Grahadea Kusuf

Background

About Grahadea Kusuf

Grahadea is Co-Founder/CEO of Kuassa est. A pro-audio software company for music production. Kuassa is the only plug-in coming from Indonesia, and one of the handful across Asia in the western dominated audio software market. Kuassa products have won numerous of awards both from international publications (Asia-Pacific ICT Awards, Intellectual Property Awards from Ministry of Law of Republic of Indonesia, Computer Music Performance Awards, Musictech, AudioFanzine) as well as being intensively used by world's top producers, DJs, musicians, engineers, and composers. With a background as an Electronic Music Producer since his teenage years, Grahadea mostly known for his work with his electronic-pop trio; Homogenic with four albums, two movie soundtracks, and 1 EP under their belt. Homogenic was founded in 2002 and considered a pioneer of the Indie-Electronic music movement in Indonesia, started out in Bandung circa 2001 when the Independent Music scene and rave parties are flourishing among youngsters in big cities around Indonesia. To date, they have toured UK and Japan, shared stages alongside with the biggest names in international acts such as Flume, Chet Faker, Rich Brian, Mark Ronson, Ta-Ku, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Club 8, The Radio Dept, Naughty by Nature, and Telefon Tel Aviv at major festivals including Java Soulnation, Sunny Side Up Festival Bali, WeTheFest, Synchronize Fest, and Esplanade's Mosaic Music Festival and Baybeats Festival in Singapore. Since 2019, Grahadea has also served as Coordinator / Director for Startup Bandung, one of the oldest and most active Tech-Startup community based in Bandung, Indonesia.