Heya Hifi

FULL CATALOGUE

HEYA1201

TRACKLIST

A1. Blaze - My Beat (Sumo Rebounce)
B1. Blaze - My Beat (Sumo Dub)
B2. Ive Mendes - Natural High (Sumo Rebounce)

WHERE TO BUY

You can buy this release at your local, sorted record shop. Or right here right now, as high quality MP3/WAV-files via this link:
www.beatport.com

Other digital partners are:
www.itunes.com
www.dancetracksdigital.com
www.traxsource.com

RESPONSES

Dimitri frim Paris:
”It's great, I like it! Good work guys.”

Martin Solveig:
”Fresh African version of this classic. I like it. Keep on cooking.”

Spiritual South:
”Love this remix, Mats gave me a copy a while ago and I have been slammin this latin bomb all over the the planet. Serious remix pressure – muchos gracias. Love the beats tool as well!!

Claude Monnet:
”What a first release!! Congratulatiosn!! But you will have a big pressure for the second one!! I will chart it and play it for sure. If you stay on this way of production for the next 3 years you’ll get one of the best labels in Europe.”

Ted Patterson:
”…as we get hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. love it!”

Rainer Trüby:
”Thanks for the Blaze remix, heavy duty! Great stuff!”

Download all responses here

STORY OF THE TRACKS

The original of “Natural High”, a beautiful downtempo latin song, was sent to the Sumo-guys by Gavin Smith, then at Mr Bongo. While they were time-stretching the sound files as much as possible, they found among the guitar files this really catchy afro hook. It’s not in the original as the guitar player was just fooling around, but they decided to build the whole remix around it.

You can say this was the first track that Sumo made with afro flavoured beats. And a lot of people liked it. Some people liked it so much they borrowed two bars from it! Anyway, this song made Sumo a name to those djs outside th ehouse-circus. For example, Dimitri from Paris included it on his Defected compilation.

Two years later when Christian Larsson at Slip’n’Slide heard Sumo remix of “Spirit of drums”, another job they did for Gavin Smith, he picked up the phone and ordered a rebounce of Blaze’s classic “My Beat”. The idea of the rebounce was perfectly clear from the start – a “beat work out”. Palmer Brown’s preaching lyrics should be taken seriously, no doubt.

Starting out with the arrangement, Sumo's favourite percussionist Thomas Eby played an imprted role working out the different rhythm breakdowns. When the foundation of beats and bass was layed down it was time to add the afro flavours, the species, the things that make a rebounce a rebounce and not a remix. Starting out with the horns, Combo recorded 23 sax-riffs while was out for lunch. Picking the right one was not as easy as picking a guitar player. The talented Andreas Öberg, who is a regular musician at Heya Studios, spen less than 20 minutes on the song, and almost everything recorded is to be found on either of the versions.

So here we are with two gems taken from Sumo's remix album “Rebounces”. Hope you’ll like them.