In my opinion, a magnificent reggae-ish cover version of Katy B’s dub-pop song ‘On A Mission’. I hope you like and enjoy it as much as i do.

The Skints – On A Mission (Katy B Cover)

Walk off the Earth – Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye Cover)

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Sometimes a song says more than a thousand words

Everlasting Light (Black Keys Cover) by AlexWinstonOfficial

Alex Winston – Everlasting Light

This finding makes my wednesday as soulful as can be. Enjoy this new release and share it with your friends.

The Revelations feat. Tre Williams – Graceful Bow

The Revelations feat. Tre Williams – Let’s Straighten It Out

The Revelations feat. Tre Williams – Until You Get Enough Of Me

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Give you the heavens & the sunshine

Its been a year since our last Sweet Serenade, so it was way due. I had a few mixes worthy of the name, but this one was definitely the best one. If you think about taking a trip into the sun, put the sweet serenade mixes on your headphones and just enjoy the warm sunrays. This is the music i listen to when hanging in my yellow hamok and when travelling the sunny lands. thanks for listening and may peace be with you

YUM YUM Sweet Serenade Vol 3

Tracklist:

1. “All i want is you” The Vespers
2. “I’ll be your pillow” Eliza Doolittle
3. “The Quiz” Hello Saferide
4. “Bulletproof” Ariel Sabaj
5. “Flake” Ben Harper & Jack Johnson
6. “Lay your head down” Keren Ann
7. “Mango Tree” Angus & Julia Stone
8. “When the night feels my song” Bedouin Soundclash
9. “If the stars were mine” Melody Gardot
10. “Heart of Glass” Lilly Allen
11. “Pulling on a line” Great Lake Swimmers
12. “Manic Monday” Ephemera
13. “Whatever you like” Anya Marina
14. “Walking down the line” Eileen Jewell
15. “Crossroad Demon Blues” Olivia Chrestomanci
16. “Bleeding Love” Mystery Jets
17. “Love you more” Alexi Murdoch
18. “Hey Ya” Sarah Blasko
19. “Ghosts” Laura Marling
20. “the Cave” Mumford & Sons
21. “I’m going down” Florence & the Machine ft Kid Harpoon
22. “In for the Kill” Kelis
23. “Send me an Angel” Emily Zisman & Ryan Avery
24. “Clementine” Sarah Jaffe
25. “Beautiful Day” Miranda Lee Richards

I heard this for the first time today, and i was blown away, this is pure YUM YUM music! Never heard of this dude before and he is supposed to be big in the EU? Well thats where we are based, but still i haven’t got a clue – through our huge dj network i should have at least had a hint of him, since he pretty much does exactly the music we play and dig, still no one ever heard of him. ??? Seriously?? All right he has got over 50.000 facebook fans and they play him on televison, i just got told, but i do not own a tv and the Daily Shows online anyway, so no need for that. I got more and more curious, since this guy sounds like the french Jamie Lidell, Ben Westbeach and the likes with some excellent music to back up that claim. I dig this mucho, even more than the loads of well know acts that are associated or are synonymous with Soul music these days. This fella right here will surely be included on all our new mixtapes.

Seven Nation Army

Soulman

Petite Soeur

The video to 7 Nation Army is even from 2009!

And while we all await the John legend/ Roots collabo album and almost all the songs have leaked one way or another, and sometimes Legends vocals simply cant compete with the originals (we are talking Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway and more people of the same calibre), here comes a french dude with a SOUL/soul album that just blew me away with its sheer niceness. No gimicking around with some hip trendy music adaptions and imitative sounds and effects, like so many so-called soul artists these days, but purely feel good music – and that is what makes it so soulful. Kinda like Raphael Saadiqs album last year. Traditional Soul Music. It just is good and does not claim anthing! Thanks a lot Ben L’oncle Soul.
Your entire album will get LOADS of playtime at all our parties!

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2 more “live” videos that i have found while looking for this fella online. Beautiful material!

