Is it Vintage? Romantic? I think it's Alex Chu!

I decided to take some time out of my busy schedule to write a memento, seeing as it's been a almost a week since the last one.

"Feel like making sunshine, for you~"

"오늘은 정말 너무 기분 좋은 날~"

"I made up my mind, to say why, to know how~"

"There'll be flowers, there'll be sunshine."

Recognize any of those lyrics? If you've listened to the album My Vintage Romance by Alex Chu, then you probably do!

Alex is the male vocalist of the group Clazziquai (클래지콰이). He released his first solo album, My Vintage Romance, in late 2008. My Vintage Romance has a variety of songs, ranging from lovely ballads to songs with a more happy, upbeat feel. His album also includes a "bonus track", 화분 (hwah-boon / hwa-bun -- Flower Pot), originally sung by the group Loveholic.

I love every song on his album. They're all very catchy and, of course, his voice is amazing. Alex is one of my most favorite singers. His voice is so amazing! Some of my favorite songs are 기분 좋은 날, Daydreaming, 연인, Feel Like Making Sunshine, 데이지... Wait, I like them all too much! (Although, I admit, there are a couple of tracks I haven't really listened to much.)

I'm pretty sure that you can find the whole album on YouTube, with English subs. You can also find the music videos for his songs 그대라면 and 사랑하오 on YouTube.

I highly recommend this album, and suggest that you also check out Clazziquai's music.

Tracklist:
1. 어느새
2. 그대라면
3. 넌 언제나 (feat. Thomas Cook)
4. 기다리게 해서 미안해요
5. 발끝을 적시는 눈물
6. Feel Like Making Sunshine
7. 깍지껴요 (feat. Gaeko)
8. Waltz Lesson (feat. Whale)
9. 연인
10. 사랑하오
11. 기분 좋은 날
12. Daydreaming
13. Miss. Understand (feat. Simon Dominic)
14. 데이지
15. 화분 [Bonus Track]

His album is available on YesAsia. So please help support this awesome guy! :-)

DJ Tukutz, play that shieeet.

OK, so this post doesn't actually have anything to do with Epik High or DJ Tukutz. But, I thought that the title was appropriate for this post. Why? Well...

(DJ Tukutz, of the Korean hip hop group Epik High)

When you think of a song that's been "remixed", you probably think of a DJ, right?--such as DJ Tukutz of the group Epik High or [DJ] Pe2ny, or maybe just some average guy who works in a club. While there are those who are famous and those who work in the clubs, there are also people who just do it as a hobby. Can you imagine that?

One South Korean guy (known as aliks089 on YouTube) has been posting his remixes on YouTube for more than a year now. Some of the songs that he has remixed are: Mirotic (by Dong Bang Shin Gi/DBSK), D.I.S.C.O (by Uhm Jung Hwa, feat. TOP), I Love You (by Mighty Mouth, feat. Yoon Eun Hye), So Hot (by the Wonder Girls), Love Like Oxygen (by SHINee), and many other popular tunes. You should definitely check out his channel on YouTube. The remixes are great, and most of them are available for download.

There is another popular "YouTube DJ" who is known as mmixes on YouTube. While he is not Korean, he has an interest in Korean music and makes remixes for fun. Most of his songs are mash-ups--when you take two songs and basically layer them together (except, only the vocals from one song will play for the whole song, usually). Some of the songs that he has remixed are: Kissing You (by So Nyeo Shi Dae/SNSD), Mirotic (by Dong Bang Shin Gi/DBSK), and well... a lot of mash-ups that you should just check out! But there is one very notable work of his, which I highly recommend to anyone. Some parts sound kind of weird, since the pitches were distorted for some of them. Still, it's really good! He put together 19 of Korea's hit songs of 2008 in one video. (There is a list of the songs he included in the video in the description.)

So please, take a look at both of their channels! Thank you.

PS: The title of this post came from Epik High's song Open M.I.C. And the spelling, "shieeet" came from inMuz.com's lyrics for the song, ha ha.