Mintpaper Compilation vol. 4 is coming

Just today there has been an update on the fourth Mintypaper Compilation 'cafe: night & day'. A rough translation of one part:

The night and day of a café, starting with busy talk and laughter and ending with quiet thoughts and preparation, carries for us the meaning of a ‘scenery and space to share culture and communication’. The stories and connections, followed by sometimes serious, sometimes futile episodes, and the countless crowds of thoughts are delivered once again with a plain touch.

While the new arisen ‘duos’ and ‘acoustic’ become the centre in ‘café: night & day’ with a tendency to Mintpaper related artists, we will also introduce rare collaborations and rising artists whose growth makes looking forward to.

10cm's new song '안아줘' from the compilation will be pre-released in a digitial single Augutst 16.

10cm's Americano doesn't die

10cm and Ha Ji Won acted together in a cf for coffee where 10cm's hit song 'Americano' had been rearranged with Ha Ji Won joining them. Even though it was their first time appearing in a cm, 10cm performed without a NG.

Oh Ji Eun and 10cm for Anime

Yesterday started the new animation series ‘Kimi Ni Todoke’ (in Korean 너에게닿기를) in korean TV. The opening song therefore has been sung by 10cm (original song sung, written and composed by Tanizawa Tomofumi). It has the same title as the series and is called ‘너에게닿기를’.

네에게닿기를 Opening korean version (10cm) from wassereis on Vimeo.

And Oh Ji Eun has been in charge for the ending song for the series (original song sung, written and composed by Chara). Also the title has been taken from the Japanese original, ‘짝사랑’(One-sided Love).

너에게닿기를 Ending Korean version (Oh Ji Eun) from wassereis on Vimeo.

[Infocorner] One More Chance

One More Chance is a project group consisting of vocal Park Won and composer, writer and singer Jung Ji Chan, both winners at the Yoo Jae Ha Music Contest (respectively 19th and 8th Contest). They want to release an album or single about every 3 month, starting with their single ‘시간을 가슬러’ May 18 and a mini album September 14. The single consists of two songs, ‘시간을 가슬러’ and ‘Luxury Bus’, both also being on the album. With a 2 month interval they also hold concerts at Hongdae Rolling Hall, their next dates being September 24 and November 26.

Their name forms from Park Won’s ‘Won’ (One) ‘plus’(More) Jung Ji Chan’s ‘Chan’(Chance). They found together through the motto ‘Music is a play’(음악은 놀이다), worked hard for 2 years and recorded and re-recorded in a repeat to perfect the title song of their mini album ‘자유인’(Freeman)

The cover of their single ‘시간을 가슬러’ is a hand holding a 3-leaved clover. It has been drawn by Park Won who explains that when he thought of what would fit best to ‘One More Chance’ he first thought of a hand holding a 4-leaved clover. In the language of flowers a 4-leaved clover means ‘luck’, a 3-leaved clover means ‘happiness’. Park Won thought that the meaning of ‘holding luck’ is nice too but in the end liked the meaning of ‘holding happiness’ more.

Profiles of both and youtube links under the cut.

[Infocorner] 10cm

Trying to find out more about some artists, I decided to make an infocorner. Starting with 10cm. Unexpectedly it was easier to find infos than pictures.



10cm, consisting of Kwon Jung Yeol (vocal, percussion) and Yoon Chul Jong (guitar), became a trend. On a list of 'bands that had the most performances in Hongdae Clubs in 2009' they reached the 2nd place.

They describe themselves as 'expressing music full of sexiness with the smartness and arrogance of the NY Manhattan style'. But asking what exactly the Manhattan style is, you'll always get the answer 'it's just a bluff'. Never having been in Manhattan, not knowing where it is, Jung Yeol explains that it is just to make it look as if there's something; it's just the coolest word he knows.

They are lazybones who just do what they want, enjoying coffee and cigarettes. They search for 'the new world where you can pay monthly rent, communication bills, price for coffee and cigarette, PC bang and Date expenses through making music.'

Warning! CUT~

[10cm] Restricted From Broadcast

Mintpaper 3rd Compilation LIFE's titlesong '오늘밤은 어둠이 무서워요'(tonight the darknss is scary) from 10cm didn't get through the controls of TV broadcast stations MBC and SBS. Besides indicating criminality, there have been various other reasons.

Nevertheless it passed the controls of KBS. 10cm will have a recording June 8th for 'Yoo Hee Yeol's Sketchbook' which is to be boradcasted 11th in the evening. They will perform said song '오늘밤은 어둠이 무서워요' and 'Americano'.

Not so new news

I have been away from blogging for a while, I'm sorry for that.
I didn't really kept up on the news that time, so I will just try to summarize what got under my nose.

- Younha and Super Kidd filmed a CF for chicken together. Younha's 'Password 486' lyrics have been remodeled a bit and Super Kidd changed their positions. You can watch it here.

- There have been lots of updates on Mintpaper's LIFE. Mainly about the A-Live Concert, preorder and such stuff. I uploaded the teaser here. I just want to count up some background stuff that has been mentioned and I thought may be (more or less) interesting.
Besides the Artists of the 16 songs on the track list, a lot of performers(playing the background instruments and chorus and such) and 10 labels participated on this compilation. In the case of 10cm, Lala Sweet and Serengeti, the songs have been discovered at performances and decided to be on the compilation. So it was not easy at first to decide on one theme that fits to them all.
Sweet Sorrow's Sung Jin Hwan worked for the very first time together with Serengeti.
No Reply's Wook Jae worked for the first time as a producer for Lala Sweet.
Joa Band was the very first team that got in mind of the organizer when they decided for the compilation LIFE.
Earip's song 'our house singer' are episodes about her all day life with her cat 'Nawa', so the cat sounds in the song are not recorded accidentally.
Omega3's Go Kyung Cheon participates at Lonely H's Band's song playing the keyboard.
For a better feel for the lyrics, Autumn Holiday's song has been simplified compared to the demo.

- 10cm got Model Jung Hye Sun as their stylist. As she liked the band from the very first time, she decided to try out as their stylist. You can watch her 'challenge' on the Elle homepage, here.

- Some Musicians of Happy Robots are currently working on their 2nd album, which includes Naru (who finished his mixing process, bought a new guitar and will have a haircut soon and a profile photo shoot tomorrow), Daybreak (rumor has it that it will come out around July), No Reply (who are at the preparing status) and Tearliner (who also works on his Travel Essay).
Besides that, No Reply's Sungwan also participated with '완벽한 추억' at Lee Seung Hwan’s 10nd album and Joe Brown will be the director for KOXX’ music video ‘Trouble Maker’.