ben sollee – wild world

we are about to change the look and the appearance of our site in the next 2 coming weeks, a lot of features where meant to go online with the last change, but where swept under the rug. so this is where we finally finish the job and we are back to posting all material thats relevant to us, instead of just music. so a couple of major changes on the way.

Eine sehr gute Sache und Palina macht mit. Freut mich sehr das so was entsteht. Superschöne Aktion. I like, a lot. Jacken und virtuelle Münzen bitte hierher (bitte die Seite anschauen, ist super schön gemacht, und mitmachen!).

engl readers ***this is a virtual campaign to raise money for jackets for the homeless in Berlin/ great idea, great design/ full support by all of us*** ps. one song comes to mind:

Hollywood, Mon Amour – This is Not America feat.Juliette Lewis

(original by Pat Metheny & David Bowie)

happening tomorrow night @ our club yip yab (plus got a new soundsystem). with my buddies georg and my passion. a great mixup of peoples that are deeply rooted in moombahton, african tunes, cumbia and the likes. for 2 years we talked about doing a proper tropical night. really looking fwd to it.

PS. be friend with us on facebook LOL ! that sentence is such a lie! no we need people to know about the place, cause even a lot of my friends do not know yet, that we run a club. And since we don’t want to do what every single club owner + promoter is doing right now, nameley spamming your asses with all their nonsense invites to shit no one wants to go to, we decided not to take that route.

Doing a facebook page with our flyer and a few pictures? YES! – Sending you a million invites a week? Definitely NOT.

So do us a favour and suggest our Club Page to a few people! FACEBOOK/YIPYAB

***i do not intend to use this blog as a tool for every party happening in our spot. it could be done, if done smart, but we are just catching up with the blogging game right now, after i took a 2 month break to renovate the club. so lets get the music part right first :) PS YUM YUM Top Tunes coming tomorrow

Can you spot the Ghost in the pic?… Finally, the brand new YUM YUM Top Tunes will be online this friday, and boy has it become a huge list- Plus 3 YUM YUM dates coming up this weekend, so you see me smiling aaand i am more or less finally back to blogging, the club took a huge chunk out of my time and on friday, we ll have a moombahton/kuduro/tropical bass music night with Passion & Georg Milz called “Malaria”. Pretty much looking fwd to hitting the decks. So enjoy the new tunes coming this week and see you in a few.

2 yum yum dates this weekend + me & schowi having a fun time this saturday. brand new soundsystem + new light system at yip yab, plus i am finally back to blogging and writing for this site and selecting music, i felt like being stranded on Arrakis!  top tunes are up next week and a few things that we forgot along the way. read below

this song jumps to mind

Handsome Boy Modeling School – The Truth

Life is full of beautiful things so you can enjoy every moment of it. This weekend we also have some colorful candies for you and yours cause YUM YUM parties are going down in Düsseldorf @ The Attic, Duisburg @ Highfive Club and Munich at our very own venue called Yip Yab (Thalkirchner Str. 2). Have a nice week and drop by once in a while.

the music

Shaolin Soul is dedicated to all the soulful music thats out there, that has been out there and stuff thats on the rise. Of cours its inspired by the Wu-Tang inspired 90ies compilations. Whether its all those many retro soul edits that are out there at present – a quick selection, all the modern day soul like jamie lidell, maverick sabre, ben l’oncle soul or mayer hawthorne, all that new age soul & beatmaking like electric wire hustle or anything Dilla infused, speaking of Dilla all that soulful hip hop out there, new and old, as well as all that erykah badu, angie stone neo soul, all those many reworks, edits and remixes that are out there.

The words used to describe music always sounds foolish and the words might be many but the sensation is one :)

Really hard to put into words – so i think Markis Mixtape called – “Love & Happines” is really a good signpost.

love & happiness mixed by marki

the Djs

5 friends of mine – instead of the 5 deadly venoms they are more like the  5 lovely fellas. what unites them is the humour.

- Marki – who is so not night life and a good soul on his path. this is his music. he is somehow, although the youngest of the 5, the moral compass of the lot.

- Jaws – my former dj partner, with whom i actually played in the very, very first liga. here is whi he is. musically, this man is so underrated, he pretty much started everything… no seriously, read yourself.

