Give me pennies: k-indie

During the past 2 years, my music taste has slowly moved to sweet and melodious indie and smooth and groovy electropop music. even though mainstream korean music is still dominated by cutesy girl groups and boy bands, i'm surprised that south korea has a rich underground rap/hiphop/electropop/indie music. i've never been a hardcore rap lover so i gravitated towards indie music.

the most successful indie group that has cross-overed to mainstream is Clazziquai. Composed of Alex, Horan and DJ Clazzi, they gained a following after two of their songs, "Be My Love" and "She is", were used as beginning and ending credits for the highly popular drama series, My Lovely Samsoon in 2005. To date, they have released 4th studio albums and 3 remix albums.

the other groups that i'm listening to have somewhat similar sounds and beats.. the female singer always sounds sweet while the male singer has a deep smooth voice.

Beansprouts - Play Me Your Song
Release date: Nov 3, 2009
Genre: Pop / Indie
01 랄랄라 하늘여행
02 에게만 들리는 노래
03 미래를 만나는 시간
04 L.O.V.E. is what you need
05 Play me your song
06 But without you
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RossyPP - Cozy Rossy Mini

Release Date: Oct 15, 2009
Genre: Pop / Indie

01 Sugar Honey
02 Falling In Love
03 검은 방
04 Fairy Dust
05 튤립

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Lucite Tokki - A Little Sparkle

Release Date: Oct 14, 2009

Genre: Indie

01 생일
02 바보 마녀의 하루
03 손꼭잡고
04 나에겐
05 Driving
06 B.I.S.H
07 하프물범 (Letter To Arctic)
08 잊혀진 이야기
09 Christmas Carol (제1탄 크리스마스 트리의 신비한 힘)
010 Christmas Next Day
011 손

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Hada 하다 - After Hours
Release Date: Sept 29, 2009
Genre: Electropop
01 In Your Atmosphere
02 With Us
03 Lubovi (Love) (inst.)
04 Skyway (inst.)
05 With Us (English ver.)
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