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In The Loop | TokyoLite

Posted by empiremag ⋅ February 22, 2012 ⋅ Leave a Comment

Tokyolite is an Indonesian funk pop band formed in Bogor. Started from a friendship
of Devin and Alex, somewhere in the middle of 2009, both of them decided to join
forces and doing a few jam.
After a few time later, former schoolmates of Alex, Stevan and Guruh shortly joined
afterwards, after one simple rehearsal, the whole band decided to bring one
additional keyboardist, and then Ghilman joined the group.
But after a few gigs and after some serious discussion, Devin quietly left the band for
chasing his own career as a gutarist. Leaving the band in this condition, these 3 guys
left trying to write their own songs, decided to put more of their original stuff on
their next gigs and strive their way onto wider and bigger places.
To be put it simply, these guys drawing influences from many places, such as funk,
punk, reggae, hip hop, rock and pop, mixed them down and put into one big white
board of musical ideas, you can say that sometimes they can boogie down up the
funk grooves but break it down and deliver some catchy choruses that guaranteed
to make you hum a bit the melodies.

Members:

Stevan – Words,Guitar https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1507270913
Alex – Lowlines https://www.facebook.com/meganesatchii
Guruh – Beats https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000513528601