Our Interview with Clazzi

Filed as: Kpop // Responses: 86

We got the chance to sit down with Clazzi, leader of Clazziquai Project, and talk to him about his music, his inspirations, about Kpop and its globalization, and other things.

It’s difficult to say how this interview all started. We’ve always been huge fans of Clazziquai. We would wake up to Chocolate Truffles back when we were teaching, and played that album on loop non-stop for months. But that was a while ago, and Clazziquai hasn’t put out an album in a while. So, when we heard Clazzi release his first single, How We Feel, we rushed to listen to it, fell in love with that song as well, and did our best to promote it in our last K Crunch. Yeah. It’s that good.

We decided to ask Clazzi on Twitter if we could interview him, not only because we’re big fans and we thought it’d be totally freaking cool to hang out with Clazzi in his studio (HELL YEAH!) but also because we want other people to know about him and his music (which we put together in a cool YouTube playlist after this interview). More importantly, we got to speak with a very important figure in the Korean Music scene on his thoughts on Korean Music. The two of us are just outsiders looking in and expressing our thoughts on the Korean music through our Western (and often ridiculous) perspective, so to be able to speak with someone in the industry is really interesting for us.

Seriously, the hand placement looks worse than it actually was

More importantly, Clazzi’s studio is pretty damn swag! Maaaaan we would love to work in a studio like that! What surprised us the most, though, was Clazzi’s humility. When we talked to him off camera, he was surprised that we knew his music, and was thankful that we liked it. Seriously? If I made music like Clazzi I’d be like “Do you know who I am? I’m Clazzi! Damn right you like my music! Now line up to the left behind the thousands of other people who want to give me high fives!” But he didn’t have that attitude at all. He was so soft spoken, so hospitable, and just a really cool, down to earth guy, without any of the pretensions that he most certainly should have.

Anyhow, make sure you pick up his latest single, “How We Feel” on iTunes, and if you want to get in touch with Clazzi, check out his Facebook Page or check out how Clazzi makes music on his YouTube page.

We hope you liked the interview. This is, really, our first serious interview ever. That interview with U-Kiss a while ago was more of an impromptu chat than a proper interview, and we totally didn’t get to plan that out right. We’d like to do more interviews like this in the future, hopefully. Let us know what you thought of it!

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http://twitter.com/mperales0429 Michael Perales

i enjoyed the interview and it was greatly done. I listened to this song when it came out but didn’t know who Clazzi was, but he did an awesome job on the song. Hope you guys have more interviews like this.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EWR3XGPHME64XGLZJSLPXKE7VU Katrina

This interview with Clazzi was really great I really enjoyed it…and Clazzi seems like a really down to earth type of guy and his music is pretty awesome. I didnt even know who he was until you guys shown the song How we Feel…by the way really like the song
http://twitter.com/innuhhkah Kim Beom Inna

YOu guys are sooo awesome for making this interview and Clazzi definitely needs more recognition, same money the korean entertainment companies are paying other musicians to make their music, could have been given to Clazzi and I bet with the fame idols have plus the awesome music CLassi makes could equal to something definitely amazing. Like I found out about clazziquai project from you guys mentioning it earlier, but came to listen to HOw we Feel because of clazzi and my fav 2am member seulong in it. If more collabs like that ones were made…..ehhh people would be just blown away by his amazingness. AGAIN thank you SOO MUCH FOR THIS =)
http://twitter.com/naninoona hanani azran

whut? djclazzi prolly doesn’t even know just how many people are fans of his music. i was browsing on the internet the other day and stumbled upon a russian? german? contemporary jazz music website that has clazzi’s entire discography. kekeke. it was amusing, but so awesome at the same time. i really wish there were more producers who do the same type of music as him that are known and not just underground like he says.

thank you simon and martina for doing this interview!!! maybe next you guys can try to get an interview with teddy and kush. haha.
http://twitter.com/doramachan Mara

i would love to live a day in this guy’s mind and experience his creative process.
http://www.facebook.com/asrianugerah.gustini Asri Anugerah Gustini 光

I can not imagine that the interview ends up being a very unbiased and present the appearance of cool! I was never hear Clazzi but unfortunately I know first Humming Urban Stereo is first duet with Wheesung. Keep it on guys! I hope you can serious (or maybe semi formal?) interview like with Brian Joo, Jay Park, Tablo….. sounds fun right? I’m waiting for the other artists interview!!!