Jai Paul – “Jasmine” (Demo)
Very excited for new this Jai Paul demo that surfaced yesterday. Been a fan of the Rayners Lane, north west London producer’s output ever since his future soul track “BTSTU” with its signature… Continue reading
Category Archive: Songs I’m Diggin’
0 Comments
Homeboy Sandman – “The Miracle” (Official Video)
Like pouring six bowls of Cap’n Crunch in your ears. Love it when hip-hop just gets plain weird.
Funkommunity – “Dandelion” (Official Video)
Loving this Nu Zealand nu soul with a groove that’s heavily indebted to the L.A. beat scene. Must be something in the sunshine.
B.Traits ft Elizabeth Troy – “Fever” (Official Video)
Equal parts 90s UK house, 90s UK garage, 90s UK drum ‘n’ bass, 90s UK rave, 90s UK diva vox. 100% joy. A decade of British dance music expertly distilled into 3… Continue reading
Julia Stone – “Let’s Forget All the Things that We Say” (Oliver Tank Remix)
5:04am music. Released nine hours ago from man of the lushly-stringed nocturnal moment Oliver Tank. (I’ve banged on before about Mr. O.T. being a James-Blake-soundalike-Aussie, primarily because it sounded like a cool… Continue reading
Crazy P – “Changes” (Behling & Simpson Remix) (Free MP3 Download)
When I saw there was a new Behling & Simpson remix up, such was my excitement that I clicked on “Download” just a little bit faster than the time it takes a hummingbird… Continue reading
One Little Plane ft Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood – “She Was Out in the Water” (Produced by Four Tet)
Every once in a while I’ll take a dive head-first into the weird and wonderful gym-bag that is “folktronica” (see Beth Orton and the Chems’ collaborative output, see also the rather excellent Perfect… Continue reading
14KT ft Tony Ozier – “Width” (Official Video)
Thursday feel-good song. “When can they measure the width of our love?” “Never a time.” Find this track and more from Ypsilanti, Michigan’s 14KT on his latest album A Friendly Game… Continue reading
Joker ft Buggsy & Otis Brown – “Lost” (Official Video)
Big look for Joker on this one. Pathos is as heavy here as his signature synths.
Nina Kraviz – “Ghetto Kraviz” (Official Video)
Nina Kraviz here with a late-night haze of rhythmic 909 kicks that kick you in the shins and claps that clap you across the face. Slurred, talk-in-your-sleep talk is ladled over the top… Continue reading
Every BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix EVER from October 1993 to April 2011
Words cannot describe my excitement over this. Forget every book about electronic music and club culture you’ve ever read or wanted to read, this is the definitive guide to dance music’s evolution… Continue reading
Richard Swift – “Broken Finger Blues” (Free MP3 Download)
The perfect rainy day song. The Shins’ Richard Swift sounding not completely unlike early Mayer Hawthorne sounding not completely unlike the large majority of the Motown greats. Although when your full name… Continue reading
Ifan Dafydd – “Treehouse” (Official Video)
There’s plenty of moody and introspective vocal electronic music out there right now with the “post-dubstep” or “sounds a bit James Blake-y” tags. The music of Ifan Dafydd is far better than those… Continue reading
Die & Break ft MC Fats & Buggsy – “Peace & Dub” (from the Grand Funk Hustle EP ) (Official Video)
Pure Bristol vibes. Rave in peace.
Thavius Beck – “Thanks”
Morning tune. L.A.’s Thavius Beck comes correct with some lush, cinematically-orchestrated strings. “Thanks” is perfect pre-noon listening. Thavius Beck – “Thanks” Grab… Continue reading
Quadron – “Day” (Official Video)
To me, Quadron’s band name will always sound like a black metal outfit formed by Harvard mathematicians. Who knew they would actually turn out to be an easily-lovable Danish duo fully capable of… Continue reading
Photek – “Into the 90s”
Woke up with this super-relaxing-times Photek tune in my head this morning. Which is strange because my wake-up alarm ringtone is usually Three 6 Mafia’s “Poppin My Collar.”
Enjoyed – “Paws” (Official Video)
The UK producer’s lush, Balearic, synthpopped, chillwaved track “Paws” finally gets the video treatment. The result is exactly what you’d expect this sound to look like if you could see it: multiple dream-like… Continue reading
A. R. Rahman, Suresh Peters & Shahul Hameed – “Urvasi Urvasi” from the movie “Kadhalan” aka “Humse Hai Muqabla” (1994) (Official Video)
Viewing notes: 1. This is some of the greatest dancing since MJ. And one of the best music videos ever. 2. I actually and involuntarily “laughed out loud” at 0:23. 3. Defying death… Continue reading
The Skints – “On a Mission” (Katy B Cover) (Official Video)
East London ska-dubsters The Skints take on Katy B’s “Katy on a Mission” and expertly execute a smooth, blissed, dubstyle reggae version of the original. Things to enjoy: 1. The slow nod of… Continue reading
Rage Against the Machine’s “Bulls on Parade” and “Killing in the Name of” as Covered by George Mason University’s Green Machine (Video)
The girl in the red shirt is LOSING IT. After listening to this, you’re ready for anything.
Three Hypnotic and Oddly Compelling Yet Simple Music Videos Featuring Views from Moving Trains (Video)
Sometimes the best videos are the simplest. First up, Brenk Sinatra’s “Perdido.” Sampling Arthur Verocai’s “Dedicada a Ela” from 1972. Which is very similar to the video to Four Tet’s “She Moves… Continue reading
Atomic Forest – “Locomotive Breath”
My new favorite 1970s Indian psychedelic rock group. Atomic Forest also may just be my new favorite band name. At least for this afternoon.
