Bumblebeez

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Dr Love 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love 00:00 Tools
Rio 00:00 Tools
Black Dirt 00:00 Tools
Radio Fabulous 00:00 Tools
Next To You 00:00 Tools
Clubb Clubb 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
In Your Brain 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Crookers Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Game 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass 00:00 Tools
Diamonds In The Sea 00:00 Tools
Freak Your Loneliness 00:00 Tools
My Girl 00:00 Tools
Crazy Tongue 00:00 Tools
Outro 00:00 Tools
Spaceships 00:00 Tools
Comin' For Ya 00:00 Tools
Pony Ride 00:00 Tools
Zulu 00:00 Tools
Pink Fairy Floss 00:00 Tools
Dr Love - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Step Back 00:00 Tools
Let's Go 00:00 Tools
I've Come With Water 00:00 Tools
Rio (Crookers Bang Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8-Bit Remix) 00:00 Tools
Get Dressed 00:00 Tools
Come Ova 00:00 Tools
Vila Attack 00:00 Tools
Bambino 00:00 Tools
Microphone Diseases 00:00 Tools
Rappa 00:00 Tools
Rio (Herve Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Crookers Remix) 00:00 Tools
Brooklyn 00:00 Tools
O U No 00:00 Tools
Vampires 00:00 Tools
Rio (Crookers Bang Mix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Trizzy's Free iPhone Mix) 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (Ed Rec Allstars Dirty Dirty Mix) 00:00 Tools
Fluffy White Rabbit 00:00 Tools
Summer Bum 00:00 Tools
Microphone Diseases (Alt Mix) 00:00 Tools
Ouno 00:00 Tools
Dr Love {Trizzy's Free ODB Remix} 00:00 Tools
Rodeo 00:00 Tools
Rio (Dub Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Etienne De Crecy Tech Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Jimmy2sox & U-GO-B Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Oh Bag Raider Rio!) 00:00 Tools
Misfit 00:00 Tools
Repeater 00:00 Tools
Fatt Sheriff 00:00 Tools
I Come With Water 00:00 Tools
I Don't Dance the Robot 00:00 Tools
Vila Attack (M83 Remix) 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane 00:00 Tools
RIO (Herve Mix) 00:00 Tools
Zulu (Radioclit Remix) 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (Ed Banger Remix) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Ride Some Horses 00:00 Tools
Intro Salute 00:00 Tools
Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Soft Tigers Pinto's RX7 Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Original) 00:00 Tools
Fever 00:00 Tools
Rodeo (Franz & Shape Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Elephant March 00:00 Tools
Freak Ya Loneliness - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
MONSTERS 00:00 Tools
Black Dirt - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Architecture In Helsinki Rework) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Etienne De Crecy Dub Remix) 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases 00:00 Tools
Get Dressed (Nighttime Mix) 00:00 Tools
Fuck Disco 00:00 Tools
Clubb Clubb - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Pump Up the Bass (Ed Rec All Stars Dirty Dirty Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rio - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Freak Ya Loneliness (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Drop The Bomb (Ed Rec Allstars Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rio Etienne DUB Remix MSTRD 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
Rio (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Cherish The Rhymes 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (DJ Mehdi & Busy P Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Crookers Bang Remix) [www.worldofhouse.es] 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Edu K Baile Funk Remix) 00:00 Tools
Zulu - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Spaceships - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Rio (Crookers Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dance Classic 00:00 Tools
Rio - Crookers Bang remix 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Trizzy's Free iPhone Mix) 00:00 Tools
Freak Ya 00:00 Tools
My Girl - Interlude Version 00:00 Tools
Zulu (Radioclit RMX) 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane - Jagwar Ma's love me remix 00:00 Tools
Rio - Dub Mix 00:00 Tools
Rio (Knife Machine vs. Gus Da Hoodrat Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Bumblebeez Theme Song 00:00 Tools
