Vice InterviewSeoul-based Trampauline Is Leading The New Wave Of Korean Synth-Pop

Korean Music Award 2016 - Word on winner3rd Album Marginal -Best Electronic Album at KMA 2016 (Korean Music Award)

Advancing towards band's identity by reinforcing guitar and bass performance as well as working with DJ Soulscape as a co-producer has brought the best result you could ever anticipate from Trampauline, which leader Cha Hyosun's artistic vision and sensibility at its highest broke through to realise. Individual songs such as 'Boxer's Wife', the grandest and complex track of 2015, 'Polygamy', which embodies the substantial charm of synth pop, and 'Machines Are Human', a modern reinterpretation of Kraftwerk's ideology, are outstanding. The exceptional narratives that investigate the periphery and the marginalised of the society are another.Yoon Hojoon ( judge of KMA )Link OriginalKMA Award Acceptance Speech

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Runner-up Dance and Electronic Album 2015

There’s an inscrutable veneer on “Marginal”. The detached and impassive singing throughout is one reason for it, the synth pad-based arrangements that feel like a solid wall of sound is another, and the cryptic lyrical narratives that range from true story to surrealist is the last. It’s a fascinating veil to be keeping up for one song, let alone the entire album. Of course, underneath that veneer lies a terrifically produced album with diverse sound design and unpredictable compositions, and that’s what you stay for.

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