Give it a listen and you know what we in for here, classy material.
We have finally made a dream come true!
After deejaying and doing edits for a very long time, we (and i mean me, Timo, Tommy & Meskla) finally came up with the idea for a full length Album. We teamed up with our favourite songwriter: Mat McHugh the frontman of the Beautiful Girls, and re-created and re-imagined some of his songs to create something new, an amalgamation of electronic urban sounds with the organic soulful voice of Mat at the centre of it all. And it’s getting a full release later this year, until then we are playing a few gigs live and perfecting the music :) Until then expect a new song every month and the full album and the live shows will be like a YUM YUM Mixtape. Full of Enchantment & Magic!
We had our first song “High Up!” up on the ChromeMusic a few weeks ago, but had to take it down from the blog and from soundcloud etc, bc it’s getting an official release early September. Well this is another favourite of ours. A very minimal approach to one of Mats most beautiful songs. Enjoy A Pocket Full of Shells.
Get your tickets here! bit.ly/2bbOX30
Sep 10 Timboektoe Beach, Velsen Noord, Netherlands
Sep 11 Knust, Hamburg, Germany (with Djs: Wolfskind, Chrome & Tommy Montana)
Sep 13 Musik & Frieden, Berlin, Germany (with Djs: Chrome, Schowi & Tommy Montana)
Sep 16 Paradiso Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 17 Down Under Beach Club, The Hague, Netherlands
Hey young world!
We are back babay! The YUM YUM’s & Mat McHugh – [YY:MM]
Dear friends, followers, haters, debaters, jokers, smokers, late night talkers, people who judge on the spot, those who love on the spot and those who feel infinite! It’s been a minute since i put out my own music, besides initially producing Lions Head, but this here’s an affair of the heart! And yes, we are back!
We are called the YUM YUM’s (Djs & producers) consisting of me, Chrome from ChromeMusic, Tand Williams & Meskla both veteran Djs of the YUM YUM parties, hence the name), and this our first own and official release, a collaboration with a long time favourite music maker of ours, Sidney-based Australian singer-songwriter Mat McHugh, from the Beautiful Girls!
“High Up!” is our first official release and there are 11 more songs to come in the form of a full length album in September. It is is a chilled futuristic late night jam and we sincerely hope you like it!!
The Story behind the music: A match made on our music blog!
I always featured Mat McHugh (matmchughmusic.com), who is one of my favourite singers, on my acoustic mixtape series “Sweet Serenade” and on various posts on ChromeMusic! When i started our label Tanz Dich Glücklich last year, i approached Mat and asked him to remix one of his songs, and to our surprise Mat instantly gave us his entire long slate of releases to pick from (7 albums) !!
Mat put that much trust in us and our idea for the remixes that he didn’t hesitate a minute. But we didn’t want to simply remix it and add a beat to that already wonderful, emotionally packed material. We took Mats beautifully crafted vocals & melodies, filled with positive messages, and transported it into new musical landscapes where we re-produced and re-imagined (almost) everything to emphasize the emotional gravitas of Mats music, which then in return prompted Mat to even re-sing most of the material, leading to mostly original music. Here i would like to thank a few people especially who were involved in the process and helped me maintain the course w/o losing focus! I’d like to point out my partners from the almighty Riverside Studio in Berlin, especially Martin the head and chief of Kling Klong Records, Olli Laib, the mad musician who did productions for people like Alle Farben and figuratively everybody else, my long time buddy M-tech/Pitchben who used to be a very well known ITF hiphop DJ and played alongside A-Trak and the likes back in the day, and very much to my partner and my buddy Dominik Graf who is better known as 1/2 of Lakechild , who i also met through the blog 2 years back. They were all crucial and an essential part and framework in helping paint this bigger picture! Thank you all from the heart. You are all part of this!
It amounted to 12 brand-new songs which are being released as an album this September, also entitled “High Up!”
This organic/online collabo between The YUM YUM’s & Mat McHugh, grew into a German/ Australian partnership, that is already planning ahead for more releases and preparing its first Germany & Holland tour this September.
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- The full album with Mat McHugh will follow in September! .
- Full Tour, in Germany & Holland this September!
The first track and album teaser:
Thanks for taking your time to read it! And ENJOY the song folks! This one’s from the heart!
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Last weeks Viral sensation was that Maggie Rogers vid where she played her song to Pharrell, who loved her beautiful music and gave her some sound advice or better gave her a great confirmation on how good her song really was! Everybody loved that vid and it was beautiful to see a new artist get such good vibes from one of music’s greatest artists.
I think everybody and his dog shared that video, but rightfully so and a few mere days later obviously it climbed the hypem charts and instantly became one of the most sought after tracks online.
Of course a flood of edits and remixes was supposed to come in, since Djs would be playing the hell out of that tune, and i was expecting nothing too fancy but i didn’t find a single good one.
Imagine my surprise when the only good one was by my good friends Lakechild, who didn’t even bother to send a mail to all their friends and fans or make a huge fuss about it, but simply did it! There are a lot of heads out there waiting to drop this tune in their sets, so thanks for a very useful tune Lakechild!
Loving the Material Design Cover? Us too, just wait till you hear the tune!
Sonnengruss, after having been remixed by everyone this last year, are hitting us up with their first official offering and are delivering some magical summer vibes with “Neopolitan Dreams”, featuring the very talented Jana on vocals. Her Voice, somewhere between sounding smoky and whispering Lisa Mitchells original is quite unique and intimate, and i really can’t put my finger on the production and tell you why i think it’s gripping, cause it definitely is, with all those techy chords going on and the super catchy Hook with that Synth-solo. Yes i said it… synth solo! Somehow sounds like a bastard child of Alan Walker, Major Lazers Lean on, 90s house and that whole modern deep house meets singer songwriter without even using a guitar. I really enjoy that song not using a single element of Lisa Mitchells original, and honestly i am like super fed up with folky guitars on proper beats! Can´t wait to hear the song being played everywhere – not! Grab it before it becomes famous and you learn to hate this new style! Puff puff pass, Lean back, close your eyes and enjoy this brilliant song, even when you are only high on life… <3
Ps in case you were wondering. Sonnengruss are all over the place Dj Jean Blanc and much sought after producer Dominic of Lakechild fame. Follow Sonnengruss on:
Them Lyar boys are back with a swifty summer tune. I see this being played in a lot of places with its funky house elements, reminds me of some old school uk tunes that i still have stacked away in my vinyl collection. Grab it while it’s a FREE DL, before it gets picked up by a label and turned into a fancy iTunes object ;) Great effort boys, keep it up!
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