Wednesday, April 7, 2010

[Mintpaper] LIFE 5th Update

Due to a delay the mastering has been pushed a bit forward and the day of release has been decided on May 4 (TU). (It will be still pre-sold at Beautiful Mint Life)

The tracklist that has been revealed is 70% sure, the 100% sure tracklist will follow April 14.

01. 10cm - 오늘밤은 어둠이 무서워요(The darkness tonight is scary)
02. Daybreak - 팝콘(popcorn)
03. Sung Ji Hwan - 포근해(cozy)
04. Lala Sweet - Good Bye
05. Lee Neung Ryong with Im Ju Yeon - 없는끝 이야기(Endless story)
06. Han Hee Jung - 오늘은 휴일입니다(Today is holiday)
07. Dalmoon - 구제불능(hopeless)
08. Lonely H's Band - 고향에 살어리랏다(survive in hometown)
09. neons - 달빛 스쿠터(Moonlight Scooter)
10. naru - 무지개(rainbow)
11. Autumn Vacation - 취미는 사랑(hobby is love)
12. Earip - 우리집 싱어(our home singer)
13. 달빛요정역전만루홈런(Moonlight Nymph) - 주성치와 함께라면(being together with Stephen Chow)
14. Joa-Band - 유통기한(expiration date)
15. Oh Ji Eun - 겨울아침(Winter Morning)
16. Serengeti - Hakuna Matata
(*do not take 100% on title translations)

Serengeti's Hakuna Matata is said to be a follow up to 'We Are The World' with No Reply's Gwon Sun Gwan, Oh Ji Eun, Daybreak's Lee Won Weok and EZ Hyung participating in the chorus.

The track that will be released before the CD comes out will be one song out of Sung Ji Hwan's '포근해', Lonely H's Band (still pronounced like Lonely Husband) '고향에 살어리랏다', or Serengeti's 'Hakuna Matata'.
The title song will be decided by the staff in a meeting.

Due to high expenses for the merchandise, it has been decided that there will be no merchandise for the limited edition. Instead there will be no limited edition with being both the same. But they will work hard for a nice package.

The booklet with photos and lyrics is organized with 32 pages.
The photos fitting to the LIFE concept will be done mostly by Starry-Eyed's duck and a little by Kathrin Jin(head of Mintpaper) and Sombrero(head of Master Plan).

[EE] Marriage

Singer Lee Yoon Jung (33) is going to marry her EE colleague Lee Hyun Joon (27) coming June.
Place and date are not announced yet, but planned is a wedding ceremony with parents and family, and after that a party at a club in EE-style.

They met for the first time at a House Rulez music party and developed a lover's relationship during their activities as duo EE. Especially their interests in art got them together.
Lee Yoon Jung currently works as a fashion stylist whereas Lee Hyun Joon works as installation artist and sound producer.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

[Seoul Electric Band] Going to Beatball

Seoul Electric Band goes with Beatball Music starting April 2010.

After making the 1st album together with Mezoo Music, they did released everything themselves without a label.
It is planned to produce and promote Seoul Electric Band's 3rd album and member Shin Yoon Chul's Solo album.

While Shin Jung Hyun, the father of members Shin Yoon Chul and Shin Suk Chul, had a re-release of one of his older albums at Beatball in 2003, contact was made through the participation at the soundtrack of the movie 'Go Go 70' and the performance 'Rock sounds of the youth'.

[Galaxy Express] Making a Record in 30 Days Project

April 1 Galaxy Express starts their project to make an album in 30 days. No songs are recorded or organized, the project started at point 0.

The members made an extra blog for it, galaxy30.tistory.com, where they stated that the recording, mixing and mastering will not proceede with normal methods. They rather want to put their basic sound, just as it is, on it.

Until the project is finished, Galaxy Express updates their blog with their songs they are working on.