Even though they were not born under the same star, nor the same year, everything predestined David Leloup and Fabrice Hubert to meet. While the former was "Pop training" with Leeds, the latter was performing the keyboards for Tahiti 80, until that rainy day of 1998, when the sky of Rouen, usually so gloomy, took the most unexpected colour, heralding the new phenomenon: YE -YE.
Those 2 Yé-Yé guys, have nothing in common with their counterparts of the 60′s, other than an apparent passion for pop melodies, kitch cult movies, modern art, old fashioned keyboards and today’s electro music, also including the Manchester and baggy scenes…Quite an extreme blend from which has originated a salutary flavour that has been impregnating our two friends’ brains for many years.
This duo of sound mixing nuts really pulled it off by composing, in 2001, the music for the show of "Etant Donnés", the contemporary dance company. A few months later, they were commissioned to work on Beaubourg museum’s exhibition "Les années Pop" ‘s music theme.
Yé-Yé then working their way through, put the finishing touch to their future album whose first titles were released on various compilations as “ Made in Normandie ”, “ The french electro genius ”, “ So frenchy so chic ” or "Paris the girl" which has been distributed lately in Japan.
December 2003 at last, is the date to remember with the release of "TWO BRAINS FOR FEET", an album from out of space, displaying mutant sonorities: An album in which Yé-Yé travels down decades without minding anachronisms, performs stylistic wonders by mixing genders and colours, succeeds in producing tracks both catchy and convincing , subtle and witty, mingling pop and electro; every single songs being mixed by Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Eric Matthiews, Tahiti 80). 11 titles, all of them potential hits, like "Bachelor Party" whose recurrent theme, borrowed from Jimmy Bo Horne’s "Spank", is a pure inducement for dance floor lovers. As a nod in the direction of the 60/70′s soundtrack kings, we have "Burt Taylor" and "Dancing Stubbing", both paying a tribute to the golden age of TV series and movie soundtracks. Two instrumentals worthy of appearing on a contemporary version of "Bullit".
Among them, the stylish and smooth encounter with Shivika Asthana (Papa’s Fritas), that gave the very poppy "Eurostar", and that other one with Mouloud – Shivika’s masculine equivalent ? – as lead singer, resulting in "Strong enough". Then came "The end of the beginning" performed in double with the pals from Tahiti 80, and also "We’ve climbed mountains" a sweet treat, that owns its sixties flavour to the sensibility of Noémie (Zimpala).
"Two brains for feet" reminds us of the sweet nostalgia of some farback holidays spent on the Normandy coast with a wave of pleasure called "A summer in Saint-Valéry"; an unforgettable encounter at the camping site’s night club, named for the occasion "Ma tendre amie". And then “Yé-Yé style”, an electro-kitsch exercice, clearly shaped as the group’s trademark, summing it all up but in an orderly fashion.
Last but not least: “Extra ball”. Feeling like being on cloud nine again without any effort ? Well, no need to play the album all over again, but simply listen to “extra ball” to take it all in.
Yé-yé is all that at one taking and even more on stage for a perfect sound and vision show.
Those 2 Yé-Yé guys, have nothing in common with their counterparts of the 60′s, other than an apparent passion for pop melodies, kitch cult movies, modern art, old fashioned keyboards and today’s electro music, also including the Manchester and baggy scenes…Quite an extreme blend from which has originated a salutary flavour that has been impregnating our two friends’ brains for many years.
This duo of sound mixing nuts really pulled it off by composing, in 2001, the music for the show of "Etant Donnés", the contemporary dance company. A few months later, they were commissioned to work on Beaubourg museum’s exhibition "Les années Pop" ‘s music theme.
Yé-Yé then working their way through, put the finishing touch to their future album whose first titles were released on various compilations as “ Made in Normandie ”, “ The french electro genius ”, “ So frenchy so chic ” or "Paris the girl" which has been distributed lately in Japan.
December 2003 at last, is the date to remember with the release of "TWO BRAINS FOR FEET", an album from out of space, displaying mutant sonorities: An album in which Yé-Yé travels down decades without minding anachronisms, performs stylistic wonders by mixing genders and colours, succeeds in producing tracks both catchy and convincing , subtle and witty, mingling pop and electro; every single songs being mixed by Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Eric Matthiews, Tahiti 80). 11 titles, all of them potential hits, like "Bachelor Party" whose recurrent theme, borrowed from Jimmy Bo Horne’s "Spank", is a pure inducement for dance floor lovers. As a nod in the direction of the 60/70′s soundtrack kings, we have "Burt Taylor" and "Dancing Stubbing", both paying a tribute to the golden age of TV series and movie soundtracks. Two instrumentals worthy of appearing on a contemporary version of "Bullit".
Among them, the stylish and smooth encounter with Shivika Asthana (Papa’s Fritas), that gave the very poppy "Eurostar", and that other one with Mouloud – Shivika’s masculine equivalent ? – as lead singer, resulting in "Strong enough". Then came "The end of the beginning" performed in double with the pals from Tahiti 80, and also "We’ve climbed mountains" a sweet treat, that owns its sixties flavour to the sensibility of Noémie (Zimpala).
"Two brains for feet" reminds us of the sweet nostalgia of some farback holidays spent on the Normandy coast with a wave of pleasure called "A summer in Saint-Valéry"; an unforgettable encounter at the camping site’s night club, named for the occasion "Ma tendre amie". And then “Yé-Yé style”, an electro-kitsch exercice, clearly shaped as the group’s trademark, summing it all up but in an orderly fashion.
Last but not least: “Extra ball”. Feeling like being on cloud nine again without any effort ? Well, no need to play the album all over again, but simply listen to “extra ball” to take it all in.
Yé-yé is all that at one taking and even more on stage for a perfect sound and vision show.
