Yolanda Be Cool recently hit the big time when their single ‘We No Speak Americano’, previously released on their own Sweat It Out imprint, reached number one in more than 10 countries. We caught up with the Australian duo ahead of their appearance at our 13th birthday party…
We’re really excited that you’ll be playing at our 13th birthday party. We think it’s a pretty special line-up, including some of our favourite artists. Can we expect any special birthday surprises (musical or otherwise!) from yourself?
Hey, yes we are really excited to be coming to play… in Australia it’s almost a festival line-up. In terms of surprises I guess it wouldn’t be a surprise if we told you but musically we will definitely have some new stuff so unless someone has hacked our computer beforehand that should be a surprise!
It’s your birthday party. Who would be playing?
Would probably like to have 3 rooms, one hip hop and one house and then maybe a performance room. So for the hip hop room, basically all the legends, dead or alive. Biggie would obviously close that room. In the house room, couldn’t really go past Ricardo Villalobos as headliner there and then in the performance room Jim Morrison would be reciting poetry and wailing around.
Money no object… what would you ask for?
Well we were just lucky enough to have a day off in Tenerife and got to have one hour just to ourselves in the world’s largest wavepool. Apparently it cost 45 million so would be pretty keen to have one of those in the back yard.
Favourite party game?
Would have to be spin the bottle.
How old were you when you starting producing / DJing?
10 years younger than we are now…
What is next for Yolanda Be Cool?
Well, we are on an extended tour round Europe at the moment which is taking up a lot of our time but we have some really cool collabs planned for while we are over here. We are also working on a follow up to ’We No Speak Americano’ with our main man DCUP and a solo EP for our label Sweat It Out which will be a little weirder perhaps than the collabs. Also heading off to Brazil and Latin America in October so definitely working on the frequent flyers.
Where will you be in 13 years time?
Hopefully still doing what we love and loving doing that. Whether that means hanging out with kids in clubs or our own kids??? We guess time will tell.
In 13 years time apart from your relatives, do you think anyone else will know who you are?!
Hopefully our friends will ahahah. If u mean as artists, not sure. Hopefully people will remember our music in some way, if only because they hooked up with their first girlfriend or something while we were playing.
What’s your most vivid teenage memory?
Definitely the peach pit.
Any final words for wisdom for us as we become a teenager?
Stay in school.
Thanks very much. See you September 4th!
Thanks for asking us to your party… we are tres excited.