With temperatures hitting 70 degrees this week in Seattle for the first time this year, we had to break out the shorts, dust off the flip-flops, and usher in summer proper by spinning… Continue reading
One of my all-time favorite remixes and remixers. Reprazent’s drum ‘n’ bass track ‘Watching Windows’ gets a spacey and echoey Latin update from Lil Louis and Kenny Dope aka Nuyorican Soul. The real… Continue reading
Dig Deep brought the heat last night kicking things off with London’s Rinse FM Heatwave Crew rejigging ‘Rolling In The Deep’. We got our funky d’n’b stylings on with Prisoners of Technology remixing… Continue reading
Fresh from tearing SXSW to shreds (and then shredding the shreds) back in March, the Korean garage rockers Galaxy Express mean business with their riotous and hyper-energetic track ‘Jungle the Black’. On hearing… Continue reading
What a monster show! Brand new UK beats from SBTRKT, Disclosure, Blood Orange, Vessel, Adam Freeland, and Ursa Major! And none of those names were made up! Plus our PRODUCER IN THE SPOTLIGHT… Continue reading
The FFs have come back strong. Check out their brilliant new track ‘Live Those Days Tonight’ below – the cover art for which features a raving parakeet reaching for the lasers. See Friendly… Continue reading
Yes yes oh yay. Last FriSatday’s nightmorning’s show was a greatun. Photek was our PRODUCER IN THE SPOTLIGHT, Bristol beatheads Swarms provided our NIGHT DRIVE TUNE, and Lamb’s sublime Claude Debussy-sampling ‘Angelica’ soundtracked… Continue reading
I’ve never had to concentrate so much on getting the lyrics right for a song before. 3 x 9? Really? You want the answer before the next chord change? Good job I’ve got… Continue reading
Rather pleased with that title. Dear The Milk, if you ever want to use that as a name for a future album, single, or racehorse, you’re quite welcome. The Essex, UK band bring… Continue reading
Starting off the show this week with the latest in UK ‘dream beats’ (it could take off) including brand new tracks and remixes from Szjerdene (think ‘jur-deen’ rather than ‘scissor de neigh’), Royalty,… Continue reading
If you haven’t heard of Japanese jazz act Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, you need to shut down your computer right now and go and buy all of their albums and book flights, concert… Continue reading
Big, good, and plenty thanks to everyone who tuned in to Dig Deep Radio on Friday night/Saturday morning! Showcasing the very best of UK electronica and British club culture sounds past, present and… Continue reading
UK grime godfather Wiley proves he does more than just ruminate on who’s wearing his Rolex in this brand new vid for brand new cut ‘Numbers In Action’ – giving bedroom producers everywhere… Continue reading
Still one of my favorite songs. Still one of my favorite music videos.
The future of U.K. hip hop is here. Enter Ghostpoet. A confident yet chilled cadence like no other and rhymes so laid-back you’d think they were recorded while sat in a deckchair. Truly… Continue reading
With a beat and flow that sounds much more Bow than Tokyo, Japanese grime is well and truly gaining some great sinister stringed, heavily bassed-out, walloping beat momentum right now from artists like… Continue reading
New Malden, London, UK soulstepper Jamie Woon records an acapella version of ‘Lady Luck’ live from a boat in the middle of a mangrove swamp in Cambodia. Not a bad way to… Continue reading
Listening to Benji B‘s recent show – where he interviewed the legendary Photek (and played wall-to-wall Photek productions from back in the day to the present day) – got me seriously inspired to… Continue reading
Meet Nisa Rodriguez, a 19-year-old boxer and single mother from the Bronx, New York. This video follows her as she works for a spot on the U.S. 2012 Olympic Boxing Team. So much… Continue reading
Fully experience what it’s like to be a wayward and errant paper plane (or rogue origami cathedral) by watching the official video to the fantastic ‘So Alive’ by Blueprint below. You can check… Continue reading
While everyone and their chihuahua sets the internet ablaze with chitter-chatter about the new Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’, nobody seems to have noticed that Thom Yorke completely wholesale-ripped-off Beyonce’s moves for… Continue reading
Meet Dean Bentley aka Hourglass Sea: Bradford, England’s chief exporter of the finest fast-forward-to-the-future beat wizardry and synth melodies so polished you’d think he’d finished them off with an industrial buffer. Have a… Continue reading
Who knew that 1970s Indonesia was a hotbed of raw psychedelic funk and prog rock? And how awesome is the band name ‘Shark Move’? Read all about it at the Stones Throw website,… Continue reading
I don’t think I’ll ever tire of listening to this amazing, amazing, amazing song. What makes it even better is that it’s accompanied by a video shot by a SPbGATI (St Petersburg Academy… Continue reading
This track is twelve years old yet still bends and blurs the boundaries of UK garage. Criminally underrated tune. Simple and effective.
