Garion, formed in 1998, is a South Korea Hip hop group that lead the start of Korean underground hip-hop. The group consists of MC Meta (Jae Hyun Lee), also known as Tronical or 每他, and Naachal (Hyun Il Jeong). J-U (Jae Yu Choi) was once a member of Garion but seceded since 2004 and from their second album, released in 2010, DJ Skip (Do Hyoung Kim) joined them temporarily in concerts. They are members of a crew called 'Bulhanddang' (불한당, 不汗党).

History of the group

Debut

By the time when Club MP (Master Plan) was about to open, MC Meta, who was the representative for Korean hip-hop association BLEX (Black Loud EXploders), decided to form a hip-hop group. Soon he met Naachal in Club MP by chance and formed Garion, then in March 1998, they debuted with two songs: "Lie" (거짓말) and "Reason why we're together" (그래서 함께하는 이유). They were invited to many parties, then soon became celebrated. They were also members of "Under Blades Crew" at that time.

They often performed acoustic performances with a group called "Vinyl", so producer J-U, who was friends with members of Vinyl, had chances to listen to Garion's music. J-U started to get interested in Garion's music and proposed them to work with Myoung Ho Park (박명호) from Honey Family (허니패밀리). MC Meta took this opportunity to offer J-U to join Garion, and on November 1998, he became the third member of Garion. After a year of resting because of Naachal's health problem, they came back on March 2000, and joined in album called MP Hip-Hop Project 2000 超 as well as other concerts. They made a project team with Seven, member of Da Crew, and also participated in Hong Kong's famous DJ, DJ Tommy's album, and became the first Korean hip-hop artist who participated in foreign hip-hop album.

+/-, or Plus/Minus, is an American indietronic band formed in 2001. The band makes use of both electronic and traditional instruments, and has sought to use electronics to recreate traditional indie rock song forms and instrumental structures. The group has released two albums on each of the American indie labels Teenbeat Records and Absolutely Kosher, and their track "All I do" was prominently featured in the soundtrack for the major film Wicker Park. The group has developed a devoted following in Japan and Taiwan, and has toured there frequently. Although many artists append bonus tracks onto the end of Japanese album releases to discourage purchasers from buying cheaper US import versions, the overseas versions of +/- albums are usually quite different from the US versions - tracklists can be rearranged, artwork with noticeable changes is used, and tracks from the US version can be replaced as well as augmented by bonus tracks.

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Belgarion (also called Garion) is a fictional character and the chief protagonist in The Belgariad and The Malloreon, two fantasy epics written by David Eddings.

Garion is the distant nephew of Polgara the Sorceress and the distant grandson of Belgarath the Sorcerer, though in truth his lineage is many times removed from them, through Belgarath's other daughter and Polgara's twin sister, Beldaran, the wife of Riva Iron-Grip, the first king (and founder) of Riva. Garion's father was Geran, a stonecutter in the Sendarian village of Annath and hidden heir to the Rivan throne. His mother, Ildera, was the daughter of a clan chief of Algaria.

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