Hello fellow korean music lovers!

While I was scanning this forum in search for new music that is not k-pop I noticed there isn't much about it, so might be best to do a general one and hope for the best :)

This topic is for recomend and discuss your favorite non k-pop k-music such as r&b, rock, indie, lofy etc.
Or just your underrated favorite artists\bands\hidden gems.

I hope we'll have great thread of cool and good music recs and talks!

Let's share each other uniqe taste and maybe find our next favorite gem~

Here're some of my current favs: (still hadn't figured out how to insert youtyube videos so you'll just have to trust me ^^)

suggi - he has cute and calm but also clinical music which I love listening to.

Keshi - I love his calm beats

eaj -  love his songs, his voice and attitude; upbeat but serious. melancholic but with a good vibes. he's great.

DPR IAN - I'm actually so invested in his music, mv directing and producing.

Sion - I don't even know how to describe his music cause it's so indie XD he's great, tho. his lyrics are everything I didn't know I needed.

Silica Gel - their sound and using of instruments make my heart reaches rates I didn't know existed.

Hucklberryfinn - they remind me very much of a duo I love (TENDER) and this dark, intimate type of music is getting me every single time.

I like musics in general and I follow new music releases.

From your favorites, I like Keshi, his voice is soothing and he's so romantic with his ehm fiancee? (May?), maybe that's why he could create great musics. I especially like 'Understand' but 'Dream' and 'skeletons' (SVT's DK ringtone) are very good too.

DPR IAN is unique, I remember 'Mood' is very good and feel new (for me). '1Shot' is pretty good too.

If you like them perhaps you'll like Leellamarz.

And I really like

  • Love Me by nafla
  • She Lives in Paris by Gemini
  • Invitation by Junni

Currently for Korean music, I listen most of:

  • Ateez - they're so powerful and daring. Jongho has a beautiful voice. Ah no, actually they're all have beautiful voices
  • Enhypen - they're hardworking and have one of the hardest choreography out there and some of the best songs out there
  • Stray Kids - they're all so talented and each of them are unique, I really like their harmony

For girl groups:

  • aespa - they're great; the songs, the musics, the addictive melody and uniqueness of each songs are incomparable
  • BLACKPINK - even though the list is short but all of their songs are masterpieces
  • IVE - used to make great songs ah but their latest release is not as good just like New Jeans

For solo singer:

  • Baekhyun - is very suitable with his choice of music genre but his range is not vast
  • Kyuhyun - has angel voice and very stable, he is definitely an angel
  • Taemin - has unique voice who can get stretch as he like, like singing lazily but charming and sexy
 autumn iris:
I like musics in general and I follow new music releases.

From your favorites, I like Keshi, his voice is soothing and he's so romantic with his ehm fiancee? (May?), maybe that's why he could create great musics. I especially like 'Understand' but 'Dream' and 'skeletons' (SVT's DK ringtone) are very good too.

DPR IAN is unique, I remember 'Mood' is very good and feel new (for me). '1Shot' is pretty good too.

If you like them perhaps you'll like Leellamarz.

And I really like

Love Me by nafla
She Lives in Paris by Gemini
Invitation by Junni

Thanks for sharing! I'll be sure to check out you recs~

Keshi? fiancee? idk. I'm not interested in personal lives of artist(?) but yes, he doses soud very romantic and sincere in his songs. 

also yes, DPR IAN is one of the most uniqe and spacial artists I've encountered. his style is so diverse and spacial and I love how everything's just come together to form an epic storyline (sorry for the info-dump all of a sudden.) 

 autumn iris:
Currently for Korean music, I listen most of:

Ateez - they're so powerful and daring. Jongho has a beautiful voice. Ah no, actually they're all have beautiful voices
Enhypen - they're hardworking and have one of the hardest choreography out there and some of the best songs out there
Stray Kids - they're all so talented and each of them are unique, I really like their harmony
For girl groups:

aespa - they're great; the songs, the musics, the addictive melody and uniqueness of each songs are incomparable
BLACKPINK - even though the list is short but all of their songs are masterpieces
IVE - used to make great songs ah but their latest release is not as good just like New Jeans
For solo singer:

Baekhyun - is very suitable with his choice of music genre but his range is not vast
Kyuhyun - has angel voice and very stable, he is definitely an angel
Taemin - has unique voice who can get stretch as he like, like singing lazily but charming and sexy

sorry for the double, MDL didn't let me qute all at once...

