San-E (산이 나쁜놈둘) and 이나래 (Lee Na Rae) - Raining In Amsterdam

Double feature!!!

Because I slipped up on Tuesday with no Rap/Hip Hop wonderfulness.  So, double feature tonight.  A little shorter with both of them, but...  Sigh.  Life.

First, San-E.  I pretty much adore him.  Like a lot.  Even with his profanity (I have to put this disclaimer in every post, just in case someone is new here.  Profanity is pointless).  I love his style, I love his rapping, I love his voice, and I think he's... such a cutie.  I'm sure he'd love to be described as a cutie, too.  Riiiiiight.  Actually, he's probably aiming for gangsta and "awesome" and "the shiz" or some such, but I'm me and I use words like "cutie" to describe the rappers I adore.  They'll just have to get used to it.

This song... A bit repetitive, but it sounds kind of like it was on the spot.  Improv, if you will.  I love the rhythm and I love their voices cooperating and... Yeah. 

I love the video, I love the setting of the abandoned building and how you kind of get that acoustic echo-y feeling with the openness of the empty hollowed out building.  The lighting and the colors are cool--very real-life like they didn't mess with any of the brightness on the camera and it seems... Real to me.

Hope you enjoy that video.  Lots of profanity.  Let's get past that.  I really enjoyed the setting and the song.

The next song?  Lee Na Rae with "Raining in Amsterdam."

The song--so chill, so much fun!  I love this song, it starts out with this super cute intro, and then goes into a Jazzy, mellow beat with her beautiful, clear voice highlighted with fun effects.  When I first saw the teaser, I wasn't sure I would like the song, because it seemed a little too cute for me.  But I'm glad I listened to it, because it's such a wonderful song.  Just a shade upbeat for true laid-back chill-ness, but it is perfect in itself.

The blurriness of the picture in the video sometimes messes with my eyes, and I have to blink to make sure that it's not me.  The rooms she sits in look too sterile to actually be places that anyone lives.  Weird.  I LOVE those shoes that they show a shot of.  I also love how her sketchbook turns into an animated moving video of galoshes walking in the rain.  That was beautiful.  

One last thing I want to say about this song.  It's just... I love that there are songs like this out there.  It really gives me hope in the musical community, you know?  People coming up with songs that you can tell were... completely themselves.  Yes, they were inspired by something, but to be so completely just... themselves.  Unashamedly.  It's a wonderful thing.

Have the most fantastically chill weekend, dearies.  One last thing--I like Raining in Amsterdam because it's raining here, right now.  I took a walk in it and it was so lovely.  Chilly but not too cold, and delightful.

See you soon!  :D

A.T(에이티) _ Don't be (feat.Geeks(긱스))

Let's get my reasoning behind this one out of the way first.  I just had to, because this music video for A.T's "Don't Be" was sooo creative, and just so stinking CUTE!

How do these artists/producers come up with such creative ideas for music videos?  Seriously!  When I started watching, I was a little confused at first.  Okay, make that a lot confused.  But my confusion was quickly cleared up when the music video started.  And then I was entirely delighted.

The tramp, and them staging it as a music video within a video--super cute!  And I love that we're watching from above, and that it's a trampoline!  I love how creative it is, and I adore the obvious fun they had with the entire thing.  The beginning is so cute--their chipmunk voices and her turning the volume up with her foot!

The pictures they hold up and their turning as they jump, the story, and the GLITTER!!!

Let's not forget the awesome progress bar guy.  I think the top two comments on the Youtube video are about the progress bar guy.

The song is so much fun.  I love the bouncy beat, it catches you and makes you dance around a bit.  I love A.T's voice, though.  And, I'm unsure if this is a group, or what, but I only heard the one singer (besides the guys from Geeks, which makes me soooo happy!), and internet research yielded me nothing...  Anyway.  I LOVE her voice.  I am definitely going to look for more by her, or by the group, because she's got such fantastic vocals that grab you by the ear.

So yeah, the song is fun and I really enjoyed the whole experience.  But, watch the music video!!  You won't regret it!!

