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Ultra Kalcer Malaysia

1 Nov 2026

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chrspepper★★★★★ · 9 Nov 2026

Ultra Kalcer Malaysia 2026,

The sound: Honestly a lot of people complained on how bad the sound is but in my opinion there are bands with good sound and there are bands with bad sound. For some example, Okirama and Sal Priadi sounds so good that a lot of people actually praised for how good they sounded.

The production: Top tier production with excellent crew. Why? Because when we went for soundcheck on Friday morning, it feels like “omg this is gonna be a disaster” because the main LED panel has not been setup yet, no lighting console and even no sound from the house speakers so bands and live sound engineers who did their soundcheck before Fugo had to rely on their monitors. But the organizer and crews managed to rectify those shortcomings overnight despite the heavy downpour and to my amazement all those problems were gone by the following day which is show day 1.

The lineup: Honestly could be more balanced with equal number from both Indo and Malaysian acts. For example, if there’s going to be 8 Indo acts, our lokal acts should also be 8.

Security team: So friendly, helpful and kind to the point that I’m a bit culturally shocked they can be that good because as a tech crew for bands or events, I do have my fair share of rude security but with UKM 2026, they were on the next level. I even shook hands with them and thank them when leaving because of how good they are.

Favourite performance: Rangkaian Fugo. I watched them a lot of times even performed on the same stage back in 2023 but this one hits differently because instead of just playing the songs, they made a theme for the crowd to fully immerse themselves for the Rangkaian Fugo experience. I don’t know how to explain or put it in words, you just had to be there.

All in all, Ultra Kalcer Malaysia 2026 is by far one of the best festival I have ever been to as a crew because I have been to GVF 2022 as a crew where they treat our lokal acts very badly, was at the first Latihan Pestapora 2025 as a crowd where tons of issues arose especially the water part. So Ultra Kalcer Malaysia 2026 kinda surprised me in a good way on how a music festival should be organized in terms of the flow of movement itself for the acts and their crew from holding room to the prep area then finally to the stage because this flow makes it easy for bands and their techs to prepare their instruments and audio gears right before going on stage.

So if there is going to be Ultra Kalcer Malaysia 2027, I hope the line up will be more balanced and maybe the in house production team can try to incorporate lasers too? Like lasers at a rave. That’s all for now, thank you.

Credits

Organiser
  • Neptunes Presents
Featuring
  • Bil Musa
  • Heidi Moru
  • Dato’ Francissca Peter
  • Fynn Jamal
Venue
  • KL Festival Park
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