Pure NYC. An ESG-ish noodly bass dance-punk beat courtesy of Vex Ruffin with New York legend Fab 5 Freddy bringing the bars. From the man himself, Fab 5 Freddy: “I liked… Continue reading
Melancholy you can move to. “Bitter Leaf” by Melbourne, Australia’s LANKS is a moody, piano-led nocturnal soul cut that features handclap builds, wistful croons, and future fax machine glitch flourishes.… Continue reading
Metronome clips and 808 claps, jazz cymbal rattles and monolithic synths. “Sitting So High” is the magnificent new single from Amsterdam producer Awir Leon. Track of the day. … Continue reading
A tribute to the unseen soul. “Brea” is a laidback and breezy jazz beat instrumental that swells with a surge of monumental horns and cymbal crashes on the chorus. Track of… Continue reading
Gold Panda hangs out with his grandma, visits a museum, and has a Maccy D’s in this new video for “In My Car.” Mightily diggin’ those lush, warm, choral… Continue reading
Zurich musician Georg Bleikolm aka KnoR is an electronic shaper. His latest song “Don’t Go” is a textured and brooding composition with a surging, club-rooted bass and drum pattern.… Continue reading
East Flatbush, Brooklyn producer MeLo-X has a prodigious musical output; scroll through his never-ending Soundcloud page to see the extent of his work. On his latest song, “The Cure,” a line… Continue reading
Cannot stop listening to the indelible greatness that is “Love” from London brothers Will and Matt Ritson aka Formation. Track of the day. Formation – “Love” … Continue reading
Filmed live at Orly Ouest, Terminal 3, last month. If only every airport did this. Track of the day. Nicolas Godin – “Bach Off” (Live at Orly Ouest… Continue reading
The production expertise of Adrian Younge is unparalleled. From the moment those carefully crafted drums kick in with a rimshot as vintage as a Kodachrome photograph of a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, from… Continue reading
Everybody’s favorite blue florist and master of raps ad absurdum Kool Keith has teamed up with North Carolina producer L’Orange to beam “The Green Ray,” a dreamy, radioactive collage of jazz, hip-hop, and 1950s television,… Continue reading
Equal parts the cut-and-pasted-overwrought-movie-dialogue aesthetic of The Avalanches circa 2000, the jovial spirit of big beat in 1997, and the beeps and bleeps of a digitally-saturated 2015, the title track of Luke Vibert‘s latest… Continue reading
Olivier Daysoul may have changed his name to Olivier St. Louis, but he still comes correct with some of the most inventive falsetto soul out there. The Berlin resident… Continue reading
Garratt once again comes up with the goods! “Breathe Life” features more of the quality poetic lyricism we’ve come to expect from Jack, waves of synth chord pulses. an amiable shaker-stomp… Continue reading
This one sounds as if it was made especially for Low End Theory. Made of Oak is one half of Sylvan Esso: Durham, North Carolina-via-Milwaukee, Wisconsin producer Nicholas Sanborn. … Continue reading
Former Cinematic Orchestra member, guitarist, and composer Stuart McCallum pens a jazz-laden, soul-infused, electronic music-tinged ode to his home of Manchester, UK. Cannot get enough of those delayed drums,… Continue reading
19-year-old UK singer and producer Amber Bain is The Japanese House. Her brand new song “Clean” is soupy, emotive, and brilliant, like an amber bath. Track of the day.… Continue reading
Much like Grimes, NYC’s Honduran-American singer-songwriter-producer Lorely Rodriguez aka Empress Of fuses upbeat melodic experimentalism with a firm DIY sensibility, the results of which always sound brave, fresh, and boundary-defying. Very… Continue reading
Neuroscientist-turned-music producer Sam Shepherd bka Floating Points is preparing to release his debut album, Elaenia. The first song to be aired from the upcoming LP is “Silhouettes,” an edited version of… Continue reading
This slice of sun-bleached, low-slung indie-soul from Tune-Yards bassist Nate Brenner aka Naytronix is making this cloudy August Friday morning in Los Angeles all kinds of great. Hear “Mister… Continue reading
Bristol, England’s Geoff Barrow—best known for being a founding member of the band Portishead—has just released a split EP featuring two tracks from his other band BEAK> and—plot twist!—two tracks from BEAK>’s “alter-ego”: <KAEB, which is… Continue reading
“Nomenclature” by Birmingham, England’s Ruane Maurice sounds as if Massive Attack had decided to make house instead of hip-hop. Digging that textured percussion in the background, those big, chunky synth… Continue reading
Hot Chip meets Chet Faker. Say Yes Dog was started in 2011 by two Germans and one Luxembourger. The Berlin-based trio’s brand new single “Stronger” has it all; playful bass squelches,… Continue reading
Let’s tesselate. Mightily diggin’ this piano-led jazz beat from Dusseldorf, Germany’s Grandbrothers. It has those Jazztronik “Samurai” vibes, which is one of my favorite tunes of all time. Track… Continue reading
That glorious, stumbling beat. Those mahogany piano pillars. Love this new one from Sydney, Australia’s Jack Grace. Track of the day. Jack Grace – “Hills” (Official Video)… Continue reading
