Bakakuk is executive produced by Atama, and in just three months he spent countless hours writing, recording, and producing. The album was mixed & mastered by John Lee, and features Sabahan sensations, Gzell, AJ, As Bow, Carl, Alvin MY & pop sensation Ivy Alexandra. Atama is also featured on Clarice John Mattha & Rash new album having collaborated on Diva and Daling Daling.

1. Press Kit

2. Atama spent most of his early childhood
either on a tour bus or backstage, accompanying his
father, Ambrose Mudi, a legendary Dusun singer /
songwriter/ composer and originator of Bamboo
Orchestra Music ‘The Sompoton Singkokolu’.
He began his professional career at five; when he
performed alongside Peter Dicky Lee, Flora Santos &
John Gaisah on the live screens of RTM Sabah.
Atama attended the Unity Point School in United States,
where he studied music and it was there he embraced the
Hip-hop Culture. During this time, he performed for their
Music Festivals and International Events for Southern
Illinois University. He continued singing and dancing
while majoring in Tourism & Hospitality Management at
Stamford College Kota Kinabalu. After graduating, Atama
moved to KL to pursue a career as a Club DJ where he was
the lead DJ at Arena, Bali Sunway & Modesto’s Embassy
in Kuala Lumpur.
In 2005, claiming rave reviews from Daily Express, The
New Sabah Times & The Star Weekly, he released ‘My
Tribal Roots’. The debut album which fused hip-hop/soul
and indigenous songs with bobohizan samples sold
30,000 units in Sabah alone. Unfortunately, the hit album
didn’t become an international zest doe to an ‘injunction’
filed in a local high court. The rapper was forced to retreat
in bitter frustration.
Atama later began to compose new materials at
Milestones Studio in 2008, and there he began writing his
new sounds and created a new theme. He wanted to
create an album which could define his passion for
eclectic dance music, versus the pulsing struggle of
gangster rap overlapped with a vitality that would go
beyond the endemic magnetism of his tribal identity.
Ablaze with this concoction, Atama began to express his
emotion.

3. When the fundamental synthesis he had created in ‘My
Tribal Roots’ opened up a whole new perspective to the
younger generation, and became a revelation to the other;
the older generation moderately accepted change.
However, Atama was labeled as a destroyer the KDM
identity, as some quarters typically politicized which
propelled to a step higher. This fired up his poetic psyche.
But, although critics have their way, Atama is nonetheless
proud of his tribal roots and resilience force of his
generation.
In the new album, he continues to voice out angst and
vents frustrations with radical poetry and stalwartly
answers back his critics. A testament of the struggles of a
young indigenous man becomes the base flavor of his
design. Faced with the lucid spectacles of the struggles
and contentions of his indigenous community, he
expresses hope through his rhymes.
Bakakuk is executive produced by Atama, and in just
three months he spent countless hours writing, recording,
and producing. The album was mixed & mastered by John
Lee, and features Sabahan sensations, Gzell, AJ, As Bow,
Carl, Alvin MY & pop sensation Ivy Alexandra. Atama is
also featured on Clarice John Mattha & Rash new album
having collaborated on Diva and Daling Daling.
Atama timelessly merges Hip-Pop and R&B with the
sexiness of Reggaeton and Dusun Blues, mixes elements
of the streets with Mandung-Mandung melodies of the
Kulintangan. Bobohizan samples and classic sumazau are
injected with a pulsing hip-hop beat in addition with
synthesized sounds over on dusunic harmony. With a
unique, dusunic voice, and artistic caliber that competes
with the best in the business, Atama is a… Bakakuk.
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4. Contact:
Atama
+6016.828.6654
Atamakatama@gmail.com