I'm going to end with just how much I love Geeks... And I know that's not quite fair, but I think they deserve such an honorable mention because they are getting bigger and actually getting recognized, and I love that fact.  They deserve that and more.

Have a fantastic weekend with your Chill Music, and I'll see you back on Tuesday!  I'm sure there will be something just... amazing for me to talk about :D

알파벳(Rphabet) Feat. San E "Black Suit" MV

This song!!!!

I feel like every time I get on here to post, I'm just IN LOVE with the song I want to post about.  But seriously.  This song. 

It's "Black Suit" by Rphabet featuring San-E.  Before you start asking, it's pronounced "Ahl-pha-bet."  So, just a fun way of spelling it.  I like it, it's... twisty.  

Rphabet is a music producer, but he composes as well and this is his "debut" song, apparently.  So, San-E is the rapper/singer, but it's Rphabet's song.  Written, mixed (I suppose) and created by Rphabet.

One thing: I am not sure I expected this of San-E right after his own song, "Story of Someone I know," but... I really like it.

The song is... I love it.  That does not express how much I really just enjoy this song.

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

Okay.  That expressed it.  And, now that I've expressed my love for the song in general, I'm going to express my disapproval for the profanity.  You don't need to swear to be heard.  In fact, people respect and listen to you when you use a larger vocabulary and are intelligent about things.  

Black Suit has this absolutely SICK rhythm, simple but infectious.  It sounds like a lot of electronic mix and awesome percussion sounds mixed in.  This is serious dancing music.  The vocals--holy cow, I love the chill "Black suit, my black suit," for the chorus that intensifies and gets harder and then goes into this sequence of electro...  Oh, yeah!  And his rapping?  When does he even take a breath sometimes?  I get so caught up in it, I don't even notice him breathing.  It's GREAT!  I am so not over the mix of this, and those transitions?  Nice.

The video is simply amazing as well.  The first thing I noticed was the black and white of it, complicated only by a few violent bursts of weird color, almost like a negative of a photo gone wonky.

I love how the opening is like an action film--the words just fade into view.  The imagery is amazing: doodling over the actual reality is so neat.  His skull makeup?  BEST THING EVER!  And by best thing, I mean it was really scary at first.

A few things: the doodled birds were fun.  The drinks--I'm SURE it was just alka-seltzer.  Right?  Right?!

The tattoos were very cool (I don't like tattoos, but the imagery fit).  The random lady waving her arms also worked for the video.

My favorite line had to have been, "My skin yellow, but my soul blacker than yours."  That... I've got no words, it's great.

Hope you love the music video as much as I do!  See you soon. :D

Drunken Tiger '살자 The Cure'

Guys.  Seriously.

Okay, my friend sent me this video, and I immediately fell in love with it.  It's Drunken Tiger with T. Yoon Mirae (I think that's what she's going by now?  Tasha?  Yoon Mirae? We know who we're talking about), and Bizzy, accompanied by David Choe on the guitar.  The song is called "The Cure."  And, let me tell you what, this song is absolutely gorgeous.  Perfect chill music.

First of all, the video reminded me of Where the Wild Things Are, with the drawings of animals and flowers and giants clinging to their backs.  It also reminds me of the book "The Little Prince."  Weird that this music video reminds me of two children's books, isn't it?  But perhaps not, because of the simplicity of the song and the drawings and the video.

I absolutely love the ruined burned-out building they're in, and the leather chairs and that random tub that Tiger JK (Drunken Tiger?  We KNOW!!!) lays back in.  I love the old fashioned scales at the very beginning, swinging back and forth--I would guess symbolizing that everything comes back into balance eventually.  

The fact that the whole of the video is in neutral tones also makes me very happy--those mellow, calming tones are my favorites.  The way they use the light is wonderful as well.

I think my favorite part is when the three of them are all seated in the brown leather chairs--T. Yoon Mirae looks like a Voodoo priestess queen with her two priests behind her.  It's awesome!

