What was the defining moment when you realised HYPNOSIS THERAPY had become something far beyond a traditional music project?
Both of us had been making hip-hop and R&B for a long time, but we were looking for something more exciting. That led us to explore electronic music, a genre neither of us had really worked with before. Around that time, we became fascinated by the limitless possibilities that electronic music offered, and that’s where we decided to focus our creative energy.
Every HYPNOSIS THERAPY show seems to encourage complete freedom rather than passive watching. What do you hope people discover about themselves when they step into one of your live performances?
A lot of people discover us through our live shows. What we try to deliver on stage is pure energy and confidence. We perform with the hope that this energy will stay with people long after the show and become part of their everyday lives.
It’s almost like an unspoken message: we made it happen, so you can too.
You’ve built a reputation in Korea’s underground while increasingly connecting with audiences around the world. How has travelling and performing internationally changed your perspective on what makes your music unique?
From the very beginning, HYPNOSIS THERAPY was created with the international scene in mind. We felt the Korean market alone was too small for what we wanted to achieve. We wanted to reach a much bigger world.
That’s also one of the reasons we shifted toward electronic music. We see it as one of the most inclusive and universal genres. At the same time, we believed that by expressing it from our perspective as Korean artists, we could create something genuinely fresh and unique.
Returning to Australia, what stood out to you most about Australian crowds during your previous visit, and has that influenced what fans can expect from these upcoming shows?
Australia was the first country we visited through SXSW Sydney in 2023. It was also the festival’s inaugural year, so everything felt especially exciting and ambitious. As well as performing at SXSW Sydney, we played a show in Melbourne and even held a listening party there for our second album, which was about to be released.
That trip gave us real confidence that there was a future for us in the international market. Every show we played was incredible, and the response from Australian audiences left a lasting impression on us.
Your music balances chaos with precision. When you’re creating together, how do you know when a track has reached the perfect point between control and complete surrender?
We know a track is finished when it starts to feel primal. If you ask what “primal” means to us, it’s when all those instinctive, almost animalistic elements come together naturally, and the music simply feels alive.
That’s why finishing a song often takes much longer than people expect. Writing it is only one part of the process. We spend a huge amount of time listening back over and over, making tiny adjustments until every detail feels completely natural.
HYPNOSIS THERAPY often feels driven by instinct rather than trends. In an era where artists can easily chase algorithms, how do you protect your creative identity?
We simply make records inspired by the sounds and cultures we’re genuinely into at that moment. Whether that happens to align with current trends or not doesn’t really matter to us.
Our confidence in our own taste and our curiosity are the biggest driving forces behind our music. We release albums almost every year because we see each one as a document of where we are creatively and mentally at that point in our lives.
Both of you came from different musical backgrounds before forming HYPNOSIS THERAPY. What qualities do you each bring to the partnership that couldn’t exist if either of you were working alone?
We’ve both spent years working in different groups and different genres, so we’ve each built our own audiences. When we came together, that naturally created a strong synergy. It also expanded our musical range and made us much more open to different genres and ideas.
More importantly, we’ve been through a lot together, and that has built an incredible level of trust between us. We’ve never really fought. We trust each other completely and keep moving forward together. If one of us feels strongly about an idea, the other is willing to follow because we know there’s always a reason behind it.
HYPNOSIS THERAPY is both our individual expression and something we create together. At this point, it’s become more than just a project. It’s a part of our lives.
Korea’s underground electronic scene is receiving more international attention than ever before. What excites you most about the current movement, and which artists should global listeners be paying attention to?
Not just Korea, but Japan, China, and many other parts of Asia are seeing exciting new movements emerge right now. It feels like Asian artists are finding fresh ways to blend their own perspectives into established genres, and that’s creating something genuinely new.
As for an artist, the world should be paying attention to… honestly, we’d say us.
Looking back at where HYPNOSIS THERAPY began, what’s one lesson you’ve learned about taking creative risks that you wish you’d known from day one?
Honestly, we don’t have many regrets about the path we’ve taken.
But if we had to give our younger selves one piece of advice, it would simply be: be even bolder. Push harder, take bigger risks, and don’t hesitate.
As your audience continues to grow across different countries, what vision do you have for HYPNOSIS THERAPY over the next few years, and what would success look like beyond streams and sold-out shows?
We’ve already completed three European tours, and today we actually have more listeners overseas than we do in Korea. That’s exactly the future we imagined when we started this project.
We want those numbers to keep growing, but more importantly, we want to become the kind of artist who plays the main stages of the world’s biggest music festivals.
And we believe we’ll get there. We believe in ourselves, and we believe in everything we’ve built so far. We see it as a snowball; once it starts rolling, it only gets bigger.
We’ll keep moving forward. Keep an eye on what we’re doing.
Thank you so much for your support, and please keep listening to our music.
HYPNOSIS THERAPY, Alex Wilcox ‘UMJIGYEO! (MOVE!)
Tiny Minds Agency presents: HYPNOSIS THERAPY AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Thursday 16 July – The Grace Darling Naarm, Melbourne
Doors: 7.30 pm
Porcelain Boy: 8.00 pm – 8.40 pm
HYPNOSIS THERAPY: 9.00 pm – 10.00 pm
Friday 17 July – The Lord Gladstone Eora, Sydney
With Blair Romance
Doors: 8.30 pm
Blair Romance: 9.00 pm – 9.40 pm
HYPNOSIS THERAPY: 10.00 pm – 11.00 pm
Saturday 18 July – The Tivoli Meanjin, Brisbane
Special guest performance at the Full Flower Moon Band after-party
Time: 10.45 pm
Tickets are available via linktr.ee/TinyMindsAgency
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