Our good friends of Compost Records came up with the excellent debut album of ‘Pitchben’ earlier this month. Here’s the free track giveaway + all the other tracks as soundcloud teasers. Make sure you listen to ‘Stand Up’, my favourite track of this LP which reminds me of the cool early Breakbot sound.

 Pitchben – Time Machine

Pitchslap by Pitchben

 Get the album on Itunes and support our munich homies .

facebook / soundcloud / itunes

New YUM YUM coming this Saturday, April 2nd at munichs prestigeous Praterinsel (via google maps)

Finally, while still waiting for our new club to happen, we decided it was about time, to have one proper YUM YUM in Munich this Saturday, and also a second one at Praterinsel on April 30th. This is gonna be a massive night with the dj duties up to chrome, max & smileyface d-nice. Make sure to RSVP to YUM YUM on Facebook.

We have a Short Mixtape prepared called “YUM YUM Sunshine inside” which you can grab here. Its a teaser for the full upcoming new YUM YUM mixtape, out mid April. Have fun and see you Saturday

YUM YUM “Sunshine inside” (short mix pt1)

Pt 2 is coming soon (put them both together and you have a proper mixtape)

Tracklist:

1. Hold Yuh – Gyptian (accoustic version)

2. Abrazame – Los Rakas

3. Like a Gipsy – Kenyatta Fire

4. Africa – Hackney Colliery Band (chromes YUM YUM version)

5. Rolling in the Deep – John Legend (acapella cover)

6. Rolling in the Deep – Adele (YUM YUM version)

7. Hot like we – Cecile

8. Rocksteady – Rox

9. Bang Bang -K’naan

10. Relator – Peter Yorn & Scarlett Johannsen

11. After all this time – the Beautiful Girls

Maybe some of you guys remember our Top Friend Parties?

Back in the days we had some YUM YUM’s with a special TOP FRIEND Floor, where our Djs played YUM YUM music but of a more electronic kind. After this worked out so well we decided to split the whole thing of and make an own Party with an own concept out of it. We had a good start in Munich, are already hosting a floor in Vienna by now and of course hope to make an own event there soon!

At the time we re-started Top Friend,  the two residents Sei Croccante and me, started the corresponding blog, Top Friend Music. As we both stem from the chromemusic family we’re still following the same brainchild.

We share the music we love with all those nice people who love to hang out with us at the Top Friend Parties.

This friday is gonna be a Top Friend Friday in Munich again, so check the blog and the RSVP cause we’d be glad to have a good time with you!

These are the three latest Top Tunes:

Light Year – Marcellus

Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix)

Round Table Knights ft. Ogris Debris – Say What!?

And additionally the December Top Tape:

Top Tape December mixed by Irving Jr.

PS: On our TF facebook page, we’re sharing music specials and all those silly geek things we’re running into every day. To get you an idea of that just take a look, you can expect Robot Unicorn online games, vegetable blogs and vintage tron poster sites! :D

Since people got confused about the whole ticket situation on NYE here is a full explanation. Tickets are available via our partnershops as mentioned in our Blogposts and since we moved to Puerto Giesing all official Puertio Giesing tickets are valid for YUM YUM aswell. Here you have a complete List of our Partnershops:

Innenstadt
874, Eisenmannstr. 2 (http://bit.ly/dI2Txt)
WESC Store, Fürstenfelderstr. 12 (http://bit.ly/g8quZV)

Pasing
Chicas, Am Schützeneck 3 (http://bit.ly/fFQRPf)

Glockenbachviertel
Amen, Corneliusstr. 1 (http://bit.ly/fmVY2l)

More Tickets at these fine stores:
Schwabing/Univiertel
Meschugge 54, Türkenstraße 54 (http://bit.ly/e5FmNP)

Schwabing/Münchner Freiheit
Carhartt Store, Münchner Freiheit 2 (http://bit.ly/hu9uaU)

Glockenback Viertel

Soda, Rumfordstr. 3 (http://bit.ly/gP2xDF)

Official Puerto Giesing Ticktets available here (also valid for YUM YUM NYE):

Schwabing / Maxv.

Meschugge 54 http://bit.ly/fYB6Hx
Cans & Co (http://bit.ly/fWFSDk)
Carhatt Store Munich (http://bit.ly/fZFhsK)

Glockenbach

Ruby Store (http://bit.ly/fJ9McX)
Amen (http://bit.ly/fr8e8h)
Optimal (http://bit.ly/gexhaO)
Soda, Rumfordstr. 3 (http://bit.ly/gP2xDF)

Innenstadt

Stella (http://bit.ly/i5BGMb)
874 (http://bit.ly/e7zxU6)
Gross (http://bit.ly/eJD1Gh)
WESC Store, Fürstenfelderstr. 12 (http://bit.ly/g8quZV)

Westend

Parke 6 / Herrenabteilung (http://bit.ly/dJcis8)
Cafe Kubitschek (http://bit.ly/gFdDpn)
Kongress Bar (http://bit.ly/h3bE1K)

Giesing

Café Schau ma moi (http://bit.ly/gUPjEn)
Abbey Road – (its not on fucking google)

Schlachthof/3Mühlen4tel

Valentinsstüberl (http://bit.ly/erWZKH)
Bavarese (http://bit.ly/igd42r)

Pasing

Chiccas (http://bit.ly/hXC9Vs)

If you are from outside of Munich you can get the tickets online via Nachtagenten: http://www.nachtagenten.de/event/ticket/31.12.2010/puerto-giesing/one-nation-under-a-viertel.174667.html

Date Sat, November, 27th 2010 Venue Puerto Giesing (via Google Maps) DJs Chrome // Max Mausser// Tand Facebook Event RSVP to the Event Facebook Group Join us Top Tunes October Listen

One last & final massive night ahead of us @ Puerto Giesing, the last and final YUM YUM night this Saturday. We had some great parties there, and the location had its pros and its many cons, but it was a gateway and a path we had to take to all the other new options that are on the horizon right now. Well where are we gonna go from here? Very simple – lets start with New Years Eve – the YUM YUM New Years Eve is gonna take place in, a mad, mad location in the heart of the city, which has never been opted for parties before, and is no more than a 2 min walk away from the old Registratur and really, really close to Gaertnerplatz. So we are back in the in the middle of the “Viertel“. SUPRISE!

The full on info will be online here next week and the NYE tickets are gonna be available from next week on (in our partner shops). So farewell Puerto Giesing and hello “Viertel”. Reunited with our former partners from the “Registratur” & our new companions and fam “Team from Hell”.

To celebrate all that we are handing out a few hundreds (!) new YUM YUM MixCds this Saturday, make sure to show up early and catch one. Will be online next Monday for dwnld. See you in a sec and really looking ffwd to this massive throwdown!! Enjoy this months soul gem and see you in a sec..

“Soul Sister” (chrome YUM YUM version) – Common & Allen Toussaint

PSPS Grab our new YUM YUM Mixtapes/CDs next week for free (as always) in our Partnershops:

::::Soda Books::::Planet Sports::::WeSC Shop::::Chicas Boardshop::::874 Shops::::

Aloe Blacc live in Munich last week presented by chromemusic & kongress. Here are 2 recap videos, great show, great guy and overall fun night! enjoy the videos!

via YUM YUM youtube channel

Aloe doing a Latin/ Reggae Version of his hit anthem “i need a dollar” with a short Police, Bob Marley interpolation in the middle. Very YUM YUM of him lol!

Aloe made us smile…

Date 9th October 2010 Venue Puerto Giesing (via Google Maps) DJs Chrome // Max Mausser // Not:fx! Facebook Event RSVP to the Party Facebook Group Join us Top Tunes September Listen

A new & massive one going down, this Saturday and finally the O-fest is O-ver, so its all back to normal with our town and expect less german clichees at the party ;0

Djs will be Chrome, Max Mausser & Not:fx, the party clique …lol. Be in for a surprise as Coco & Andi unfold their Pac Man Labyrinth. And win some of our 7″ singles, YUM YUM tees and more- its all in our Newsletter

A few news for this week: This Wednesday we are hosting the Aloe Blacc show in munich, we have some brand new YUM YUM vinyl 7″es and the new YUM YUM Top tunes will be upon us this friday, lol. Enjoy have fun and hold tight for our new YUM YUM mixtapes coming out October 16th. ps :::: how to really kiss a woman

- or – the Renaissance of Stones Throw – and what my people have to do with it

So, Aloe Blacc & his ten piece Band (!) are playing in munich next week on wednesday, 3 days after the Oktoberfest has ended, and luckily we can spare him from witnessing german clichees come alive. But there is no talking about the Beerfest outside the Beerfest… k, back on topic… Aloe Blacc is one of the new gems that music has to offer and represents what we have been doing with YUM YUM 100%. His “I need a Dollar” tune is one of the defining songs of this new era, so to no surprise it was one of the most played songs of 2010 and became the theme song of the new HBO tv show “How to make it in America”(ft Kid Cudi) . In recent times people like him have become very very rare and for some time in the past few years it almost seemed as if all these “real” artists were extinct. But there are labels like Stone Throw that seem to have a renaissance these days with aspiring new artists such as croonestro Mayer Hawthorne and the aforementioned Mr Blacc. Defying the idea of overproduced, over-hyped acts and keeping it traditional – as Stones Throw always did.

“I Need A Dollar” (chrome remix)

And for some time it seemed as they had lost their touch with reality and while everything went digital and was craving all music digital and mp3s, they kept on putting out records and making some fine music. Always moody, always funk rooted, with quality control and with a sincere dedication. And by doing so they helped raise these artists and profoundly helped them come into existence and grab peoples attention. This year finally the time was right and the music was ripe. People got tired of the same old same old mp3 circus, and already instrumentalized net-hypes and frenzies where techno meets rap – and its the big new thing (nooot). To the Americans it seemed so hot to have a silly, cheesy techno beat and a rapper on top of that. Being european, we got tired of that in the early nineties, thats why we came up with down-tempo, mo wax, acid jazz and all its successors, drum & bass, jungle, garage etc at the then melting pot that was the London city of the 90ies.

