This is music project collaboration between a musician, named
Bondan Prakoso and a Rap hiphop group, Fade2Black; the members are Titz, Santoz, Lezzano from Jakarta,
Indonesia.
In the early 2002, Bondan Prakoso who is also well known by public as a
great talented bass player, who was also a former bass player in a Funk
Stream band called Funky Kopral, and Tito a.k.a Titz who are known as a
rapper and has group called Fade2Black, are often share their thoughts
and idea to each others about music. They both came from different
backgrounds of music, Bondan Prakoso more likely in Funk and Rock music
and Titz in Rap/Hiphop. These 2 campus mates from Faculty of Culture
and Humaniora, deepin’ in Dutch literature, are colleges friends on
University of Indonesia, Depok.
By the late 2003, because of the needs and his desire in acknowledging
music is getting more mature, deeper and freedom in creating this art,
Bondan Prakoso decided to go further as he decided to retired from
their former band, Funky Kopral.
2004 was the year where Bondan came up with an idea to merge a
different kind of music and combine them in a new package form of
music, as in that mid year, he has asked Titz to join in a music
project. Titz thought that it will be more strong with his group
joining in.
The situation is getting more varieties and more colorful as Bondan
approved to involve this Hiphop group from Bogor, Fade2Black, in this
project. Instead of only 1 rapper, this music project is combining 3
rappers, Titz, Santoz and Lezzano.
Fade2Black by the late 2004, they were starting to go further with this
project and created various kind of music whit the touch of Rap, Rock,
Funk as the elements. Bondan Prakoso is in charge for the music
instruments, looping, and arranging, while fade2Black get more close to
the lyrics.
The process took only 4 months to complete and in August 2005, their 1st album with the title “
Respect”
released under the SONY BMG Music Indonesia. Since then, the album
which contains not only 1 type of music, but many types of music with
rap as the basic vocal, by TITZ, SANTOZ LEZZANO, while in other songs
also joined BONDAN on vocal in singing.
With this piece of arts, they managed to received contribution and awards, such as:
- MTv Indonesia Exclusive artist in November, 2005
- MTv Advance Warning award in November, 2005
- Indonesian Music Award (AMI) 2006 , as the best Rap album production.
and in 2008, they are ready to break the Indonesian Music Industry with
their more hard, impulsive, innovative forms of music. With their
latest new album, named
Unity, and with their breakthrough single hit, KERONCONG PROTOL.
With this new debut from their second album, they’ve won the 2008
Indonesian Music Award (AMI) for the second time in a row for the best
Rap album Production.
Now in 2010, they’re back with their 3rd album, “
For All”. Hitting back the local music industry with the hits single ‘Ya Sudahlah’.
