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[petekaos]

hi hello pls gimme thai music recs !!

hiii nonnie!! of course i can hehe! some of my favourite thai artists have to be: desktop error, tilly birds, bodyslam, scrubb, milli, wonderframe, f.hero, maiyarap and lazyloxy! all of these artists are a little different so i hope you can find what you're looking for here. this got a little long so i’ll put it under a cut.

desktop error is my secret little alternative indie rock and experimental band nobody knows about. i stumbled upon them back in late 2019 and imagine my surprise when sarawat mentioned them in 2gether! i think they did get some sort of recognition after that but they're still pretty unknown internationally. absolutely undeserved though, because they have to be some of my favourites on this list. there's not too much information about them but i know they're made up of five people who have been friends since high school and university and they incorporate both traditional thai instruments as well as more modern instruments into their music. they have a lot of live performances and sets on youtube too! two songs i definitely recommend are rest, ticket to home, and kwan jang la. i have a whole post here recommending desktop error songs! you should check that out bc desktop error only have one album on spotify; ticket to home for example is on youtube and you can find the link in that post!

as for tilly birds, i adore them soooo much. they're an alternative rock band with some r&b influences here and there! the guys also just seem like genuinely good people; they supported the democracy protests in thailand for example. i'd recommend checking out same page and just being friendly by them!

bodyslam is probably the most popular on this list. they're a thai rock/pop band who i like a lot! the lead vocalist has a very unique voice and they have super fun live performances. from them i really recommend the คราม (kraam) album, especially track 6. they're quite well-known and well-loved as well.

scrubb gained popularity through 2gether especially, but i used to listen to a couple of songs before then too! they're a music duo who formed during college and i'd say their music is more (alternative) rock? i'm super bad at music genres so take that with a grain of salt. good starting songs from them are everything and closer.

milli is literally out of this world. she's an up-and-coming rapper who's just 18 or 19 i believe and she's been taking the thai music world by storm! she's featured with a lot of artists, such as tilly birds and wonderframe! she talks about a lot of political activism and loving yourself in her songs; she's an inspiration! she recently released a song with f.hero and changbin from stray kids, which is a solid song. from her, i'd recommend checking out mirror mirror and not yet!

i've been following wonderframe for a while and she's lovely! i really like her voice, she does mostly r&b and pop, and i remember her winning something at the kazz awards last year too! she released a song with mek jirakit which i recommend checking out because the mv is also just super cute ... it's called ลองเลย (love stranger project)! another song i recommend from her is วงวาร.

f.hero is fairly well known in the thai music industry. he's a rapper and has collaborated with a lot of other thai artists, especially ones rooted in heavy metal and rock. he's famously collaborated with bambam, formerly from got7, as well as changbin from stray kids as mentioned above. i can recommend slipped your mind, which features tilly birds, mirror mirror, and do you, which features bambam.

as for maiyarap, he's a rapper (duh) who has gone on quite a lot of competitions and also has a nice singing voice! his latest single with milli, แฟนใหม่หน้าคุ้น, as well as his collabs with three man down and lazyloxy are pretty good!

lazyloxy is another thai rapper whose songs i enjoy! he has quite a distinctive voice and i don't listen to him a lot but he's still a very solid artists. my favourites by him are probably tiger cry freestyle and badboy, which incidentally features maiyarap.

i could go on and on and on, but i'll stop here for now! as you could probably tell from this list, the thai music industry is pretty tight-knit, especially in the particular genres, and so you'll have people collaborating and featuring on each other's songs a lot. this is very common in the rap sphere, for example! so by listening to some artists, you'll probably be introduced to others too. i'd say my absolute favourites on this list are desktop error, tilly birds, and bodyslam! i hope you can find something you like :') <3

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