Epik High (에픽하이) Official Thread [#2023]

[Guest WanMinBin]

YOUR PIECES IS COMING OUT IN ENGLISH NEXT FEBRUARY!!

I asked Blo himself at the book-signing yesterday evening at Kyobo. ^^

now just keep our fingers crossed there won't be any delays coz I want to read this soon!

got a question:

I'm thinking about buying LOVESCREAM, what is included (a poster or something)

I know about the booklet, just asking...

to my knowledge, if you buy the album online, the poster is not included. i believe yesasia is selling them separately. x-x

[Guest crazzeedrim]

YOUR PIECES IS COMING OUT IN ENGLISH NEXT FEBRUARY!!

I asked Blo himself at the book-signing yesterday evening at Kyobo. ^^

now just keep our fingers crossed there won't be any delays coz I want to read this soon!

Are you serious?!?!

YESSSSSS!!!!

That is one book i will definately go out and buy...actually...i might even preorder it! and i almost never read books by choice or order anything online...so i suppose that says alot about my love for epik high! :blush:

hmm...maybe I should wait for some official news before i get my hopes up too high...

[Guest Ella_Kwan]

lol and i was just going to ask if the book comes out in ENg. lol

BUt FEB!! O_O SOOO LONG!

[Guest tinenapay]

Blonote is a little snippet Tablo writes everyday during his radio show.

I'll be finishing them in random order at whatever free time I have, so check back often ^^

NOTE: I will NOT be doing the ones in which Tablo quotes another person/source.

And no, these were not hand written by Blo but by a PD.

All of the pictures come with this message

Done: 123

Update: Added twenty-seven more. Very proud of myself. xD

I also went back and redid around 80 blonotes because I realized cyworld resizes them. Having some blonotes one size and others another really, really annoyed perfectionist me.

A few of my favorite:

Rest here:

Blonotes

The text is exactly the same as the text in the poster for last year's party. xD

"Epik High Miri [early] Christmas party which Tablo got the wrong date for"

Oh! Blonotes update....i live for these....thanks melodygreenleaf!

yaay! just the fact that the book will finally be published in English is enough for me to wait until february...never mind the wait.....geez, i'm hyperventilating!

haammmssoooohapppeeeee!

[Guest WanMinBin]

maybe I should wait for some official news before i get my hopes up too high...

well he said it himself so i don't know how much more official you want it to be... xDD

if you're thinking in terms of newspaper articles and such, i doubt there will be a big hoppla about the english publication. and unless a reporter interviewing him asks specifically about the english version, i'm guessing the only "official" notice we'll get about this is through his cyworld.

[ProductofChina]

Does anyone know what the name Epik High means?

[Guest wassereis]

^ that is indeed a good question, someone asked before, but me, I couldn't find anything about that D:

I asked Blo himself at the book-signing yesterday evening at Kyobo. ^^

I hate you? D:

anyway, yay for english version. even though I guess I will prefer the korean one lol.

thanks a lot for the blonotes, THAT must have been a lot of work D:

but, when a PD writes them, does tablo even say what he should write? I mean, else it's just a bit ... buh ;3;

[Guest love_fate&destiny]

I have to say, i'm loving Epik High's songs. They are like the korean version of Simple Plan and Linkin Park and yeah~~ I feel like that cause they have COOL MVS!!! Seriously, like the 1 minute, 1 second MV. that was tight with the reverse! and then there was one other MV that i watched that was really cool.

Epik High has been really underrated. they are really good at rapping. But at regular singing, they are so-and-so at it. but still, they are great.

I love Epik's High ONE and 1 MINUTE 1 SECOND. especially ONE cause i heard it before, but i just didn't know it was by them. and then i learned it was from them and i was very excited. love that song. 'you are the one!~~' XD

I'm gonna be looking out for them. and i hope they don't disband. i read a news saying that they wanted to disband cause their songs aren't looking like they wanted to be. (like, they wanted to be more hip pop style but their songs lately aren't really, hip popish???)

anyways, i hope that isn't true, cause they are good like this.

[xman150]

epik high isn't underrated, they are one of the more popular groups in korea. as for their music, i really wish they would go back to the sound they had in their eariler albums, instead of experimenting so much.

[Guest wassereis]

they are really good at rapping. But at regular singing, they are so-and-so at it.

maybe because they started as a hip hop group?

I really like their way of rapping, and if theey sing a bit along with other singer okay, but a slong as they still stay with the rap ...

and i hope they don't disband. i read a news saying that they wanted to disband cause their songs aren't looking like they wanted to be. (like, they wanted to be more hip pop style but their songs lately aren't really, hip popish???)

anyways, i hope that isn't true, cause they are good like this.