Black Dirt (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Zulu (BangGang Vs Knife Machine's JuJu Remix) 00:00 Tools
Monster Mash 00:00 Tools
Pony Ride (TV On The Radio remix) 00:00 Tools
Clubb Clubb (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases Alt. Mix featuring Vila 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8 Bit Rmx) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8-Bit Rmx 96k) MSTD 00:00 Tools
Spaceships (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Zulu (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
Drop The Bomb 00:00 Tools
Dr Love - Architecture In Helsinki Dr Hookah Mix 00:00 Tools
My Girl (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
RIO (Le Fritz Mix) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Trizzys Free iPhone Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio - Herve Remix 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (A-Trak Trizzys Free iPhone Remix) 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases (Ail Mix) 00:00 Tools
Billy The Kid 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez - RIO (Herve Mix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Next to you (feat. Maria) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Trizzy's Free ODB Remix) 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases (Alt. Mix) feat. Vila 00:00 Tools
Summer Bum - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Rainbows 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Ride Some Horses - NTEIBINT Remix 00:00 Tools
wabbit wabbit 00:00 Tools
DR Love - Trizzy's Free iPhone Mix 00:00 Tools
Come over 00:00 Tools
Dr.Love (A-Trak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr love ( TKNIK Remix ) 00:00 Tools
Monkey See, Monkey Do 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Architecture In Helsinki Remix) 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane - Jagwar Ma 00:00 Tools
Cowboy - Wordlife Remix 00:00 Tools
It's The Madness 00:00 Tools
Cowboy (wordlife remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love - Crookers Remix 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (DJ Mehdi & B 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez 81 - Pony Ride 00:00 Tools
rats and the year my voice broke 00:00 Tools
Zulu In My House Remix 00:00 Tools
Trouble In The City 00:00 Tools
bumblebeez - rio (crookers bang remix) 00:00 Tools
Pony Ride (Photek Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Interlude Version) 00:00 Tools
I Don't Dance The Robot 00:00 Tools
Big Pig 00:00 Tools
Just Let MeSleep (The Bear) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Architecture In Helsinki Dr Hookah Mix) 00:00 Tools
microphone diseases feat.vila 00:00 Tools
Jagwar Ma -Come save me-Bumblebeez Remix 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez - RIO (Crookers Bang Mix) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Ride Some Horses 00:00 Tools
drlove (Crookers remix) (Mehdi) 00:00 Tools
Rio ( Boy 8 Bit Remix) 00:00 Tools
Next To You feat. Maria 00:00 Tools
A Tiger Never Changes His Stripes 00:00 Tools
Penguins On Parade 00:00 Tools
Cows On The Moon 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane (Jono Ma's Love Me Remix) 00:00 Tools
bumblebeez - rio (herve remix) 00:00 Tools
2 Rodeo 00:00 Tools
The Bumblebeez - Rio (Boy 8-Bit Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8 Bit Remix) 00:00 Tools
Comin' fa Ya 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (Ed Rec All-Stars Mix ) 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases (Alt. Mix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
Rio - Single Version 00:00 Tools
Pony Ride (Mario Caldato Remix) 00:00 Tools
cant feel my face 00:00 Tools
Rapper 00:00 Tools
Swampbaby Stomp 00:00 Tools
I Don't Dance To The Robot (BBZ Pirate version) 00:00 Tools
Freak Your Lonliness 00:00 Tools
BUGS 00:00 Tools
Rio(Herve remix) 00:00 Tools
Pump Up The Bass (DJ Mehdi and Busy P Remix) 00:00 Tools
FEVER HALFINCH-M- 00:00 Tools
The Bike Song 00:00 Tools
Kangaroo Hip-Hop 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez - Dr. Love 00:00 Tools
Looking At Angels 00:00 Tools
Rio [Crookers Bang Remix] 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane - Jono Ma's Love Me Remix 00:00 Tools
untitled 00:00 Tools
Next To You (ft. Maria) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (OST Бабник) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Ride Some Horses (NTEIBINT Remix) 00:00 Tools
DUNO 00:00 Tools
Sweet Thang 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez - Rio 00:00 Tools
Rio (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Clubb Clubb [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
Phantom Cat And His Favourite Beat 00:00 Tools
The Immortal Penguin Song 00:00 Tools
Rappa - The Bumblebeez 00:00 Tools
ZULU (RACECAR REMIX) 00:00 Tools
14 rio 00:00 Tools
Summertime, Summertime 00:00 Tools
Play With Me (The Seal) 00:00 Tools
follow me 00:00 Tools
Black Dirt [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8-Bit Rmx) 00:00 Tools
DR LOVE TRIZZY'S REMIX 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love [Crookers Remix] 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Crookers Remix - Frederick Oliver's Sick Tune Up) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love - Soft Tigers Pinto's RX7 Mix 00:00 Tools
DR.LOVE (CROOKERS REMIX) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Hervé Remix) 00:00 Tools
handclaps and thundr 00:00 Tools
eclipse 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (A-Trak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Knife Machine vs Gus Da Hoodrat Remix) 00:00 Tools
Fly High (The Eagle) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Edu K Baile Funk RMX) 00:00 Tools
coming home pissed and tired 00:00 Tools
Lets Go Ride Some Horses - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane (Jagwar Ma's Remix) 00:00 Tools
Flying Down To Rio - Crookers Bang Remix 00:00 Tools
I Dot Dance To The Robot - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
bumblebeez - rio (original mix) 00:00 Tools
Only Space Knows 00:00 Tools
The Immortal Song 00:00 Tools
villa attack 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Architecture In Helsinki Dr. Hookah Mix) 00:00 Tools
Rio [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Trizzy's Free ODB Remix) (www.GRIZZLIS.lt) 00:00 Tools
Tableshopping 00:00 Tools
I Don't Dance To The Robot - BBZ Pirate Version 00:00 Tools
Betty Jane (Jagwar Ma's Love Me Remix) 00:00 Tools
No One Rampage 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases - Ail Mix 00:00 Tools
Going To St. Ives To Meet Jazz Wizard 00:00 Tools
light years away 00:00 Tools
I Don't Dance To The Robot - BBZ Pirate Version 00:00 Tools
Zulu (Bumblebeez In My House Remix) 00:00 Tools
15 pump up the bass 00:00 Tools
Track 1 00:00 Tools
Pony Ride - Mario Caldato Remix 00:00 Tools
drlove (Crookers remix) 00:00 Tools
Microphone Diseases ft.Vila 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (A-Trak Remix) 00:00 Tools
Ive Come With Water 00:00 Tools
05 dr love 00:00 Tools
Track 2 00:00 Tools
me and piano 00:00 Tools
Animals Are People Too 00:00 Tools
08 zulu 00:00 Tools
Spaceships [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Edu K Baile Funk Remix) 00:00 Tools
Zulu [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
My Girl [Interlude Version] 00:00 Tools
We Wish You A Merry Christmas 00:00 Tools
Rappa (Karuna Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Trizzy Remix) 00:00 Tools
MONSTERS HALFINCH-M- 00:00 Tools
Dr Love - Edu K Baile Funk RMX 00:00 Tools
Rappa (Bambino Big Dick Remix) 00:00 Tools
All I want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth 00:00 Tools
Waterfalls 00:00 Tools
6 Fatt Sheriff 00:00 Tools
Flying Down To Rio - Herve Remix 00:00 Tools
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Track 4 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Architecture In Helsinki rework) 00:00 Tools
Let's Go Ride Some Horses - NTEIBINT Remix 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (www.GRIZZLIS.lt) 00:00 Tools
Rio (Boy 8-Bit Rmx) - Exclusive & Unreleased 00:00 Tools
Go Fly a Kite 00:00 Tools
01 Intro 00:00 Tools
Flying Down To Rio 00:00 Tools
Ound 00:00 Tools
Next to you ft. Maria 00:00 Tools
Let Go 00:00 Tools
Dr Love [Crookers Remix] 00:00 Tools
Track 6 00:00 Tools
GOING TO ST IVES TO MEE THE JAZZ WIZARD 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (TKNIK Remix) 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez 00:00 Tools
Drop The Bomb (DJ MEHDI REMIX) 00:00 Tools
Switch me 00:00 Tools
Track 7 00:00 Tools
Fluffy Clouds Of Joy 00:00 Tools
Es K 00:00 Tools
Track 3 00:00 Tools
Mommy and Me 00:00 Tools
3 clubb clubb 00:00 Tools
Next you ft Maria 00:00 Tools
7 freak your loneliness 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (TKINK Remix) 00:00 Tools
09 in your brain 00:00 Tools
Coming Fa Ya 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Trizzy's Free iPhone Remix) 00:00 Tools
Bumblebeez - drlove (Crookers remix) (Mehdi) 00:00 Tools
only space knowssszzzzssszzz 00:00 Tools
Rio-Rio 00:00 Tools
03 clubb clubb 00:00 Tools
Get Dressed - Nighttime Mix 00:00 Tools
Sunny Day 00:00 Tools
SUCK(TOUCH) 00:00 Tools
Only An Hour 00:00 Tools
What Do Plants Know? 00:00 Tools
CHARLIES SHAKE DOWN COWBOI TEASE 1 00:00 Tools
06 Bumblebeez - Pump Up The Bass (Ed Banger Remix) 00:00 Tools
Gum 00:00 Tools
It's Raining 00:00 Tools
Microphonediseases [Alt Mix featuring Vila] 00:00 Tools
Freak Ya Loneliness 00:00 Tools
Dr.Love 00:00 Tools
Next to you ft Maria 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Trizzys Free iPhone M 00:00 Tools
Drop The Bomb (Ed Rec Allstars Remix) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love (Original) 00:00 Tools
Dr Love Trizzy's Free ODB Remix 00:00 Tools
CRAZY TOUNGE 00:00 Tools
Cowboy Song 00:00 Tools
RIO (Herve Mix) //NiceUp 2 00:00 Tools
Dr. Love (Crookers Remix - Frederick Oliver's Sick Tune Up) @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Pump the bass - Ed Rec All (Busy P & Dj Mehdi) star dirty mix 00:00 Tools
surfboard!! 00:00 Tools
Car Trip 00:00 Tools
Rio (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
Freak Ya Lonliness 00:00 Tools
UH-OH! 00:00 Tools
4 radio fabulous 00:00 Tools
Cool Science 00:00 Tools
Alphabet Soup 00:00 Tools
05-Rappa 00:00 Tools
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This is a press biography. It's supposed to tell you about a band: Bumblebeez. But which Bumblebeez? The cavalier beat-mongers from the Australian bush? The confrontational punks who supported Radiohead and royally pissed off their fans? The neon-flecked electro-rap outfit infiltrating clubland worldwide? Or the primal screamers behind breakbeat blues tracks like 'Black Dirt'? An intuitively eclectic outfit, and one whose personnel changes by the day - according to the whims and needs of chief Bumblebee, Chris Colonna - to try and pin down Bumblebeez, to sum them up in one bite-size sound-bite is to miss the point. Modern, contradictory, Bumblebeez are more a constantly mutating creative project than a band. As Colonna puts it: "We've never really known who the fuck we are." Now 25, Colonna has been making music forever. Growing up in Braidwood (pop. 1100), nr. Canberra, it was just one of the things that he and his mates would do, like playing soccer, riding motorbikes and generally wreaking havoc in the countryside. Out there, in the bush, Colonna wasn’t privy to the nuances of Australia's big city scenes, but he loved Nirvana and Public Enemy, Bumblebeez' debut album, 'Prince Umberto & The Sister Of Ill', tellingly ripe with fat beats and frazzled guitars. A one-time drummer in a local marching band, by his teens Colonna had set up a DIY studio, with a basic computer, "recording whoever was around", and sampling everything that moved - even the family's pigs. In Year 11, money being tight at home, he stole a guitar from his school's music room, which he still uses to this day: "A while back I told the music teacher. She was like, 'oh, don't worry about it'." However, it wasn't until Colonna left Braidwood to do an art degree at the Pratt Institute in New York - "From the age of 10 all I wanted to do was art. I've never had another job." - that his musical ambitions began to crystalise. In between matches with the college tennis team, he would suck up the local scene. He was listening to loads of hip-hop but, at the same time, felt liberated by the "dirty and raw, DIY revolution" going on in guitar music, led by The Strokes. He returned home in 2002: "I sat down and the whole time I'd been in New York just came out of me in two weeks. I wrote ten songs. That's when I had to give the Bumblebeez a name, although, to this day, I don't know where it fucking came from." Those early sessions laid down the Bumblebeez' modus operandi. "I come up with ideas, do all the writing and production," says Colonna, "but then it goes into a gang of people who're around the studio, mates and stuff. And if Pia [Colonna's sister, aka. MC Vila] is around, she'll rap on some tracks." Colonna describes his approach to recording as "one mic, one take". There is little repetition or fine-tuning: "That initial 'bang' is what I always wanted to capture. That spark. I've always liked things that feel like they could collapse at any moment. You can try