Play It Forward

* Promos
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* Contact
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* Official Website
Casepeat Website: https://casepeat.com
Press kit / Bookings: https://casepeat.com/epk
Play It Forward Music Website: https://pifofficial.com

Casepeat (Kim Ki-Won) is a Seoul-based South Korean Trance and Progressive producer, DJ and film composer. Working across electronic music, film scoring, education and event production, he connects his own releases with the development of Korea's trance community.

His catalogue includes multiple releases through Black Hole Recordings' label family, including Subculture, Nocturnal Knights, Regenerate Records, Magic Island and AVA. Official catalogue entries include 108, Genesis with Plutian, Vincere, We Are Worth with Lyd14, and Free with Purple Rabbit. He has also released music through big labels such as Future Sound of Egypt, High Voltage Recordings and Blue Dot.

His productions and remixes have received radio support on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance, Aly & Fila's Future Sound of Egypt, Paul van Dyk's VONYC Sessions, Andrew Rayel's Find Your Harmony and Solarstone's Pure Trance Radio. Selected broadcasts include Theory of Everything with Plutian on ASOT 1164, 108 on FSOE 891, Firebird with Plutian on FYH 432, Reverie (Casepeat Remix) on VONYC Sessions 917, and Jebudo Island on Pure Trance Radio 389. His Beatport chart highlights include I Want with Kanallia, which reached No. 1 on the Trance Hype chart and No. 10 on the Trance main chart.

His performance history includes EDC Korea 2025, ZEROTOKYO in Tokyo, Amnesia Bangkok and Reverse Rotterdam. At OUTBURST TOKYO in 2025, he appeared in the Trance Family Asia presents NO BORDERS TOKYO programme and also peformed at the official EDC Korea 2026.

Casepeat founded Play It Forward, a platform that began with live broadcasting and now connects PIF Music, PIF Party and the weekly visual radio show PIF Live. Together with the PLAY IT FORWARD Music team, he serves as an Official Hosting Partner & Media Collaborator for TRANCISION at LION Superclub Seoul. The LION x PLAY IT FORWARD series hosted Markus Schulz on 5 September 2026, with Casepeat on the lineup.

He also curates TRANCE4 SEOUL: The LUKA Sessions at Club LUKA, serving as its music director and general manager. As the South Korea Representative of Trance Family Asia and an adjunct professor in Applied Music at Seoul Culture Arts University, he combines community work with music production and education.

His screen-music work includes music direction and composition for Peafowl and God's Daughter Dances, alongside a song placement in L.A.'s Finest. His wider portfolio includes music for performance, trailers and branded content. Across these activities, Casepeat brings a composer's approach to narrative into his work as an electronic artist.

* Signed Labels
Future Sound of Egypt
Subculture (Black Hole)
Nocturnal Knights Music & Fusion (Black Hole)
Regenerate Records (Black Hole)
Chasing Dreams Music (Black Hole)
Magic Island Elevate (Black Hole)
AVA Recordings & AVA White & AVA Deep (Black Hole)
Elpida Music (Black Hole)
Drizzly Eclipse (Black Hole)
Monster Force (Monster Tunes)
High Voltage
UnKonscious Recordings
Blue Dot Trance & Blue Dot Chill
Reason II Rise Music & Reason II Rise Uplift & Reason II Rise Remixed
Abora Recordings
Extrema Global
Digital Society Recordings [DS-R]
Suanda Progressive
Interplay Global & Interplay Unity
Bemind
Futurising
State Control
Addictive Sounds
Infrasonic Pure & InfraRed
Blue Soho & Red Soho
Davotab
.. and more

* Music Supported by
Armin van Buuren, Aly & Fila, Paul van Dyk, Andrew Rayel, John O'Callaghan, Sean Tyas, Solarstone, Jorn van Deynhoven, Allen Watts, Xijaro & Pitch, Darren Porter, Ferry Tayle, Ronski Speed, Steve Allen, Tempo Giusto, Ed Lynam, Photographer, Orjan Nilsen, Roman Messer, Alexander Popov, DIM3NSION, Helslowed, Eximinds, Daniel Skyver, Manuel Le Saux, Ori Uplift, Ahmed Helmy, Rene Ablaze, Johan Gielen, BiXX, Nhato...
.. and more