With one record Yolanda Be Cool have gone straight to the top of the music
industry a list.
Their second single – ‘We No Speak Americano’ (co-produced with DCUP) sold
over 5 million copies and hit number 1 in 18 countries; infiltrating radio
waves, TV shows, and pretty much every dance floor in the world over the
summer. You’d need to be a Tarantino assassinated corpse to have not felt
its impact in some form.
Also known as Johnson Peterson and Slyvester Martinez, Yolanda Be Cool have
demonstrated that with the panache and production skills to back it up it’s
possible to cultivate an international smash hit without the need for a
major label vehicle, instead releasing on homegrown Australian indie ‘Sweat
It Out’.
With over ten years DJing under their belts their musical influences extend
far beyond their Native Sydney, from old school hip hop, to Chicago house
to techno to pretty much everything in between. Bondi beach locals at
heart, when out of the studio or not playing at the biggest clubs in the
world you’ll find them at the beach catching waves.
The distinctly tropical flavour to their productions and fiercely
educational attitude to sampling (in the case of 'We No Speak Americano'
crate digging as far back as 1950’s Italia) combined with their big room
pull to pack out festival stages and mammoth venues, as a dance act, nods
more to creative sampling heavyweights like Switch than any of their more
current peers.
Following a busy 2011 spent touring North and Central America, South
America, Australia Asia and Europe, the guys are currently putting the
finishing touches to their debut full length album, due to drop in the Summer of 2012.
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