A thousand miles in the pacific sea, on the Borneo island of south china sea, lives a dusun mc running a rap agency, making some dough, exchanging currency...

Atama

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.