M&D was a South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

n project duo formed by SM Entertainment

SM Entertainment

S.M. Entertainment is an independent Korean record label, talent agency, producer, and publisher of pop music, founded by Lee Soo-man in South Korea...

 in June 2011 which consists of South Korean boy band Super Junior

Super Junior

Super Junior is a South Korean boy band. Formed in 2005 by producer Lee Soo-man of SM Entertainment, the group comprised a total of thirteen members at its peak, and was once claimed to be the world's largest boy band...

's Heechul and labelmate rock band TRAX's Jungmo. The band name is an abbreviation for either "Midnight and Dawn" or "Miari and Dangyedong" in reference of Jungmo and Heechul's respective towns where they live.

History

Super Junior's Heechul and TRAX's Jungmo announced on Mnet UV Syndrome Begins and on MBC Golden Fishery Radio Star about the project in May 2011. They revealed via their official twitter accounts the development of the project group. Heechul revealed a photo of which is the cover for the song "뭘봐 (Close Your Mouth Song)", which was released on June 22, 2011 digitally in South Korea. The song is a "disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

" song and has an old sound.

On July 25th, Super Junior’s Kim Heechul announced the official disbandment of his project group with the Trax’s Jungmo, ‘M&D‘.

Musical style

Jungmo and Heechul wrote all of the songs for this project. They tried mixing and deriving the music demonstrated from Super Junior and Trax and it results to a rip of songs of "unclassified" genres such as rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

, trot, dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

, ballad

Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

, and bossanova

Bossanova

Bossanova is the third album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in August 1990 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. All of Bossanovas original material was written by the band's frontman Black Francis; it...

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