While i am here on vacation in Asia i am getting more eager to hear this album when it comes out on Sept 21st by two of my most favoured artists, it must be quite a spiritual album – an album of protest songs and a true soulful gem, just telling from the titles they picked to cover. Must be a lot of Questlove involved in the crative process here, just telling from their picks. Reminds me of Questloves “Babies making Babies” compilation on BBE records. The Golden tunes on “Wake Up Sessions” are ranging from Marvins “Wholy Holy” to Donny Hathaways “Little Ghetto Boy” to Ernie Hines genius “Our Generation” which i guess was also picked for Pete Rock & C.L. Smooths take on it (sampling). A turning point in hip hop and beatmaking in general and like CL said “you only get the credit where credit is due”. All these songs on the Wake Up Sessions deserve a lot of credit, for they appear to be timeless and def the right choice to cover in the combo of the Roots & Legend.  I compiled the originals, accordingly to their playlist to hype you up some more for their upcoming LP, so let me introduce you to all of the ORIGINALS which they are covering, beautiful songs, timeless classics, some forgotten, some absolutely introuvables (on vinyl and in europe at least) but all all have one thing in common: It is soul music with a soul.  These tunes took me quite some time to dig up, back in the day of physical diggin. One tune in particular “Love the way it should be” was new to me and with “Compared to what” i wasnt quite sure which one they meant to cover, Roberta Flack or the much more popular Della Reeves version. But if you want it to be a spiritual album with soul, you got to have Roberta on it. So here you go. Enjoy this fine, uplifting music. Soul music with a soul

The tracklist for the new ROOTS / JOHN LEGEND Soul Cover Album coming out on September 21st, Here is the tracklist with the original songs instead of the cover versions. Enjoy this music for it is “Simply beautiful”.

Wake up Sessions – by John Legend & the Roots – the ORIGINALS by YUM YUM

1. “Compared To What” by Roberta Flack I think they intended to cover her and not Della Reeves. Just bc she is right up there with Donny
2. “Hard Times” – by Baby Huey No denying this tune. Only own a reissue of the original album.
3. “Little Ghetto Boy” – by Donny Hathaway There is nothing that can be said about this tune, that you do not feel when listening to it. + its Donny
4. “Wake Up Everybody” – by Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes Still addressing todays issues.
5. “Our Generation” – by Ernie Hines Has been my favourite song for a long, long time. “In Vietnam – straight it out”. No different to the BS going on today. But i guess it was also handpicked for Pete Rock & CL sampling that tune and the impact they have created with “Straight it out”. They have unknowingly influnced a whole generation. So i have to include this one as 5a) “Straighten It Out” – Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
6. “Humanity (Love the way it should be)” – by Prince Lincoln The only hard one to guess. Listening to it, it fits right in here perfectly. But a truly beautiful album by Prince Lincoln.
7. “Hang On In There Baby” – by Johnny Bristol Sheer Beauty. Also fits right in with Legends vocals. (or Mike James Kirkland?)
8. “I cant write left handed” – by Bill Withers – Listen and understand, why its on here.
9. “Wholy Holy” – by Marvin Gaye - Marvin
10. “I wish i knew how it would feel to be free” – by Nina Simone – Another one of my favourites.
11. “Shine” the only original track that is not covered

To Wake up also has a deeper meaning like all things do. To put it into CLs words “The Funk legacy we pass on… everytime we sample all the past time breaks”. And that Legacy is still a 100% valid today. Go live in the NOW, be right here, right now

How funny is that?

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Levis invited some of todays pioneering musicians to re-craft the classic songs that inspired their sound. Here we have John Legend and the Roots doing a cover of Ernie Hines “Our Generation” and Raphael Saadiq doin  “It´s a shame” by the Spinners.

Raphael Saadiq – Its-a-Shame

John Legend feat. The Roots – Our Generation

For more information and and the whole album visit levispioneersessions

i recently kinda let you down on the folky side of things, but here is a roundup of beautiful tunes that i have enjoyed recently. some great cover versions and silent sounds. A perfect soundtrack to a (still) imaginary summer lol

“Dancing in the Moonlight” – John Dissed (Thin Lizzy Cover)

“Send me Angel” – Emily Zisman & Ryan Avery (Real Life Cover)

“Killing in the Name of Love” – Biffy Clyro (Rage Cover)