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Feel the Funk with these Two New Tracks from Yeah Boy

Feel-good jams for your springtime house parties.

Before you take your disco nap and prepare to get your brain wires rearranged at the rave tonight, let's take a moment to enjoy some feel-good electro funk jams. Yeah Boy is the moniker of Johnny Castro, whom you may know from the dance-pop duo Parachute Youth—and today he's given us two unreleased jams that will scratch exactly that itch for you.

"Going solo for me was just a chance to do something different," says the Australian DJ and producer. "Yeah Boy to me is fun and not so serious—just a straight up party!"

On "Tell Me," he's serving electrified pop à la Justin Timberlake-meets-The Glitch Mob, while "Take it All" is a slow and sexy vocal house jam for fans of Disclosure, Rudimental, and Jessie Ware. Castro's big break arrived recently in the form a deal with dance music super-label Big Beat, who will be releasing is Can't Get Enough EP on May 6. The record's title track hit No. 1 in five countries, and the rest of the EP is here for you exclusively through THUMP.

"You can't keep creativity bottled up and only venture with one genre," he says of his recent transition to the new solo project. "I love writing music no matter what genre it is and I love performing it even more." Castro's fun-loving, funky flourish comes across loud and clear in the new three-track EP. Before his tracks reach the radio, he has to test his own dance moves out on them first: "If I'm feeling something is going well… I let it play on loop and have a good dance like no one else is in the room. If only there was a camera recording me!"

Yeah Boy's Can't Get Enough EP is out May 6 on Big Beat. You can pre-order it here.

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