Supreme Team & Primary; album exploration

I love creative packaging when it comes to albums.
What I like about the Korean music industry is that the physical album in itself is integral to the marketing. There's an emphasis on photo books, photo cards, stickers etc, limited edition material that adds a certain special something to just having an jewel case with a CD inside.

I'm a big fan of Supreme Team, I don't known any of their CDs, I think the only Supreme Team related CD I own is a Blue Brand compilation album, which features some of the most iconic and popular Korean Hip Hop acts.

(old photo)

I took the liberty of adding a Supreme Team album to my cart this time round and ordered their first full length album "Supremier" - it's a really solid album that combines an urban hip hop sound with some pop and r&b influences. And the physical album itself is so nice. You'll understand with the photos I'll post down below.

I also purchased Primary and the Messengers LP. I love Primary, and he also produced Supreme Team's Supremier, so haha, this has been a very Primary focused purchase. If you don't know who Primary is, he's a rapper and hip hop producer. These days he's known more as a producer under Amoeba Culture and his iconic look is that he has a large cardboard box head.

 The case comes with a red band to hold it together, I quite like it.

The album art concept is an "amusement park" theme. 

(and this is where the creative packaging comes in)

 I absolutely love the attention to detail on the cover. Especially the ET reference.

 The spread once you open the album up. 

There's photo prints, a map and a ticket.

E-sens, Blanky Munn, Kang Minho. My favorite Korean rapper ♥

To go with the amusement park theme of the album art, 

the tracklist with credits is arranged on an amusement park map.

On the other side there's lyrics and some random photos of the boys enjoying their amusement park.

There's an aged effect on the entire map, and it's really quite nice.

The ticket to the "amusement park"

And now onto Primary's album.

Primary's head as the album cover.

The back cover, tracklist.

Inside

There's a cute postcard that is included with the album.

Underneath the CDs there's some artwork.

The album also has another fold out compartment where there's song credits etc

And a small blank notebook :D

It's made out of recycled paper!! 

And now I just want to recommend a few tracks from each album.

From Supremier: 

M.U.S.I.C ft Choiza from Dynamic Duo 

Step Up (title track)


Where To Go? (E-sens solo)

From Primary and the Messengers LP 

? (feat. Choiza and Zion. T)



See-through (feat. Gaeko and Zion. T)



Happy Ending (feat. Jinsil and Gary from Leessang)



Some advice,

don't be afraid to branch out your music tastes.
You may never consider listening to entire genre
because you're convinced you will not like it,
but you never know,  there's always a good tune
that is worth exploring in a genre you might never touch.

~Kim.

a day at the temple

Chuà Pháp Hoa, meaning Dharma Lotus Temple, is a Buddhist temple located at 20 Butler Avenue, Pennington, South Australia, 5013. 

Today at the Phap Hoa temple, it was the Celebration for the Great Patriarchs' Anniversary, Inauguration of the Triple Gem Stupa and Commemeoration of the 30 years establishment of Phap Hoa Temple. It's a mouthful that's for sure, but try saying it in Vietnamese.

I came in a bit earlier with my mother because she was singing for the charity gig that night, and since I don't really have much else to say, I'll just post the photos.

The banner is up for tomorrow so, sadly I am not from the future.

There was some free vegetarian food provided by the Temple

Vegetarian Hokkien noodles (it was a bit too oily for my tastes)

sâm bổ lượng (清補涼) with jackfruit slices, logan, lotus seeds, the works!

(Hạ Vy and Gia Huy, two Vietnamese singers from the US selling and signing albums)

And some more photos from around the temple.

 And then I broke the screen of my phone.... WAAAAAH ;A;

Now ending with a piece of advice.
Regardless of what religion you choose to believe, or to not believe,
Keep in mind that it's always healthy to adopt strong values and beliefs.
This may or may not be unique to only one religion, but an adaption of many.
Don't feel pressured to group into organised religion.
Don't feel pressured to believe something you have doubts about.

But don't feel pressured to have doubts when you have none.
Having a religion is no crime. Having no religion is no crime.




~Kim.