i have been off the radar for a minute, building our own venue, i mean proper handywork and figuring out the feel of things, not too much the style at first, but the soul is something that eminates from within in my humble opinion, so i was worrying about the feel of things and i think i pointed it into the right direction, and now the ship sets sail, which means i have a lot of catching up to do on my very own website and thats why this is gonna be a long, long post. there are tons of sounds & tunes around me, so let me sum up a few for you which havent yet made it up on our website.

Glory - Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter

great little gem by jigga. soul samples + jigga = a win/win. Glory – Jay-Z feat. Blue Ivy Carter by Warhol2011

Great Lake Swimmers - Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit)

a brandnew song by one of my favourite bands – the great lake swimmers. more G L Swimmers on chromemusic. Great Lake Swimmers – Easy Come Easy Go (Radio Edit) by nettwerkmusicgroup

Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Papa Chajes (Basement Freaks Remix)

nothing new if you are used to balkanstylee – just worth mentioning cause its got that bump

Eddie Kendricks - "Keep On Truckin' (Robin "T" Treier Mix)"

Robin, a good friend of the entire family and great mind when it comes to taste and style did his rework of this soul anthem, thats more like a oldies radio favourite these days. Robin gave it that essential spin. i like  Eddie Kendricks – “Keep On Truckin’ (Robin “T” Treier Mix)” by Robin “T” Treier

Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite - 'Light Up (The World)'

Any track with Ms dynamite on, will make it on this site, and this video here, produced by veteran shy fx, starts properly at 2:22 as soon as Ms D steps on the scene :) Yasmin ft Shy FX & Ms Dynamite – ‘Light Up (The World)’ from Denitsa Dimitrova on Vimeo.

Gnucci Banana - Famalam Jam

Schlachhof Boys just shared this, laughing my ass off. Modern day Stacy Q of Barcelona

The Dirty Honkers "Ginger Bread Man"

A Swing set, hailing from Berlin, Dirty Honkers by Name. good track

dirty_honkers -_ginger_bread_man

Rediscovered my love for Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Going Up The Country – Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – Messing With My Life Kopie

i feel like dancing, the 2 best Disco tunes at present need to be:

Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone – (Stern-Disco-Remix)

Changed & Disco Tech – Let Me Be Good (DiscoTech version)

Blumentopf exclusive & Jan Delay exclusive 

Our buddies Blumentopf were featured as an exclusive for xmas via catchafire (on their 4 track exclusives pack). the Rmx is totally FTW

Blumentopf – SoLala – CAF Excl.

Jan Delay & Samy Deluxe – Lucky Punch – CAF Excl.

new year, new style, new everything "Time in Mind" - the 2 Bears

Time-In-Mind – the 2 bears

Aroused by Tom Vek

Aroused Tom Vek

thats about it, i guess. i am off to watch this african sci-fi movie here. speak soon

