Yamamoto, Summer Songs For Winter People

About five years ago, a couple of friends from Tijuana gave me this cutesy folk pop demo that made me smile and sigh every time I listened to it.

Back then, I was very upset about the incipient and so-called "indie music industry" that was going on in my country; actually, scratch that: I still am.

Either way, Mario & Brenda, better known as Yamamoto in Mexico, as well as Nuuro, are pretty much the main reason I started this netlabel (or blog, how you guys prefer to call it) and later decided to sustain my passion for unreleased music, even today, five years later.

So here we are, altogether again, thanks to wonderful sweet music.

You write the review through our comments, I just wanted to drop a line after so many months of rude silence.

Happy 2010 everybody!

Best wishes, enjoy.


The Poni Republic

// YAMAMOTO / SUMMER SONGS FOR WINTER PEOPLE //
01 - Tiny Lights DOWNLOAD
02 - Sound Asleep DOWNLOAD
03 - Slide DOWNLOAD
04 - Race Car DOWNLOAD
05 - Since You Went Away DOWNLOAD
06 - Life Like Math DOWNLOAD
07 - Rolling Down The Hill DOWNLOAD

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Yamamoto are... Mario Supereit: vocals, guitars, programming, bass, Moog & Casiotones. Brenda J. : vocals, melodica, glockenspiel, harmonica & shakers. All lyrics and music by Mario Supereit & Brenda J. Recorded and mixed by Mario Supereit between 2006-2009 at Diez y Nueve. Tijuana, Mexico. Art work by Nicolás Pradilla. Contact: myspace.com/yamamoto

Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License. The Poni Republic, 2010.

Hey Chica! Do You Really Believe...?

"Aunque en esencia se trata de música pop frágil que aborda la muy personal historia de Jeka y Kiwi a través de canciones tan enternecedoras como entrañables, en Do You Really Believe...? Hey Chica! consigue dejar claro que –quizá puedan pecar de ser sentimentales a la hora de escribir sus letras, pero– al menos la parte musical del proyecto, no sólo es para chicas. Y es aquí donde comienza lo interesante, pues el resto de la banda está compuesta por chicos oriundos de la escena hardcore punk y garage de Guadalajara, por lo que la música más pop y girly que estos llegan a escuchar sin hacer muecas, justo es la de Hey Chica! Una que a modo de exquisito placer culpable, también consiguió inmiscuirse favorablemente entre las manos de gente como Fax, Childs y Loopdrop."

http://www.brillo-monthly.com

// Do You Really Believe? EP //

1.- Mouse and Mars
2.- Roy
3.- Issues
4.- Time Machine
5.- Curse the Space

// Remixes //

6.- Hey Chica! - Issues (Bi-Log Remake)
7.- Hey Chica! - Issues (Rifhes Remix)
8.- Hey Chica! - Issues (pepepe Rave Remix)


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All songs written and performed by Hey Chica! (Jeka, Kiwi, Jesús Neri and Ricardo Barona) during 2006-2008. Guadalajara, MX. Recorded by Paúl Marrón, Lost Martínez & el Chino. Tracks 3 & 5 Mixed by Paúl Marrón. Tracks 1, 2 & 4 Mixed by Diego Martínez. Programming on track 2 by René Soberanis. Drums on track 4 by Carmen. Mastered by Rubén Tamayo at Facsimil. Illustrations by Gabriel Ramos Romo & Ligs. Graphic design by Jesica Gamboa. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License. The Poni Republic / Happy Garlic, 2009.