Yam Yam have brought together a wealth of African influences to their music - blending afro guitar hooks, dance floor friendly breaks and percussion. From Angola to Zimbabwe, Yam Yam's lexicon of African influences spans the mighty continent. Other musical influences are drawn from a diversity of styles from dance to electronica and post punk to dub reggae.

Yam Yam are Rick Turner and Guy Morley. Though currently residing in Vienna and Brighton they met on the Manchester music scene of the early 90s. Guy was one of Manchester’s most esteemed DJs spinning tropical funk in influential clubs alongside Gilles Peterson and Norman Jay. He was also a resident DJ with Mr Scruff at the leading One Tree Island club. Rick Turner cut his Afro teeth as guitarist and band leader for Nigerian master drummer Thomas Odeuso. He was also the engineer behind maverick ‘World Dub' pioneers Suns Of Arqa - who influenced contemporary musicians from Adrian Sherwood’s ON-U Sound to the Orb.

Until now Yam Yam’s recording output has been mostly U.S. based. New York’s influential Codek records picked them up for a number of releases. Based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Codek were part of the pre-Giuliani party scene hosting world clubs under their Organic Grooves banner. Yam Yam played at parties on the Hudson River and Bowery Ballroom.

Can Yam Yam do the same for the post-dance post-rave generation? Here's the album EATDUBAFROBEAT - make up your own mind…