Grum ‘Heartbeats’
June 4, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:47 am
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
Grum’s ‘Heartbeats’ = Hardcore Nerd Porn
August 25, 2009 Posted by Eva at 2:22 pm
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: