Tip The Scale

On December 6th The Roots thirteenth longplayer “undun” will hit the stores and online shops, here you have 2  videos they have shared so far, 2 more are about to be released within the next weeks

Make My

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.

Cold War Kids – Louder Than Ever

New single from one of my favourite bands! This is their new single, actually it came out end of November, but i reckon its still not too late to share with everyone, cause i dont seem to hear it enough outside of my dj sets and their new album “Mine is yours” is coming out the 25th of January. Cant wait! Support these guys!

Here is all of their previous material! Make sure to get & check out most of it! Their last EP is highly recommanded.

There’s a fire starting in my heart…

Seems like the blogosphere is going nuts about The xx’ producers Jamie xx’ remix of Adele’s new single Rolling In The Deep from her forthcoming album Adele 21 which will will be released on January 21st 2011. Well so am I. Unfortunately there is only a radio rip available for now. From what I heard the release for this gem is planned for somewhat short before the release of Adele’s long player. Till then please try to blend out that MC for yourself in your mind and enjoy this one. I certainly do.

Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Jamie xx Remix) (Radio Rip)

A new 11″ (haha) by our dear buddy DJ Eleven (Twitter / Homepage) from NYC. It’s called “Every Freakin’” features Mike Baker The Bike Maker (again – haha) and was just released a couple of days ago. I really dig this but don’t take my word on this. Listen to it yourself and check out what Joe (Eleven) has to say about it:

Over a year after starting on the project, the joint that I did with the homie Mike Baker The Bike Maker has finally hit the (digital) record stores (and their virtual shelves)! Vancouver’s Kutcorners contributed a great bassline for the original version. Mike2600, Illo + Keam, and DJ Ayres all flipped really good remixes. And, Kalani did a fantastic job bringing the artwork for it all together.

Since this is a single we do not provide you with a hq download link but highly recommend to buy this via your favorite online dealer. Know that the release includes a couple of fabulous remixes by DJ Ayres and others. You’ll find a couple of links below. If you dig the sound you’ll find a gazillion of free stuff (I smell some mixtapes) on DJ Eleven’s homepage as well as on the homepage of THE RUB which is Joe’s infamous DJ squad. But you all know that anyway. So – enjoy.

Buy this via:

Turntable Lab -http://digital.turntablelab.com/search/release.php?ALBUM_ID=7575
Gigacrate - http://www.gigacrate.com/Albums/11191
Juno – http://www.junodownload.com/products/1584114-02.htm
Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003PH1DBA/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1276020333&sr=8-1
iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/every-freakin-feat-mike-baker/id372946617

On June 22nd the Roots will relase their 11th album “How I Got Over”, and from what I heard so far it will be a pretty good one. For their first single they feature one of our all time YUM YUM favourites John Legend. Make sure to get their album via amazon, itunes etc. when it dropps

The Roots feat. John Legend – The Fire

Our friends across the ocean, the Starter Djs just have released their Album “The Flavour” via the blog world, and i reckon this to be the only way to do it these days. This album release is in conjunction with chromemusic.de and we all hope you enjoy it very much – i ll leave the journalistic description of their style up to others who feel appointed to do so. i simply like what their doing and want to share it with you. below are 2 tracks for a quick eardrop and at the end of the tracklist is the download link for the full zip. i hope you enjoy their latest effort and show them some love on :

the Starter Djs on  myspace and Young Live (the producer) on twitter.

Cold Dust Girl – Hey Champ (Young Live Remix – Starters Dj’s)

Jdp- Release- (Young-Live-Blackout-Remix)

its time these guys had some recognition on our side of the Atlantic.

here are some of their previously posted tracks.

FULL ALBUM:

***Download the Starters-Djs-”the-Flavor”-Official-remix-Album ***

tracklist:

1) Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl (Starters Dj’s Remix)
2) Chester French – She Loves Everybody (Young Live Remix)
3) Hollywood Holt – Hollywood (Young Live Murder Remix)
4) Wiz Khalifa – Make it Hot (Young Live Electric Fire Remix)
5) Bullet – Mr. Robotic (Starters Dj’s Magnet Remix)
6) Donnis – Party Works (Young Live Its Alive Remix)
7) JDP – Release (Young Live Blackout Remix)
8) Kid Sister – Get Fresh (Starters Dj’s Remix)
9) Cool Kids – Action Figures (Starters Dj’s Voglio Solo ReMash)
10)Lady Sovereign – I Got You Dancing (The Starters Remix)