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Clazziquai
Clazziquai Project (Hangul: ), also known as Clazziquai, is a South Korean electropop band that combines several genres including electronic music, acid jazz and house. The band's first short unofficial albums were released online in 2001, spreading its music through words of "netizens," who positively received the band's music. They remained underground until the release of their first album ''Instant Pig'' in 2004, selling over 80,000 copies. Since then, their music has been used in shows, commercials, and films.Tak, Jin-hyunClazziquai, a new Hallyu Star"Sportainment", March 4, 2006. Clazziquai is known for their songs, "Be My Love" and "She Is", which were featured on the Korean drama ''My Lovely Samsoon'', with the former becoming the show's theme song. The band won an award at the MNET KM Music Video Festival for "Best Soundtrack", and has also been the most nominated band at the Korean Popular Music Awards II(2회), winning "Artist of the Year" and "Best Pop". They have cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Clazzi
DJ Clazzi (born Kim Sung-hoon; 15 November 1974), better known simply by his stage name Clazzi, is a South Korean composer, singer, lyricist, record producer and DJ. He is the leader of the South Korean electropop band Clazziquai, that was formed in 2001 and debuted in 2004 with the album ''Instant Pig''. In January 2012, he made his solo debut with ''Infant'', an album that includes collaborations with a number of artists, including Seulong of 2AM and members of Sunny Hill. Biography Early life Kim Sung-hoon was born in South Korea on 15 November 1974. He moved to Canada to attend Capilano University in British Columbia, where he majored in music technology. Debut with Clazziquai (2001–2010) DJ Clazzi formed the group Clazziquai with singers Alex and Horan in 2001. They began releasing music on the Internet that resulted in the release of their first studio album ''Instant Pig'', which appeared on 14 May 2004 by the label Seoul Record (now LOEN Entertainment) in South Kore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Max Portable Clazziquai Edition
''DJMax Portable Clazziquai Edition'' (''DJMAX Portable Clazziquai Edition'', ''DMP:CE''; Korean: 디제이맥스 포터블 클래지콰이 에디션) is a music video game published and developed by Pentavision in South Korea for the PlayStation Portable released on October 24, 2008. This is the third title for the PlayStation Portable from in the ''DJMax Portable'' series after ''DJMax Portable 2''. The game features songs from the Korean band Clazziquai. Features This version includes new songs from ''DJMax Technika'', ''015B'', ''BJJ'', and from Clazziquai's 2008 mini album ''Metrotronics''. Two additional modes have been revealed for the game called 2B and 4BFX. *Club Tour is a mode where the player can play in different clubs. Each club features one of three gameplay types. ''Music'' type clubs give the player a list of songs to play and the player must complete each song. ''Repertory'' type clubs have several sets of songs given to the player, and the player must complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrotronics
Metrotronics is a 2008 EP from the South Korean group Clazziquai. Clazziquai teamed up with Pentavision for their Metro Project that soon packaged the minor release of DJ MAX series after DJ MAX Portable 2 named as DJ MAX Portable Clazziquai Edition for PlayStation Portable. 7 songs from Metrotronics (Electronics, Flea, Color, Night Stage, Creator, Freedom, Come to me) are included for gameplay in DJ MAX Portable Clazziquai Edition. In addition, Flea is the opening song to the game, Creator is the button mode selection music, Night Stage is the music for the song results screen, and Electronics is the Stage Clear results screen music and the Network mode select music. CD # Electronics # Flea # Beat in love # Color # Night stage # Creator # Beautiful stranger (sliced cheese remix) # Beat in love (Yasutaka Nakata is a Japanese DJ and music producer. He formed the band Capsule in 1997 with vocalist Toshiko Koshijima and himself as composer and record producer when both were 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Chu
Alex Chu (born Chu Hun-gon September 2, 1979), known simply as Alex (), is a Korean-Canadian singer and actor. He is the male vocalist of the South Korean electropop band Clazziquai. Biography Having immigrated to Canada with his family, Alex rose to fame upon returning to South Korea years later as part of the group Clazziquai. The group's popularity skyrocketed after featuring on the soundtrack of hit drama series ''My Lovely Samsoon''. In 2008, the group announced a temporary hiatus, and its members debuted as solo artists, including Alex. In 2009, Clazziquai returned with the release of Mucho Punk. Alex Chu became part of the MBC reality show ''We Got Married'' and was matched with Korean trot singer Jang Yoon-jeong in the Lunar Special episode, and actress/model Shin Ae for the rest of the series. The show also stars Crown J, Andy of Shinhwa, Seo In-young of Jewelry, Solbi of Typhoon, Saori and Jung Hyung-don. Alex and Shin Ae left the show after Episode 8 for A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horan (singer)
