IN THE NAME OF DANGDUT AND LOVE

OSD HMT-ITB is the abbreviation of Orkes Semi Dangdut Himpunan Mahasiswa Tambang Institut Teknologi Bandung. OSD HMT-ITB is famous for its semi-dangdut music and its characteristics including jokes and “sepetan” in each pause of song. The combination of mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, kecrek, tam-tam, ukulele, and typical voices of the vocalists that create melodious music, makes its listeners to dance and sing. OSD HMT-ITB has a slogan “Atas Nama Dangdut dan Cinta (In the Name of Dangdut and Love)” implying the big hope that HMT-ITB members will spread love through its semi-dangdut music. 1978 was when OSD HMT-ITB was born until it is widely known now. Promoted by Herryal Zoelkarnaen (TU ‘73), OSD HMT-ITB was established for the first time in 1979. The name OSD HMT-ITB was used after Sumaryanto (‘79) dan Veterano Sitompul joined in. They wrote some of OSD HMT-ITB songs. OSD HMT-ITB songs were also wrote by Iwanudin who was commonly called Iwan Blow (‘75). He was the writer of the “national anthem” of OSD HMT-ITB fans ‘bOSDangdut’, “Erika”. With his struggle and also other personnel’s, OSD HMT-ITB received many awards from dangdut music competitions.

It should be noted that in 1994, OSD HMT-ITB had been vacuum for a while. However, OSD HMT-ITB was later active again with Afandi Mardani’s proposal to the Chairman of Association, Joko (TE ‘91). In this era, OSD HMT-ITB started seeking for music instruments and distributing its song lyrics to other association members and successfully recorded its songs in MP3 format.

Until now, OSD HMT-ITB keeps attempting to develop for its better existence like in its past glory period. This can be observed with its improved frequency of stage performance, in and out of ITB Campus. OSD HMTITB will not develop like this without its fanatic fans’ support commonly called “BOS DANGDUT” who are proven effectively distributing the retro dangdut atmosphere typical to OSD HMT-ITB. OSD HMT-ITB is expected to be well preserved and develop better in the future.