James Yuill – Crying For Hollywood (Shir Khan remix) (ge.tt)

James Yuill – First In Line (Lissvik remix) (drop.io)

BONUS: The remix from Soil In The Synth.

James Yuill – First In Line (Your Twenties Story Of Life remix) (drop.io)

James Yuill – On Your Own (Disco Of Doom remix) (Sendspace)

James Yuill has finally finished his second Sample Me Up. Here is what he got to say about it:

“I hope that when people listen to the tracks they initially try to hear all the samples, but then get lost and just listen to it as a song rather than a collection of random sounds. The reason I started the Sample Me Up Project is because I wanted the people who listen to my music to get involved in helping me actually create new music. I know a lot of artists ask their fans to help with remixes and artwork. I actually thought it would be quite interesting to crowd source the actual music itself (albeit samples). So here we are!

Lastly, I’d like to say a big thank you to all the people that sent in samples for my project!”

The (2) tracks are called:

Sample Me Up 2 – The Smashed Bulb (Sendspace)

Sample Me Up 2 – UFO (Sendspace)

More info on each track after the jump:

Sample Me Up TRACK #1 – “The Smashed Bulb”

The Smashed Bulb was the first track I worked on. The main sample is Adam from Mississippi’s shattered bulb sample. As soon as I heard it I thought ‘Finally! Someone’s sent me a decent bass drum!’. I knew straight away it should be a grime/dance-hall track as the raw audio has a real modeselektor vibe.

The dog barking came from Megu in Japan along with a few other samples in this track (a microwave oven, and some street crossing noise). The main 80s riff in this track is made by taking the last bit from the Ooeeoowah sent in by Joe from London (he’s also known as Broadcast 2000) and whacking it in ableton’s Simpler.

There’s loads of other random stuff in here. For example a camera winding up on the off beat, which was sent in by Theresa from Germany.

Samples used for The Smashed Bulb (sendspace)

Shatteredbulb – Adam Ruhl, Mississippi, USA
Zipper – Fentiger, Cambridge, England
Balconytintable – Andreas Gustafsson, Gothenburg, Sweden
Mov00035 – Hendrik Schlimper, Hamburg, Germany
Doggy – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
James yuill sample brezn – Daniel Bruegge, Munich, Germany
Puredatamess – Patrick MCHugh, Donegal, Ireland
Bahbow – Hugh Miller, Tasmania, Australia
Horsey – Amul Batra, London, England
Microwave oven – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
Camera – Theresa Flenger, Regensburg, Germany
Doorstop – Josh Blalock, Texas, USA
Ooeeoowah – Joe Steer, London, England
Crossing – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
Sample me up rod – Rod Thomas, London, England
Ringalingaling – Mike Langeveld, Utrecht, Holland

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Sample Me Up TRACK #2 – “UFO”

The second track I did is UFO. It came about when I was sent the euphonium samples by Owain in Manchester. The main riff is his sample, but pitch shifted down a few octaves. As The Smashed Bulb has a kind of grime/dance-hall beat to it I decided to make this one straight up house.
Of course the bass drum is from Adam’s Shattered bulb sample, in fact the hi hat is a bit of the shattered glass from the resulting mess!
The pad was made from another euphonium sample from Owain. The little 80s sounding riff that appears near the end was made from a sample sent in for the last Sample Me Up by Aaron in Suffolk.
I used an analogue bass sound from Hugh in Tasmania, Australia to double up the main euphonium riff. Just to give the track a bit of low end and umph!

Samples used for UFO (sendspace)

High flutter motif2 – Owain Roberts, Manchester, England
Bahbow – Hugh Miller, Tasmania, Australia
Shatteredbulb – Adam Ruhl, Mississippi, USA
Puredatamess – Patrick McHugh, Donegal, Ireland
Mov00035 – Hendrik Schlimper, Hamburg, Germany
Insect – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
Shakyglass – Adam Ruhl, Mississippi, USA
Fluuernorm – Owain Roberts, Manchester, England
Zipper – Fentiger, Cambridge, England
Crossing – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
Microwave oven – Megu Hirokawa, Japan
Sound clip 05 – Aaron Coe, Suffolk, England

James Yuill is releasing the below Earth and Fire Versions of his “Turning Down Water for Air” album on September 22nd. He also wanted to let you know that he has started on his new project where he asks the public for 5 second audio samples that he then uses to make a track . The first version of “Sample Me Up” came out in August and now he is looking for new samples for “Sample Me Up 2″ . “They basically have to be recorded especially for the project…in a kind of Matthew Herbert style. so no programmed beats etc.”. Read more about the project here and check out his new Earth and Fire Versions of “Turning Down Water for Air” on September 22nd.

James Yuill – How Could I Lose (Fire Reversion) (direct link)

James Yuill has been one of our favourites since he entered and won our Roots Manuva remix competition last summer. We have since then featured him frequently here on the site. Now he is back with a new EP “Over The Hills” which will be out in stores in the US on June 16th. It has a remix by Swedish singstress Lisa Milberg from The Concretes so we just had to have this on the site.

“Over The Hills” is already out digitally on Moshi Moshi Records so go get it on iTunes

James Yuill – Over The Hills (Milberg Remix) (direct link)

The last twelve months have seen Londoner James Yuill make the journey from self-releasing records from his suburban bedroom studio to signing with Moshi Moshi Records, gigging everywhere from the Radio One Big Weekend to a beach in the Bahamas, and releasing his debut album “Turning Down Water For Air”. He also managed to squeeze in a Mixin’ It Up for us here at Discobelle.

“No Surprise” (a recent iTunes single of the week) originally comes in a choice of three flavours: the original album version, where James’s songwriting and electronic wizardry are in perfect balance or in brand new ‘Earth’ and ‘Fire’ versions where James takes the song for inspired diversions down acoustic and dancefloor routes respectively. But now we’ve got the acappella for you to play around with. The prize for the best remix is that it will released in some way by Moshi Moshi/James Yuill and the winner will also get the Moshi Moshi back catalogue and James Yuill goodies. Get cracking and send your remixes this way (end date is June 6th)!

James Yuill – No Surprise (accapella) (Sendspace)

PS. Those of you in Malmö tonight should go and check out James when he plays at Babel.

PS 2. New single “Over The Hills” will drop May 25th on Moshi Moshi.

James Yuill gives us his Christmas greeting. Enjoy.

James Yuill – Winter Wonderland (YSI)

James Yuill – Winter Wonderland (Sharebee)

Another sunday and another post on James Yuill, he’s remixed the track “Holy Pictures” from Belfast producer David Holmes and it’s turned into a sweet folktronica jam. The single is released tomorrow.

David Holmes – Holy Pictures (James Yuill remix) (YSI)

David Holmes – Holy Pictures (James Yuill remix) (Sharebee)