Choi Soo-jin (Hangul: 최수진; born July 5, 1979), better known by her stage name Horan (Hangul: 호란) is a South Korean singer and actress. She is the female vocalist of the South Korean electropop band Clazziquai that was formed in 2001 and debuted in 2004 with the album ''Instant Pig''. She is also the vocalist of the rock band Ibadi. Biography Early life Horan was born in South Korea on July 5, 1979. She attended Yonsei University, where she studied French language and literature, and majored in psychology. In July 2016, Horan revealed on SBS's The Genius Scouters that she had been bullied in high school. Personal life On March 30, 2013, at Seoul Gangnam Renaissance Hotel, Horan married an IT technician who she had dated in college. Fluxus announced that the couple had divorced in July 2016 after three years of marriage. On September 29, 2016, at around 6 am, Horan rammed a cleaning truck on Seongsu Bridge in Seoul while on her way to host her daily morning r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Lovely Samsoon
''My Lovely Sam Soon'' (, lit. ''My Name Is Kim Sam-soon'') is a South Korean television series based on the internet novel of the same title by Ji Soo-hyun, which was published on March 9, 2004. Touted as the Korean version of ''Bridget Jones's Diary'', it starred Kim Sun-a (who gained 15 pounds for the role), Hyun Bin, Jung Ryeo-won and Daniel Henney. The series aired on MBC from June 1 to July 21, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. "Sam-soon" is an old-fashioned name in Korean culture. It is translated as "3rd daughter" (''sam'' (삼) is three, ''soon'' (순) is meek or feminine). The romantic comedy-drama series was a huge hit, with an average viewership rating of 37.6% and its peak rating of 49.1% (for the finale) makes it one of the highest-rated Korean dramas of all time. It also won numerous awards, including the Baeksang Arts Awards Grand Prize for TV and the Grand Prize at the MBC Drama Awards for Kim Sun-ah. Synopsis Kim Sam-soon (Kim Sun-a) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fluxus Music
Fluxus Music is an independent record label based in South Korea. History It was formed in 2002 by Kim Byung-chan (also known as Chan Kim) (an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music), who worked as a sound engineer, opened Nanjang Communications and acted directly as a musician at Korean rock band Boohwal and the United States local band Out of the Blue. Putting all his experiences and know-hows accumulated from being an artist, producer and engineer he stood independently from Nanjang Communication and established Fluxus Music. The label took its name from Fluxus, the avant-garde art movement of the 1960s, for show the aim for music that always flow with the change that never stagnant. Trivia Fluxus Music is evaluated as one of the Korean record labels that make music well mixed with musicality and commercialism from South Korea's music scene. Actually all its artists are self-producing musicians who are also singers-song writers. As a representative label in South Korea music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Can We Get Married?
''Can We Get Married?'' () is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Sung Joon, Jung So-min, Lee Mi-sook, Han Groo, and Kim Young-kwang. It aired on JTBC from October 29, 2012 to January 1, 2013 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 23:00 ( KST) time slot for 20 episodes. The romantic comedy realistically explores the themes of love, marriage and family against the backdrop of a young couple preparing to get married in 100 days. Synopsis The drama revolves around 3 couples, who experience different things in their relationships. Cast * Sung Joon as Jung-hoon (28) * Jung So-min as Hye-yoon (28) * Kim Sung-min as Do-hyun (42) * Jung Ae-yeon as Hye-jin (30) * Lee Mi-sook as Deul-ja (52) * Sunwoo Eun-sook as Eun-kyung (50) * Kang Seok-woo as Dong-gun (50) * Kim Young-kwang as Ki-joong (32) * Han Groo as Dong-bi (28) * Kim Jin-soo as Min-ho (43) * Choi Hwa-jung as Deul-rae (50) * Lee Jae-won as Sang-jin (32) * Jin Ye-sol as Chae-young (25) * Choi Ji-hun as Yoo-ri (23) * Hwang Jae-won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in PAL regions on September 1, 2005, and is the first handheld installment in the PlayStation line of consoles. As a seventh generation console, the PSP competed with the Nintendo DS. Development of the PSP was announced during E3 2003, and the console was unveiled at a Sony press conference on May 11, 2004. The system was the most powerful portable console when it was introduced, and was the first real competitor of Nintendo's handheld consoles after many challengers such as Nokia's N-Gage had failed. The PSP's advanced graphics capabilities made it a popular mobile entertainment device, which could connect to the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, any computer with a USB interface, other PSP systems, and the Internet. The PSP also had a vast array of multimedia features su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaon Chart Music Awards
The Circle Chart Music Awards (), formerly known as the Gaon Chart Music Awards, are a major music awards ceremony that is presented annually in South Korea by the Korea Music Content Association primarily based on the commercial performance of the songs and albums based on the national music record chart Circle Chart. Since 2017, the awarding ceremony has been broadcast live worldwide via Mnet and V Live V Live (stylized as VLIVE), sometimes referred to as V App, is a South Korean live video streaming service that allows celebrities based in the country to broadcast live videos such as live chat sessions with fans, performances, reality shows .... In addition to the Gaon Chart being rebranded to the Circle Chart on July 7, 2022, it was announced the Gaon Chart Music Awards would be renamed to the Circle Chart Music Awards. Host venues Awards Artist of the Year – Physical Artist of the Year – Digital Music New Artist of the Year Discovery of the Year Music St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
