The next album project on Hell Yeah Recordings is a long distance overseas collaboration between the Italian label and Australian producers Somerville & Wilson. Yantar is a seven track affair (+ bonus track) that marks the duo’s debut LP and it follows on from EPs on labels like Danny Was A Drag King, ISM Records and Paper Recordings.

Once again this record finds Richard Somerville and Craig Wilson showcasing sumptuous slowed down sounds for serious grown ups. They have remixed on Hell Yeah before now and have found their way into the bags of DJs like Tensnake and Gerd Janson, and are very much at the forefront of a chugging disco sound in their native Australia.

The album opens up with the title track, a blissed out and bubbling piece of lush synth music with dreamy keys and shimmering chords that immediately set a sun kissed scene. From there Melt is a loveable slow-disco number with gurgling acid, Lantern Dusts is a dubby, balearic, sax laced number to get boat or beach parties into a groove and Field of Poplar is as tropical and dreamy as can be. The floaty vibe continues through the last 4 tracks, which range from deep and undulating acid to spaced-out house via woozy and organic jungle sounds.

This is a colourful and warming release that is sure to introduce Somerville & Wilson to the wider audience they deserve.

Artwork by Andrea Amaducci.

Support by

"Balearic Trance!!!!!" - Balearic Gabba Sound System

"Sounds good. Can't decide which track i like the best.
I'm sure i'll play some out." - Lexx

"Loyale Royale - it's a killer. Very nice body of work." Sean Johnston (ALFOS)

"Really Nice!!!" Red Axes

"Wow what a wicked start to the year. Solid LP" Keyboard Masher

"Lovely album, Melt is smooth" Tensnake

Somerville & Wilson - Yantar

Yantar

Somerville & Wilson - Melt

Somerville & Wilson - Cero Gravity

DC Promo Tracks #46 is Yantar by Somerville & Wilson from the upcoming release on Hell Yeah Recordings

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DC Promo Tracks #46: Somerville & Wilson "Yantar"

Somerville & Wilson - Lantern Dusts

Somerville & Wilson - Field Of Poplar

After releasing their Yantar LP digitally last year, Hell Yeah now serve up a much anticipated  vinyl version of Richard Somerville and Craig Wilson’s perfectly horizontal sounds. It features two of the superb originals with remixes from The Beat Broker and Los Gatos Escobar.

Somerville & Wilson have appeared on ISM Records, DWDK (Danny Was A Drag King), Paper Records and Music for Dreams and count the likes of Tensnake and Gerd Janson as fans of their laidback and charming grooves, and this EP is a real slab of heat that will surely sizzle souls across the world this summer. 
 
First up, The Beat Broker proves he is on fire right now with a remix of the classic ‘Melt.’ His heart swelling remix has impossibly mellow chords ringing out into a yellow-orange sky as melodies rise and fall like a yacht bobbing on gentle waters. It’s a blissed out musical sunset of the highest order.

Then comes Somerville & Wilson’s ’Cero Gravity’, eight minutes of cosmic synth workouts, yawning chords and long legged drums offset by soft acid. Drenched in reverb and rippling out in all directions, it’s a warm musical rush that keeps washing over you until your soul melts away. 
 
From New York, Los Gatos Escobar duo offer a more driving but just as tropical remix of ‘Yantar’ with big rubbery drums, zoned out chords and smeared pads. It’s beautifully innocent and honest, heartfelt and meditative music that encourages you to escape to a seaside paradise.

Last of all, a melted Space Edit of Yantar is drowned in saturated chords, scorched pads and heat damaged keys that leave you adrift in a sea of sumptuousness. 
 
Music doesn’t come much more majestic, melodic and mellow than this.

Somerville & Wilson - Yantar EP (12" snippets)

"If you didn't know, Hell Yeah is the Italian label hell-bent on releasing the best modern disco(ish) you can find. Sometimes it's blissed out and Balearic, sometimes it's squelchy and down-right weird and sometimes it's the sort of elongated, tribal stuff that works dancefloors into a salacious frenzy" (Kristan J Caryl - DJ MAG January 2014)


Hell Yeah Recordings, a descendent of leading Italian dance label Mantra Vibes is an Italian-based electronic music label active since 2006. Releasing from Ferrara, Bologna, and Amsterdam and led by Marco Gallerani “peeDoo” (A&R), the label bases its philosophy on a diversity of artists and recording experiences tied together by a common vision of what defines quality progressive recording. 

With a sound as diverse as the artists it represents, Hell Yeah does not limit itself to the constraints of genre but packs a complex palette of sounds ranging from techno to minimal-nu-rave to electro-funk and tech house.  Artists as varied as Radio Slave, Santos, Umek, Oliver Koletzki, Congorock, 3iO, Crimea X and the mighty Balearic Gabba Sound System have helped establish Hell Yeah’s eclectic sound, a distinct take on party music loaded with a sonic Balearic feel good vibe that has made press around the world hail Hell Yeah as a label to watch, always

Hell Yeah aims to build upon its current reputation as a leading Italian Electronic Music play, overseeing the release of a series of progressive productions that straddle genres, defy conventions and blur barriers between listening and dance music. Stemming from Hell Yeah’s initial graphic identity formed by Neverending’s Rocco “the Boghe” Pezzella, new mind-bending web and label artworks from Italian artist Andrea Amaducci and the Berlin-based Ice Cream For Free collective promises complete visual as well as aural stimulation.

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