Brazil’s got talent. Bacana! [If you haven’t checked out Aloe Blacc’s stripped-down lounge soul cover of ‘Billie Jean’ yet, you need to do so right now]
My new favorite band. A flawless performance in every way. Extra points for ‘BlingBling Shop’ in the background. To be honest I wasn’t expecting Korea’s answer to Ja Rule’s gravelly baritone rap voice… Continue reading
This is about as raw as jungle gets. No slick studio polishing of the drums and rounding off the edges of the bass here, instead it’s all about using beats and loops that… Continue reading
If I had to list my favorite genres of music, rockabilly probably wouldn’t be the first, second, or even twenty-seventh style that springs to mind, but anytime Jack White is involved with anything… Continue reading
Can’t decide which one of these remixes I like better. First up, Mike Delinquent takes us back to 2000 with some strickly slick UK garridge bidnis that has me reaching for the MJ… Continue reading
I’ve had this hook from Phil Asher and his friends Mark de Clive Lowe and Shea Soul trottin’, runnin’, and gallopin’ through my mind all day. Pretty much bang-on-perfect singalong uplifting soulful disco… Continue reading
Temporarily forgot just how great Portishead are. Especially with this relentless derk-derk-derk hook that sounds like a busy signal on Jupiter. Dude busting moves at 1:37 is how I will dance to everything… Continue reading
Subtle and sublime Saturday afternoon winter sunshine vibes from LA’s Michelle Shaprow, whose ‘If I Lost You’ gets a snappy rolling kick and warm Rhodes rework from soulful house stalwart King Britt underneath… Continue reading
A fine return to form for Mr T as he teams up with producer Ski Beatz to revisit the piano-led kick-snare, kick-snare hi-hat and female gospel chorus formula that made his Kanye-produced single… Continue reading
Mustachioed Seattle rhymesmith Macklemore throws down some love for all things 206. Happy 2011 everybody.
Sure the original is glorious enough (Krystal Klear is a solid recommend for any and all Dam-Funkers out there) but it’s the sheer genius of the ‘Hawke to spelunk some ravey pianos, horns,… Continue reading
I’m kind of glad the Panda didn’t go with the cliched ‘snow and taxis’ slow-motion-New-York-yellow-cabs-in-a-snowstorm vibe. Instead he’s all like, “How awesome is vegetation!”
As the days get shorter and the nights grow longer, Jamie Woon (who you might remember from Debruit’s ‘I’m Goin’ Wit You’) turns in a soulful and heartfelt orchestral ode to maneuvers in… Continue reading
Apparently in French ‘La Garage’ is roughly translated as ‘live version of song accompanied by cool malfunctioning-television video’. Jamie Lidell: fusing feel-good soul with a little bit of electronica one beat, bar, beard,… Continue reading
After seeing Mayer Hawthorne croon this live in concert last night, thumbing through the racks of YouTube today uncovered the original version of ‘Maybe So, Maybe No’, recorded in 1969 by The New… Continue reading
Beautiful autumnal listening from the Ubiquity Records camp. Usually known for their raw, deep-dug, soul-rich hip hop and hypnotic house numbers, here the label has made bold strides into whispery acoustic territory with… Continue reading
If Passion Pit were from England, listened to nothing but late 90s trance, wore sequined t-shirts, sped up their bpm’s a lil bit, and didn’t whine so much about being a ‘sleepyhead’, they… Continue reading
We’ve been having some absolutely beautiful late summer/early autumn days here in Seattle recently – blue skies, sun, and a ever so slight chill in the crisp air. Got me thinking that summer… Continue reading
Aloe Blacc is perhaps best known for his plinky-plonk piano summer feeling-broke-feeling-good track ‘I Need A Dollar’. Here however he turns the tables on us and delivers a raw, stripped-down, half-time soul cover… Continue reading
Cloudwalking desert jazz that sounds like someone tinkling on a piano half buried in a sand dune inside a lantern-filled Abu Dhabi souk. Love it. Here’s an interview with the tenor sax-toting legend… Continue reading
Bliss. Perfect late night listening from Jon Hopkins, a UK electronica artist who’s no stranger to contributing his starry-skied digital magic to tracks by Coldplay, Imogen Heap, David Holmes, Tunng, Four Tet, and… Continue reading
Proof that 1972 was a great year for music and television and music television. If this two minute snippet is anything to go by. From back when the Voicebox was the apex of… Continue reading
Bran’ Nu! Courtesy of one of the greatest online bass music radio stations in the world (that just got awarded a license to broadcast on FM in the UK!) Rinse FM South London… Continue reading
