Star Wars ROK Rock
Posted on August 11, 2008
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The stunningly knowledgeable Helikkopter (of Indieful ROK), who was kind enough to remember I’ve been trying to get a handle on the status of SF fiction and film in Korea, very kindly notified me of the fact that in March of this year… a very odd little album was released by Ruby Record. It’s called Star Wars Project Compilation.
I can’t get the online samples to play on my PC — the Ruby Record website doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with Linux — but I’ll be getting a copy and updating this. When I do, I’ll append my review here, and re-date the post or something.
Just another little hint that there’s much more going on with SF that meets the eye here. Even if I was never such a huge fan of Star Wars, this still is pretty neat.
Also a sign of how cool helikoppter is. How she manages to be constantly in the know of stuff is something that doesn’t just baffle me — other people (who are way more in the loop than me) have marveled about it too.
- My Thoughts on SF in Korea (How and Why They’ve Changed)
- It’s Not Just the Lateness of Industrialization: How and Why Korean SF Doesn’t Quite Work
- Why SF Has Failed to Put Down Roots in Korea, Part I: To Start With, Questions…
- K-Raelians plus The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch, and The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
- To All SF Geeks in Korea With [Patient or Interested] Korean Other Halves
- PiFan Book Fair: SF/Fantasy/Horror/Thriller novels and Magazines… in Korean!
- The KOFA 괴수 대백과
- Star Wars ROK Rock
- Reading The Host in Context, Part 1
- Reading The Host in Context, Part 2: How I Read The Host
- 2008 SF&F Festival (Seoul)?
- Seoul 2008 SF&F Festival Report
- Trope Salad and Penis Guns and Indie SF Films… No, Really.
- Done, Fun, Thinking Some
- More SF Goodness, Including a Bunch of Korean SF in Translation…
- The SOAO Workshop @ Sobaeksan
- My Research Plan Application (Argh!) and a New Korean SF Organization (Yay!)
- Korea Society Talk on Robo Taekwon V
- “SF in South Korea Today” — Article Live
- Guest Blog on Global SF & Translation @ Apex
- Orcs!
- Star Wars: 스타워즈 프로젝트 컴필레이션 (2008)
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- "Alone With Gandhari." -- Clarkesworld #42, March 2010. Podcast by Clarkesworld (read by Kate Baker), March 1st, 2010.
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- "Planet Crazy" in Cahoots Magazine, Spring 2008.Grab Some Music
Korean indie rock with lost saxophone in tow:
- Product by Dabang Band (2004)
- Pig Over Seoul by Dabang Band (2002)Live acoustic/electronic ambient chillout:
- Live 1998 by ApocryphaCrusty, weird modern classical student compositions: - an assortment of compositions I wrote as an undergrad from 1995-1996.
If you're one of those people who is into owning the physical CD, Dabang Band's 2nd album, Product:
... is still available via YesAsia. I won't see a
centwon either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.-
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