Aussie cats Yolanda Be Cool vs Dcup have stormed the UK charts claiming the no#1 spot with their track ‘We Speak No Americano’ this week.

As they are gearing up to play this years Parklife (September 25 – October 4) they are  offering an exclusive Yolanda Be Cool vs Dcup mix with a standard Parklife ticket purchase. Head here for the deets.

Groupie spoke to the boys back in April just as the track was starting to blow up locally.

Hey guys Groupie Magazine here, hope you’re well.

Hey Groupie. Yes …we are well. Summer just won’t go away so it’s hard to complain when you have to go for a swim each morning in the middle of April because the weather is too good not to. Makes it harder to work though…

Who is Yolanda Be Cool and what were you guys doing before you joined forces?

Yolanda Be Cool is comprised of Johnson Peterson, Sylvester Martinez and a plethora of cow bells. As the story goes …we met at the Peach Pit in Hollywood around the time of Brandon and Brenda and realised that Johnson’s love of hip hop, and Sylvester’s love of techno, could somehow work together.

How did you come up with the name Yolanda Be Cool?

Well …we threw a lot of things up against the wall and this one kinda stuck the most …not to mention Pulp Fiction is one of our all time favourite movies and the scene we reference is one of THE all time greatest scenes (in our opinion) …but ultimately it’s just quirky and a little weird,  like our music.

You must dig through a lot of weird foreign music to put together tracks like We No Speak Americano, where do you usually find your samples?

We try to search pretty hard but sometimes, we also just have ideas while driving or going through old records ..Americano came from Johnson’s girlfriend who suggested we sample it ..wait for the next collab with DCUP, points go to anyone that picks the sample 

This track is a bit of a break through, was there anything in particular you did differently when putting it together?

Welll, the funny thing is …both us and DCUP, whom we did the track with, have spent MUCH more time on other tracks, but this one kinda happened quite quickly …and if you listen to it, it’s actually really really simple …so maybe we need to spend less time on things. Hahaha.

When and where was the dance floor you dropped the track to and what was the reaction?

Hmm …good question. We sometimes give tracks to friends and let them play them …so I can’t remember when we first played it, but i do remember getting an email from a friend in Adelaide we gave it to and her saying that it was the biggest track of the night, so i guess that was a good start  . And that was the unmixed, unmastered version.

Do you listen to 98.5FM? Do you think we need more foreign music in Sydney? If you are lucky enough to catch the Macedonian program on Friday nights they sometimes play some wicked ethnic tunes. Here’s their program  http://www.2000fm.com/program_guide.htm

OK, nice. Will check …we love ethnic. We are, after all, from Cyprus and Israel 

Finally, do you have any Groupie experiences you can tell us? (doesn’t have to be one of ‘those’ experiences!)

It’s a great read…hahah. Well, we both have girlfriends so not really any of “those” kind of experiences but we were pretty stoked to play at The Laundry the other week before Solo and have people in the crowd screaming out to us to play villalobos for presidente…that was good enough for us 

By Lucas Yelland