- Wunder or really holunder is of course a part of blumentopf, like many of my friends are, but he is quite special. i reckon him to be really, really good dj, without playing the average bla-bla. he has a great taste in music and that comes across every single time.

- Taran – a good youngster dj, who fits right in. mentally & spiritually. his first stepping stone on a long way, that has just started. watch out for him.

- Reineke – a friend of mine whom i often consider to be little brother besides my little brother. He runs the beautiful bklyn blog and like all our stuff, this all happened naturally and grew like a flower, instead of underlying a hype. He is there, cause its his music, but n the long run, we are aiming for a Bklyn Night or an opener. Good Life

Here is a variant poster for this month, hope you like the looks & sounds of it all

more to come

in the long run, we have no plans hahaha, no but seriously (not possible), starting in february we are gonna open up fridays, real early, like around 8pm not at 11, as usual. there is supposed to be a proper bar with even more drinks between 8-11, with a proper dj, and this is where for example the bklyn blog comes in. of course a free entry but djs with a mission, so that the older folks can get their dance on before 1am. and then at 11 or 12 the regular djs would step in and take over, so yo would have someone play from 8-11/12 and then someone from 11/12 til the early hours. the reasons for this might be many, but my primary reason is that i like to go out early and meet people, hear good music and get my groove on – and i absolutely despise having to wait for a club to pack up and for the dj to play his best tunes, real late at night. i want to have the option to go to a place and leave early and still get my groove on in a proper atmosphere.

i have been off the radar for a minute, building our own venue, i mean proper handywork and figuring out the feel of things, not too much the style at first, but the soul is something that eminates from within in my humble opinion, so i was worrying about the feel of things and i think i pointed it into the right direction, and now the ship sets sail, which means i have a lot of catching up to do on my very own website and thats why this is gonna be a long, long post. there are tons of sounds & tunes around me, so let me sum up a few for you which havent yet made it up on our website.

Glory - Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter

great little gem by jigga. soul samples + jigga = a win/win. Glory – Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter by Warhol2011

Great Lake Swimmers - Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)

a brandnew song by one of my favourite bands – the great lake swimmers. more G L Swimmers on chromemusic. Great Lake Swimmers – Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit) by nettwerkmusicgroup

Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Papa Chajes (Basement Freaks Remix)

nothing new if you are used to balkanstylee – just worth mentioning cause its got that bump

Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin' (Robin "T" Treier Mix)"

Robin, a good friend of the entire family and great mind when it comes to taste and style did his rework of this soul anthem, thats more like a oldies radio favourite these days. Robin gave it that essential spin. i like  Eddie Kendricks – “Keep On Truckin’ (Robin “T” Treier Mix)” by Robin “T” Treier

Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite - 'Light Up (The World)'

Any track with Ms dynamite on, will make it on this site, and this video here, produced by veteran shy fx, starts properly at 2:22 as soon as Ms D steps on the scene :) Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite – ‘Light Up (The World)’ from Denitsa Dimitrova on Vimeo.

Gnucci Banana - Famalam Jam

Schlachhof Boys just shared this, laughing my ass off. Modern day Stacy Q of Barcelona

The Dirty Honkers "Ginger Bread Man"

A Swing set, hailing from Berlin, Dirty Honkers by Name. good track

dirty_honkers -_ginger_bread_man

Rediscovered my love for Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Going Up The Country – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Messing With My Life Kopie

i feel like dancing, the 2 best Disco tunes at present need to be:

Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone – (Stern-Disco-Remix)

Changed & Disco Tech – Let Me Be Good (DiscoTech version)

Blumentopf exclusive & Jan Delay exclusive 

Our buddies Blumentopf were featured as an exclusive for xmas via catchafire (on their 4 track exclusives pack). the Rmx is totally FTW

Blumentopf – SoLala – CAF Excl.

Jan Delay & Samy Deluxe – Lucky Punch – CAF Excl.

new year, new style, new everything "Time in Mind" - the 2 Bears

Time-In-Mind – the 2 bears

Aroused by Tom Vek

Aroused Tom Vek

thats about it, i guess. i am off to watch this african sci-fi movie here. speak soon