Jaydawn x Wukir Suryadi – “Pucung, Pangkur Jeung Hujan Bedog 12” Red

Jaydawn x Wukir Suryadi
Pucung, Pangkur Jeung Hujan Bedog
12″ Red Vinyl

This collaboration was forged not in comfort, but in contradiction. Two of Indonesia’s most uncompromising underground figures—Jaydawn, Bandung’s rogue boom-bap architect, and Wukir Suryadi, the genre-eviscerating shapeshifter behind Senyawa—collide in a visceral new project that defies category and disobeys silence. Their debut collaboration is not just an album—it is a rupture, an aural pamphlet, a ghost howl from the dance hall beneath the rubble of a city being sold.

Crafted in the sacred noise labs of Studio Tingkir (Salatiga) and Cutz Chamber (Bandung), this 10-track release fractures hip-hop, ambient drone, Bambu Wukir metallurgy, and industrial echoes into a palette of resistance. One war-song, “Parancah”, features a searing verse from Bandung’s own acid-spitter, Morgue Vanguard. Titled “Pucung, Pangkur Jeung Hujan Bedog” (translated as “Songs of Death, Retreat, and Rain of Machetes”)—this project is both elegy and uprising.

Jaydawn’s beatwork is carved from vinyl cracks, cassette hiss, metal clank, and turntablist ruins—echoing DJ Muggs, DJ Premier, and the political edge of The Bomb Squad, while rooted deeply in Bandung’s own lineage of sonic resistance: Homicide. His textures refuse polish. They choose grit.
Wukir Suryadi, the mystical engineer of raw tradition, conjures a language of bowed bamboo, scratch-built strings, and ancestral distortion. His instrument is never the same twice. It breathes, convulses, and testifies.

With Morgue Vanguard behind the producing desk, they soundtrack a Bandung under siege—where “revitalization” is code for displacement, and “development” is a velvet glove over state violence.

Accompanied by writings that channel the ghosts of the Situationist International and the militancy of urban poor struggles, this album is an act of counter-cartography—drawing lines across erased kampungs, evicted dreams, and unauthorized prayers. It is music made with the ruins, not merely about them.