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
So here it is, merry Christmas, the Dig Deep radio show’s Best of 2011 mix! No countdowns, no top 5s, 10s, 20s, or 1000s, just two hours of the best songs from the… Continue reading
8-bit Night Drive Retro. Courtesy of noirlac. Just looking at this conjures up a Pavlovian reaction to listen to some inane chip-tune melody and feed quarters into something.
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.
Warm soul-stomp from Part-Time Heroes, Stones Throw hip-hop from Homeboy Sandman, Lee Fields, Wiley goes Christmas grime, brand new Spoek Mathambo South African beats, Japanese rap from GAGLE, Moscow beatbox-dubstep (seriously) from Galun,… Continue reading
“I don’t eat raisin cake, it’s all hassle.” Wiley = British rap Christmas genius. MPFreeness here.
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
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.
Mayer Hawthorne got Christmassy, re-spin for Bad Bad Not Good, Hudmo’s “Cbat” smashed it, Erykah got played twice, Nu Zilla soulfunk duo Funkommunity brought it, the White Stripes went reggae via Alice Russell,… Continue reading
The sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon had a significantly lower budget. Run the traaaaaack!
Floating Points solving all your problems. Lights down for best listening.
La Funk Mob, Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, Ikebe Shakedown, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Emily King, and Wayne Wonder all in the mix tonight! Here’s how it got stone cold. Wayne Shorter – “Oriental Folk… Continue reading
Inspiration information. From Montblanc’s and Wim Wenders’ “The Beauty of a Second” Short Film Contest. Which I suppose is about the beauty of films that are one second long, and not celebrating the… Continue reading
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
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!
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
Big thanks to all for tuning in! Soulful d’n’b remixes, hip hop and house featured heavily this week. Here’s how it worked out. Death Cab for Cutie – “Brothers on a Hotel Bed”… Continue reading
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
Listen again to last night’s Dig Deep radio session with an exclusive Winter 2011 Future Chill Mix here and download it here. Here’s how it was thankful. Roots Manuva – “Here We Go… Continue reading
What Portishead might sound like had they come from somewhere marginally less rainy. Only marginally though.
Friday’s Dig Deep radio session hear-again here. Download here. Done et done. (Oh and by the way, the above pic is now the world’s most expensive photograph. It sold at Christie’s three days… Continue reading
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
Danger.
Click here to listen again to Friday’s Dig Deep radio session and click here to download it as a podcast. Here’s how we did it right. Nadastrom vs Heartbreak – “Church” Steve Spacek… Continue reading
Featuring the fantastic “habesha” artist Nini. I love everything about this. Ethiopian synth-pop is HEAVY! Next flight to Addis, please.
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
Click here to listen to tonight’s Dig Deep radio show again and click here to download it as a podcast. Never has so much fun been so straightforward! New music in the mix… Continue reading
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
Great, wonderful, and generally fantastic times earlier on tonight’s Dig Deep radio show! We cooked up a late-night mixtape of all that’s good in beats, bass, and electronic jams right now and before… Continue reading
This is actually true. The other photo of how dubstep began that features a cracked-out walrus playing a didgeridoo while randomly revving a chainsaw is out there somewhere.
What a magnificent show! Beat weirdness from Spokane, WA’s James Pants, superb future soul from Jai Paul, brand new Geeneus and Ms Dynamite carnival vibes business, and Netsky’s d’n’b remix of Plan B’s… Continue reading
Footwork jungle is the new jungle footwork! Love this remix. Check out more from Om Unit aka Philip D Kick at his Soundcloud page.
Two minutes of Autumnal head-noddage. For certain.
Big show tonight! Brand new music from Efya, Dub Gabriel, Mosca, Primary 1, and Kendrick Lamar. Plus we got in the mix with a special time-themed song showcase and got housey at the… Continue reading
“Hey, you like hip-hop?” “I like the hip-hop.”
I think that week-old pizza that I found under the bed (and then ate) gave me hallucinations. Biddies.
Howard and Vince really should be the headliners of next year’s Decibel Festival here in Seattle. Bollo the gorilla should DJ too.
Another big show! Brand new tunes from Roots Manuva, A Trak, George Lenton, Lee Bannon, Sepalcure, and Seattle’s very own Ill Cosby for our city’s Decibel Festival weekend. A great time at the… Continue reading
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
Hello friends. Bit of a tweak to Dig Deep this week: we’ve decided to drop the “U.K.-only” music tag for Dig Deep and instead welcome music from all over the galaxy to the… Continue reading
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
We got a lil bit laidback tonight as we spun our Autumn Mix: a fine, red-leaved, chill-in-the-air, pathos-driven, seasonal selection of brand new tunes and classics from the vaults. Then we got all… Continue reading
Totally tubular. Need to go surfing.
Another show jam-packed of new tunes from across the Atlantic and classic U.K. dance tracks from back in the day, eight hours ahead, as Seattle finally moves into summer proper and we get… Continue reading
Getting your Labor Day Weekend started right! Listen again to this show–two hours of the best in new U.K. beats and British club culture sounds–here and download it here. Here’s how we saw… Continue reading
