Andika’s Blog

Hai all.. Udah lumayan lama juga ya sejak terakhir kali aku update blog ini. Dari kemaren I’ve got much things to be done so, I just completely forgot to write here again. But well, here I am now!

Udah sebulan sejak bandku yang baru, The TITANS, merelease albumnya yg pertama. So far, semua yang aku harapkan lambat laun udah jadi kenyataan. I have new families (my band members), new Titaniums (it’s a name for The TITANS fans), a pretty tight schedule for promotions, interviews, showcases and concerts, meet and greets, etc. Semuanya bikin aku seneeeeeng banget. Ternyata gak sia2 semua yang aku jalanin dengan sepenuh hati. Semua yang diawali dengan niat yang baik, Insya Allah bakalan berjalan dengan baik juga. I really believe that, especially now.. Oh yeah, and we already have the new website: www.thetitansband.com. I usually hang out in its chat room, so I’d like you to come and chat with me there whenever u have time!

Sometimes, I still wondering about what happening to me this past years. About the tide of life, about the joy of happiness, about the storm that came from nowhere. Yeah, sometimes I thought about that. But now I realized that everything had happened for a reason. Even though some of them I don’t understand, but I believe that God have given me a path that I have to walk to find a happiness in the end of it. Yup, I think I finally found the path, coz now I see a bright light of happiness around me. Even though I know it’s not the finish line, but I know now, somehow, that I won’t have a dark path in front of me. But if I really do have that path, I won’t be confused anymore coz I have my new families all around me!

Anyway, enough about my thought for today. Buat yang belum pada beli kaset atau CD dari The TITANS, jangan lupa beli yaa… (hehehe, promosi tetep harus jalan terus). Tapi inget, jangan beli yang bajakan. Please support our local bands (especially The TITANS hehehe)… Oh ya, aku juga sekarang punya account FS yang baru, karena account yang ini udah full. Alamatnya andikathetitans@yahoo.com. Jangan lupa add disana juga ya?

Keep in touch guys, I hope all of us have a brighter future ahead.. Cheers!

Finally…

Rekaman sama band baruku The Titans udah selesai, mixing, mastering juga udah selesai. Kemaren baru nge-fix cover design, website juga udah ampir jadi… Horeeeee!!!

Ga kerasa dari bulan Desember 2006 kemaren sampe hari ini, aku sama anak-anak yang laen bareng-bareng terus, jalan-jalan, nonton, hang-out di cafe, nangkring di studio, sampe tiap hari. Sampe berasa ini band udah bertahun-tahun jalan bareng. Hehehe… I just love my new band!

Di album yang judulnya self-titled ini, ada 11 track yang diciptain bareng-bareng. Ga ada satupun lagu yang dibikin sama satu orang doang. Semuanya hasil kolaborasi antar personil. And the result? It’s so great! At least that’s what I feel.. Aku baru nyadar, kalo ternyata ga usah ngotot untuk bikin lagu sendiri tanpa dibantu orang lain. Nantinya malah albumnya diundur-undur lagi. Bikin bareng-bareng juga hasilnya ga kalah asyik kok. Nanti denger aja sendiri ya?

Anyway, untuk first single pertama kita, The Titans, judul lagunya ‘Rasa Ini’. Lagu ini bakalan mulai mengudara pas tanggal 18 April ini di radio-radio se-Indonesia. Seharusnya sih tanggal 12, tapi gara-gara kemaren ngedengerin hasil mixing ternyata ada beberapa lagu yang kerasa kurang puas, jadi di mixing ulang. Jadi aja telat.. Huhuhu..

Nanti kalo udah ada yang dengerin lagunya The Titans, feel free to comment the song. Or any other The Titans’s songs. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We have a friendster account. Klo ada yg punya account friendster, u can add us at the_titans_band@yahoo.co.id. Pasti di approve deh.. Hehehe.. And just in case u want to view our website, the address is www.thetitansband.com. Feel free to take a peek there. Trus yang suka chatting, kita juga bakalan punya chat room disana, dimana para personel The Titans udah janji mereka bakalan sering online disana. Jadi kita semua bisa ngobrol-ngobrol disana. OK?

Last word from me today, aku cuma mo ngucapin thanks berat udah nemenin dan ngasih support ke aku kemaren-kemaren, while I was down, until I made this new band. Itu semua berarti banget buat aku, and I appreciated it more than words can tell. Keep on supporting me and my new band ya… Cheers for our future!

"The sun is up, I’m so happy I could scream

And there’s no one else in the world I’d rather be..

Here with you it’s perfect, it’s all I ever wanted

Oh I almost cannot believe that is for real.. so kiss me quick.."

(Mint Car - The Cure)

Lirik diatas pas banget buat ngegambarin hari ini buat gw. I dunno, padahal hari ini ga ada yang spesial, tapi semenjak gw bangun tidur, feels like there’ll be something good happen to me, very soon. A preminition, maybe? Hahaha.. Waktu gw bangun tidur tadi, semua pegawai, also my beloved families, including my dogs (oh yeah, did I mention I got a new puppy now?), ada disini. Semua memasang muka ceria. Jadi aja ketularan..

My new band members will come up shortly now, so I guess I’d better get prepare to meet them and arrange our songs together. Hmm, new band, new step, and new songs. I kinda like that. It gives me strength to move on.. Hehehe..

That’s it for now, see u on another post!

Hi! Ini pertama kalinya gw nyobain untuk bikin blog, dan terus terang gw rada kikuk karena ga tau mo nulis apaan sebenernya.. Hehehe.. Mungkin ada saran apa yang sebaiknya mulai gw tulis disini? Hmm..

About my personal life rite now, mungkin bisa dibilang gw lagi mulai menata hidup baru. Life was sucks for a couple of months now, but I think I’ll get over it soon. After all, life IS beautiful!

Sekarang gw lagi seneng dengan hal2 yang berbau mitologi yunani (greek mythology), terutama dengan dewa2 mereka (era Golden Age, The Olympians, etc), yakni Uranus, Gaea, dan anak2 mereka (yg terbagi dalam 3 kelompok: The Titans, dewa2 berukuran raksasa, The Cyclops, dewa2 berukuran raksasa juga, tetapi hanya memiliki satu mata, The Giants, raksasa yang tidak termasuk dalam kelompok dewa manapun, The Hecatoncheires, raksasa/monster yang mempunyai banyak kepala dan tangan). Banyak karakter2 bagus disana, misalnya Chronos, Gaea, Zeus, Poseidon, Triton (sama kayak salah satu merk keyboard yg gw suka), Athena, Aphrodite (even one of my bestfriend, she use it as her nickname, Apro), Hermes, Apollo, Atlas, etc.Those myths are so wonderful, gw anjurin banget buat yang suka baca history tentang mitos2 para dewa.

Hmm.. even maybe.. just maybe.. I’ll use one of those as my new band’s name..

In my proffesional career, rite now I’m a newbie producer, who just released my first artist, a rapper known as Gunkz, to public. Sampai sejauh ini sih sambutan dari publik cukup bagus..

Sekarang juga gw lagi bikin band baru, maybe as u have already knew, dan personilnya udah hampir lengkap.. A little bit more of fixing things up and we’ll be ready to rock and roll together. Minta doanya ya biar bisa tetep ngeramein musik..

I guess that’s enough for today. Kalo ada yg pengen ditanyain atau pengen ngobrol, please feel free to email me.

Andika……….. out!