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Mar242009

New Label, New Album, New Website < Epik High > '้ญ‚: Map the Soul'



(SEOUL KR) : 2000๋…„์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์•… ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ด๊ณ , ์Œ์•…์  ์ƒ‰๊น”์ด ๋šœ๋ ทํ•œ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด '้ญ‚: Map the Soul' ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜•์‹์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์™„์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋™์•ˆ ํž™ํ•ฉ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฝ, ์ผ๋ ‰ํŠธ๋กœ๋‹‰, ํ•˜์šฐ์Šค, ํ…Œํฌ๋…ธ, ์†Œ์šธ, ๋ผ์šด์ง€ ๋“ฑ ์ˆ˜์—†์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์žฅ๋ฅด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํฌ๋กœ์Šค์˜ค๋ฒ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ณธ์ธ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ ‘์œ ์ผํ•œ’ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋“ค๋ ค์คฌ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒˆ์—” ์•จ๋ฒ”๊ณผ ์ฑ…์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ์‹œ์ผœ ‘๋ถ์•จ๋ฒ” (Book Album)’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฌธํ™”์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํš์‚ฌ์˜ ์šธํƒ€๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋…๋ฆฝํ•œ ํ›„ ์ฒซ ์ž‘์—…๋ฌผ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ํ‹€๊ณผ ํ˜•์‹์„ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚œ ์ง„๋ณด์ ์ธ ๋ฌธํ™” ํ™œ๋™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด๋Š” ‘Map the Soul, Inc.'๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ๋””ํŽœ๋˜ํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ด๋ธ”์„ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ–ˆ๊ณ , ‘mapthesoul.com’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํ–‰๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค. ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด์ด๊ธฐ์—.

Unanimously praised by music critics and fans alike for their unique genre-breaking sound, Epik High, the premier hip hop group in Korea, seeks to redefine “the album” with their new work '้ญ‚: Map the Soul'. This time around, they have unleashed a new medium of art: the “Book-Album,” which combines a book and a CD as one work.

This is Epik High’s first release since their break from a major record label. Following in the footsteps of artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, they have shunned all big money contacts to stay true to their art and to their fans. Epik High, who proclaimed that they would be starting new cultural ventures—breaking all rules and conventions—has founded the independent label ‘Map the Soul, Inc.’ along with a new official portal site ‘mapthesoul.com’ (created and maintained personally by the artists). There is one simple reason why their new work and their new creative direction is exciting: it’s Epik High.

<๋ถ์•จ๋ฒ”>์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€?

์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋งˆ๋‹ค ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์Œ์•…์  ์‹œ๋„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‹ ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ ๋…์ฐฝ์ ์ธ ์Œ์•… ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ผ๊ถˆ๋‚ธ ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด. ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ <ๆทท: Map the Soul>์€ ์ฑ…๊ณผ ์•จ๋ฒ”์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์™„์„ฑ์‹œ์ผœ <๋ถ์•จ๋ฒ”>์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฌธํ™”์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ์•จ๋ฒ” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ๋Š” ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์„ฑ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์— ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋˜ ํž™ํ•ฉ๋ฌธํ™” ์ •ํ†ต์— ์ถฉ์‹คํ•œ ์Œ์•…์ด๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ๊ฐ€์‚ฌ ๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณด๋‹ค ์„ธ๋ จ๋˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์ฐฝ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ง„๋ถ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ํž™ํ•ฉ์Œ์•…์„ ๋“ค๋ ค์ค€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์˜์–ด 2๊ฐœ์˜ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ๋œ ์ˆ˜๋ก๊ณก๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•ด์™ธ ๋ฎค์ง€์…˜๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ต๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ๊ธฐ์—, ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์Œ์•…ํŒฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค. ‘์ฐฝ์ž‘’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถ€์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ฑ… ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์•จ๋ฒ”์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์™„์„ฑ๊นŒ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ณ„๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํŽธ์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ•„, ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ๋…ธํŠธ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐฝ์ž‘์ž๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋””์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ํ’€์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ฑ… ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์˜์–ด 2๊ฐœ์˜ ์–ธ์–ด๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐฝ์ž‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์–ด๋ ต๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ Š์€์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฐฝ์กฐ์˜ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€๊ณผ ‘๋„ˆ ์—ญ์‹œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค’๋ผ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์‹ฌ์–ด์คŒ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๋”์šฑ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค์ด ๋น›์„ ๋ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํŽด๋‚ธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

๋ถ์•จ๋ฒ” <้ญ‚: Map the Soul>์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๊ตฌ์™€ ์œ ํ–‰์„ฑ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ๋กœ ์Œ์› ํŒ๋งค์— ๊ธ‰๊ธ‰ํ•œ ํ˜„ ์Œ๋ฐ˜ ์‹œ์žฅ๊ณผ ์†Œ์ˆ˜๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ์ถœํŒ ์—…๊ณ„์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‹œ๋„๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ƒ์—…์  ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ์œ ๋ฌด์™€ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์Œ์•…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง„ ์ Š์€ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์‹œ๋„์ด์ž ๋„์ „์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ต ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

WHAT IS THIS?

