Hodori Rocks - Hodori Rocks (LP Vinyl)
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Korea's pop underground in the early 1980s was shaped by forces most Western listeners never registered: military-era censorship boards, a broadcast system that could blacklist a song overnight, and a generation of musicians quietly absorbing new sounds from abroad while navigating those constraints. The tracks gathered here capture that particular tension, music made in the space between official culture and genuine creative hunger, right as Seoul was stepping onto a global stage.
The 1980s for Korea began with the words "Seúl, Corea". Even amid the political turmoil, there hung upon the air a note of hopefulness that came from being chosen as the next host of the Olympic Games. The hope of progressing past the 'emerging' stage and reaching the 'developed' nation status spread to Korea's arts and culture scenes as well. The gayo scene had just been through a dark age since the marijuana scandals of 1975 and the repressive 'gayo purification movement', but was beginning to regain it's footing with the arrival of the new decade. We might as well call it by the name 'Korean New Wave - Hodori Rocks'. In HODORI ROCKS, there is yearning, the commonplace, and a newness. That's why it is uncanny.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 8809114698613
Label: Cobrarose Records
Release Date: 7.3.26
Format: LP Vinyl