Beschreibung

Yankee Zulu (Belfast/UK)/Cool Kid Dewey (Jackmode/Untitled/Ulm)
mashup/tropic house/robot funk/baile funk

John Mciver aka Yankee Zulu's fascination with dance music started at a early age when he acquired his first set of turntables. He was first being influenced by heavyweights like Carl Cox and Joey Beltram who were playing guest spots at the Hellraiser raves held in the Ulster hall in Belfast in the early nineties. On the local front influences came in the form of David Holmes and Ian McCready who ran the legendary SugarSweet parties in Belfast. As a result of all this he quickly developed a love for all things house and techno, something that remains evident in his productions today. He would religiously scour local record shops every weekend looking for the freshest sounds he could find, and bombard his friends with his weekly mix tapes. This led on to badgering local promoters and djs too, and it was Timmy Stewart (John’s partner in the Jet Project) who initially saw some serious potential and raw talent. John regularly attended Timmy and Mark Bell's Digital Boogie and Tsunami parties and got a real taste of proper electronic music by hearing what guests like Chris Duckenfield, Hipp-E, Miguel Migs, Ralph Lawson and Ivan Smagghe were up to behind the decks. Around the same time John (not to do things by halves) passed 6 mixes onto Shine and Stiff Kitten (Belfast biggest clubs) head honcho Alan Simms resulting in a booking not long after... After a few stellar performances John was soon asked to become an official Shine and Stiff Kitten resident and put in performances across both venues, playing alongside the likes of Damian Lazarus, Andrew Weatherall, Heidi, Paul Woolford, Riton, Green Velvet and many more.. Production was the next logical step so John experimented in the studio, gaining more studio knowledge and confidence John started his solo project Yankee Zulu, which leaned more towards his love of filthy jacking house sounds. After sending out demos a myspace friendship was struck up with label boss of Ananbatic Records, San Fran's Worthy. Since then John has been constantly releasing tracks on and helping with the Anabatic label. He also teams up with Worthy in the studio on a regular basis, together they crafted one of the biggest hits of this Summer, Concumbia which sat in the Beatport top ten for 4 months and remained strong in the top 100 for 7 months. With a new remix and EP due to drop on Anabatic in the coming months plus a wave of remixes for the likes of Rachel Barton from BBC Radio 1, Camel on Mowgli's deadly Deadfish label, Yankee Zulu is remaining strong in the game!

• http://www.myspace.com/yankeezulumusic
• http://www.myspace.com/coolkiddewey
• http://www.myspace.com/unterulmern

SuCasa (Xinedome)

Am Lederhof 1
89073 Ulm

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