• «Om telolet om» sign hanging on a tree in Kali Code, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (photo: Andre Redhi/Flickr)
    Short Essay
    In 2016, the Indonesian practice «om telolet om» related to the playing of bus horns went viral. It has reached the EDM music community and generated several remixes featuring samples from various Indonesian cellphone videos. Here, our author problematizes the phenomenon in relation to global and local cultures and creative production in contemporary music.