Korean electro-pop duo Love X Stereo joins hands with Southern California modernative songstress DA1SY DØØM. The two music geniuses will release their 5-song EP on June 10, 2023. Nevertheless, they will be releasing the tracks ahead of the EP release. Check out the details of the EP, / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ /, tracks, and release date.
Things to Know about / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ / Featuring Love X Stereo and DA1SY DØØM
1. What is / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ /?
/ 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ / is actually the shorthand Korean word for both ‘Hello’ and ‘Good-bye.’ Additionally, it also serves double duty as the working title for the new luscious 5-song collaboration EP featuring Korean Music Award-nominated electro-pop duo Love X Stereo and Southern California modernative songstress Mindy Song, aka DA1SY DØØM.
2. The beginning of the collaboration
Rewind to November 2019, about a dozen weeks or so before COVID unceremoniously shuttered the lights and mics of live music clubs in Korea, across America, and around the world, somewhere buzzing deep in the bustling back alleys of the Hongdae district — the heart of Seoul’s vibrant indie music scene — Toby Hwang and Annie Ko of Love X Stereo snuck out of their recording studio sessions to play an opening set for the visiting Korean-American dream pop voyagers, Night Dreamer — an edgy, experimental project band fronted by Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist Mindy Song and Smashing Pumpkins’ guitarist Jeff Schroeder.
But what could’ve been and should’ve been a blasé fun and done concert gig turned out to be a fortuitous blessing in disguise.
3. The things got clicked!
Fast forward to August 2021, wrestling with the restlessness of trying to write new songs during the throes of the pandemic doldrums, Love X Stereo was stuck sifting through raw ideations and rough iterations of a work-in-progress single when an out of the blue DM from Mindy — “Do you want to do a collab?” — unexpectedly struck the chord they were looking for.
Swayed by the instant clairvoyance of that chance online encounter, Love X Stereo quickly realized she was the missing link on the unfinished single and immediately sent her bits to twist and beats to tweak. With Mindy donning her freshly minted artist-producer-curator-collective moniker — DA1SY DØØM — what started simply as a creative collaboration on 1 song soon upward spiraled into 4 more songs (co-produced with DJ/Producer J-Path), 1 music video (produced/ directed by Alkima Film @ Seoul/LA), and 1 live performance video (produced/directed by Adrian Pruett @ LA CenterStaging).
3. If the EP could be described in a one-line plug, it would be…
A transcendental auratherapy that prescribes a hello to hope and a goodbye to despair, K-Indie dynamos Love X Stereo and SoCal avant-pop provocateur DA1SY DØØM join forces to fuse and infuse symbiotic melodic musings on their inspirational electronic EP / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ /
4. The first track < 랑데뷰 RDV >
< 랑데뷰 RDV > is a biorhythmic rendezvous of sorts that soundscapes the time and space difference between Seoul and Los Angeles and serves as a hypnotic runway for the EP — a boarding pass intro that synthetically weaves the intertwining of 2 female sirens searching and finding synchronicity for the very first time.
5. The lead-off single < 자각몽 Lucid / Dreams >
The lead-off single and inspiration for the cover art, < 자각몽 Lucid / Dreams > is an anti-dystopian diary that synaptically captures the slow motion, emotional rollercoaster ride of dreaming about dreams, an ethereal essay on the illuminative quest for existential bliss.
6. The other tracks
< 끌어당김 @traction > is a quasi-love letter to the ‘Laws of Attraction’ concept but regifted with retro 80s vibes. Meanwhile, < 미라클시티 Miracle_City > is a repeat play button-pusher that radiantly exudes the fantabulous euphoria of manifesting happenstance into serendipitous miracles.
Last but not least, < 바이너리 βynari > is the outro which mixes and mashes 2 different spoken-word poems, recited outdoors in 2 different languages and recorded outside under 2 different cityscapes — Seoul and Los Angeles.
7. / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ / release date
The first Dolby Atmos single and 4K UHD music video < 자각몽 Lucid / Dreams > will drop on May 20. Meanwhile, the second Dolby Atmos single < 끌어당김 @traction >, going live on May 27. And the third single < 미라클시티 Miracle_City > will roll out on June 3.
And the / 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ / EP debuted on all major digital music services around the world on June 10.
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