I'm really not into the k-pop scene (I have some specific groups I like but it's mostly song or a colectoin of them so can't say I know much about it :/)
I'd love it if you could recommend me some of your favorite songs of them, preferably less on the 'pop' side (only if you wanna, its just my curiosity~) because just looking at discography without knowing where to start is overwhelming XD (had it with TXT and I'm NOT going through this again)

enhypen, they have some good tunes! I like 'mixed-up' and 'given-taken' the most, but feel like it's been ages sience I last listened to them.

I'm not sure about less on the pop side ehm but I put one song you may like for each singer except Enhypen which you've already know but this year Enhypen has a new song I like titled 'Brought The Heat Back' maybe you'd like it, so here:
  • Ateez' Work
  • Stray Kids' Maniac
  • aespa's Better Things
  • BLACKPINK's Whistle
  • IVE's Eleven
  • Baekhyun's Candy
  • Kyuhyun's At Gwanghwamun (I don't know if you'd like it since he's a ballad singer but this is his most popular song)
  • Taemin's MOVE

I hope you'll enjoy it.

Ah, it's just I happen to watch Keshi's short while promoting 'Dream' saying romantic things so I kind of remembering it.

Anyway, Vancouver is also good, wait I'll check the singer name: BIG Naughty. You can check it out if you'd like.

I suddenly remember perhaps you'd like these older songs

If You Do - GOT7

The Eve - EXO

View - SHINee

They're among my favorites until now.

dosii, yerin baek, wave to earth, hangsung, and jeon jin hee. I love them sm.

 autumn iris:

I suddenly remember perhaps you'd like these older songs

If You Do - GOT7

The Eve - EXO

View - SHINee

They're among my favorites until now.

seriously can't believe I only now saw that. gonna give them a shot! had a Jackson Wang phase a couple years ago so might as well give got7 a chance too~

NEW ADDITIONS to my Playlist (well, not new but newly discovered ~)

Wetter - if you've watched 'The Eight Sense' you probably know 'U n Me Us' by them, which is a great song. They have such a good music and their beats always giving my the feeling of the beach.

O.O.O - Love the singer's voice. so clean and calming. their sound to, is diverse but with a very clear line and I can listen for them for hours.

HYUKO - just feeling like they have my back fir when I'll do any mistakes or regret my actions.  like: "it's alright. that's life." sorta feeling. 

honestly, all of the bands above I feel like I missed out on them because how did I only now discovered this great indie music SK have? 

 wookii:

dosii, yerin baek, wave to earth, hangsung, and jeon jin hee. I love them sm.

can you please give me songs recs from each? never heard of them and you got me curious 

 puma161:

can you please give me songs recs from each? never heard of them and you got me curious 

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wave to earth - slow dive, peach eyes, seasons, bonfire, daisy, dried flower, holy land, love, pink

dosii - fairy of shampoo, lovememore, chum, underwater, the one exists in my memories, overdose, run

yerin baek - i am not your ocean anymore, november song, bye bye my blue, his ocean, across the universe

hangsung - hurt heart, do i look like a monster?, how about ♡?, nothin without you, someone control me

jeon jin hee - summer night ft. wave to earth, our love was summer, im not confident, breathing in january

a few other of my favs are 

cheeze - how do you think?, pong dang, today's mood

orange flavored cigarettes - melting tides, noah, orange flavored cigarettes, plastic body

potatoi (from wave to earth) - popsicle, evening glow, image, plain life, 100p

yel - hes something, about last night, silly ft. jimmy brown, always on my mind

 puma161:

seriously can't believe I only now saw that. gonna give them a shot! had a Jackson Wang phase a couple years ago so might as well give got7 a chance too~

Jackson Wang is inspirational. Everytime he talks, I feel a burst of admiration towards him. And he's also a great rapper, dancer, and entertainer. His deep voice is unique, my bias wrecker, but my heart goes to Jay B.

Last year Jay B released an album with two songs being made into music videos; Crash and Cloud Nine. You could check it out if you'd like to. Both great songs. And last month GOT7 also released an album. Python is the main title, my friend said. I haven't watched the MV but I listen to the songs. I really like Out The Door.


 wookii:

dosii, yerin baek, wave to earth, hangsung, and jeon jin hee. I love them sm.

Wow, I only know Baek Yerin.