Design: Oliver Cartwright

This month’s track is the release of the premiere single from my Gas Galaxy album. It is called Hypetronic and was co-produced by Chapter 7 and myself. Chapter 7 on the mix as well. My Cubic Zirconia family released this maxi-single style EP on their imprint, Don’t Cry Recordings which features an exclusive remix by Lunice (LuckyMe/Mad Decent) including instrumentals. Do yourself a favor and check out Lunice if you’ve never heard his music.

I think it’s awesome to be able to do this and ultimately one of the creative and cool things I’ve been wanting to do with this project and these songs including remixes, video’s etc. that are coming soon!!

Listen to a preview of Hypetronic, the remix, and instrumentals below and purchase it on iTunes today.

CLICK HERE to purchase Hypetronic on iTunes!!!

Tracklisting-
1. Hypetronic- original (prod. yak ballz & chapter 7)
2. Hypetronic- lunice remix
3. Hypetronic- original instrumental
4. Hypetronic- lunice remix instrumental

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*If you are a label rep, have a serious business inquiry, publishing company interested in officially releasing or licensing music from this project, or just want to drop a line and tell us how awesome you think this is, please email contact@yakballz.net

visit Chapter7 at basementpenthouse.com and visit Oliver Cartwright at olivercartwright.com.

Hook Goes to Cali by tastenyc

Nick Hook exclusive mix for Taste fam. perfect for the beginning of summer. enjoy the ride.

check out the homie on the following dates in LA this week.

6.22.11 – Weds -The Airliner – Low End Theory
6.23.11 – Thurs – La Cita – Dance Right
6.25.11 – Sat – Shortstop
6.26.11 – Sun – TBD

filmed by Todd Westphal

“Fly Tonight” (produced by Chapter 7) by Yak Ballz, from the upcoming Gas Galaxy LP, for CMJ 2010 music marathon at Hall of Music in Williamsburg with Daud Sturdivant (percussion) and Nick Hook (DJ/synths) of Cubic Zirconia.

tell a friend, spread the word, and subscribe to YakBallzTV on YouTube HERE

Wednesday, 10/20, Accompanied by Nick Hook, I will be playing a CMJ show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn with Head Automatica, Innerpartsystem, and Neon Hitch.  This will be the first Yak Ballz show in a year since I’ve been working on my new album, Gas Galaxy, and debuting some never before heard tracks from it.

For advance tickets please visit http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004545FD8A7FCE

After the party is the afterparty…DON’T CRY RECORDINGS presents DON’T CRY CMJ, also the official Head Automatica afterparty at Gallery Bar on Orchard st.  FREE of charge and a killer line up.  Don’t miss it!!

Hit up the Facebook event page HERE

Yesterday hit up the brand new Black & Blue Studios for a meeting of the minds with my Don’t Cry Recs family, Nick Hook and Tiombe Lockhart of Cubic Zirconia, the gawd-ess Jess Jubilee and the OG DPalumbo. Had a listening session of new Gas Galaxy tracks and the upcoming debut Cubic Zirconia LP. Margaritas and thangs ensued. As you can see the view is spectacular.

Nick Hook deep in the space pit. Trading plugins, beats banging, and picking prospects for new material….we went in.

This place is crawling with analog synths and drum machines i.e. heaven. This is home to a chosen few and the undeniable source of a lot of incredible music you will be hearing in the future for sure. very exciting shit. get into it.

This post is so overdue but the timing may be impeccable as we pony up for the release of an epic YB x WM collaboration with Adam R. Garcia aka The Pressure. Sometime next week, myself, Weathermen and Adam are going to bring a new WM T-Shirt design as part of the ongoing T-shirt series we have been doing with renown artists for the last couple of years, available on shopshogun.com. So far we have had the likes of Alex Pardee, Jeremy Fish, Ewok One 5MH and Travis Millard, all of who’s designs were smashing successes online and on tour. Enter Adam R. Garcia, former Art Director at Rhymesayers Entertainment and now a graphic designer for Nike. Adams’s work spans from magazine covers to posters to CD packaging and more. Some of which you may or may not have seen but if there is one thing for sure, the man deserves his props.

I met Adam through Nick Hook of Cubic Zirconia, who suggested I hit him for some design-work around 2 years ago. We started small and continued to work together on several bigger projects including the cover for my upcoming project (yes I’m still working on this night and day) Gas Galaxy, the header for yakballz.net, and the Yak Ballz logo you might be familiar with (hint: it’s everywhere on this site). Extremely versatile in his design style, Adam draws inspiration from so many things that his actual creative process itself is just as mind-blowing as the execution of his finished product. Nick and I were talking him up recently and we agreed on three words that sum up this whole post, “he gets it.”

Now it’s time for you to get what we’re talking about when it comes to THE PRESSURE. why? because it’s good for you. Visit Adam at http://www.thepressure.org immediately, follow his twitter feed, and stay tuned for his exclusive Weathermen T-shirt design coming soon!!!

my good friends Cubic Zirconia dropped this single yesterday and the video today. such a banger.

cop the single on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/josephine/id349928933.

more from the night in the FLICKR set HERE