Diggin’ This: ELWD – “inbloom” (Bad Taste Records)
UK producer ELWD (pronounced “Ellwood”) turns in “inbloom,” an all low-caps, lo-fi mellow groove that is as instantly relaxing as it is poignant. My only complaint is that it’s not… Continue reading
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Listen Back to Dan Digs on Worldwide FM: New Music from Dwight Trible, Photay, Rhye, Inc. No World, Henry Wu (Video)
Back on Worldwide FM yesterday to host and spin a selection of my favorite tracks live from the mighty Red Gate Recorders studio in Highland Park. Musical gems in the mix from… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: LOXE ft Alyss – “Safe to Me” (Dusty Records)
“Safe to Me” is a faded and fidgety, r&b house bounce sunsetter by London producer LOXE that features the ethereal vocals of singer Alyss. No stranger to collaborations, LOXE has… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: K15 & Kuniyuki – “Moving Minds” (K15 Remix) (Sound of Speed Japan)
A deft and delicate Floating Points-meets-broken beat-meets-synth jazz wonderwork courtesy of London producer Kieron Ifill, one half of DanDigs.com favorites Profusion and better known as K15. Track of the day.… Continue reading
Listen Back to Dan Digs on Worldwide FM: New Music from Shabazz Palaces, Washed Out, The Pollyseeds (Terrace Martin & Kamasi Washington), Seven Davis Jr, Karavan (Video)
Jumped back on WWLA, the Los Angeles branch of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM, this week to host and spin my favorite new tracks live from the esteemed Red Gate Recorders studio in Highland… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Turtle – “Solar” (Beatnik Creative)
“Solar” gives you life. Turtle’s latest composition is a Jon Hopkins-esque beguiling blend of swirling piano keys and centrifugal drums. Track of the day. Turtle… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Tawiah – “Queens” (Lima Limo Records)
South London songstress Tawiah returns with “Queens,” four minutes of tumbling percussion, sunset acoustic guitar plucking, piano key splashes, and vocals gleaming with UK soul. Track of the day. … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Hunrosa – “All” (Wah Wah 45s) (Official Video)
Manchester, UK producer Sam Vicary, otherwise known as Hunrosa, is a member of perennial DanDigs.com faves The Cinematic Orchestra and Paper Tiger. On “All,” his debut single as Hunrosa,… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Gila – “Pick Six” (Deviation) (Official Video)
On “Pick Six,” Denver producer Gila cooks up a weighty 808 beat that marches over Brothers Grimm harp breezes, clinical cowbell hits, and looped güiro scratches, the end result sounding not unlike the Nutcracker as reimagined… Continue reading
Dan Digs Live: DJ Set with Frank Foreal at Ace Hotel Palm Springs on Saturday June 3
Come embrace the good times with us in my favorite desert this Saturday June 3. Frank Foreal and I will be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B,… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Osage – “Guanguan Riddim” (Bastard Jazz) (Free Download)
Flute wisps, persistent electronic piano chords, interwoven percussion textures, and a heavy, grooving kick drum make up Osage’s attention-grabbing new track, “Guanguan Riddim.” Osage (pronounced Oh-Sage), better known as Philly DJ/producer… Continue reading
Shape Up DJ Mix by Dan Digs for Dublab’s Proton Drive
It was great fun to put this mix together for one of the universe’s greatest radio stations: Dublab! Donate to Dublab today and get my Elite Cardiophonics DJ mix, a… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Jaide – “Temporary” (Produced by Tev’n)
“Temporary,” by Jaide finds the London singer’s heavenly tones ascending and descending over a highly original, delayed, stop-motion beat that sounds like it could’ve been crafted by recording different parts of an unfinished wicker chair… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Doctrine – “Play”
“Play,” the debut single from new collective Doctrine, helmed by composer Stephen Feigenbaum, he of the 2016 “Yeethoven” project that fused music by none other than Beethoven and Kanye West, is a tapestry of synth flashes and a… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Julian Jasper – “In the Lilacs” (Misra Records)
On “In the Lilacs,” LA-via-San Diego musician Julian Jasper melds soaring psyche-fuzz with pounding drums and a captivating guitar riff that speeds across an empty Californian freeway in the middle of the night.… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Dokta Venom – “I Owe U Something” (Far Out Recordings)
Son of Incognito’s Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick, Daniel Maunick aka Dokta Venom is the in-house producer for the venerable Far Out Recordings. Having worked on music for Azymuth, Sabrina Malheiros, and… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Will Joseph Cook – “Beach (I Wanna Make You Mine)” (HONNE Remix) (Atlantic Records)
