With Grum’s recent successes of his massive crossover hit ‘Can’t Shake This Feeling’ the pinnacle of his work to date, a real cross-over moment that will introduce the world to its new dance hero, Grum has finally been announced to be touring for the Parklife line-up hitting our shores in October 2010, along side artists such as Missy Elliot, Ajax, Bag Raiders and many many more. Make sure you get your tickets to Parklife midday 1st July 2010. Better be quick or you might miss out!!

Grum is a Scottish electro producer from Leeds, England, who emerged to considerable fanfare in 2009 with the productions “Runaway” and “Heartbeats” and a bunch of remixes. Born Graeme Shepherd in Edinburgh, Scotland, he cites influences from the ’80s (Giorgio Moroder, the Human League, New Order) and the contemporary electro-pop scenes (Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Air), plus French house (Les Rythmes Digitales) and Italo disco (Kano). Grum released several remixes in 2008, but it wasn’t until 2009 that he first made a name for himself on the electro scene with a few productions of his own: “Runaway,” “Sound Reaction,” and “Heartbeats.“These tracks got airplay from some of the top radio DJs in the United Kingdom, including Radio 1 show hosts Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Rob da Bank, and Jaymo & Andy George. In addition to the Radio 1 airplay, Grum was an Internet favorite championed by the tastemaking blog Discodust and many others within the music blogosphere. Among these early productions, “Heartbeats” proved especially popular, showing up on several different Ministry of Sound mix albums. In the meantime, Grum released a bunch of remixes, most notably Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” Goldfrapp’s “Rocket,” Passion Pit’s “To Kingdom Come,” and Friendly Fires’ “Skeleton Boy,” and began establishing himself as a DJ on the international club scene. Grum’s debut album, Heartbeats, included his big single as the title track, and was released by Ultra in 2010.

Scott Graeme Shepard is an obvious disciple of his fellow countrymen’s belief that fundamentally feet are there to be moved and brains to catch up later. He doesn’t exactly keep his powder dry either, opener ‘Through The Night’ loaded with Guetta-esque hooks and chugging retro synth vamps that’ll have you reaching for your shoulder pads and sinclair C5 keys. Oh, and let me take the opportunity to apologize on his behalf now; you’re going to have to be hanging with cool cats all summer to avoid having your bra in annexed by the album’s title track, it represents perfection of the form, right from the casio-plonking opening notes to its maddening addictive one word chorus.

Tracklist  for ‘Heartbeats‘

1. Through The Night
2. Can’t Shake This Feeling
3. Runaway
4. Fashion
5. Power
6. Cybernetic
7. Heartbeats
8. Turn It Up
9. Want U
10. The Really Long One
11. LA Lights
12. Someday We’ll Be Together

‘Heartbeats’ will be released on the 4th june 2010 on etcetc

If you’ve been within ten feet of a club or the internet over the past two years you’ll know Grum’s influence. A DJ who regularly commands the Hype Machine top spot and has won an army of champions from the best tastemaker blogs like Discodust to radio 1 DJs Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Pete Tong and Rob Da Bank as well as a host of fans from artists like Aeroplane to Pendulum.

Grum is 24 year old Edinburgh-born DJ and producer Graeme Shepherd, a dance floor alchemist who’s earnt glowing comparisons to Mylo, The Chemical Brothers and Justice. High praise indeed, but praise he’s earnt with a string of tracks that have not so much seen him own the blogosphere as spin it playfully in the palm of his hands.

Now he’s set to take everyone else with massive crossover hit ‘Can’t Shake This Feeling’. Cramming a DJ box-load of influences from Daft Punk to The Human League and Stuart Price into 4 minutes, “Can’t Shake This Feeling” is the pinnacle of his work to date, a real cross-over moment that will introduce the world to its new dance hero. The song encapsulates what he refers to as “an endorphin rush of disco-house, ’80s pop, Italo disco and FM rock” and combines the soaring synths and vocals of the ’80s with the energy and arrangement of 2010.

Backed with mixes from the likes of Aston Shuffle, DCup, Beaumont, Charlie! and Ghosts Of Venice – and one hell of a video that has to be seen to be believed – “Can’t Shake This Feeling” is a major calling card for an artist that set to be the breakthrough dance artist of 2010.

“If Grum is what the future of electronic music sounds like (and we’re pretty sure he is), save us a spot on the dancefloor” Luke Crisell, Nylon

Also for your entertainment is this FREE JUMP JUMP DANCE DANCE DOWNLOAD! And make sure you check them out at the Future Music Festival in your city.

Bigstereo have nothing but nice things to say about the hot, hot, hot new Grum Remix of Jump Jump Dance Dance’s upcoming Show Me the Night. “We love JJDD, You love JJDD”. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.  To hear what the rest of the internet thinks, click here.

Nylon: ‘The future of dance music”
Mixmag: “An anthemic beauty…beepy backing smattered with emotive waterfalls of French sounding electro wonderment”
IDJ “All damn good  – 9/10″
Data Transmission: ” add him to your life right now…”
Future Music: “a fresh sample and synth hero has been elected to save us from Calvin Harris overload”
FHM: “pulls in every gyrating body, every sweaty pulse of a sticky floored, laser loaded club night”
NME “knocking out tracks and remixes that tread a new grey area between the electro-mosh and new school disco eras”

…and finally, Pop Justice: “This is the greatest song of the 21st Century and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise they are an idiot, or they haven’t heard it, or they’re an idiot who hasn’t heard it.”

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So you didn’t hear it from us, but Grum has just remixed Lady Gaga’s latest single Bad Romance. Which means you could call it Good Romance, right?

To hear it visit our friends over at Stoney Roads. Definitely worth a listen.

We are thrilled to bring you 3 minutes and 10 seconds of hardcore nerd porn courtesy of Scotland’s man-of-the-moment, Grum. With Sound Reaction and Runaway still superglued to the turntables of DJs across the land, Heartbeats is to Summer as computers are to smut.

Brilliant:

Grum is the last person to need any more online hysteria, but that hasn’t stopped him from knocking together this incredible 5 minute minimix for BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac. So many tracks…so little time…listen here…

For proof, just take a look at: Getweird, Discobelle, Discodust, Doinmusic, Cockygold, Vainzine, Wedoitright, Goingotherplaces, Hiphoppopandrnbstop, Pocketfullofpaper, Popwreckoning, Urbanfabric, Pimpsrunfree, Deathelectro, Straightnochasa, Antibeta, Upupndown, Electronicrumours, Oddlyamazing, The Purple Rhino, We Are Binary, Red Threat, The House Effect, Indie Music Speaker, Hedonista, Slept Through Disco, The Passing Static, Evasee, Coppertallis, Atari Cool Kids, Planet Shhh, Club Lounge Den, Remix Rater, Fck da Beat, and Kslog.

With this much online interest, is it only a matter of time before this Scottish purveyor of addictive electro is spotted canoodling with Samantha Ronson? Yes, we say…

To hear what all the fuss is about click here (via Discodust).