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Fokn Bois zu Gast bei Fernweh & Malaria

Sensationell nächsten Freitag ist es soweit: Die Fokn Bois kommen aus Ghana zu Fernweh & Malaria ins Yip Yab. Facebook Einladung hier.

Die Fokn Bois haben mit Pidgin Rap ihr eigenes Genre kreiert. Hier sind die Texte zentral. Die Macht des Wortes. Pidgin ist der Straßenslang Westafrikas. Wer es besser verstehen will, der schaut sich am besten den Film „Coz of Moni“ an, ein Pidgin Musical bei dem die Fokn Bois alle Dialoge eingerappt haben.

Bekannt wurden Wanlov und Mensa, die beiden Lausbuben hinter den Fokn Bois, mit ihrem Song „Thanks God we are not a Nigerians“. Hier werden alle Klischees aufgezählt, die in Ghana über den anglophonen Nachbar Nigeria existieren. Erstaunlich ist, dass sie genauso gut auf die Bevölkerung Ghanas anwendbar sind. Insofern wurden den beiden Rappern zwar Prügel von wütenden Nigerianern angedroht, Nigerias größter Popstar 2Face Idibia verstand dagegen ihren Humor und lud sie für ein Konzert nach London ein, wo sie für ihn die Show eröffneten. Eine große Ehre für die beiden Rapper, deren Musik zuvor kaum vom westafrikanischen Mainstream-Publikum wahrgenommen wurde.

Mensa hat in den 90ern die Beats für den Gründungsvater des Hiplife, Reggie Rockstone produziert und so die Basis für Ghana’s populärstes Genre geschaffen. Zuletzt ist Mensa auf der Platte „Rocket Juice and the Moon“ zu hören, ein Projekt des Frontmanns von Blur und Mann hinter Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, dem Bassisten der Red Hot Chilli Peppers Flea und dem Ex-Fela Kuti Drummer, Tony Allen.

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Fokn Bois -FOKN Future (Slap in the bass Remix)

Wanlov sorgte kürzlich in Ghana’s bekanntester TV-Talkshow für Aufruhr, als er sein bestes Stück präsentierte. Die Moderatorin hatte ihn gefragt, ob es stimmt, dass er keine Unterhose trägt, woraufhin er nicht lange zögerte. This is not a Controversy but a Penisversy rechtfertigte er die Aktion später in der Presse. Neben etlichen Schlagzeilen hatte der Zwischenfall weitere Konsequenzen. Zwei Mitarbeiter der TV-Show wurden gefeuert, die Rastas in Ghana wollten Wanlov verprügeln und der Minister of Information kündigte an, Wanlov auf ganz besondere Art und Weise bestrafen zu wollen. Er solle am Flughafen in Accra das Grass mit einem kleinen Messer mähen, während ihm der Rest des Landes dabei zuschaut. Wanlov setzte sich kurzer Hand in den Flieger und machte sich aus dem Staub …

Was die Fokn Bois noch auf dem Kerbholz haben, werden sie uns am 4. Mai bei Fernweh & Malaria berichten.

YUM YUM Top 25 Tunes spring 2011

we forgot that this magnificant photo is by Linus Lohoff: www.linuslohoff.com

 

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Cee Lo Green – I dont care (Buddy Holly Cover)

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Hackney Colliery Band – Africa (YUM YUM Version)

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The Flavour – Sex on Fire

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Jamie Woon – Lady Luck

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The Cults – Abducted

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Metronomy – The Look

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SBTRKT feat Little Dragon – Wildfire

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Mayer Hawthorne – Work To Do

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Nancy Sinatra Janelle Monae – This tightrope is made for walkin

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Adele – Rolling in the deep (Funk BBQ YUM YUM Version)

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Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks

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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home

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The Beautiful Girls – After All This Time

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L’Xtrmst.Zen – ZiggyZa ZiggyZi

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Los Rakkas – Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix)

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Major Lazor – Hold the Line (YUM YUM Warning remix)

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Mac Miller – Love Lost

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Santigold f. Karen O – Go

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Lanie Lane – Like Me Meaner

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Daniel Merriweather – A little bit better

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Danay Suarez – Esta Guerra Tan Violenta

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Skarra Mucci ft. Weedy G – My Sound (After the Laughter)

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Florence & The Machine ft. Kid Harpoon – I’m Goin’ Down

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Dillah Jones – You Gotta See me again (Big Styles edit)

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Tennis – Marathon

 

Close Calls:

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Xaphoon Jones-The Jackson Pit

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Sandungueo – Miss Broadway (Paul Devro DJ Edit)

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Chiddy Bang – Heatwave

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The Strokes – Machu Piccu

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Toro Y Moi – Still sound

 

 

YUM YUM Munich, this Saturday @ Praterinsel +++ a new YUM YUM short mixtape “Sunshine Inside”

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

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YUM YUM “Sunshine inside” (short mix pt1)

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

Tracklist:

YUM YUM Top Tunes March

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Africa – Hackney Colliery Band (YUM YUM version)

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Want Ur Money – Anthony Cruz & Shugah

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Rocksteady – Rox

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Abrazame – Los Rakas (Uproot Andy Remix)

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Make Me Yours (Original 7″) – Bettye Swann

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Why can’t we – Asa

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My Sound – Skarra Mucci feat. Weedy G (After the Laughter)

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After All This Time – The Beautiful Girls

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Rolling in the Deep – Adele (YUM YUM version) /*cant convert it for some reason, will be online in a few*

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Gay Human Bones – Harlem

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C’est L’amour – Rosi Golan

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You Gotta See me again (Big Styles edit) – Dillah Jones

ps here is a variant cover for the march top tunes, i know guys will love it, i do lol

Africa – Hackney Colliery Band (chromes yum yum version)

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A short edit of my favourite tune at the moment. Just a quick little double timer for the djs, and all the folks who wanna incorporate this brilliant gem in a mix. Promised this to be online saturday, but the weather was marvelous and i had to take some time off to be for myself and so i chose aloneness, hahaha… Anyways, here it is: But first give the band some credit for their amazing original and the fun you will have with this tune, buy supporting them on their bandcamp site. ps check the label Wah Wah on Facebook, there are plenty more gems to discover. I found myself a fan at first glance. Expect this tune and the Hackney Colliery Band in this months YUM YUM top tunes (coming tomorrow:)

Enjoy this one and let the sunshine in..

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Africa – Hackney Colliery Band (chromes yum yum edit)/low quality 128kbit

Download “Africa” in Good Quality (320kbit), click on the button below

Click on this button and you will get the high quality (320) version, when the link opens just press cmd+s, or save site in your browser, anyhow – very simple. You get it for free anyways, so pay with a tweet or a share on facebook, for this band its about exposure and people getting to know them & hopefully getting some gigs everywhere, so help in getting people to know them. We will do our best by letting djs play this gem at all our parties (YUM YUM and befriended acts, night, etc). So do your part, its one click that makes the difference.. Thank you all.

This song sweetened my day!

ps (stolen – lol) Artwork by my yum yum partner, Danny who is running the amazing bklyn blog (part of our YUM YUM network). this will fit right in, Danny!