Grum is the stagename for Scottish musician Graeme Shepherd.
He is a prolific remixer but 2010 saw the release of his first and so far only album, Heartbeats.
The minute I first heard "Through the Night" I knew it borrowed something from someone but I couldn't figure it out where until I shamefully had to google it and discovered it used part of the chorus melody from Toto's "We Can Make It Tonight", which I was into many years ago and loved.
The real highlight is the title song, this insanely catchy and simplistic dancefloor rave up where Grum remixes the chorus from Don Johnson's first foray into pop music for maximum ear pleasure. It is SO good. Grum's formula is taking the exact euphoric moment of an '80s soft rock song, even sometimes just a phrase or one word, and then adding a hardcore, hi-tech production to cushion it, and repeating it over and over. Off the top of my head, Adeyhawke has also done this well with "Groove". It works here too. Grum's songs are so cool, so giddy and well done you really can't help but shut up, smile and dance.
Oh, and the cover art was kinda cool too.
Grum accompanied Heartbeats with a ton of singles and remixes, but we haven't seen anything new from him since. Here's hoping we do.
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