Praoto is an independent music medium that attempts to document Surabaya music scenes and everything in between related to this juancuuk city’s music scene. Praoto, which means a truck in Suroboyo language, is our means to assemble and to circulate the works, the sounds, and the ideas of all of you in the city of heroes music scene: musicians, players, observers, to connoisseurs.

Since we are based in the city of Surabaya, we dedicate a significant portion to our city scene, although we are not opposed to covering those from outside. We call ourselves “Surabaya’s DIY Web Music Zine” because we do it independently: writing, coverage, pictures, logo design, publishing—we do them ourselves, without professional help. We’d like to emphasise that although
we devotedly apply independent, Do-It-Yourself spirit in our media management,
it does not automatically follow that we apply knee-jerk pigeonholing
of mainstream as bad and underground as good. Music is a universal language,
as well as a matter of taste. It depends on diverse frame of reference and field
of experience, so, always keeping ourselves open to criticism and comments,
we’d like to learn and understand miscellaneous genres and types of music
with you. If you want to participate in sharing your music and have fun, please
contact and join us.