Clazziquai Project

Clazziquai Project gets the distinction to be South Korea’s initial breakthrough digital artist. The group’s coffeehouse mixture of acidity jazz, home, lounge, and trip-hop originally gained traction force in Seoul’s trendy Apgujeong region. By 2005, it acquired joined up with the Korean influx of pop lifestyle exports to the others of East and Southeast Asia that started in the middle-’90s. Clazziquai includes DJ Clazzi (Kim Sunghoon), vocalist Horan (Choi Sujin), vocalist Alex Chun, and periodic visitor Christina Chun, sister to Alex. Kim as well as the Chun siblings are Korean-Canadians and started collaborating while Kim is at college at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Anchored by their DJ and producer’s traditional training, experience being a jazz pianist, developing curiosity about electronica, contact with latest J-Pop and Shibuya-kei, and longtime fondness for British prog rings like Ruler Crimson and Green Floyd, the group produced a trio of amateur produces available on the web in 2001 — Grey, Red, and Vintage — along with a remix of Loveholic’s “Arrive and Play” enticed enough focus on get Clazziquai agreed upon to the Korean label Fluxus Music. The group’s debut, Quick Pig, appeared in-may 2004. Its achievement was compounded by “Honjarado,” a cooperation with Korean hip-hop action Epik Great released in the latter’s Great Culture that July. Also broader exposure emerged when Clazziquai added a set of tunes towards the effective TV dilemma “My Lovely Sam Shortly.” “Become My Like” served because the show’s theme and was presented on 2005’s Color Your Soul LP. Another full-length, Love Kid of the Hundred years, adopted in 2007. Clazziquai’s abroad appeal is continuing to grow steadily, partly by using a couple of three remix albums and some discs for distribution in Japan and Tawain. The group’s refined, palatable sound offers managed to get sought-after both in the home and overseas for numerous collaborations (with Japan’s Fantastic Plastic material Machine and m-flo, for instance), advertisements, compilations, and soundtracks. In early 2008, Alex Chun started a solo task and Horan created the acoustic music group Ibadi. Clazziquai readied Defeat in Like, their 4th LP, for any late 2008 launch.