Hip-hop group Dynamic Duo (다이나믹듀오) will be playing a concert in the "Hub City of Asian Culture" on Saturday, and it's too bad I won't be able to make it. They seem to come through a few times a year, so maybe next time. Youtube has a few of their songs online, which I'll include as an introduction to the group.
"Insomnia" with Bobby Kim is one of my favorites. Youtube has two versions: the video and a live performance.
One of their better-known songs is "Ring My Bell." It samples the music and the chorus, but it's in Korean of course, so I'm not sure if that's considered a remake or what.
The video for "Go Back" has a couple of weird white people including, I'm pretty sure, the Russian woman 아냐 from the "lingerie fashion show" titled 5 Girls.
There are also a couple of decent live performances featuring the group and other members of "The Movement": Lee Ssang, Drunken Tiger, Bobby Kim, Yun Do-hyeon, and others. That Eun Ji-won joint is tight.
Drunken Tiger is sick, too.
Lee Ssang is probably my favorite, but even they can remind us why it's a bad, bad idea to try an English song phonetically.
A couple other good Dynamic Duo songs:
The last one is "Funk the World," but their pronunciation is a little off so I'd maybe leave it out of the office.
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I guess they're in town for a few days right now.
Caught them last night at their finale act for the end of the Gwangju University annual college festival. They were good, and went down well with the students.
Second time I'd seen them, and they had just as much energy and fun sharing good rythms and lines with the audience.
... Now I just have to learn enough of the language to know what they're on about...
I'm jealous.
My girlfriend teaches at a tiny school there and they had Drunken Tiger play their festival. I went to a mid-sized state university back home and the only big-name act we ever got was Rufus Wainwright, lol. One of the benefits of living in a smaller country, I guess. And one of the benefits to living in a city or town with plenty of universities.
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