Y: Heikal grew up in Singapore and I grew up in Malaysia. And you know, to try and use so called Melbourne or so called Australia. Also having like, this is a general thing where not acknowledging the use of the colonial word “Australia” in this podcast, we can try and use things like so called Australia or so called Melbourne which I have used before and my you know, radio show and stuff gets a bit of attention from people in Southeast Asia or Europe to us what it's so called and then we start explain the ongoing colonisation of the country of First Nations people here so to acknowledge more, and to try and push this towards the small scene that we have. H: I'm Heikal and I acknowledge that this podcast is being recorded on stolen Land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation and I pay my respects to elder's past, present and emerging and so all of us as well. Heikal has a few words they want to say before we start the conversation, you're listening to the modern Australian underground I want to thank Yeap and Heikal for coming in and trusting me enough to open up about these particular issues. It was a heavy talk seeing that they still held pain from these negative experiences, and that they've had to adjust to live their lives to be able to get by while still randomly experiencing assaults on them as bipoc people in a Western and predominantly white country.
With this comes experiences of racism they’ve encountered in both countries, in and out of the punk community, as well as for Heikal having to navigate society as a non binary trans person. As well as talking about Yeaps punk ventures since moving to Australia, we also go over why both of them moved here, the communities they moved out of and then into at the time of their immigration. Both people are from Malaysia but not necessarily Malaysian and have their own stories of family migration within Southeast Asia that we go into in our conversation. Yeap has a new project called Reaksi, who have a seven inch coming out this year on La Vida Es Un Mus.Īlongside Yeap, I'll be interviewing Heikal who plays bass in Reaksi, and immigrated to Australia just a few years ago. I'm your host, Christina Pap, and on the show today I'll be talking to Yeap Heng Shen who burst through the Australian and international punk scene in the early 2000s as the lead singer of Swedish crust revivalists Pisschrist with members of other awesome bands from Melbourne at the time, and forthcoming such as Straitjacket Nation, Sucio Poder, Extinct Exists, Nuclear Death Terror, Lai and others, then going on to form Kromosom and after that Enzyme, as well as some other shorter lived projects such as Oi punk band Bloody Hammer. C: Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Modern Australian Underground.
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