Albert Kheem W.J. — DEEGIE · Founder, Team8 Partners & ARC METRICS™
Composer · Producer · Artistic Director
Twenty-eight years of sound — from Seoul’s underground to Saatchi Gallery London, Milan Fashion Week, and the AI music engines of ARC METRICS.
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01ARC METRICS™
ARC METRICS is the AI music-tech division unveiled in July 2026 — with Albert Kheem as Founder, Main Producer & Director, leading its AI sound engines and data-driven production system. He is also the founder of Team8 Partners.
Extracts and analyses musical patterns from audio data — turning A&R intuition into data-designed production.
A voice-analysis engine modelling each artist’s unique vocal tone — first applied on record in 2026.
ASEAN’s first university-based K-pop production camp, launched with Sunway University, Malaysia — Albert Kheem as executive producer.
“A producer of thirty years who has worked with Korea’s major labels — more than a hundred albums, over two hundred songs.”
— as introduced by the Korean press, 2026
02Press & Interviews
“I don’t need to be ‘world-famous,’ but I want to leave behind something people genuinely love. One legendary song before I die.”
COMPLITALY — News · Magazine · TV, International Interview, 2026
03The Global Chapter
Since 2023 the practice has moved across borders — fashion houses, museums, universities and studios in Europe and Southeast Asia.
Project meeting with the creative director of Hugo Boss · private tour of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
“Save Earth, Save Us” — NFT sound work at Saatchi Gallery, London
Visit to Brunello Cucinelli, Solomeo
Milan Fashion Week lecture · London press interviews · ANTEPRIMA collaboration
Recording in Shinjuku, Tokyo · JAKIM halal certification project, Malaysia
K-POP MUSIC LAB with Sunway University — ASEAN’s first university K-pop production camp
“2 Jazzy for Hiphop.”
The idea declared in 2004 — rap over living jazz, not samples — that became a lifetime’s method.
04The History
First stages at Seoul’s legendary hip-hop club; PDPB with Pe2ny and DJ Soulscape, then solo as “Tequila Addicted”.
“No Sex, No Love” on the compilation MP Hip-Hop Project 2000 — a new voice of the Korean underground.
The debut album arrives; a Drunken Tiger feature brings him into the Movement crew.
Bleu Film: 2 Jazzy for Hiphop — rap over live jazz sessions, the aesthetic that defines everything after.
Insane Deegie 2; a run for the National Assembly, urging a generation to vote.
Appointed the youngest full-time professor at Korea Conservatory.
Deegie’s In True Mental — three CDs, thirty-two tracks: the “2 Jazzy” statement.
Drummer of the jazz-hybrid band Trabler — the rapper becomes a band musician.
The collaborative EP FARE with OVER Mid Die opens the European chapter.
“Save Earth, Save Us” shows in London — multisensory art becomes the new frontier.
Milan Fashion Week lecture; the EPs The Letter from 19980830 (Sat) and THE FOURTY close the year.
Main Producer of ARC METRICS, professor at Hanyang University — Seoul, Milano, Kuala Lumpur.
Studio — Seoul
05Selected Works
2001 · Album
2004 · EP
2008 · Album
2011 · 3CD Album
2015 · Album
2016 · EP
2020 · EP
2025 · EP
2025 · EP
06Profile
Albert Kheem W.J. — known to Korean hip-hop as DEEGIE — is a composer, producer and artistic director working between Seoul, Milano and Kuala Lumpur. Since his first stage at Club Master Plan in 1998, the press counts more than a hundred albums and two hundred songs under his hands, from uncompromising hip-hop to orchestral suites and gallery sound work.
His career pivots on a single idea, declared in 2004: “2 Jazzy for Hiphop.” Instead of sampling jazz, he put rap on top of living jazz sessions — a method he deepened as a producer, as drummer of the band Trabler, and as a professor of music.
Today the work reaches beyond records: multisensory exhibitions in London, lectures at Milan Fashion Week, sound-wellness research combining brainwaves and scent, and AI-driven production as Main Producer of ARC METRICS.
From the Archive · 1998 — 2026
Contact
Founder — Team8 Partners & ARC METRICS™
Seoul — Milano — Kuala Lumpur