Korea Town Acid is the stage name of Jessica Cho, a South Korean-Canadian electronic musician and DJ based in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She is most noted for her single "Sobriety", which was a Juno Award nominee for Underground Dance Single of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022.[2]
Born in Seoul, she moved to Toronto in childhood.[3]
She released her debut EP, Mahogani Forest, in 2018,[4] and followed up with the full-length album Metamorphosis in April 2021 on URBNET Records.[1] She followed up in October with the album Cosmos.[3]
She produced the track "Play No Games" on Cadence Weapon's Polaris Music Prize-winning album Parallel World.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Kyle Mullin, "Korea Town Acid Toggles Between the Gritty and the Avant-Garde on 'Metamorphosis'". Exclaim!, April 22, 2021.
- ^ David Friend, "Montreal’s Charlotte Cardin a breakout contender at Juno nominations". Toronto Star, March 1, 2022.
- ^ a b c Kyle Mullin, "Meet Korea Town Acid, the Toronto Producer Who Makes Beats That Feel Alive". Complex, October 22, 2021.
- ^ Michelle Da Silva, "Korea Town Acid is creating her own electronic sound world". Now, June 13, 2018.