Aloe Blacc “Miss Fortune”

Munich played an essential part in that time as well, since we bred a homegrown band named “the Poets of Rhythm” and these guys were, globally spoken, the first ones to bring back that long-lost funk & soul. To them and many other people it was a spiritual thing what they were doing and quality-wise it was such great material, that munichs big independent label of the 90ies “Compost” was actually born out of a scene that these guys and all their spin offs, friends and people that were influenced by them created. The label Compost was never mine, it was always too BMW for me (you dont get that expression if you are not from around here) but the Poets of Rhythm were the next best thing to the original funk and soul of the late 60ies and 70ies. Compost, through hard work and other things became a globally recognized label and the german equivalent of Talking Loud Rec in the uk, never quite as big but they helped spark the careers of kruder & dorfmeister and the likes. The Poets sparked a whole lot of spirit.

The Poets of Rhythm “More mess on my thing”

In 2002,  i remember meeting up with Egon, one of the guys running Stones Throw,  when we both were working for the Red Bull Music Academy and as we got into talking (and spliffing & drinking), we exchanged insights on music and i guess the higher philosophies on life. Jan W. was working with me at the Academy that summer, and Jan is theco-founder,  guitar player and one of the strong personalities of the “Poets” and also a good friend, and one of my 2 Dj partners for years to come. While the spliff was being circle-jerked i remember dropping their name “Poets of Rhythm” and pointing at Jan W. Egon was struck, he stopped in mid-sentence, stood up, looked all delighted at Jan and was like “You are the guys that started it ALL!” – I never knew, until that day, how many folks they had really influenced, and years later in Asia, i would find out even how many, many more, … but thats another story.

So to make that circle complete i figured, since we as “chromemusic” are doing the Aloe Blacc show next week, together with our buddies from the Ex-Registratur aka der Kongress (these days),  it would be best to include Jan W into the roster. He will be the DJ next wednesday and i know he will just set the right mood. So, we will turn this into a night with a concert instead of just a live-show, and we are gonna make it a lovely show as was the first Mayer Hawthorne gig.  I Rather have a real Dj play some nice tunes, have a nice party after the show and mellow meltdown before it, i wanna see people dancing – during the show and after the show. PS i will get behind the decks as well and finally me and Jan are gonna be re-visiting our soul roots, after we sparked YUM YUM some time ago. Thx for all the soul and lets make it a smooth, smooth night to remember.

Lyrics Born & The Poets Of Rhythm “I Changed My Mind”

Good to have you back, Stones Throw records and you too Jan (of Whitefield Brothers fame lol)

FACTS:

1. Aloe Blacc & band live in Puerto Giesing/ Munich – Djs that night JJ Whitefield & Chrome, Wednesday October 6th @ Puerto Giesing (how to get there via gmaps)

2. Get tickets here &&&  &  &&& Rsvp to the event on Facebook

3.  Chrome music on Facebook

4. Read the entire Poets of Rhythm story (way before dj shadow, cut chemist and everybody else)

****see you next week****

Date Saturday, Sep 25th Venue Puerto Giesing, München (via Google Maps) DJs Chrome // Max Mausser! Facebook Event RSVP to the Party Facebook Group Join us YUM YUM Top Tunes September Listen

A new & massive YUM YUM in Munich coming your way! Well me and Max are gonna return to the essence of YUM YUM, for more on that read a full report the coming week in the Character section. It’s gonna be a huge night, and strictly no Italians this weekend – simple o-fest rule. Recheck this month’s YUM YUM top tunes and make sure to show up early.

News: Soon we will have 2 new YUM YUM mixtapes, actually will be passing out the newest one at our next date in Munich (early October) and nationwide, and our Newsletter will soon be much brighter, nicer and full of our music so stay tuned, and start subscribing in 2 weeks (You are gonna love it!). And a full coloured YUM YUM 7″ vinyl single (“I need a dollar YUM YUM Version) is in the making – and will be handed out this Saturday to a few selected YUM YUM lovers (so send me a mail) and many, many more things are ahead, but a full report on monday is coming…

So catch you Saturday, dont forget to bring your dancing shoes, I am really having an itch to play a proper YUM YUM set. See you in a bit.

Feeling like Cpt. Artschool? Lost your way? Too many mainstreamers infiltrating your coffee shops?

Out buddies over at artscoolvets.com posted the Adidas Originals Cityguides for Munich and Berlin. The guide was crafted especially for locals but it also works as a tourist guide. In addition to the hot spots you can enter competitions like “Tag Your City” or the “Star Wars Sticker Invasion”. We’re very happy that artschoolvets.com and chromemusic.de had the opportunity to contribute to this guide. You’ll get the guide at selected stores only + find more information on how and where right here.

If you’re either in Munich nor in Berlin this Friday you maybe wanna say hi to the guys of STW2D who featured Adidas Originals at The Live Magazine over the last days plus you’ll get to party at YUM YUM Friday night. Be in for a treat.