles/628-FreedomFilmFest-2008

Ramadhan Al Mubarak

Mungkin sudah agak terlewat sebab blog nie pun memang up lambat but better late than never kan. Saya nak amek kesempatan di sini utk mengucapkan selamat mengerjakan ibadah puasa kepada semua umat islam di Malaysia. Banyakkan beribadah dan elakkan dari melakukan perkara2 yang dilarang. Ingat! Bulan puasa setan semua kena ikat. So kalau sendiri bukak puasa, ponteng, hisap rokok belakang tangga jgn salahkan setan. Setan annual leave sebulan…

Moga-moga Ramadhan kali ini akan lebih diberkatinya.

Innalillah

Sedang aku bekerja tiba-tiba aku menerima sms dari sahabatku. Dalam pesanan tersebut mengatakan ayah kepada kawan rapatku lynnz telah meninggal dunia di hospital serdang. Jenazah akan dikebumikan di Puchong selepas Asar.

Al-Fatihah kepada arwah. Semoga dia tenang dan ditempatkan di kalangan orang2 yang beriman...

Doctor's routine

I live a hectic life. I work for DHL Cyberjaya as an IT analyst. I have a bloody odd working time but I ain’t complaining. I work on shift. I prefer shift rather than stuck with the old 9-5 routine everyday. Lagipun im not a morning person and I hate office attire. Satu lagi kenapa aku suka keje shift ialah I could adjust to my other hobby. A hobby and passion that has now turned into part of me…

Im in Infinatez. Apa tu? Well i cant say much. Lets just say the next malaysia’s very own BoyzIIMen.Wakakaka. Well if you must know Infinatez nie is the new RnB group in town. Not so newlah. I mean does 4 years be considered as new? But whatever it is we were the finalist of Gangstarz. And then we joined P Ramlee the Musical, both seasons. In fact we were there in Espalanade Singapore..Yup..that’s us.. For more info you can check us out at www.infinatez.com. You can also see our past performance at youtube. Just type Infinatez. But beware, i change my hair almost everytime im on stage...:)

Macam tak percaya? So that’s why I love working shift nie ikut sukahati mak bapak aku je nak masuk keje pukul berapa. Selalunya akan problem kalau kitorang ader show dan interview. Last 2 months when the teater was going on in Singapore, I had to take leave for a week, then dekat Istana Budaya I memang kena adjust time keje i. So alhamdulillah boleh kawtim. Bagi dia 2 ticket free semuanya bolehkan.... hahah

At the same time I love doing music. I wanna keep on doing music and inspire people who listen to it. I ve got my own company if you must know which is called TWBR that stands for ‘Those Who Believe Records And Publishing’. Me and my partner Benign who is also from Infinatez write, compose, arrange and produce songs for other artiste. Pelan – pelan kayuhlah. Satu hari nanti nampaklah hasilnya. For those yang nak menyanyi you can just holla at me. Kitorang tak makan orang…

So there you go. Now you know how packed my life is. Masa yang lebih adalah untuk si dia ....hehe

TWBR = Those Who Believe = Mereka yang beriman

Andy

An exclusive interview with the doctor

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Assalamualaikum.....

Bismillah