too hard to make music perfect." This is partly a philosophy - "I quickly get bored of polished professional ," Colonna told one interviewer. "It always sounds the same and you know where it's going to go." - and partly a result of Colonna's notoriously short attention span. James Ford, the much sought-after producer of Klaxons and the Arctic Monkeys, who flew out to Braidwood to help Colonna sort his 300 demos (!) into the 'Prince Umberto...' album, says: "Chris is one of the most prolific people I've met. Ideas pour out of him. He's just too ADD to finish most of them off! Which is what we tried to do. It was an amazing experience. It was like reliving a teenage summer: recording drums in the kitchen, guitars in the sitting room, wandering around the bush, playing pool with the locals, them freaking me out with tales of poisonous spiders." If that sounds chaotic, it works. Almost immediately after putting together those post-New York demoes, Bumblebeez won two national Australian unsigned bands competitions: Unearthed on radio station Triple J and Fly TV's new talent search. Two self-released EPs, White Printz and Red Printz, were subsequently picked up by various labels worldwide - UK observers may remember the 2004 hit, 'Pony Ride' - before being released as an album by Geffen in the US. Suddenly, this "pretty fuckin' lo-fi bedroom thing" was getting major airtime on MTV, and Bumblebeez were being touted as "the indie Neptunes". The Sugababes and Peaches approached Bumblebeez about producing tracks for them. In the space of months, Colonna went from Braidwood to, standing backstage at a festival, being given a pep talk by Beck. Colonna, however, had no intention of allowing Bumblebeez to be rushed into the mainstream. Soon, they returned to Australia and consolidated their long-term relationship with that sympathetic cultivator of Aus-UK talent, Modular. The forthcoming 'Prince Umberto...' (the title a reference to a relation of Colonna’s, a 12th century Italian aristocratic who, "caused a lot of shit”) is the result of Colonna being allowed to follow his singular vision to its manic conclusion. From the innocent, effervescent indie-pop of 'Spaceships' through the churning, processed garage rock of 'Freak Ya Loneliness' - featuring mates Jarrah (guitars) and Gordon 'Harvey' Smiles (vocals) - to Pia's Uffie-like sex rhymes on electro stomper 'Clubb Clubb', it’s a riotous cavalcade of styles and sounds, like a harder, rockier Avalanches, with whom Colonna is good mates. Ear-twitching segues and interludes mean the listener is never given a second to take stock. It's like repeatedly randomly spinning a radio dial, fragments of Happy Mondays, Beasties, John Spencer, Salt-n-Peppa, Go! Team, Daft Punk, Primal Scream, exploding and disappearing in the FM ether. If that makes 'Prince Umberto...' sound like a party album, it is. But it has its dark moments too. 'My Girl' (a nightmare funfair version of Portishead, complete with the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Karen O, an old friend, crying on the outro) and 'Black Dirt' are like horrific, drug-induced panic attacks in the middle of all this drinking, dancing and grinding. Colonna's anguished vocal on the latter came about after days of mounting, unproductive tension, "where I wanted to burn down the studio.” However, he's loathe to explain any song in detail. "At art school, I'd do all the work, but I couldn't say shit about it. I couldn't ‘critique’ it. I couldn’t say it was about feminism or environmentalism; it just came out of me. I can analyse production techniques, but as for analysing songs, what they're about and what I was feeling... Sometimes they come from such a deep place that even I don't know where they've come from." He is much happier talking about the perfect Bumblebeez album: "Ideally, I'd like to make a really fucked up record that goes everywhere, but which still has a pop sensibility, like 'I Am Walrus' by The Beatles. It's crazy, but it's still got huge hooks." In 'Prince Umberto...' he may be closer to realising his vision than he knows. An irresistible, unstable broadside against complacent pop music, it plays self-assuredly with light and dark, noise and melody, the avant-garde and the retarded, all the while digging its brilliant, nagging hooks in. It is both "really fucked up" and "amazing pop". Tony Naylor Australia 2003 Read more on Last.fm. 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