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KPOP 2025 – part eight
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART EIGHT – The New International K-pop’s crossover appeal for international markets is nothing new. Casually code-switching between Korean and English, or up to five other languages as G Dragon did earlier this year, has become…
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KPOP 2025 – part seven
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART SEVEN – The Alternative There are many K-pop acts that are on smaller labels, although there is normally some degree of corporate structure to many of these companies, partly because the work that we see…
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KPOP 2025 – part six
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART SIX – Outsiders There are idols who exist on the edges of K-pop for various reasons. When I first started taking an interest in Korean pop music it all seemed fairly homogeneous and manufactured, and…
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KPOP 2025 – part five
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART FIVE – Post-LOONA Two years after the members of LOONA won their freedom from BlockBerry Creative, their phoenix rise has been spectacular if uneven. The five who were operating collectively as Loossemble, HyunJin, YeoJin, ViVi,…
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KPOP 2025 – part four
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART FOUR – Early 20s Skool There was this strange moment that occurred during those early pandemic years in K-pop with this set of unusually lively new groups. Maybe the most significant of these was NewJeans,…
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KPOP 2025 – part three
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART THREE – The Boys Okay, time to get back into this annual review, and now we’ve got a special issue for the men in K-pop. We know they’re never as good as the girls, but…
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Kpop man-killers
K-pop girl groups have a tendency to kill men in their videos. (G)I-DLE are the most direct in their murdering of boyfriend’s/husbands: literally shooting the guy in the head in I WANT THAT, and we get a similar assassination in…
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KPOP 2025 – part two
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART TWO – Rookies Let’s take a look at the important new groups this year. This is one of the cool things about South Korean pop music; there are always exciting new groups arriving on the…
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a world worth searching for
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KPOP 2025 – part one
K-POP IN REVIEW 2025: PART ONE – Kinda Big Deal Several groups from the last ten years that have been proving themselves as an increasingly big deal this year. BLACKPINK: initially a YG Entertainment girl group as a sort of…
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modempark refit
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the view from here
The Polyversity Press desk. Where I live most of the time.
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panda is looking for MIDI cables
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hardcopy EPSON MOORE is quite exciting
You can get a copy here:https://www.lulu.com/shop/zali-krishna/epson-moore/paperback/product-rmr2n8g.html?page=1&pageSize=4
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100 dice in a klein bottle
I put 100 tiny dice in a Klein bottle, and now I know that I need more tiny dice.
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EPSON MOORE – online
It is 1989 and you are Epson Moore. You are an eighteen year old A level student who is trying to understand your place in the grand scheme of things. If there is a place for you in the grand scheme…
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liger concept sketches
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why solomon kirchner is not on our new album cover or videos
Cheer up, luv!
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sally is always hungry
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un ohm et une pham – videos
The whole of yesterday’s livestream for the new album Un Ohm et une Pham in nine convenient sections. While uploading these the track Pho Cube Geometry has been getting some attention even before we had finishing putting the whole set…
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