Korean Girl Covers Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” on Korea’s TV Singing Competition “K-pop Star” – (Video)
Things to love about this video: 1. The silent vow of competitive resolve by another contestant at 42 sec. 2. This stage of the singing contest is called “Survival Audit.” 3. The fact… Continue reading
Just A Band – “Hey!” (Official Video)
The modestly-titled Just A Band are my new favorite experimental electronic band from Nairobi, Kenya. Check out their exclamatorily-titled track “Hey!” and the corresponding video below. Both prove that rapping in Swahili is… Continue reading
Dub Phizix and Skeptical feat Strategy – “Marka” (Official Video)
Raw. Forget looking back in time with your Top 10 lists, this dark and deadly slice of hype is looking so far forward in the future it’s beaming the apocalypse back to us.
Wiley – “Cheer Up It’s Christmas” (Free MP3 Download)
“I don’t eat raisin cake, it’s all hassle.” Wiley = British rap Christmas genius. MPFreeness here.
Part-Time Heroes – “So” (Official Video) (Free MP3 Download)
In love with this one. Proper delicate soul-stomp business. Might just have to open up the Dig Deep radio show with it tonight! Grab this track for free by clicking here. Not… Continue reading
Dimlite – “Blur, Blur, Blur, Blur” (from the album Grimm Reality)
Late addition to my top 10 albums of 2011. Swiss beats (literally) from Dimlite’s fourth full-length album Grimm Reality. Is kaleidoscopic. Grab it via Stones Throw/Now Again Records or listen to more here.
Major Lazer ft the Partysquad – “Original Don” (Official Video)
The sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had a significantly lower budget. Run the traaaaaack!
Floating Points – “Myrtle Avenue”
Floating Points solving all your problems. Lights down for best listening.
James Blake – “Curbside”
James Blake’s latest effort saunters out of the gate with a strong snare and a nagging trumpet, perhaps to distance himself from the embrace from the charts he’s currently experiencing and keep… Continue reading
Michael Kiwanuka – “Tell Me a Tale” (Official Video)
In other news, this guy sounds like Otis had he grown up in North London. Also, he’s incredible. Hold tight the dusty retro, 70s guitar strum, flute business, lazy horn, soul revival!
Bad Bad Not Good – “Electric Relaxation” (A Tribe Called Quest Cover) (Video) (Free Album Download)
You know when you’re compiling an end-of-year Top 10 album list and then you wander over to a Bandcamp site on a whim and all of a sudden you hear your new favorite… Continue reading
Fela Soul – “Breakadawn” (Video & Free Download)
I am greatly enjoying this song from Gummy Soul‘s Amerigo Gazaway. It fuses De La’s “Breakadawn” with Fela’s “Water No Get Enemy” as heard on Amerigo’s freely downloadable Fela Soul mashtape. Cool vid… Continue reading
Nostalgia 77 ft Josa Peit – “Sleepwalker” (Official Video)
What Portishead might sound like had they come from somewhere marginally less rainy. Only marginally though.
Friendly Fires – “Hurting” (Official Video)
It’s all business as usual for Friendly Fires’ singer Ed “Slinky Hips” Macfarlane until 1min 24sec when the label realized they had 12 times the amount of cash they thought they had to… Continue reading
Ethiopian 80s Synth-Pop by Tigist Mekonnen – “Atselechegnim” (Video)
Featuring the fantastic “habesha” artist Nini. I love everything about this. Ethiopian synth-pop is HEAVY! Next flight to Addis, please.
Madvillian – “Papermill” & Manfred Krug – “Morgen”
Hands down my favorite Madvillian cut right here. Doom and Madlib collab for a one minute and forty five second blast with Doom off-cuffing a don’t-care freestyle about “free beer” and “never forgetting… Continue reading
Goldie – “You & Me”
Every year when the weather gets cold and invigorating, and the skies get blue and limitless, I always reach for Goldie’s first album “Timeless.” Still one of the most important… Continue reading
Remarc – “R.I.P.” (Philip D Kick’s Footwork Jungle Edit)
Footwork jungle is the new jungle footwork! Love this remix. Check out more from Om Unit aka Philip D Kick at his Soundcloud page.
Oddisee – “For Certain” – Live from Brussels (Official Video)
Two minutes of Autumnal head-noddage. For certain.
The Stepkids – “Legend In My Own Mind” (Official Video)
“Hey, you like hip-hop?” “I like the hip-hop.”
Mo Kolours – “Biddies” (Official Video)
I think that week-old pizza that I found under the bed (and then ate) gave me hallucinations. Biddies.
Blackalicious – “Alphabet Aerobics” (Video)
Attention DJs: the age-old classick way to transition from hip hop to house in your set is to simply play this one. Blackalicious play live at City Arts Festival in Seattle on October… Continue reading
Toro Y Moi – “Still Sound” (Official Video)
The Chaz Bundick (new favorite name) aka Toro Y Moi is an amazing musician with the unique eyewear and the great dance moves. See the Chaz playing live with the New Zillund-via-Portlund’s… Continue reading
Sola Rosa ft Iva Lamkum – ‘Turn Around’
This is what August 24th, afternoon, warm with overly-appreciated sunshine, in Seattle, sounds like. There is an abundance of good music from New Zealand.