Since moving to LA, it appears that Canadian songwriter and producer Mocky has missed the ice and cooler temperatures of his homeland, as the title of his brand new song “Living in… Continue reading
Santa Monica’s Cayucas sound exactly how this video looks, blending the summery, surfboard-in-hand, afro-pop-flecked indie sensibilities of Vampire Weekend’s first album with a singing style that reflects the temperate verdancy of the Pacific… Continue reading
I wasn’t sure if 18-year-old singer Alessia Cara was Canadian, but then it was immediately confirmed when I heard the line “Pardon my manners, I hope you’ll understand it.” “Here”… Continue reading
Despite being called “The Wonder Years,” this new future soul synth-simmerer from Chicago-born singer-songwriter-producer Jesse Boykins III contains approximately 0% guest raps from Fred Savage. Big love for this one. Track of the day. … Continue reading
Benamin and Sly5thAve are indigo, green, brown, orange, or IGBO. The duo’s brand new track, “Entrance Theme,” is a veritable, playful, psychedelic voyage of future funk. Track… Continue reading
Chicago’s Eryn Allen Kane is probably best known for her powerful vocals on collaborations with Chance the Rapper‘s Social Experiment. Her brand new solo single, “Have Mercy,” is an amazing, attention-grabbing layering… Continue reading
Barcelona, Spain producer Sau Poler creates dreamy, uptempo beats fused with otherworldly soul vocal blips and clips. Sau Poler – “Juun” (Official Video) “Juun”… Continue reading
Detroit-born, LA-based singer and producer Christian Berishaj bka JMSN (pronounced “Jameson”) has crafted this excellent soulful, strings-laden, future R&B jam, complete with some spacey voice echo snippets, some Timberlakey vocal overdubs and an addictive,… Continue reading
Very much enjoying this crackled, mellow funk stepper from South London-via-Taiwan Henry Wu. The accompanying video below was shot around London’s Old Kent Road, the first square on the… Continue reading
Deep in the Malaysian jungle, producer Cee and multi instrumentalist-crooner Darren Ashley make organic, vine-riped, and above all, soulful electronic music as Bass Sekolah, which translates as Bass School. And… Continue reading
Punchy, psychedelic garage rock of the finest order from the duo known as 8|8 aka Two Eights aka Tyler Lott and Richard Ray, who are so fresh that they don’t even have press… Continue reading
Hip-pop at its finest. Annie Ashcroft, Frankee Connolly, and Nadine Samuels of British girl group M.O teleport us back to the 90s with this gospel-flecked, destiny-chilled, clicks ‘n’ bubbles… Continue reading
Anyone want to go night skateboarding in London? Jamie xx ft Romy from the xx – “Loud Places” So much to love about this, most… Continue reading
The last time I wrote about Portland, Oregon-via-New Zealand lo-fi psychedelic-indie-soul outfit and band-name-you-would-probably-find-somewhere-in-an-anime-movie Unknown Mortal Orchestra was back when they covered Lindstrom’s spacey and disco-y “Rà-àkõ-st.,” which was and still is amazing in every… Continue reading
Utterly entranced by this future organic-electro-jazz-dance excursion by I’lls. Those rimshot clicks and egg shaker hits. I’lls – “Fifty-Phiphti” (Official Video) Hear more from the… Continue reading
Pell is poised to blow up this year. Already tipped on Complex’s Top 25 Rappers To Know in 2014, Pigeons & Planes’ Top 10 Rappers to Know Before They Blow, and… Continue reading
L.A.-via-Chicago art-rap aficionado Open Mike Eagle stopped by the Dan Digs Show on Dash Radio last Sunday to play some of his favorite records for the #SixSongScenario. After we… Continue reading
Both twenty-years-old, both French-Cuban, and both twin sisters, Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz are Ibeyi, the Yoruba word for “twins.” Together they make some of the best percussive, organic, heartfelt… Continue reading
Sadly, this isn’t an electronic soul cover of Kelly Clarkson, however London drum ‘n’ bass producer Stray still knows his way around a strutting hip-hop beat oozing with mood and movement. Love the… Continue reading
One part acid house, one part Screamadelica-ish indie-dance, one part messing about on an 808. Love this lo-fi, rhythmic, drum machine-happy percolator courtesy of London’s Blludd Relations on the remix for UK… Continue reading
A heavily atmospheric, esoteric hip-hop cut from The Black Opera, complete with a brooding soul beat courtesy of Tall Black Guy, that is perfect for November. The Black Opera… Continue reading
On “Another Screen,” Dublin’s Kormac partners with legendary Scottish writer and author of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh. The result is a spoken word piece, underpinned with a jovial, strumming, strolling beat from Kormac,… Continue reading
I’ve been working with the fine folks at Reverbnation and over the past month I’ve been taking submissions from artists from all over the world to be featured here at DanDigs.com. I… Continue reading
Like Howard Moon fronting Black Grape after listening to Jagwar Ma on repeat and taking fashion cues from Justin Hawkins from the Darkness. Love those pools of psyche-piano that… Continue reading
Barney Artist is taking hip-hop in a new direction. Far from the punishing kicks and lacerating snares of trap and miles away from the bully bass of grime,… Continue reading
