The TRAX - An Information Post

Nov 25, 2005 04:54

H'okay, just for kenshinomegami here's an information post on the Korean band, TRAX. Pictures and downloadables too ^^


The TRAX, standing for the "Typhoon of the Rose Attack on X-Mas", was formed by Jay Kim (Typhoon) on vocals, Kim JungMo (X-Mas) on guitar, Kang JungWoo (Attack) on Bass and No MinWoo (Rose) on Drums by SM Entertainment. The actual meaning of the band's name comes from the disasterous typhoon named Rose that attacked the orient on christmas a while ago.


The boys and their current look; this is the cover of the Blaze Away Single.

Rose, Attack and Typhoon actually originally met on the show SBS Kang Ta vs Hee Jun (an American Idol type of show back in 2002 run by SM Entertainment)) which put the boys together with two other guys and Typhoons younger sister as the "rock group" managed by Hee Jun to beat Kang Ta's "pop group" (which consisted of boys who are now either in DBSG or TVFSQ). The deal with this TV show is that SM Entertainment holds auditions and selects a bunch of kids to sign to their label, puts them together and eventually forms something out of them. After the TV show was over, Typhoon Rose and Attack were put together in a band, as they had worked well together on the show. It wasn't until almost a year later that SME had put X-Mas, another audition scout, with them to form a full band.

The TRAX’s official debut was July 2004 with their Paradox single and video, but it wasn't the first time they had been seen or heard; they performed BoA’s song ‘Rock With You’ with her at both the MTV Asia Awards and her special with Britney Spears the previous Christmas.

Their second single, Scorpio, came out in Dec 2004. Both a Japanese and Korean version was created and produced by Yoshiki (X Japan). Their popularity has since boomed in Japan due to Yoshiki's name being involved and pimping them out like whoa that when their third single, Rhapsody, came out on April 20th 2005, it was Japanese version only. Their fourth single, Blaze Away came out September 14, 2005, and the song "Blaze Away" is featured in the anime EyeShield 21 as the second ending theme. Their first full length album is slated for release sometime this fall.

On December 8, 2005, the original soundtrack for 僕の彼女を紹介します will include the TRAX version of X Japan's "Tears"

And a side note, for those of you who have heard the Blaze Away single, the song "It's A Monster" totally stole part of Linkin Park - By Myself ._.;;

Individual Profile:

Typhoon (Jay Kim)


Born April 8, 1984 Jay is the vocalist. He's 182 cm tall. He can plau guitar and knows some piano. He can speak Korean and English fluently, as he grew up in downtown L.A. ^^ Reguardless of his seemingly flawless Japanese singing, he's no where near fluent XD He cellphone has the greatest names for his bandmates, Attack is "Attacku," Rose is "Hallung-Ballung-Shuoung-No san" because that's what Rose entered for his name, and Xmas is "Sexy-mas" due to Xmas' taste in women. He's a soap-opera maniac (XD!) and a chatterbox. He also htinks his best feature is his eyebrows and he got really depressed when they thinned them out in Japan XD

Rose (No MinWoo)


Born May 29, 1986 MinWoo is the drummer/guitar. He's 183 cm tall. He can speak decent English as well as decent Japanese. Out of the group, he's probably the best at speaking Japanese unscripted. On his cyworld, he's known as Princess Alice, or sometimes he refers to himself as Alice or No Rose, and in the past caled himself Rosebeetz. He was once in a coca-cola commercial waaay before TRAX XD He refers to himself with the english word 'girl' and tends to wear girly clothes because he's so skinny that men's clothes don't fit him XD He idolizes Yoshiki and X Japan, and even has a Yoshiki sticker on his guitar o.o;;; (see following pictures) Among musical ability, some of the instruments he can play are Piano, Guitar and drums, as well as composes the music for the band. (earlier songs however were NOT composed by him except "Vampire") His perfect girl is "168cm (5'6) tall, big eyes with no need of mascara, round forehead, light-toned skin, black hair, straight fringes, lips like cherry, long fingers, biggish shoe size, and chubby-ish." Once he was asked would he rather play guitar or drums for TRAX and he said he'd rather just play guitar.

Attack (Kang JungWoo)


Born June 15, 1985, JungWoo is the bassist. He's 181 cm tall and a rather good actor. Scratch that. He's a GREAT actor. (for those of you who have seen SBS Kang Ta vs Hee Jun you know what I'm talking about) JungWoo has also done some modeling for Levi's Jeans (see following pictures) Although his stage presence and typically stoic looks give off a cool, tough personality, his bandmates hold that he's very sensitive and not nearly as manly (to which Jungwoo indignantly exclaimed "We need to talk after the show!" in the interview they were having XD) He can play piano, guitar and bass as well as sings pretty well. He loves anime and online games and according to his band says the most random stuff. He also think Sharon Stone is bangin XD

X-Mas (Kim JungMo)


Born March 26, 1985, JungMo is the guitarist. He's 184 cm tall. He can speak English, although the last time he was asked to write something in English for his international fans (us in the LJ community; see following pictures) he could only think to write "I'm a man" XD (kinda like "We are boys!", ne? Watching the acoustic live tape made me laugh so hard at that XD) One of his nick names is Sexymas due to his taste in women. His ideal girl is "kind, polite, pure, servile and thoughtful." He's beyond kind, once "A fan of JungMo got a chance to talk to him at a bus stop. JungMo deliberately missed the bus, so she asked why he didn't get on the bus, and he replied 'Would you have wanted me to?'"

And here's the pictures~~


JungWoo's Levi's add



















Rose and his girlfriend XD (the barbie doll)



Yoshiki sticker XDDD



Rose stopped bleaching his hair ^^





A picture X-Mas posted in his cyworld ^^





The girl is BoA





and the TRAX message to LJ ^^



Okay... story behind it... yeon lives in Korea and saw TRAX a few months ago and when she got to meet them and have them autograph stuff, she got autographs for the TRAX community *__* She told them about their LJ fans and asked them to write a message to us all. (bless her soul *o*)


She said the following about it:
"I told him [Typhoon] about LJ and said "your English's good so your comment must be long~"
so he tried his best to write long."

"When I told him [Rose] "I'm getting this for international fans so leave a comment in English",

he chuckled and asked "can't I write in Japanese?"

so I replied "sure~ whatever's OK" so he smiled and wrote "arigatou" and 'drew'. "

"JungWoo [Attack] didn't scribble, he just can't write prettily so it looks all messy.=_= Please understand."

"When I said that I was getting the autographs for the LJ international fancomm, that it would be nice if JungMo [X-Mas] left a short comment in English,

Saying "Then do I have to write it in English? *sigh*" he sighed, looked at the sky, blinked and agonized so much

that the fans kept on telling him to write stuff like "I love you so much~" etc.
So I thought he would but when I got the autograph he'd written "I'm a man." I believe it was a comedy of his own-_-."

His message for us was "everyone in LJ~
nice to meet you^^
thanks for taking interests in TRAX from so far away^^
i'll make sure we come back in good shape^^
everyone, take care~
see you in dreams^^"

On a final note, I haven't gotten the chance to upload anything else yet, but here's the Korean version of "Beat Traitor" (hosted on my rotation site therefore the link shouldn't die)

Download

And now I'm done ^^ If anyone wants more pictures or anything specific let me know!
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