Grum

Graeme Shepherd (born 7 May 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland), better known by his stage name Grum, is a Scottish electronic musician and producer.

This article is about the musician. For the botnet, see Grum botnet.

Grum
Grum pictured in Hyde Park, London, February 2013
Background information
Birth nameGraeme Shepherd
Born (1986-05-02) 2 May 1986
Glasgow, Scotland
GenresHouse, progressive house, tech house, trance, synthwave (earlier work)
Occupation(s)Musician, producer, disc jockey
Years active2007–present
LabelsHeartbeats, Anjunabeats, Trice Recordings/Armada, Spinnin, Ultra Records, Zerothree, Ministry Of Sound, Deep State
Websitegrum.tv

Career

Grum's debut album, Heartbeats, was released on 17 May 2010.[1] It has been compared to Daft Punk's Discovery and Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll.[2] The album went to number 1 in the US iTunes Electronic Dance Charts, and at the end of 2010 he was named 'Best Electronic Artist of the year' by UK iTunes.[3] The song "Turn It Up" was picked as single of the week by iTunes.[4] Grum's single "Heartbeats" was featured in two video games: 2010's The Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff Pack and Saints Row: The Third in 2011.[5]

Grum's first two music videos from Heartbeats, "Can't Shake This Feeling" and "Through The Night", were shot in Los Angeles and directed by The General Assembly.

By the end of 2012 Grum had played the Creamfields mainstage with Tiesto,[6] the mainstage at Ultra w/ Fatboy Slim and Above & Beyond[7] and Electric Daisy Carnival,[8] as well as playing sets ranging from VICE Magazine gigs in New York to sell out dates in Paris, Barcelona, Australia and Brazil amongst others.[9]

In 2013, Grum released "Everytime", the debut single from his second album Human Touch.[10] It was released on 13 May 2013.[11] He then released "The Theme" which was one of Annie Mac (BBCR1) 'Singles of 2013',[12] and 'Electro Single Of The Month' in Mixmag.[13] His third single "In Love" was released in January 2014 and reached number 35 in the Beatport Top 100[14] and number 8 in the Beatport Progressive House Chart[15] as well as number 3 in the DMC World Buzz Chart.[16] A fourth single "Tears" which reached number 2 in the DMC World Buzz Charts[17] number 9 in the Cool Cuts Charts[18] and was released on 14 April on Armada Music sub-label Trice Recordings. In May 2014 Grum completed his first 'Essential Mix' for Radio 1 [19] to critical acclaim [20] and toured alongside Fehrplay in the United States.[21]

Human Touch, was originally due to be released in October 2013, but was delayed until April 2014.[22] It was subsequently pushed back again to 2015.[23] Additional singles from the album include "The Touch", "Raindrops", and "Sunday Blue Sky". As of 2018, Human Touch remains unreleased.

In 2015, Grum began releasing his music on London-based electronic label Anjunabeats; first, his Trine EP, then the singles "Something About You" and "First Contact".

His singles "Shout" and "Under Your Skin" charted at number one in the Beatport Progressive and Trance Charts. To date, Grum has six tracks in the Beatport Top Ten and 31 releases in the Beatport Top 100.

Grum was set to release Deep State on Anjunabeats in 2018.[24] The album's first single, "Never Have to Be Alone", had already been released in September 2018,[25] but the album release was postponed[26] until November 2019.[27]

In early 2020, Grum announced the launch of his own record label, titled Deep State Recordings, after his album of the same name.[28]

Discography

Studio albums
  • Heartbeats (2010)
  • Deep State (2019)[29]
  • Heartbeats : Ten (2020)

Extended plays
  • Trine (2015)

