The Dream’s new album Love King has been getting a lot of chitter chatter around me lately, and when I heard that our friends in Fiero were gonna re-work ‘Yamaha’ I got pretty giddy. The Fiero boys hit us with this outstanding bootleg remix a few weeks back, and upon first listen I got a raging ear boner. The guys were then awesome enough to let us debut the song here on Binary, which gave me a huge face boner. If you’re not familiar with Fiero, they’re a really rad SoCal producer/DJ group made up of Nicky Savage, Sam Aftermath, and Jeremy Giovinazzo. We became familiar with them earlier this year, and the love affair has been alive ever since. All super cool dudes that make some real top notch chunes… which you can see from listening to this little gem.

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The Dream – Yamaha (Fiero Double Rainbow Bootleg)

The track kicks off with a beautiful, glittery build-up and the repeated line, “I miss ya”.  Right off the bat I’m thrown on the runway at LAX, possibly heading to New York… maybe Hawaii. It’s actually the intro to the song after ‘Yamaha’ on the album, ‘Nikki Part 2’. Then, at around 30 seconds in, we get lifted into a delightful world of mystical R&B that straddles the line between inner city and beach… somewhere between Malibu and downtown LA. The uplifting qualities of this song sorta blow me away… I could be having the worst day ever, listen to this, and all is right. Aural delight in true form. It’s like Prince, Usher, and Sébastien Tellier had a musical orgy with Janet Jackson, and this was the result.

The lyrics in ‘Yamaha’ are probably one of my favorite parts. The words just seem to hit me really hard… in that giggly gangster sort of way. Dirty R&B lines like “If you let me in that body Imma turn that motha fucka out” and “Still gotcha name tattooed on my back” have been getting stuck in my head for days and days after listening. I actually think I had a dream recently where I was walking around in a coffee shop repeating those lyrics to strangers. It was awkward. And on top of the lyrics being super catchy and awesome, the name of this remix is perfect… ‘Double Rainbow Bootleg’?!? How perfect is that? (If somehow missed it, as I did, do yourself a favor and check out the Double Rainbow Guy / Yosemite Bear video).

To be honest, the original of this song isn’t my favorite. I really like the Love King album as a whole, but ‘Yamaha’ doesn’t really knock my socks off. It’s a little boring to me I suppose… but Fiero fixes that with this fiery bootleg. Everything about this song  just makes me smile. Makes me want to trade in my crappy little Shanghai Shenke motorcycle (scooter) and get a Yamaha.

Stay tuned for more lovely tunes from Fiero. And definitely stay tuned for some Binary/Fiero magic that should be available for our listening pleasure in the coming weeks.

Posted by: Dillon