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Fascinating and unreleased before music by Otto Sidharta, pionneer of Indonesian electronic music. Electronic compositions that integrated natural sounds and urban sounds to this extent were extremely rare at the time, which gives them a unique form of intensity Sidharta's interest using environmental sounds and synthetics sounds as well to express his musical ideas developed when he was a student at the Jakarta Institute of Arts. He performed his first electronic music piece, Kemelut, based on water sounds in the First Indonesian Young Composer Festival (Pekan Komponis Muda) in 1979. In 1979 he begin to collect some nature and animal sounds on Nias Island, Borneo (Kalimantan) jungle, Riau islands, and some other remote places. These sounds were used as material for some of his works such as Ngendau, Hutan Plastik and East wind. And some others. Otto Sidharta is still alive and performing around the world. track listing 2CD Indonesian Electronic Music 1979-92 CD 1 01/ Nature (1979) 02/ Ngendau (1979) 03/ Gamelan (1980) 04/ Gong (1980) 05/ Chimes (1981) 06/ Recycling (1982) 07/ P&G (1982) 08/ Lorong (1984) CD 2 01/ Saluang (1984) 02/ Sal (1986) 03/ CO2 (1987) 04/ Nglanglang (1988) 05/ Perc & Gliss (1989) 06/ Listrik (1990) 07/ Mitsuno Hibiki (1992)