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
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
wicked tune, featuring two of my favourite acts: Goapele (takes me back to 2004) & chromemusic darlings Los Rakas, found via our top tunes group by heavyweight contender shawn. perfect YUM YUM tune for the early hours or better the very late ones. mellow meltdown, this tunes somehwere between … the sheets. pure sex
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 Clanname 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)
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.
ok its just a diy acapella on top of some jazzed up beat, with a simple drumloop, but nonetheless this works. its a classic and even trying to pretend that it has anything on this huge huge classic tune would be wrong, but seriously the original is one of the tunes that was like a hiphop Mantra in the nineties and just seeing someone give it a different spin is welcome by me. Watch how the horns build up and interact more and more towards the end, in contrast to the quite monotoneous intro. By the end of the tune you ll be swinging. Reminds me of Premiers classic work with Branford Marsalis.
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.
