Soko released another beautiful gem from her forthcoming album ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ which is gonna be released on February 20th. Enjoy

Soko – First Love Never Die

Soko came up with a new video a few days ago, promoting her upcoming album ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ which is gonna be released February 20st, 2012. It’s her first album and i’m really looking forward to it.

Soko – I Thought I Was An Alien

This beautiful song is from her first EP called ‘Not Sokute’

Soko – The Dandy Cowboy

Soko on chromemusic

Introducing Childish Gambino would be very late, but although there is this thing called internet, there is almost no one in germany that plays this guys music, writes about it or even knows about him. There are certain reasons for that: # 1 his music is a bit hard to grasp at first, cause its something that me and my brother started calling ironic music some time ago, and its not even ironic its just that everything else is so bad that it feels like irony (when you are) making good music and being on point, when the biggest shit is david guetta. There is an undeniable certain pop culture zeitgeist about all of this and CGs music, probably derived from the modern internet lingo and modern well written faced-paced tv shows and the way the web rewired our brains. Even his name derrives from the online Wu-Tang Clan name generator . Trying to further describe his music would end up being just another chain of dreadful & meaningless adjectives. Let me just say its very post-hipster (lol).

Reason # 2 is there is a langual barrier, no matter how big the internet penetration is these days (there is a huge difference between written and spoken language), to grasp that humour and wordplay, and if you get it you might call it white boyish cause you have been conditioned for too long with “real” hiphop and the stereotype of how its supposed to sound. reason # 3 – childish gambino is donald glover, a witty and famous US comedian & script writer that plays Troy on Community, one of the funniest tv shows in recent years. The loveable characters Troy & Abed on this show have solely been responsible for a few net memes and a couple of über hilarious scenes. These are some highlights from season 1 (2009).

All that adds up to donald glover being a prominent person in the public eye which puts him more in the focus than the next guy doing the same music which even if a lot of people will disagree needs to be said when introducing him to an audience that has never heard of either him or his tv shows. Exceptionally, donald has for the last few years been constantly releasing his music online for free while staying busy playing Troy on Community or even receiving awards as the scriptwriter for (my former personal favourite) the Daily Show or for 30 rock, another one of these new fast paced comedy shows, that is not being aired over here or has even the slightest chance of being funny once its translated (lucky you in the Uk & Scandinavia). Ps sometimes i even play this hilarious song that he wrote for 30 rock at some ridiculous parties as a little break: Werewolf Barmitzvah (spooky, scary).

I guess all these reasons sum up why his music is not as talked about as it is in any english speaking country. Havent seen a clue of him on the french & italian blogs either. His first official Album “Camp” is about to drop and to the rest of the webs he is the talk of the town. The man can actually sing, besides having a ridiculous wordplay (i mean it) and you just have fun when listening to his tracks. Now let me say something which i say very rarely, this is actually a rapper that i do listen to, and i listen to his lyrics closely. This some positive stuff right here and to quote one of his lines its “so insane its an enemy of Batman”.

So let me sum it up for you in a few categories: the many remixes, his previous Eps & Lps as free downloads, a few of my favourite tunes, collabos and his most recent music which is now being officially released through Glassnote records, who are also responsible for Mumford & Sons, the Temper Trap, the 2nd Phoenix Lp and a few more which you probably know. So you see, for a hiphop artist, even label wise he is on some other ish. Enjoy

Tracks from the Culdesac LP / Download : Culdesac LP (2010)

Childish Gambino – Do Ya Like (my favourite right now)

Childish Gambino – The Last

Tracks from the CG EP / Download : Childish Gambino EP (2011) /

Listen to Childish Gambino – Freaks and Geeks 

Childish Gambino – Break 

From the upcoming Album, Camp (out in 2011)

Bonfire, this tune will turn you back to hiphop again (seriously) / officially released end of sept 2011

Bonfire by Childish Gambino

another brandnew track: All the Shine

mashups, remixes, collabos

Put It In Your Manners – Chiddy Bang ft Childish Gambino by DJ 21azy

Who Datt Pt. 2 (Prod. by J. Cole) by Childish Gambino

Cypher (ft. Mos Def, Kanye West) (Live @ Blue Note) by Childish Gambino

childish gambino website / facebook / itunes / wikipedia / soundcloud / other remixes on soundcloud

Since you know me and know that i only post stuff that i thoroughly like, if you want the latest on CG you better head over to his website (at end of post) or over to hypem, cause there seems to be a new tune or remix out every single day.