 The song.  I love the mellowness of it--it's fantastic with the guitar and Tiger's voice harmonizing and then Tasha's... and then Bizzy's.  I love that they made their song less rap-y and hard, but more light.  It was amazing how they were able to make their song sound light but not necessarily cheerful.  "The Cure" is about getting back up no matter how many times you fall.  Because falling is inevitable.  It's a soft, subtle song about courage.  I love Tasha's line about it being a cruel, cruel world out there.  Because, sometimes it really is.

Enough rambling.

Wait!  One more thing: CUTEST THING EVER that Tiger and Tasha put their son's voice at the end of the song.

Now I'm done.

Listen.  Watch.  Feel the awesomeness that is Tiger JK, T.Yoon Mirae, Bizzy and David Choi.

Have the most fantastic weekend ever and keep listening to your chill music!

:D

신초이, 가자미소년단 (Shin Cho-i, Go! Dandy Boys) - 너의 곁에 있을게 (By Your Side) MV

I had honestly never heard of this band before, and I guess their name is, Go! Dandy Boys?  Maybe??  Or the whole thing: Shin Cho-i, Go! Dandy Boys...  That's kind of a mouthful.

Anyway.

This song.  Holy cow.  It reminds me of the good rock bands--the ones who managed to merge the harder stuff with the mellow stuff and come out with this gorgeous mellow song that makes the listener's heart almost hurt with how beautiful it is.  It's one that I feel like I could listen to over and over again.  This song, "By Your Side," (I believe)... just wow.  The intro with the guitars--I adore that sound, the almost-wailing electrical guitar right before the drums come in.  So beautiful, and such a heart-twisting song--at times it's almost happy and just cheerful, but you can feel the, um... assurance and slight melancholy of it.

The whole song is just fantastically amazing, and the band has such a great sound.  I wish I could hear more from them as an international K-Indie and K-Rock fan.

The music video is so awesome, too!  Those rioters or whatever they are (maybe rebels?), with the sticks and the guns and the menacing faces--they were really scary, actually.  I kept thinking that if I were a member of the band, I wouldn't have been able to remain so straight-faced.  I would have probably run and hid in a corner.

The wind was a bit weird, I didn't understand that, but it was a really fun effect, and I bet the band enjoyed using it.  The end where the rioters were all knocked down and the band kind of ran off like, "Oh, we didn't do this," was also a little bit weird to me, but I still enjoyed it.  It's always fun to have a little something at the end of the video after the music.

Enough talking from me.  Time for you to see the music video:

Seriously, I love this song.  It's going on repeat.

Have a great week with your chill (and sometimes not so chill) music!! :D

2LSON, DOK2 and BUMKEY

I've heard of this group of composers/song writers before, but it hadn't clicked for me until now exactly what they do.

Seriously, check out 2LSON, I am loving their work.  It's so fun to see something different on the music scene now and then, and this is definitely different.

I had to look them up, because the song I just heard, "The Lady" is credited as by 2LSON, featuring Bumkey and Dok2.  Now, you already know that ANYTHING by Bumkey, and I am sooo there, and Dok2 is also an amazing artist.  So I listened to the song, and wondered, "Okay, what the heck?  I recognize Bumkey and Dok2, but where is this 2LSON that is supposedly the artist?"  

My curiosity having been peaked, I went on a web search and it didn't take me long to find that this "artist" is actually a group consisting of LE (Composer), Jason (Composer), Noel (Lyricist), and Hyo Bin (Vocalist).

Like Standing Egg, and to some extent, Verbal Jint, then, this group does collabs with other artists, vocalists and rappers (rapp-ists??  Ha, weird!) to make music and get their songs out there.

You should totally check out their music, especially the one below.  I am really on an R&B kick, and quite enjoy this song.  I'd look up more of their songs for you (because I remember, somewhere, seeing their name, but I can't remember exactly WHERE), but I'm soooo tired!

Here's the making of "The Lady":

I... really hope you like them.  Seriously, it's so fun to discover something so new, and then to be able to share it?  Priceless.

Keep listening to your chill music, and have a fantastic weekend! :D