Vichaya Vatanasapt ( th, วิชญ วัฒนศัพท์) is a Thai musician, composer and music producer, best known for

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s produced through his studio Hualampong Riddim. Vichaya graduated in architecture from

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, and only had informal training in music. Upon graduation, he joined the band

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, and went on to pursue a career in music instead of architecture. After La-Ong-Fong, he worked with the band

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, co-founding Hualampong Riddim in 1999 as an

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to manage the band as well as his own electro-pop project The Photo Sticker Machine. Soon, Hualampong Riddim began producing music for advertising, and then branched into film music, beginning with the 1999 indie film '' Kon Jorn''. Vichaya went on to compose for

Yuthlert Sippapak Yuthlert Sippapak ( th, ยุทธเลิศ สิปปภาค, born November 8, 1966 in Loei, Thailand) is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his genre-blending films '' Killer Tattoo'' (comedy and actio ...

's 2003 film ''

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'', and co-wrote the score for Pen-ek Ratanaruang's ''

Last Life in the Universe ''Last Life in the Universe'' (Thai title: เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศาล, ''Ruang rak noi nid mahasan'') is a 2003 Thai romantic crime film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film is notable for being t ...

'' with Jettamon Malayota. He composed several other works for Yuthlert and Pen-ek, and has since produced numerous further output, including works done with film studio GTH/ GDH, of which '' The Teacher's Diary'' (2014), ''

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'' (2015), '' A Gift'' (2016), and ''

Bad Genius ''Bad Genius'', known in Thai as ''Chalard Games Goeng'' (), is a 2017 Thai heist thriller film produced by Jor Kwang Films and distributed by GDH 559. It was directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya, and stars Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying in her fea ...

'' (2017) all won the

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for best original score. In 2020, Vichaya composed the

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for the Thai mini-series,

I Told Sunset About You ''I Told Sunset About You / I Promised You the Moon'' (known in Thai language, Thai as ; , ) is a Thai boys' love drama coming-of-age series by Nadao Bangkok. It stars Putthipong Assaratanakul, Putthipong "Billkin" Assaratanakul and Krit Amnuayd ...

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Vichaya Vatanasapt Vichaya Vatanasapt ( th, วิชญ วัฒนศัพท์) is a Thai musician, composer and music producer, best known for film scores produced through his studio Hualampong Riddim. Vichaya graduated in architecture from King Mongkut's Ins ...

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