You Got Me

You Got Me (S.P.Y Remix)

Camels / Overthinking

Overthinking

Ain't No Way 2024

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In April of 2002, I found myself in Shanghai. Every ­morning, I took bus line 589 from my apartment to the office. In 2007, I had a senseless job in Beijing, but a decent colleague who shared a surname, 羅 luó, with me. We had to select cheap images of luxury products and activities for a dubious men’s magazine. It was the time, when taxi drivers were forced to learn English, due to the coming Sportfest, Beijing Olympics. Autobahn city was now teaming with police and luggage scans, almost like a giant ­airport checkin, and I was the idiot 老外 lǎowài (foreigner) right in the middle of it. In 2015, students in Hong Kong proved that shopping does not always have to be what mainland tourists usually do. Then, my blurry dreams and experiences got exorcised into shreds to dissolve in the full consciousness of my own stupidity. Then I ate the mooncake. What a taste.

Chinese Mooncakes have one or two outside layers (usually very sweet), and an unexpected center (usually a salty duck egg yolk). This inspired me to shape my music in a similar way, and to hide the key melodies within an undetermined wrapper of fragments leading to nowhere.

mooncake songs 月餅歌:
Written whenever in China, 2002 – 2025, recorded in Berlin, 2021 – 2025.
All compositions and lyrics © by Roman Wilhelm.
(6) Backing vocals by Jonathan Ganser, Berlin. (7) Bass guitar by Phillip Heßeler, Berlin. (8) Cello by Shenggy Shen (深靜), London. Thank you to Shenggy, Jonathan and Phillip for their invaluable contribution.

(1) First tone: An der Saale hellem Strande; second tone: Bofrost delivery melody; Third tone: 東方紅 The East is Red; fourth tone: Former Shanghai bus signal. Muzak (1)(2): Crickets in Shanghai-Yangpu; (3) Karl-Marx-Straße, Berlin; (6) Shatin Mall, Hong Kong; (7) Vintage flexi vinyl discs from a Beijing flea market; (8) Crickets in Castiglioncello, Italy.

(Tones) 589 (Tones)

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It's been a long time coming, but Souped Up are finally releasing the legendary MC Bassman's 'Heavy & Dark', featuring remixes from Serum and Bou & Simula.

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MC Bassman - Heavy & Dark (Bou & Simula's Mix)

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Upgrade returns with another excellent single on Low Down Deep, 'Trigga Finga / The Saucer'. 

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Warning (feat. Gappy Ranks)

Warning (feat. Gappy Ranks) (Bou Remix)

Next up on Bristol’s Born On Road Records comes a three-way collaboration of epic proportions. Having impressed with his outstanding label debut, the Hand Sign EP, earlier this month, Gillingham native DJ Gaw swiftly returns to the imprint, teaming up with long-standing Born On Road affiliate Selecta J-Man – who topped the Juno Download singles chart in July with “My Style” – for the infectious “Rum & Lime”. The pair are joined on the track by Bristolian drum and bass soulstress A Little Sound, the 21-year-old singer and TikTok sensation whose recent collaboration with Kanine, “Back in Time”, has already amassed over two million streams. 

Originally kept under lock and key as a dubplate special but now seeing a release due to great demand, “Rum & Lime” finds A Little Sound heavily interpolating Lily Allen’s world-renowned 2006 debut “Smile”, retaining Allen’s melodies but rewriting the lyrics with a summery and suitably rave-centric twist. Mostly staying true to the original track’s rocksteady sound, Gaw and J-Man intersperse the iconic ska strokes with stonking jump-up drops to make for a festival- ready anthem, bound to serve as the perfect soundtrack to this summer’s outdoor gatherings. 

Having teased the track via both TikTok and the label’s Goat Shed radio takeover last month, initial fan reactions certainly bode well for the future of this track. Expect to hear much more of it in the coming months, and keep an eye out for plenty more releases from the Born On Road family later this year.

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