YUM YUM Remix / Janelle Monae – Tightrope (Chromes Tainted Love Version) Foster the People – Love Gotye – Somebody That I Use To Know (Bombs Away Remix) Joker – On my mind feat. william cartwright Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis (Cookin’ Soul Remix)  Lana Del Rey – Video Games Chiddy Bang – Ray Charles Boy – Little Numbers Cults – Go Outside (Menahan Street Band Remix) Zeds Dead – Coffee Break Won’t Go (Wishing) Adele & Jay-z [Urban Noize Remix] Mayer Hawthorne – A Long Time  Neon Hitch – Silly Girl (Brenton Duvall Remix ft. Wiz Khalifa)  Lissie – Record Collector Ms Dynamite – Neva Soft Little Dragon – Ritual Union Goapele ft Los Rakas – Play (Los Rakas Remix) Delly Ranx Feat Gappy Ranks – Could Runaway Joker feat. Jessie Ware – The Vision (Let Me Breathe) Movado – Settle down Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans (Count Ninjula Remix) Cee Lo Green – I dont care (Buddy Holly Cover) Hackney Colliery Band – Africa (YUM YUM Version) The Flavour – Sex on Fire Jamie Woon – Lady Luck The Cults – Abducted Metronomy – The Look SBTRKT feat Little Dragon – Wildfire Chiddy Bang – Heatwave Mayer Hawthorne – Work To Do Maverick Sabre – Let Me Go (radio rip) Nancy Sinatra Janelle Monae – This tightrope is made for walkin Adele – Rolling in the deep (Funk BBQ YUM YUM Version) Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home The Beautiful Girls – After All This Time L’Xtrmst.Zen – ZiggyZa ZiggyZi Los Rakkas – Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix) Major Lazor – Hold the Line (YUM YUM Warning remix) Mac Miller – Love Lost Santigold f. Karen O – Go Lanie Lane – Like Me Meaner Daniel Merriweather – A little bit better Danay Suarez – Esta Guerra Tan Violenta Skarra Mucci ft. Weedy G – My Sound (After the Laughter) Florence & The Machine ft. Kid Harpoon – I’m Goin’ Down Dillah Jones – You Gotta See me again (Big Styles edit)  All-of-the-Lights-Remix-Cris-Cab-Cover Hoodie Allen – James Franco  Rizzle Kicks – When i was a youngster

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)

A new YUM YUM Mixtape, just in time for tonights Chromemusic Party party and uhm, our newsletter receivers (YUM YUM goody Mail) were the first ones to get the tape, as usual. Anyways have fun with this one, its not called Dude for nothing. Enjoy

YUM YUM Mix – the Dude

Full Tracklist

1. Wicked Games – Coeur de Pirate (the Weeknd Cover)
2. Coffee Break – Zeds Dead
3. You oughta know – Das Racist
4. Could a Runaway – Delly Ranks & Gappy Ranks
5. Hold the line – Major Lazer (YUM YUM Warning Rmx)
6. Tightrope – Janelle Monae & Gloria Jones (YUM YUM Soul rework)
7. Bongo Dub – Manu Chao – Dub Traffic Control
8. Dem Nyam Anything – Busy Signal
9. Mi tuff like Steel – Mr Vegas
10. Put it on – Busy Signal
11. Sister Nancy – Wick-it
12. YUM YUM Soul Breakdown (James & Bobby Purify, Freddie Scott, the Marvelettes)
13. YUM YUM Party Break (Ripple)
14. Otis – Jay-z & Kanye West & Otis Redding (Cookin Soul Edit)
15. White Girl Problems/ I’ll be your Pillow – Hoodie Allen & Eliza Doolittle
16. Fel del av garden – Movits!
17. Multiply-Tebaks ti Klubben – Lidell/Gonzalez/Vibrante
18. the Walk – Mayer Hawthorne
19. Touch the Sky – Mark Ronson Rmx
20. ZiggyZa ZiggyZi – L’Xtrmst.Zen
21. Down with the Trumpets – Rizzle Kicks
22. Love – Foster the People

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.

don’t know anything about this tune or blend or whatever it is, never heard of the remixer, too lazy googling it… all i know is that i like it… i…

fortknox vs ali b vs lyrics born – i like it, i love it (hubbz blend)

great version, finally someone stepped up and did a remix that manages to be a contrast but still keeping the vibe of the amazing original tune. on my playlist as of now. much appreciated, thx fellas.

Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (Bombs Away Dubstep Remix) by Bombs Away

Gotye – Somebody That I Use To Know (Bombs Away Remix)

the only remix worth posting

new YUM YUM Remix : Janelle Monae – Tightrope (Chromes Tainted Love Version)

more YUM YUM Versions

a wonderful gem of a mixtape released by Studio 51.15 – check their website for more material website and other gems. another great find by markus

Erykah Badu Mix – The Wonderful Life Of Medulla Oblongata

Studio 51.15 Chapter 2: The Wonderful Life Of Medulla Oblongata by Studio 51.15