BREAKING NEWS: I Could Have Unearthed the Unique Supply of Sweetune’s Musical Energy
Longtime readers know that I’m a Sweetune aficionado. I hardly shut up about these producers (even/particularly once they’re not at the moment producing). They’ve given us a wealth of Okay-pop classics through the years, together with a lot of my all-time favourite songs. However being a Sweetune fanboy has its frustrations. They’ve little-to-no on-line presence and infrequently disappear from the trade for lengthy intervals of time, making each their previous historical past and future exercise really feel fairly murky.
Sweetune’s core members, Han Jaeho and Kim Seungsoo, have been energetic within the enterprise since 1995, however it wasn’t till the late 2000’s that their work developed its iconic sound – closely influenced by worldwide synthpop and Japanese dance music from the 90’s.
Not too long ago, as I used to be skimming by means of outdated first-gen Okay-pop releases, I found a 2002 single from blink-and-you’ll-miss’em lady group Dejavu. The second I heard Run, my thoughts instantly went to the Sweetune-produced The Chaser (aka my favourite Okay-pop music of all time). Its driving vitality, ebullient brass synths and rock spine sounds nearly like a dry run for the true factor. The music is completely blazing and I’m so psyched that I discovered it.
Me being me, I wanted to know who composed this gem. And lo and behold, my instincts had been onto one thing! The web reveals Run to be written by composer Lee Chang-hyun, who simply occurs to have labored as a part of the Sweetune staff! He’s credited on songs like Infinite’s Man In Love and Inconvenient Fact, Kara’s Broken Woman and Snuper’s Jekyll, Hyde. He wasn’t a part of The Chaser, sadly. However the musical DNA is there. It’s there!
Run was described as HRD (Hyper Dance Rock), which is a style I’m claiming allegiance to proper right here and now. Let’s carry again HRD, individuals! I’ll even put it on a t-shirt.
The music is a banger, and yet one more instance of the fascinating, interconnected historical past of Okay-pop (with a little bit little bit of J-pop on the facet).
