The Guwahati neighbourhood of Six Mile and the neon sprawl of Seoul are an unlikely through-line, but on 'Six Mile to Seoul' Indian singer-rapper Rahul Rajkhowa and South Korean R&B crooner Jimmy Brown make the distance feel almost intimate. The six-track EP is a brisk but tightly drawn tapestry where Assamese cadence, Hinglish flirtations and K-R&B smoothness braid into something warm and aerodynamic.
The partnership has been brewing for a while. After 2023’s single 'Bad Girls', the pair kept trading sketches, finding common ground in melody-first writing and a shared affection for sleek, mid-tempo grooves. That single becomes a centrepiece here, less a rehash than a pivot around which they build a cross-cultural pop grammar that’s as comfortable with trap-leaning drums as it is with light, floaty guitar lines. Interviews around the release underscore a working method built on trust — sending ideas back and forth across time zones until the songs 'clicked' rather than forcing a fusion for its own sake.
Rahul, based in Guwahati, has built his voice around socially conscious hip-hop — weaving environmental and political themes into nimble, bilingual rap flows. Jimmy, on the other hand, is a mainstay in South Korea’s indie R&B circuit, known for his warm, melodic phrasing and a catalogue that drifts between lo-fi soul and sleek, late-night grooves. Together, their contrasting sensibilities find common ground in rhythm and mood, rather than in arbitrary genre boundaries on this EP.
'Six Mile to Seoul' is fundamentally a mood board of soft edges. 'Intro' functions like a curtain-raiser, sketching an atmospheric palette before 'I Made It' snaps into slinky R\&B. 'Bad Girls' returns with extra gloss and 'Fuse' features a low-lit duet that leans on close-mic’d vocals. 'You’re Too Beautiful' turns unabashedly romantic, while 'Tu Meri Favourite' is the wink: an earworm and a charming pop track that toggles between Hindi and English.
Part of the EP’s appeal is its craft, revealing a compact but globally bedwork of sounds that elevates it: production touches from Stunnah Beatz, Kyduh and Mixtape Seoul, with Indian engineers like Fauxtail and Augustus Henry shaping its overall sound. Rahul's fingerprint is certainly also present, giving the record’s hip-hop and R&B framework a lived-in, independent-scene grit, while Jimmy brings in a velvet phrasing and a seemingly instinctive ear for hooks. The result is plush but un-fussy: a set built for late drives and after-hours chill sessions.
Beyond the sound, the EP also resists the postcard version of collaboration. It’s less culture-tourism, more lived conversation between Guwahati’s Six Mile and Gangnam backstreets, an interplay between the tenderness of K-R&B and the diversity of Indian indie, and a seamless blend of tone and temperament. 'Six Mile to Seoul' is a compact, melodic body of work that sketches out a world of its own, and feels like, for all intents and purposes, it was created by two musicians who are in lockstep with each other, despite the miles between them.
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