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.
LCD Soundsystem – “Shut Up and Play the Hits” Trailer (Official Video)
The band that brought together the rock crowd and dance crowd in a way and on a scale that only the Prodigy had managed to do before and only Radiohead continue to do… Continue reading
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning January 7 2012 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
Getting 2012 started right! New music from Cassia, Robert Koch, Time Wharp, and Robert Glasper, plus Charles Bradley-sampling hip-hop, murky late-night Austrian beatscapery, Polish jazz-step (seriously), and stadium rave! My goodness! Here’s how… Continue reading
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning December 31 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
What other radio show gives you deep future garage stylings from Brackles, Russian beatsmithery from Nocow, instrumental-in-every-sense-of-the-word hip-hoppery from Clams Casino, le French filter business from Onra, the one and only Mr. Scruff,… Continue reading
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
Dig Deep BEST OF 2011 Mix: Friday Night/Saturday Morning December 24 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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.
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning December 17 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning December 10 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning December 2 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
“The Beauty of a Second” Short Film Contest – (Video)
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 – “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
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning November 26 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning November 19 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
Nostalgia 77 ft Josa Peit – “Sleepwalker” (Official Video)
What Portishead might sound like had they come from somewhere marginally less rainy. Only marginally though.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning November 12 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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
Anarchy in the U.K.
Danger.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning November 5 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning October 29 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning October 22 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
How Dubstep Began
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning October 15 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning October 8 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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.
Vince’s Genius Mirror Ball Suit on the BBC’s Mighty Boosh (Video)
Howard and Vince really should be the headliners of next year’s Decibel Festival here in Seattle. Bollo the gorilla should DJ too.
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning October 1 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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
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
Dig Deep Tracklisting: Friday Night/Saturday Morning September 24 2011 1am-3am PST on KBCS Bellevue-Seattle 91.3FM & www.kbcs.fm
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