Yess

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Tape label from Bandung Indonesia. Active from late 70s to late 80's. The name and design of the J-cards was inspired by the group Yes. until 1988, Yess’ cassettes (and so as others) were never considered as pirated products Yess paid tax to Indonesian government There was a legal tax label attached to each cassette covers, the label was issued by ASIRI (the Indonesian Association of Recording Industry) State did not adjudge this act of copying foreign vinyl records as piracy In this sense, both Yess and its consumers did not commit any act of piracy At the time, everything was pirated – nothing was official. history : From 1975 to 1988, in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, the output of a record label called Yess Records was responsible for inspiring a generation of Indonesian listeners to pursue a musical life with progressive rock at the center. However, calling Yess a “label” doesn’t necessarily compute with its day-to-day operations: Their output was composed almost entirely of bootlegs, created by recording existing releases onto a C-60 or C-90 Maxell cassette. For the three owners – A Fung, Ian Arliandy and Ihok, about whom little is known – audio quality was a high priority, even if following international copyright law was not. But with a total of 731 releases over Yess’s lifespan, the cassette brokers played an essential role in introducing its local customers to truly weird music – Marillion, Pendragon, Tangerine Dream, King Crimson and, of course, their namesake Yes among them – with the bluish-green covers of their cassettes still sitting on the shelves of unassuming record shops or nostalgic collectors throughout Indonesia. Initially founded between 1972 and 1973 by A Fung under the name Diamond Records, it wasn’t long before Ian Arliandy was invited in as a curator. While A Fung primarily managed the re-recording process and Ihok took care of the store’s day-to-day business, Arliandy tended to a specific curatorial vision: “I really want to make [Yess] all about progressive music. My mission was to spread this kind of music. The more unintelligible progressive music gets, the better,” he once said. Generally, the musical interests of Indonesians throughout the 1970s didn’t really expand beyond classic rock – the Led Zeppelins and Deep Purples of Western pop culture – or dangdut, the popular rhythmic music influenced by Arabic and Malay structures. Due to tight regulations under the authoritarian government, television was nothing more than a channel of propaganda and print publications needed a specific permit and, as a result, music didn’t travel fast. For Yess, the word “alternative” was commonly tossed around: their brand of prog and avant-garde music was the alternative to pop, just as cassettes were the alternative to rare and expensive records. Yess were more than just purveyors of prog, though, and its restless work re-recording choice imports from the US, UK, Netherlands, Singapore and beyond became less constrained by genre as their output increased.

Discography

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Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd · 1975

Studio Album

The Wall

Pink Floyd · 1979

Studio Album

Meddle

Pink Floyd · 1971

Studio Album

Atom Heart Mother

Pink Floyd · 1970

Studio Album

Animals

Pink Floyd · 1977

Studio Album

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield · 1973

Studio Album

Ummagumma

Pink Floyd · 1969

Studio Album

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin · 1975

Studio Album

Fragile

Yes · 1971

Studio Album

Close To The Edge

Yes · 1972

Studio Album

The Yes Album

Yes · 1971

Studio Album

Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe

The Alan Parsons Project · 1976

Studio Album

A Trick Of The Tail

Genesis · 1976

Studio Album

Foxtrot

Genesis · 1972

Studio Album

So

Peter Gabriel · 1986

Studio Album

Stand Up

Jethro Tull · 1969

Studio Album

Invisible Touch

Genesis · 1986

Studio Album

...And Then There Were Three…

Genesis · 1978

Studio Album

Wind & Wuthering

Genesis · 1976

Studio Album

Hello, I Must Be Going!

Phil Collins · 1982

Studio Album

Trespass

Genesis · 1970

Studio Album

The Turn Of A Friendly Card

The Alan Parsons Project · 1980

Studio Album

Duke

Genesis · 1980

Studio Album

Chariots Of Fire

Vangelis · 1981

Studio Album

Misplaced Childhood

Marillion · 1985

Studio Album

Permanent Waves

Rush · 1980

Studio Album

A Farewell To Kings

Rush · 1977

Studio Album

Crises

Mike Oldfield · 1983

Studio Album

Computer World

Kraftwerk · 1981

Studio Album

4 (Security)

Peter Gabriel · 1982

Studio Album

Too Old To Rock & Roll Too Young To Die

Jethro Tull · 1976

Studio Album

Signals

Rush · 1982

Studio Album

Hemispheres

Rush · 1978

Studio Album

Fugazi

Marillion · 1984

Studio Album

Live

Uriah Heep · 1973

Studio Album

Songs From The Wood

Jethro Tull · 1977

Studio Album

Script For A Jester's Tear

Marillion · 1983

Studio Album

Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel · 1978

Studio Album

Ammonia Avenue

The Alan Parsons Project · 1984

Studio Album

Stained Class

Judas Priest · 1978

Studio Album

Architecture & Morality

Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark · 1981

Studio Album

Tormato

Yes · 1978

Studio Album

Discipline

King Crimson · 1981

Studio Album

Ready An' Willing

Whitesnake · 1980

Studio Album

Live

Procol Harum In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra · 1972

Studio Album

Works Volumes 2

Emerson, Lake & Palmer · 1977

Studio Album

Big Generator

Yes · 1987

Studio Album

Beat

King Crimson · 1982

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