UK duo HONNE have transformed Will Joseph Cook‘s “Beach (I Wanna Make You Mine)” into an explosive star shower of housed-up future-funk. I’ve also got large amounts of appreciation for that screaming and gleaming… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Thalab – “Good Swim” (Juicebox Recordings)
Barcelona-born duo Thalab wrote and recorded the casually excellent “Good Swim” in a room in London. The swimmingly good song features blurred synths, a textured and trebled electric bass, an… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: The Heliocentrics – “Made of the Sun” (Soundway Records)
Malcolm Catto’s outfit return with “Made of the Sun,” an ascendant, cinematic soul builder that features the impassioned vocals of Barbara Patkova. Track of the day. The Heliocentrics – “Made of… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Relaén – “Mediantenpetting” (Wadada Records)
Not unlike the cosmic soul output of Hiatus Kaiyote, Relaén takes you on a buoyant experimental jazz odyssey. The German band’s latest song, “Mediantenpetting,” features perkily popped bass guitar, crisp… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Bibio – “Feeling” (Knxledge Remix)
Stones Throw producer and one half of NxWorries, Knxledge‘s latest remix is this dusty donut rework of Bibio‘s “Feeling,” a warm and woozy affair that sounds like it was found as part of a… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: PDF and the Acrobats ft the Unused Word – “Inner Space” (Duzz Down San) (Free Album Download)
Phil da Funk‘s latest project, PDF and the Acrobats (zzzzzinggggg!) sees the Austrian producer teaming up with one of my favorite vocalists, The Unused Word, to create the floating, mellow, electronic-tinged future soul… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Children Of Zeus – “I Can’t Wait” (First Word Records)
Manchester, UK’s Konny Kon and Tyler Daley are Children Of Zeus. Featuring cascading electric guitar runs and an irresistible vocal hook that sits ever so neatly over the kicks and snares, the… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Space Dimension Controller – “Exostack” (Kornél Kovács Remix) (R&S Records)
A relentless, crusty and serrated hi-hat oversees Stockholm’s Kornél Kovács‘ remix of “Exostack,” which transforms the Space Dimension Controller original into a thumping yet subtle future jazz house journey. Track of… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Hector Plimmer – “Let’s Stay” (Albert’s Favorites)
Enigmatic Entroducing-esque keys chime and glow amidst crisp and cymbal-heavy jazz drums on “Let’s Stay,” the opening track of South London producer and designer Hector Plimmer‘s brand new album, Sunshine. Track… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Jonah Levine Collective – “False Alarm” (World Galaxy/Alpha Pup)
Ronald Bruner Jr, Josef Leimberg, Miles Mosley, and now Jonah Levine; the world-class releases from LA jazz label World Galaxy only keep getting better. “False Alarm” is over five minutes… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Charlotte Dos Santos – “Red Clay” (Fresh Selects)
Brooklyn-via-Oslo chanteuse Charlotte Dos Santos interpolates the jazz standard “Red Clay,” fusing the Freddie Hubbard classic with laidback drums, gentle keys, and an effortless vocal delivery. Track of the… Continue reading
Listen Back to Dan Digs on Worldwide FM with the Koreatown Oddity Live in Studio (Video)
Spun what turned out to be one of my favorite ever mixes live at Stones Throw HQ in Highland Park, Los Angeles for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM. Tunes in… Continue reading
Music by Dan Digs: Lorde – “Green Light” (Dan Digs’ Wavy Waiheke Ravey Remix)
Piano house pianos plus Amen breaks, every time. Lorde – “Green Light” (Dan Digs’ Wavy Waiheke Ravey Remix) Listen to more remixes… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Recloose ft Mara TK of Electric Wire Hustle – “Spirit Knows” (Aus Music)
Recloose returns a soulful and sunshine-fueled robust house cut. An airy, outdoor, nature-near vibe permeates “Spirit Knows” throughout, thanks to that brilliant, shimmering and shivering vocal sample pinned in place by… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Daniel Brandt – “Chaparral Mesa” (Erased Tapes)
“I wanted to create a different sound, songs that build up like dance tunes but don’t feel like club music at all.” So says Daniel Brandt, and he’s entirely… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Corbo ft Remy Kay – “I’m Good” (New Los Angeles)
Corbo, otherwise known as Bür Gür‘s Corbin Clarke, has teamed up with Diamond Bar songstress Remy Kay for “I’m Good,” a blissful and reassuring gossamer leftfield soul gemstone. Track of… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Moiré ft James Massiah – “Façade” (Ghostly) (Official Video)
Serrated snares, turbulent drum pattterns, bass boulders, and the disembodied vox of James Massiah, “Façade” by London’s Moiré is dystopian yet secretly hopeful, lo-fi, slo-techno grit-house machinery. Track of… Continue reading
