Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk (1970-1978)

The best reissue labels make the obscure into the obvious — of course a populous Eastern nation had its own underground rock scene — and then find the mysteries and ghosts beneath that deceptively simple discovery. The edification in this comp is a two-fer: collaborative liner notes detail the process of figuring out the lineage of this music in a way that’s just as revealing as hearing the music itself, which ranges from thunderous hard rock (AKA’s “Do What You Like”) to wandering psych (Shark Move’s “Evil War”) to slinky wah-wah funk (Rollies’ “Bad News”) to all-of-the-above (Panbers’ “Haai”).