WILL THE LEGEND AR0.0SE?
It is been a great journey for ZeroPoint.0, the band began since 2011, a collective of Malaysia’s Top talented musicians, lyricists and beatmakers to form this group. Managed by themselves without a label to promote their music in the scene. From underground Hip Hop scene then recognized in the Hardcore Punk scene in Malaysia. Which slowly opened interest to listeners who love hardcore loud music or lovers of new production which rarely heard before.
They rebranded a genre called, “Rap Kapak”, combination of hard-punchline malay lyrics with Hard Rock Sounding Guitar and Aggressive Bassline. The word “Rap Kapak” was quoted from ALTRBG’s lyric in a song “Tekan Tubi” by KTM and grab Sinjawuf’s interest to make it an official genre of ZeroPoint.0.
The introduction of Rap Kapak was announced metaphorically since the release of ZeroPoint.0′s promo clip, which made the audience excited for the full official release. Since then they had following of their productions.
The band’s productions mostly are sample-based and sound designing. In certain case played live instruments but sounded as sample-based. For visuals, the imagery usually starts from storyboards which influenced from the composed sounds. Working together with their teamset of Fakhril Syazwan, Ikhwan Izaidi and Asnawi Aziz for photograph and filming. The combination of unique visuals and sounds makes ZeroPoint.0 stands out in Malaysian Underground Scene. Successfully won an award for Best Video in BN Youth Music 2011.
ZeroPoint.0 usually performed on stage with such high energy level and loud sounds system, both combine with hardcore-grimey voices that not many Malaysian artists could pull it off. In terms of production and mixing, is very modern which influenced from Neurofunk genre scene. As for back up music, they totally against CD or MP3 playback from sound engineers, for example, most artists will said, “Next track please, oh, wait, track number 3″ openly on stage in front of crowds and sometimes there will be playback failure or technical problems which will embarrassed the artists or spoiled the artists’ flow or mood. It is even better to have a DJ to control the playback, as DJ Anowl (4 Times Champion in various contests) is which usually concern and strict about sound quality in production as well in live performing. Most sound engineers are happy working with ZeroPoint.0 because the sound engineers don’t need to tweak more or less at the mixer console. They always keep in mind that never play MP3 at live shows.
ZeroPoint.0 last performance was in 14th February 2014, between 2011 till 2014 they only released two singles which are Sifar and Tempur. No new songs came after Tempur. It is because Nawi left the group wanted to focus on his personal reasons. Replacing B-Hard for the second emcee. Managed to re-record and re-write verses for Sifar and Tempur. When B-Hard joined ZeroPoint.0 it was the perfect mix for any ZeroPoint.0′s productions.
They added a guitarist, Emillio Daniel but then left for personal reasons and then Amirul Aminuddin became ZeroPoint.0′s official sessionist who can play multi-instruments.
Since then, no news ever heard from them, listeners was keen for a new releases but kept quite since mid-2013. ZeroPoint.0 only performed two songs but mixture with each member solo singles. The only new song to be released was announced was an Official Remix of Kembara by Hujan, intentionally to feature with ZeroPoint.0. Produced by Xzet Sicknal & Anowl.
Intentionally wanted to release Tempur Music Video but the production didn’t happened. The only latest video production was “Kebuk Gelap” which is a conceptual video. Also, intended to do EP collaborations with Abducted Mind. Recently, they deleted their Music Videos, Facebook page, Twitter page and Soundcloud page. However, they managed to compiled all the datas and put it into one website, so, previous listeners who missed ZeroPoint.0 can refer back here or any new listeners wanted to find inspirations.
What happened to ZeroPoint.0 now? They just kept quite, no updates whatsoever. Each members went their separate ways do their own solo projects.
Will the audience ever going to heard from ZeroPoint.0 again? We will never know. They like to keep secrets for any production news. We don’t know either they will make a comeback or completely abandoned this project or rebranded themselves into something new. After all, we were never informed. As for now, these are what they got. So much potential for success suddenly went quite since 2013 to be exact. This is the last message from the group: “Quality takes time, the voice makes it hard to mix, it is not common of what we do, in fact it is a hard process to produce, but we keep trying and training. We apologize for those who waited for us and no news to keep you guys updated. We spend a lot of money and time in recording studio session, travelling, making art and discussions in what to do next. That’s the risk of doing music and art. Money comes first to start a project. Wanted to be in a label so we can at least sell our stuffs easily but we don’t know when we going to make it. As each of us are busy with our own personal reasons. We don’t know when we can get back for productions. But for now, we are proud of what we produced and achieved. So, we like to end our message here. We would love to thank you all for the supports all these years. We appreciated that you all sharing our music and keep listening to our music. Haters are not important to us and lastly never trust your enemies even though it is your friend, that means hypocrite. We apologize once again for any shortcoming and misunderstanding that we brought to people in the scenes and the communities. Take care.”
Will the legend rise again? Probably, better than 0. As a saying, “The birds flies high and left their nest as when its wings are strong, claws are sharp and beak is hard.”
