They were not born under the same star or the same year but still everything predestined David Leloup and Fabrice Hubert to meet at some point. While one was attending pop classes in Leeds, the other was on keyboards for Tahiti 80 until this rainy day of 1998 when the sky above Rouen, usually so grey, turned a very unexplained colour as an announcement for YE-YE. These Yé-Yé have nothing to do with their 60s homonyms except a declared passion for pop melodies, cult/kitsch films, contemporary art, vintage synths and today's electro via the Manchester and baggy scene...
Some extreme mixture from which derives a a saving combination which had been maturing for a couple of years inside the 2 brains. This spirited fiddling duo strikes hard in 2001 with the musical creation of a show for contemporary dance company " Etant Donnés ". Some months later, they become exhibition organizers for " the pop years " in Beaubourg and work on the soundtrack to illustrate this exhibition. Yé-Yé keeps going and work on their coming album which gets pre-release extracts on different compilations " Made in Normandie ", " The French electro genius ", " So frenchy so chic " or " Paris the girl " recently distributed in Japan. Dec. 2003 brings at last the release of " TWO BRAINS FOR FEET ", extra-terrestrial album with mutant sonorities. Yé-Yé go their way without caring about anachronisms \ complete figures of style by mixing genres and colours \ completes both a dense and efficient album, subtle and pertinent, allying pop and electro, mixed by Tony Lash (Dandy Warhols, Eric Matthiews, Tahiti 80).
11 potential single tracks like " Bachelor party " of which the recurrent theme was borrowed from Jimmy Bo Horne's " Spank " and which is perfect for all the kings of the dancefloor. A hint at the soundtracks kings of the 60s/70s is assured by " Burt Taylor " and " Dancing stubing ", 2 tributes to the greatest hours of these days' TV series and movies. Two instrumentals worth featuring on a contemporary version of " Bullit "... Yé-Yé love encounters! Timeless and magical ? Beautiful and friendly ? Singular and rejoicing ? The one with Shivika Asthana (Papa's Fritas), elegant and refined, on the very popy " Eurostar " and this other one " Strong enough " which could its masculine version with Mouloud on vocals. Also, " The end of the beginning " played in double with friends of Tahiti 80 or this 60s sugary gem brought by Noémie's (Zimpala) sensitivity on " We've climbed mountains ". " Two brains for feet ", is nostalgic reverie about long time holidays on the coast of Normandy and this wave of pleasure named " A summer in Saint-Valéry " \ a memorable encounter at the dancing baptised " Ma tendre amie " \ and on " yé-yé style ", this electro-kitsch exercise as a trade mark summing it all up. Finally, " Extra ball " grants an extra listen just for the sake of it without making your brain work... yé-yé is all of this and much more on stage where the pictures top up the sound.
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