Ska music was a kind of music which is not so popular in Indonesia in the year of 1999. The term “ska†itself was considered as a new music genre in Indonesian mainstream music industries, although there were many Indonesian artists and bands which have played this kind of music in 1980s. Until the year of 2000, a group of youth from Solo City (a small city in Indonesia) decided to form a ska band, after they listened to some classic ska songs which were played on the local radios. This ska band was named RUDIE’S BEAT. They began to play some classic ska songs from Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker, The Wailers, The Skatalites and The Specials. It was quite difficult to get classic ska records in Indonesia but the band could get some of them with a help of some friends.After years, the band line-up had changed for many times. In 2005, the band decided to use THE MOBSTER as the new band’s name. The recent band members are Aan (lead singer), Eko (guitar / backing vocals), Novic (guitar), Beng (bass), Manto (drums) and Opix (trumpet / t-bone). In 2007, THE MOBSTER released its first self-released mini album entitled SING N DANCE (Indonesia distribution only) which contains 5 songs and 1 instrumental track. In the album THE MOBSTER play ska music which is combined by the elements of pop, jazz and keroncong music. Keroncong music is one of Indonesian traditional music which developed in Indonesia since the 1940s.CP: Aan :+62 856 283 648 9 Kelik :+62 817 949 785 4 e-mail :
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