 Increasingly, artists themselves decide to build home-based studios furnished with up-to-date digital equipment, usually imported from Singapore.In particular, the rise of underground music (also called alternative music, or "musik alternatif") has given individuals armed with music production skills and the appropriate tools a forum through which their recordings may be disseminated.The preferred method of producing and distributing Indonesian underground music is defiantly localist, operating outside the channels of the commercial music industry.