Singles
  • "Runaway" (2009)
  • "Sound Reaction" (2009)
  • "Heartbeats" (2009)
  • "Can't Shake This Feeling" (2010)
  • "Power" (2010)
  • "Through The Night" (2010)
  • "Everytime" (2013)
  • "The Theme" (2013)
  • "In Love" (2014)
  • "Tears" (2014)
  • "Raindrop" (2014)
  • "Sunday Blue Sky" (2015)
  • "Straight To Your Heart" (2015)
  • "First Contact" (2015)
  • "Something About You" (2015)
  • "Under Your Skin" (featuring Rothchild) (2016)
  • "Drifting Away" (2016)
  • "SOS" (featuring ilan Bluestone) (2016)
  • "You'll Know" (2016)
  • "Shout" (2017)
  • "Réflection" (2017)
  • "Shooting Star" (featuring Kevin McKay) (2017)
  • "Shining" (2017)
  • "Dark Train" (featuring Kevin McKay) (2017)
  • "Price Of Love" (2017)
  • "The Love You Feel" (featuring Josep) (2017)
  • "Hourglass" (2018)
  • "Mirage" (2018)
  • "Spirit" (with Fehrplay) (2018)[30]
  • "Never Have to Be Alone"[25]
  • "Stay" (featuring Natalie Shay) (2019)[31]
  • "Tomorrow" (featuring Dom Youdan) (2019)[32]

Remixes

References
  1. Diver, Mike. "Grum Heartbeats Review". BBC. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. "Grum - Heartbeats Album Review". 17 May 2010.
  3. "Gruum". Contactmusic.com.
  4. "iTunes". Facebook.com.
  5. TheiTzClan123 (29 December 2011). "Grum Heartbeats: Saints Row The Third" – via YouTube.
  6. Gregory, Jason. "Grum, David E Sugar Join Creamfields Line-Up - Gigwise". gigwise.com.
  7. "Digitalsocialsound.com". Digitalsocialsound.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Idio - Artificial Intelligence for Customer Experience". Idio.
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "Everytime (Remixes) - EP by Grum on Apple Music". itunes.apple.com.
  12. "The Best of 2013..., Annie Mac's Friday Night - BBC Radio 1". BBC.
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. G R U M [@grummmusic] (1 March 2014). "With IN LOVE sitting pretty at number 35 in the @Beatport overall top 100, here is my top 10 chart for this..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. Armada Trice [@ArmadaTrice] (24 February 2014). "2 tracks in the Top 10 @grummmusic - 'In Love' and @alexguesta feat. @theRykka - 'Never Fade',thanks for the support!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. "Grum - Shining - Anjunabeats - DMC World Magazine". 20 July 2017.
  17. "Buzz Chart - Day & Night - DMC World Magazine". 14 February 2014.
  18. "DJ RICO MIXSHOW - Cool Cuts Chart: 03/03/14 - Powered by XMB 1.9.11". Djricomixshow.com.
  19. GRUM (22 September 2014). "Grum Essential Mix - 25th May 2014 - High Quality Audio". YouTube.
  20. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. "Fehrplay & Grum Tickets - The Exchange L.A. on July 26 2014 in Los Angeles - See Tickets". Flavorus.com.
  22. Dimperio, Allegra (8 April 2014). "Grum returns to the long play with long awaited 'Human Touch'". Dancing Astronaut.
  23. Rafter, Andrew (5 March 2015). "Grum's "Sunday Blue Sky"". HarderBloggerFaster.
  24. Frometa, RJ (20 September 2018). "Anjunabeats Reveals Grum's New Album "Deep State"". Vents Magazine. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  25. "Never Have to Be Alone - Single by Grum on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  26. Ng, Kevin. "GRUM's 'DEEP STATE' Album is Delayed", EDMTunes, 29 November 2018.
  27. Graeme Shepherd [@grummusic] (10 September 2019). "I'm happy to finally announce that Deep State is back, and will be released November 8th on Anjunabeats" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  28. Kassam, Alshaan (3 January 2020). "Grum kickstarts 2020 with launch of 'Deep State Recordings' label". We Rave You. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  29. "Deep State by Grum on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  30. Bein, Kat (28 June 2018). "Grum & Fehrplay Tap '90s Trance for 'Spirit': Exclusive". Billboard. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  31. Paterson, Angus (12 September 2019). "Stay". DJ Mag. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  32. "Tomorrow". Rate Your Music. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  33. "Radical (Remixes) [feat. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs] - EP by Amtrac on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  34. "LazersX999 (Grum Remix) - Single by HI-Lo & Chocolate Puma on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  35. "Is It Love (1001) [Grum Remix] - Single by Above & Beyond on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
  36. "20 Years [Forward Ever Backward Never] by Cosmic Gate on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  37. "Colombian Soul (Grum Remix) - Single by D.Ramirez & Mark Knight on Apple Music". iTunes Store. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  38. "Rocket by Goldfrapp on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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