And no, you bitchez don't get an LJ-cut.

Keep in mind, I haven't been in the k-pop fandom for very long. In fact, I think I only discovered it just before I went on my major holiday this year, which would make it about... 6 months? But during that time, I've been avidly exploring the fandom with the help of omonatheydidnt and a bunch of awesome people on my f-list. K-Pop is one of those snowballing fandoms; you'll find one thing band that interests you, and then that thing band will cross over with another, intriguing you and causing you to look further into the shiny new thing band.

The point I'm getting to is that recently I've been on a bit of a H.O.T kick recently which stemmed from the fact I looked up the original video of Happiness, which Super Junior had done a cover of. After that, I ended up looking up a buttload more MVs before downloading their discography and rocking out to it for a while. I like pretty much all music from the 90's, it seems, whether it's in English or not XDD

But yes, my H.O.T kick brought to my attention two of the individual boys and their solo works; Moon Hee Jun and Kangta. As awesome as Hee Jun is, today I'm going to fangirl talk about Kangta.


Throughout the H.O.T music videos, I always liked Kangta's voice best; he sang beautifully and so when I found out he had done solo work since H.O.T, I decided to do a little searching. My searching didn't last long, though, I looked up some MVs and kind of went 'Ballads, oh, okay' without really stopping to listen to it. At this point, I was pretty much fangirling the man rather than the voice, essentially, since I was now so used to pop music that the soft and slow songs didn't really catch my attention.

However the other day I was in Sunstar with Hattie, and lo and behold, on the K-music shelf was the Taiwan release of the Kangta & Best CD/DVD that I had been ogling on YesAsia. Since I'd been fawning over him a fair bit I decided to grab it, since it looked pretty and it only cost me AU$18 so I honestly couldn't complain. Here's a pic of the packaging:


The grey cover is a cardboard slipcase while the box (on the right) is made of wood. Inside, the cds are simply in a sleeve, nestled in amongst some very nice pictures :D I didn't realise how shiny it really was until after I opened it, so whee for happy surprises.

The point of this post, ultimately, was to explain that this man's voice makes me want to melt into a puddle on the floor. I am not a big fan of ballads but all throughout this album I was just sitting there with this *-* look on my face--also usually when I listen to music I'm doing a million other things, but I actually found myself just sitting there and at one point lying down on my couch while I just listened, and honestly, the boyband pop music is fun and well, but I think this is an album I will be having on repeat a lot.

Annie, you wanted recommendations? I'mma upload this album for you, because his music sounds like it belongs in a jazzy piano-lounge and I think you'd like it.


If you want to watch any of the other videos, I'm sure they're up on Youtube, I don't know. I haven't checked them all yet. But what I WILL be doing, is ripping them from my DVD and uploading them for you guys here, as well as zipping and uploading the entire music CD because honestly, it's beautiful, easy-listening, and ugggghhhh why am I always in love with music from forever ago?

Links will be updates as my files are uploaded. All will be hosted on Rapidshare, and none are subtitled, but honestly, for that voice you don't need any subtitles. I suggest at least watching/downloading Polaris as it is beautiful and--and--AHH JUST DO IT.

Full album:
KANGTA & BEST.rar (36MB)

Music Videos:
01 - Polaris.avi (40MB)
02 - Thanks God (Thanks 8).avi (48MB)
03 - Memories.avi (38MB)
04 - Propose.avi (48MB) (This video is the dorkiest/cutest thing everrr omg)
05 - Confession.avi (47MB)
06 - Persona.avi (67MB)
07 - I Swear (Group S).avi (49MB)
08 - I Was (Group S).avi (34MB)
09 - Love Is (Group S).avi (55MB)
10 - Special Interview.avi (50MB)

I literally only bought this album on Friday and I'm already so in love. BRB, downloading EVERYTHING he's EVER done. And for those who give him a go now (or those who have listened to him long ago already) I would like to hear your opinions.

Kangta comes back from the military mid next year. I would like some more plz, IDEC if you're old 8D