LISTEN/DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE DAN DIGS PODCAST: 120 MINUTES OF BRAND NEW BEATS, BASS, HIP-HOP, & ELECTRONIC SOUL. SUN, APR 13, 2014.
Hyped to share with you my very favorite songs of the very recent past.
Brand new brilliance from Gil Scott-Heron, Chet Faker, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Jack White, Moses Sumney, my own electronic soul project Bright Bright Flashing Lights with singer-songwriter Sean Makhuli, Tiny Hearts, Phantogram, Warpaint, Temples, Anushka, and L-Vis 1990.
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Here’s how we got dreamy.
WE OPEN WITH UNRELEASED GIL SCOTT-HERON
0:01 Gil Scott-Heron – “Alien (Hold on to Your Dreams)”
0:05 Chet Faker – “1998”
THIS WHITE-HOT GUITAR LICK
0:09 Until The Ribbon Breaks – “A Taste Of Silver”
JACK WHITE IS SUCH A TALENTED SONGWRITER HE NO LONGER USES WORDS
0:11 Jack White – “High Ball Stepper”
ONE OF THE BEST TRACKS OF 2014 NO QUESTION
0:15 Little Dragon – “Klapp Klapp” (Swindle Remix)
0:18 Pools – “MTV”
UK HIP-HOP IN THE PLACE
0:21 Parallax – “Hip-Hop Philosophy”
0:24 Abhi & Dijon – “Let You Know”
0:27 Alias ft Therese Workman – “Indiiggo”
0:30 Moses Sumney – “Man On The Moon”
SEAN MAKHULI & MYSELF FORMED A BAND NAMED BRIGHT BRIGHT FLASHING LIGHTS AND THIS IS OUR COVER OF A CERTAIN DISCLOSURE TRACK
0:33 Bright Bright Flashing Lights – “Latch” (Disclosure Cover)
THE SOUND OF GRIME IN 2014
0:40 Skepta ft JME – “That’s Not Me”
0:42 Amerigo Gazaway presents Yasiin Gaye (Mos Def vs Marvin Gaye) – “B Stands For Beef” (Instrumental Version)
0:43 Bones The Beat Head – “Moonlight”
0:45 Lemongrass – “Aloha”
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA’S M-PHAZES’ SIDE PROJECT SOUNDING SHINY
0:47 Camden Arc – “I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love”
0:52 Tiny Hearts – “Stay” (Jeedo X Remix)
BOBBY’S SON GETS SOULFUL WITH NAI PALM OF HIATUS KAIYOTE
0:56 Taylor McFerrin ft Nai Palm – “The Antidote”
0:59 Phantogram – “Fall in Love” (Until the Ribbon Breaks Re-Imagination)
JAMES MERCER & DANGERMOUSE MEET A TRIBE CALLED QUEST BEATS
1:02 Broken Bells – “Holding on for Life” (Doc McKinney & Ali Shaheed Muhammad Remix)
THIS VOICE
1:05 Noriel Vilela – “16 Toneladas”
1:07 Warpaint – “Disco Very”
1:10 The Precious Lo’s – “More than Friends” (DOT REMIX)
LA’S RARE TIMES & BENEDEK ARE COOL WORLD
1:12 Cool World – “Finishing Touch”
1:16 Sway Clarke II – “Secret Garden”
1:19 Low Leaf – “Rise Up”
FUTURE BEATS FROM ATHENS, GREECE
1:21 Giganta – “Spot Scene”
1:26 Point Point – “Life in Grey”
1:28 Spooky Black x Bobby Raps x Psymun – “Blind”
1:31 All The People – “Don’t Think”
DO WE NEED ANY MORE RE-INTERPRETATIONS OF “HAPPY”? PROBABLY NOT, BUT THIS IS STILL GREAT
1:33 Pharrell – “Happy” (ForteBowie 1988 Soul Train Edit)
1:35 Deft – “Breakdown”
1:37 Stone Float – “Repeat” (A/jus/ted Remix)
SO MUCH PSYCHEDELIC
1:40 Jagwar Ma – “Man I Need” (Temples Remix)
1:41 First Touch – “Dream Island”
1:43 Truls – “Out of Yourself” (Roosevelt Remix)
1:45 Jagwar Ma – “Uncertainty (Cut Copy Remix)
LOVE ANUSHKA’S SUBTLE PIANO HOUSE-SOUL MUSIC CREATIONS
1:47 Anushka – “World in a Room”
SOUNDTRACK TO MY 80’S TRAINING MONTAGE
1:49 Duck Sauce aka Armand Van Helden & A-Trak – “NRG” (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
1:51 Flume x WKND – “Hyper Paradise”
WE CLOSE WITH L-VIS 1990 ON THE DOUBLE
1:53 Divoli S’vere & Queen Beat – “Skanker” (L-Vis 1990 Edit)
1:57 Principles of Geometry – “Streamsters” (L-Vis 1990 Remix)
Thanks for tuning in, hope all is extremely good with your good self.
Much love to you from Venice Beach, California,
Dan