Epik High is reknown for reinventing their sound for each particular album. This time, they have reinvented the medium itself. <้ญ‚: Map the Soul> (2009) combines music with literature, birthing a new cultural code: the 'book-album'. The album portion of the work contains raw hip hop music reminiscent of Epik High's early works, while exhibiting unprecedented poetic lyrics that make the entire sound refreshingly new. Also, the songs on this album are bilingual and showcase collaborations with international artists, allowing greater connection with fans worldwide. The book portion of the work, themed around 'creativity', documents the entire creative process involved in the making of an album, as well as showingโ€•through essays, pictures and notesโ€•how artists can acquire and use inspiration. The book portion is also bilingual (English and Korean). This work hopes to inspire and encourage aspiring artists all over the world by showing how worthwhile creative work can be, and by whispering these simple words of wisdom: you, too, can do it.

์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ!

์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ํŒฌ์ด ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ํ•„ํ„ฐ๋„ ์—†์ด ์ง์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” <์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ>๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด 2.0ํ˜•์‹์˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ๋Œ€์ค‘์ด ์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” ์ƒ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด์„œ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์€ ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด์˜ ํฌํ†  ์ผ๊ธฐ์žฅ, 'mapTV'๋ผ๋Š” ๋น„๋””์˜ค ๋ธ”๋กœ๊ทธ, ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‡ผํ•‘๋ชฐ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํŒฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง๊ณผ ์˜์–ด ๋™์‹œ ์ง€์› ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋กœ์„œ ์ธํ„ฐ๋‚ด์…”๋„ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๊พธ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ARTIST PORTAL SITE!

Epik High’s new official site is an artist portal site that allows the artist and the fans to communicate directly on a one-on-one basis. It features personal blogs maintained by the artists, a videolog called ‘mapTV’, an online shopping mall (where customers can buy all Map the Soul Inc. related merchandising), and other services for fans. The entire site is bilingual (it can be viewed in Korean or English), allowing fans worldwide to connect.

๋‹จ๋… ํŒ๋งค? ์ง์ ‘ ์œ ํ†ต?

์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹จ๋… ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํŒฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ์œ ํ†ต๋œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ตญ์™ธ์—์„œ๋Š” Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Madonna ๋“ฑ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋ฎค์ง€์…˜๋“ค์ด ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ์œ ํ†ต๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์™„๋ฒฝํžˆ ๋– ๋‚˜์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Œ์•…์„ ํŒฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋Š”, ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ์ „๊ตญ์œ ํ†ต์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ํ•œ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ๋งŒ ํŒ๋งคํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ˆ˜์ต๊ณผ ํ™๋ณด ๋ฉด์—์„œ ์†ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ณผ๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋Š˜ 10๋งŒ์žฅ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์•จ๋ฒ”ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐจํŠธ 1์œ„๋ฅผ ์„๊ถŒํ•˜๋Š” ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•œ ๋ชจํ—˜์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š”? ํŒฌ์„œ๋น„์Šค! ์ „ํ˜•์ ์ธ ์œ ํ†ต๊ณผ ํŒ๋งค๋ง์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ €๋Ÿฐ ํ”ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„๋“ค์ด ๋ถ™๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ  ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ์˜๋„์™€ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ๋†’์•„์ง„๋‹ค. ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ํŠนํžˆ, ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์›Œ๋‚™ ํฌ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋„ ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋†’์•„ ์งˆ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค: "์ž‘ํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋†’์•„๋„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํŒฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€๋‹ด๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ ์‹ซ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํŒฌ๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํŒฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ํ•ด๋„ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฑธ ์–ป์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐํ’ˆ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋นผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ง์ ‘ ํŒ๋งค/์œ ํ†ต ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ๋งŒํผ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋‹ค." ์†ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ด๋„ ํŒฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋„์ „ํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์—ํ”ฝํ•˜์ด์˜ ๊ตณ์€ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค.

EXCLUSIVE SALE + DISTRIBUTION?!

Epik High’s new ‘book-album’ is available ONLY atand will be distributed directly from the artist to the fan. In the US, many artists are already using the internet to experiment with alternative ways of distributing their music. In Korea, however, deviating from the established distribution services provided by large corporations and selling music independently from one site could mean big business backlash to the artist and great financial loss for the artist. Why is Epik High, a big-time group that always tops the charts, taking such a commercial risk? For the fans! Here is the reasoning behind this decision. The established distribution system requires a great deal of third-party involvement (e.g. a big record label, supersized record stores, etc.), fluffing the sales price with artificial premiums that fill the pockets of everyone but the artists themselves. Epik High’s new work, since it is a book and a CD, is more susceptible to this problem because of its sheer size. According to Tablo of Epik High, “We understand that our work may be priceless, but we don’t want to slap on a price that’ll hurt the fans financially. We want our fans to always get more than what they pay for, in comparison to fans of other artists. In order to eliminate the fluff in the pricing, we realized that selling and distributing this work ourselves is the only way. For this particular work, we’re going to do it on our own.” Epik High’s philosophy is that monetary profits are worth sacrificing if it means better art for the fans.

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