Thursday, October 7, 2010

Poppin bottles with The Far East Movement


The Far*East Movement (also known as FM) is a rapping and songwriting group with experience in producing tracks and creating music events, which formed by 2003 in California, consisting of Kev Nish, Prohgress, J-Splif, and DJ Virman. The four of them represent different generations of Korean Japanese, Chinese and Filipino. They put together the first multicultural live music event to benefit a drug rehabilitation center in the community called "Movementality". FM's first song was their song "Round Round" featured in the The fast and the furious Tokyo Drift. Their new single "Like A G6" achieved 2nd place on the Billboard Top 100 charts and #1 on Itunes as well impressive I may say! Also finding out that, the original members of Far East Movement, Kevin Nishimura, James Roh and Jae Choung, grew up in the Koreatown in LA. Their first album called Folk Music was released in early 2006. Members
Prohgress (James Roh) - Korean-American
Kevnish (Kevin Nishimura) - Chinese/Japanese-American
J-Splif (Jae Choung) - Korean-American
DJ Virman (Virman Coquia) - Filipino-American , have their new cd dropping Tuesday Oct 12th, they are on Cherrytree Records. To check them out they are on tour right now with Mike Posner. myspace.com/fareastmovement,facebook.com/fareastmovement, and twitter.com/fareastmovement

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