Music by Dan Digs – “Skies in the Crane” (Solange Edit)
An uptempo and breezy djembe ‘n’ bass flip of Solange’s “Cranes in the Sky,” which was track number 5 in my Top 100 of 2016 (check out the full list here). … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Sango – “Dance for Blessings” (Last Gang Records)
A thoroughly experimental, fragmental, glitched and stitched percussive tapestry from Seattle’s Sango. Track of the day. Sango – “Dance for Blessings” “Dance… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Oma Nata – “Alone Together” (Forbidden Cuts)
On “Alone Together,” Hamburg-residing, Portugal-originating producer Oma Nata turns in four and a half minutes of low-lit jazz piano chords and a meditative flute underpinned by a reliable kick, hovering shakers, and… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Karriem Riggins – “4Es’J & Oddness” (Stones Throw)
The reversed beat, time-traveling synths, and sampled croon snippets of “4Es’J” and the strict drums and carousel keys of “Oddness,” here combined for Karriem Riggins‘ first single from his second solo… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: D-Rocksteady – “Wandering” (Free Download)
A fitting soundtrack to the wall-to-wall rain we’ve been having recently here in Los Angeles. On “Wandering,” Washington, D.C. producer D-Rocksteady weaves textured percussive elements and fluid low-end bass… Continue reading
Music by Dan Digs: Goldie – “State of Mind” (Dan Digs Remix)
One of my favorite tunes from one of my favorite albums gets the house edit treatment. It’s all about that upright bass noodle intertwined with that 104bpm stomp. … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Bastien Keb – “Pick Up” (One Handed Music/First Word Records)
Lazy horns parps, slap-bass pops, a chilled chorus of soulful vox, and those all-important hand-claps, Bastien Keb‘s “Pick Up” is both instantly likable and repeat-listenable. Track of the day.… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Inna de Yard ft Ken Boothe – “Let the Water Run Dry” (Official Video)
Feeling this heartfelt yet airy, breeze-blown and stripped-down acoustic rendition of Ken Boothe’s 1968 rocksteady original by Jamaican collective Inna de Yard. Track of the day. Inna… Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show 114: New London Grammar, DJ Taye, StarRo, IG Culture, Lazy Salon – Dan in the DJ Mix
Show number 114! As always, the latest and greatest in leftfield beats and electronic soul, plus interviews with my favorite artists for your listening pleasure every Sunday night on Dash 1… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Eric Lau – “Lau’s Lament”
“Lau’s Lament” is probably in my top 5 favorite laments, among Bird’s, Eugene’s, and Busta’s. Track of the day. Eric Lau – “Lau’s Lament” … Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show 113: Anderson .Paak, Frank Ocean, Solange, A.K. Paul, Sampha – Top 100 Tracks of 2016! (Part 2: 50-1)
Show number 113! The #DanDigsShow’s Top 100 Tracks of 2016! This is Part 2: Tracks 50 through 1. You can stream the show via Mixcloud below… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: My Top 30 Remixes of 2016
Thirty of the best remixes, reworks, reshuffles, and reimaginations all from the year 2016. 30. Jodie Abacus – “I’ll Be That Friend” (Jono Jagwar Ma Remix) 29. James Blake… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: My Top 30 Albums of 2016
Of all of the many, many, many fantastic, great, and wonderful albums released this year, here’s a list of the 30 I enjoyed the most. (Click on the images below to… Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show 112: The Robert Glasper Experiment, James Vincent McMorrow, Tay Sean, Max Graef, Yussef Kamaal – Top 100 Tracks of 2016! (Part 1: 100-51)
Show number 112! The #DanDigsShow’s Top 100 Tracks of 2016! This is Part 1: Tracks 100 through 51. Part 2 (Tracks 50… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Bonobo ft Rhye – “Break Apart” (Ninja Tune)
“Break Apart,” the latest single from Bonobo, threads together rainy ukulele strings, sombre pianos, stop-start snare rolls, stainless steel percussion, and the cherubic vocals of Michael Milosh aka Rhye. Track… Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show 111: New Childish Gambino, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Pharrell, Peggy Gou, Huxley & Roy Davis Jr – Special Guest: Midori
Show number 111! As always, the latest and greatest in leftfield beats and electronic soul, plus interviews with my favorite artists for your listening pleasure every Sunday night on Dash 1… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Fallgrapp ft Juraj Benetin – “Dym” (Gergaz)
Clouded, moody electronic soul from Slovakia’s Fallgrapp. “Dym” (“Smoke” in English) features frozen synths, tabla percussion textures, and a dramatic, Slovak-sung male-female dialogue. Track of the day.… Continue reading