Meet Stefan Thiele. The German Born Jazz Musician and General Manager of Double Doors – One of the Few Venues in Jakarta that Hosts Jazz Nights. So Stefan, what brought you over here to Jakarta? Back in 2000 I travelled to Indonesia and fell in love with this country. A few years later I came [...]

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If you live in Jakarta, it is easy to get distracted by the mess of the city; the mind-bending traffic, the corruption, the pollution, the mind-blowing poverty; it feels like a city that is about to self-combust while you can only sit and gape and wonder, who is doing anything about this mess? Does anyone [...]

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In July 1960, Allan Williams, a Liverpool club owner on a trip to Hamburg, wandered into a club off the Reeperbahn, and saw, “an Indonesian group performing Elvis Presley songs in German.” Williams was involved with rock’n’roll bands in Liverpool who had taken the music a stage further than Elvis, with the booming amplified bass [...]

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THE FALL Is it the real death of the music industry?   How many songs do you have on your iTunes? Have you ever checked? How many of them are ripped from the original CDs and how many of them are legally downloaded? On my desk right now, I have a stack of CDs, original [...]

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