Top Tunes are coming a bit late this month – we had our 7th anniversary this month and we kept busy doing these 8 bday mixtapes for you as well as the new YUM YUM Mixtape “The Dude”. Plus we had some issues with our servers (were under attack) and took us some time to figure that out, but its all good now, you just need to empty your browsers cache or wait for it to be gone in a few. So, hope you dont mind us being late. but here you go with this months Top Tunes Selection. Enjoy

Boy – Little Numbers

YUM YUM Soul Break by Chrome (taken from the Dude Mixtape)

Goapele ft Los Rakas – Play (Los Rakas Remix)

Rizzle Kicks – When I was a youngster

Joker – On my mind feat. william cartwright (Jokers “Vision” Song, which we had on our YUM YUM Top Tunes in July and on my Firewall Mixtape, seems to be blowing up left and right at the moment)

Heavy D tribute – Nuttin but love Cookin Soul remix

Nneka – Sleep (ft. Ms Dynamite)

Gotye – Somebody That I Use To Know (Bombs Away Remix) (definitely best version of Gotyes anthem)

Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Jamie Woon Remix) (and the original “Video Games” is awesome)

Bombay Bicycle Club – Video Games (Lana Del Rey cover) A definite Sweet Serenade Track!

 Delroy Wilson – Dancing Mood (the original to last months The FreeStyle MellowShip – Dancing Skulls top tune)

 Gotye – I Feel Better

Bobby Bland – Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City (scratchandsniff re-rub)

Rachel Rambach – I’m Yours (Cover)

VV Brown – Children (Keep On Singing) feat. Chiddy

Hoodie Allen – James Franco

Y’akoto – Diamonds

Never Chasing Pavement – Adele & Jay-z [Urban Noize Remix]

Won’t Go (Wishing) Adele & Jay-z [Urban Noize Remix] (the entire rework Album “Brooklyn Chicago London” is great)

 Fuck it All (Chrome Remix) – Childish Gambino vs Zeds Dead

 The Hood Internet – Union Motivation (Little Dragon x Kelly Rowland)

Bullshittin On My Coffee Break (Big Sean vs Zeds Dead)

The beat of the minute (Coffee Break) with the man of the moment (Gambino). Mixed these 2 on my coffe break

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Fuck it All – Childish Gambino vs Zeds Dead (Chrome Music Remix) by YUM YUM

Fuck it All (Chrome Remix) – Childish Gambino vs Zeds Dead

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.

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

Mos Def w/ Lee Fields & The Expressions – Honey Beef (Steely Chan’s Blender Mash)

Mos Def & The Expressions – Honey Beef (Steely Chan Blender Mash)

Another one of these great mashups that sounds right in my ears and works very well together. 2 of my all time favourite tunes blended together and they work well. He used PRT’s “Rock this funky joint” which already incorporated the sample of Wars “Slippin into Darkness” and then mixed it with the recently resurfaced Marley voacls that are actually untouchable, but this here works. Enjoy (he also added the Chapelle “Darkness” sample)

Slippin Into Darkness (Skratch Bastid’s Rock Dis Funky Joint Remix)

Here is Wars original:

One of the few bearable Mashup tunes these days.. naw i’m kidding there are still brilliant ones out there, as long as they don’t use the same old same old overheard Jacko, Daft Punk etc . This is one of these tunes that sound so elegantly perfect that you do not even recognize it as a mashup. We all remember “the song” it from 4 years back when Mark Ronsons Smith meets Motown cover version of ‘Stop Me’ went to the top of the charts. Here is the original Smiths vocal from the 80ies mixed in a Roots manner. Enjoy

Chocomang – Stop Me (The Smiths vs Rootical Record Crew)

creedo

Susy sent this one through, on our new YUM YUM top tunes group on facebook – its a closed group, but if you feel like contributing good music feel free to join, but its not for promotion!!! Anyways, Janelles ‘Tightrope’ hits Nancy Sinatras ‘These boots are made for walkin” i guess Susy must have found it via one of the many mashup blogs, they seldomly hold any interesting material for me, but since i am a huge fan of Janelle Monae, i’ll probbaly take anything that you throw my way. This tune was put together by mashup veteran Party Ben. have fun with this one. Highly recommanded for any YUM YUM venue and party, so i get to hear more Monae ;)

this tightrope is made for walkin – Nancy Sinatra & Janelle Monae

ps what does the picture have to do with the tune? – nothing thats what. its fucking creedo man!

Honestly – how cool is that? It was already a classic back then. Found in the Photostream below via Flickr.

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here are a few YUM YUM top tunes from that summer:

Body Baby – Pharoahe Monch

Outkast & Marvin – So Fresh So Clean (B.cause Lets Get It On Reprise)

Frankie Valli – Beggin (Pilooski Edit)