<p>Dutch groove-explorers <strong>YĪN YĪN</strong> are bringing disco, funk, psychedelia and dance to <strong>Wellington’s San Fran Friday 27 November</strong> and<strong> Auckland’s</strong> <strong>Tuning Fork </strong>on<strong> Saturday 28 November. </strong></p><p>Made up of<strong> Erik Bandt</strong> on guitar, <strong>Kees Berkers</strong> on drums, <strong>Jerôme Schere </strong>on keyboards and<strong> Remy Scheren</strong> on bass, YĪN YĪN are the kaleidoscopic instrumental quartet from Maastricht, Netherlands, renowned for their genre-bending records and transportive live experience. </p><p>Emerging out of an experimental jam session in a remote ballet school village in 2017 that resulted in the making of their debut album <strong><em>The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers, </em></strong>the band have since created another three critically acclaimed albums and spent the better part of the last decade chasing rhythm across continents. </p><p>With relentless international touring and performing everywhere from<strong> Fuji Rock Festival</strong> and<strong> Lowlands</strong> to<strong> North Sea Jazz Festival </strong>and <strong>Clockenflap</strong> they have been collecting sounds, textures and musical flavours like souvenirs, drawing from a multitude of influences such as ‘70s Thai Funk, Japanese City Pop and crate-dug global disco. Each project has evolved alongside the eager exploration to immerse their worldly experience into a sonic universe of their own.</p><p>Their latest of which,<strong><em>Yatta!</em></strong>, arrived in January 2026. A defining influence on <em>Yatta!</em> Is the cosmic allure of Italo Disco - the psychedelic futuristic dance music that emerged in Italy during the late 1970s and flourished throughout the 80s. <em>“It has something of a mystique,”</em> the band explains. </p><p><em>“Because all the producers were using ne