The new Modeselektor LP attracked my attention for two reasons. One, because if you’re living in Berlin there’s no chance not to get in touch with those guys. Everybody’s darling: Modeselektor. Two, because the tracklisting including collaborations e.g. with Thom Yorke and Miss Platnum sounded super exciting to me.  This album took me some time as it’s not only something you listen to while hoovering your cellar, but still only one thing is safe to say: Innovations in music, that’s what Modeselektor stand for.

Modeselektor – Berlin feat. Miss Platnum

Here’s the brandnew BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix – mixed by Modeselektor:

Modeselektor – Essential Mix – 08.10.2011 by vaidast

 The new Modeselektor album ‘Monkeytown’ is now available here.

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This albums a free download by the Soulforce crew that dates back to 2007 and it is exactly what the title implies – Jay-zs vocals meet Studio One, but these guys just recently put it online and someone (possibly them?) sent me a message to post it. So, i know a few of our guys like them a good reggae set and some jay-z, no matter how over-remixed (is that a word?) that album is/was. A couple of good versions on here some well known, a bit dated but ÜBERclassic reggae riddims. Here is my favourite one, but i wished the remixes were a bit more vivid and had more breaks or the producer had put more effort on arranging them instead of pure blending. This album was just remixed too often for my ears. Other than that the albums good to go. Anways, forget my opinion: here you go, grab the full download over here.

SoulForce – Dirt Off Your Shoulder

Mayer´s new album “How Do You Do” which was announced for October 11th is available via itunes already from now on.Can´t wait to give it a proper listen. Hope this makes you all just as happy as me. Grab it here

Mayer Hawthorne – The Walk

Mayer Hawthorne – A Long Time

photo by Cedric Violet, taken from her website

I have been constantly reminded by Coco, by Danny, by Max and of course by our Top Tunes Group on Facebook to write about this young lady and musical gem and i kept on postponing it, but here you go >>> Selah Sue is an outstanding new artist that has delivered a great selfentitled debut album in the vein of a folky, soulful and simply friendly attitude embedded in a great summery vibe. They are comparing her from Duffy to Lauryn Hill to Amy Winehouse to Adele to any other good female artist within the last decade or so. Let her music speak for itself and check her album out, if you havent already.

Selah Sue – Peace of mind

The many remixes are worth a second look.  Some of the songs on the album are a bit too poppish for me, meaning without a lasting impact, but the many good ones are quite the opposite – i think thats why i even mentioned the not-so-good ones, cause its surprising that she has any! But in general the overall vibe, her voice and especially the lovely mellow tunes go very deep and i enjoy her sound very much. hope you do too.

Selah Sue – Crazy vibes

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a few more videos

PS – anybody know where i can get this song from?

New Wiley albums been out since June 4th, we kinda slept on this one but here we go. The abum has got quite a journey behind it, Wiley lost his record deal because he fired his manager and decided to leak the album himself. Not only the album but about 150 previously unreleased tracks. Get them all at the colleagues from TeamSupreme

Wiley – Party Pooper

Wiley – Aim High

Wiley: WEB / Facebook / Myspace

This really has put a smile on my face this morning without even listening to the song. It isn’t hard to predict what this  is about – but since I dig the agenda it´s fun to see these guys get together.

Tune is taken from Ziggy Marleys new LP also called “Wild and Free”

Wild And Free (Ft. Woody Harrelson)

YUM YUM favourite Jill Scott is coming up with a new album called “Light of the sun”. Really lookin foward to this one -stream the entire album via NPR

the first single is called shame and features Eve

Jill Scott feat. Eve – Shame - von skeuds

Jill Scott: WEB / Facebook / Myspace