I never saw that, but then, it's not that I'm looking out for any epik high-ish news (besides the tablo/tukutz accident :x). but i don't believe this, since they declared themselves their music as 'no genre, just music', I don't think that they want to specialise on one genre.

epik high isn't underrated, they are one of the more popular groups in korea. as for their music, i really wish they would go back to the sound they had in their eariler albums, instead of experimenting so much.

on one hand yes. I really liked the style in their second and third album, when it really was 'we have fun making music' (or at least, for me it sounded like that. I looove 'Highschool') but on the other hand, I like it that no album is comparable to another one they made, that each album is unique. I have to admit i didn't liked 'One' first and so the album, because I thought they 'sound' mainstream. but listening more into the album, there are also some songs having a bt the feeling of the fourth. :/

but really, don't like tablos 'stylish' hair >> I like it more the way it was during 'FLY'

[Guest love_fate&destiny]

xman150: well, they used to be underrated. thank god they aren't now. we would be missing out some major great songs and singers. They're very good at what they do.

wassereis: hm, yeah, they started as a hip pop group but then listening to their new song 1 minute 1 second, it isn't really hip popish??? ehhh.....anyways, thanks for clearing up some stuff. looking forward to seeing more of epik high.

--edit---

Oh well...Epik High is very nice...they have great music.

[Guest WanMinBin]

wassereis: hm, yeah, they started as a hip pop group but then listening to their new song 1 minute 1 second, it isn't really hip popish??? ehhh.....anyways, thanks for clearing up some stuff. looking forward to seeing more of epik high.

they don't want to be restricted by genre which was why when Remapp came out they used no genre, just music to describe their music.

and about them experimenting with different sounds, i think that's what artistes who write their own music try to do? if you read their interviews (the translations) you'll really get more of an insight into what they do and why they do it.....and who they are.

just a quote from the recent NYLON magazine interview of Epik. take note especially of the last sentence:

Q: After reading the rumours about disbanding, I thought that you guys might have found it quite frightening since you've never been criticised harshly before.

Tablo: I think what's important is who's giving that sort of opinion. If it's someone who doesn't bother buying CDs and think that concerts are waste of money, I don't really care whether it's good or bad. I think that those who like music will understand it when their favourite musicians try something new.

translation credit: kanonkyoya @ livejournal epikhigh comm

[Guest mab2007]

i'm beginning to like this group..hehe!

[Guest Shadow5YA]

and i hope they don't disband. i read a news saying that they wanted to disband cause their songs aren't looking like they wanted to be. (like, they wanted to be more hip pop style but their songs lately aren't really, hip popish???)

anyways, i hope that isn't true, cause they are good like this.

Where did you read that? If it was from shenyuepop or allkpop, then learn to distrust anything from those sites. Even if it isn't, that rumor is false anyway. Their songs are composed by them, written by them, and selected by them. If they didn't like the songs they wrote, they wouldn't include it in an album. Chances are that rumor came from either someone who actually wants them to sound more like old-school hip-hop, or it came from Tablo's comment that their later album songs are a lot more somber and dark than their earlier album songs, and sites like shenyuepop blows it out of proportion to get readers.

[Guest melodygreenleaf]

thanks a lot for the blonotes, THAT must have been a lot of work D:

but, when a PD writes them, does tablo even say what he should write? I mean, else it's just a bit ... buh ;3;

Blo writes the content of the blonotes himself. The female PD-nim just "pretties" them up with her handwriting and photographing. ^^

[Guest starflower135]

Thank you so much for clarifying that ^^ I've been wondering about that too, and it's nice to know Tablo writes the content of it himself. Thanks again for your time translating the notes <333

[Guest SiSyd Choi]

Hey...

Ok, i've been lurking for too long..

Finally I am very relieved that the news of them disbanding is false..

They're just too good..

Really love their music and their friendship..

I never fail to support them and will support them forever...

Thank you Tablo for clearing that rumored up...

And I am sooooo going to preorder the book...

February come fast!!!!

The last sentence is my favourite, the news is the scariest thing now...

Epik High Hwaiting!!!

The most talented and genius musicians...

[Guest ~Sen~]

Just wondering, but how many full English songs has Epik High done?

And is the English version of the book going to be available online only?

[Guest zangly]

excited to hear there's an english/original version of 'your pieces' in the works!

but i'm impatient, so does anyone know where i can buy the korean version online that will ship to the states (ny) ?

thanks.

[Guest gal-bi]

omgosh im so excited that the english version will be out soon

QUESTION

does anyone know if epik high is making appearances on variety shows or anything?

i miss them on shows