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Clazziquai reunion~

ay_link August 12th, 2008

Clazziquai’s long-awaited reunion at Seotaiji’s ETP FESTIVAL 2008

This upcoming Thursday, August 14, Clazziquai will finally make a comeback together as a group. The festival this year will be held in the outdoor park of Seoul’s Jamsil Baseball Stadium at 8 PM. For this very special concert, Clazziquai (DJ Clazzi, Horan and Alex) have prepared four additional songs prior to the concert to surprise their fans.

Last December, Clazziquai’s 3.5 album, and plus after eight months of vacancy (plus solo activities from Alex and Horan), the group will reunite at the ETP FESTIVAL 2008. Horan with her Ibadi acoustic group, and Alex is busy with his wife (lol, sorry, can’t help it), I mean, MBC variety show “We Got Married”, hosting Mnet Countdown with Chae Yeon and also hosting his own radio show, FM4U Blue Night. Clazziquai’s digital single “Beat in love” (Japanese release) is reported to dominate the Japanese music charts even before the full album is released.

ETP Festival 2008 artists line-up are as follows: SeoTaiJi, MARILYN MANSON, The Used, Dragon Ash, MONKEY MAJIK, Shinichi Osawa(Mondo Grosso), CLAZZIQUAI PROJECT, Death Cab for Cutie, Maximum the Hormone, Epik High, DAISHI DANCE, YAMAARASHI, and many more.

(Wow. Great festival ahead of us! How I wish I can be in Korea right now. Hopefully there’ll be some TV coverage somehow for this event so we all can see their performance…..)

(news source: mtstarnews)

ETP FEST TV spot after the jump~

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Alex-Horan, together separate

ay_link August 11th, 2008

Clazziquai’s Alex & Horan to host separate performances

As we all know, these two lead vocals have recently led their own ’separate lives’ away from their beloved Electronica/jazzy/groove group, Clazziquai. With Alex’s first album “My Vintage Romance”, Horan also has her own separate group outside Clazziquai with her cool musician buddies, she made her own acoustic group, Ibadi.

(But no, they are NOT separated as Clazziquai, and I’m 100% sure they’re still fully committed to this group. I’m taking this separate activities as they wanna do their own thing to try out different stuffs during the Summer. And it ain’t got nothing wrong ’bout it. :D Have u listened to Ibadi btw? It definitely loaded with great stuff in there. Check it out~)

While Alex will be having his very own solo concert, titled as “My Favorite Songs” next month (Sept 6-7), Horan and her Ibadi will also host their own gig next month to promote and introduce their music.

Ibadi’s first concert will be on Sept 19-20 at the Yang Il Gan Baekam Art Hall in Seoul. Their record label and management, Fluxus music plans to arrange this concert to be as comfortable as the Ibadi’s style.  Horan will perform live with her distinctive vocal combined with Ibadi’s unique musical approach to live acoustic.

(reference mtstarnews)

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Red vs. Yellow

ay_link July 21st, 2008

Remember this post?
This morning, I found tons of pictures from the event yesterday afternoon.
(they started around 5:00pm on Monday, July 21)
And the weird thing is, though there is this one article titled, “Who won?“,
but the article itself doesn’t say who actually won the race.
The red team or the yellow team.
So, I have no idea who actually won the race as Alex,
(he looks good in red btw),
led the Red team,
he and his team raced with Horan from the Yellow team.

So, did Alex win?
Or, maybe Horan?

O_O

Ah, maybe it ain’t matter, keke.
Both of them finished the line~~
(Oooh~ Red Team won!! Haha… thanks Sarah for confirming keke)

I just love the idea of them both doing this together.
Nike’s biggest race will take place the end of next month,
and hopefully this training run (led by Alex and Horan) event
can motivate and encourage people to join the actual event next month.

Pictures from the event
July 21, Han River, Seoul

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Alex-Horan, together again

ay_link July 17th, 2008

Alex vs. Horan prepare a “Training Run” event along the banks of Han River

On July 21, the two people, Alex and Horan will hold a running showdown event near the Han river, Seoul, through the “The Human Race Training Run” in preparation of Nike’s world biggest one day running event on August 31. (more info here)

This coming Monday, July 21 at 5:00 PM, in Yeouido district, the Seoul participants can both do the training run and also meeting with these two Clazziquai’s members who have been doing their own activities after their latest album came out end of last year. Alex and Horan will each lead their own teams and challenge each other in this “Training Run” event. This event attracts many interests from the fans because it’s like a surprise reunion for the fans to see Alex and Horan in an event together. Especially because they both have been doing their own activities, Alex with his new album “My Vintage Romance”, and Horan with her own acoustic group, Ibadi.

And next month, on August 31, Nike’s biggest one day running event called “Nike+ 10K Human race” will be held in Seoul, along with the rest 25 cities and 100 million people around the world. This 10k event will span multiple continents and cover 25 cities, including LA, New York, London, Madrid, Paris, Istanbul, Melbourne, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and Vancouver. Following races in each city, participants will be treated to an exclusive music concert featuring one of today’s top artists.

Each city’s race will start on the same day, with the first race kicking off in Taipei and the last ending in LA. Race courses take runners by famous landmarks such as the famed LA Coliseum, Taipei 101 (the world’s tallest building), Mexico City’s historic center and the Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Istanbul’s race course will span the city’s famous Bosphorus Bridge, closing it to car traffic to literally allow participants to run from Europe to Asia and back again.
(for more info, visit nikeplus.com)

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Alex and Horan hope that many young people would want to participate in this event also. This will be a good way to challenge each other outside their own individual activities, making music and doing their own thing. Alex said that by doing this event with a dear friend outside Clazziquai’s activities, it’ll give them a chance to challenge each other in a positive, healthy way.

(True. What more challenging than running together in a big event like this? I agree, this is indeed such a great idea for them both to be doing this event. If only I live in Seoul, keke. The Nike+ 10K Human Race event is pretty cool too. For US residents, check this site out for more info.)

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Clazziquai Project - Love Mode (feat. VERBAL M-flo)

ay_link July 14th, 2008

Clazziquai Project - Love Mode

[Mini Album, Japanese release]

Track listing:

01. Skyscrapper
02. Love Mode feat. VERBAL (M-FLO)
03. She loves you
04. Be my love (English ver. House Mix)
05. After Love (Female ver.)
06. Snatcher
07. Love Mode feat. PE’Z & VERBAL (M-FLO) (PZQ Mode)
08. She is

[DL LINK]

Personal favorites:
Track 2, 4, 5, 7 and 8
I just have the urgency to post this album up since it’s a bit ‘underrated’ since it’s a mini album *grins* and it’s hard to find somehow. “Love Mode” featuring VERBAL from M-FLO is a personal recommendation since I’ve been admiring M-Flo for a few years now. (They so darn talented! You can check out their personal projects with Japanese artists like Crystal Kay, Melody, Yoshika, etc. Too many to list here. So maybe I’ll talk more about M-flo in another post.)

For those who have never heard of Clazziquai Project yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. LOL.
Having said this, I’ll post more Clazziquai project albums as we go. If there’s a personal request, let me know which album to upload first and I’ll be glad to. (This is for sampling only, especially if you never heard of Clazziquai Project before. )

And as always, for artists like Clazziquai Project, Brown Eyes, Fly to the sky, I really have to say this:
“Support the artist, support the music industry, buy the original album!”
Peace!

lyric and audio player after the jump

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