ABSTRACT
My involvement as a musician in the Malaysian independent music scene began by chance and rather “late” (I was 20 years old) as I slowly came to realize my musical works, methods and collaborations were at odds with the general ideological expectations presented by the mainstream. I found it more pleasurable and progressive to grow, learn and discover the varied realms that existed in the undergroundmusic subculture. It also helped that my friends with whom I shared a love of particular strains of music – the lo-fi collegiate rock of the 1990s and noise rock experimentations – also began networking in underground punk subculture that to a certain extent we had more in common philosophically speaking.
