Santa Ana, California producer Evan Geesman fuses laidback and sun-bleached acoustic singer-songwritery with the sensibilities of the Los Angeles beat scene. Track of the day. Evan Geesman –… Continue reading
23-year-old Los Angeles artist Stephen combines bleak piano keys, menacing bass throbs, razor-sharp muted guitar stabs, and, yes, what sounds like actual crossfire (0:21) on “Crossfire.” Despite the melancholy… Continue reading
Show number 59! 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 at DashRadio.com.… 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
Sure, it’s 8 minutes long, but when you consider that the glorious original is 14 minutes, that seems short! Too much love for this Kamasi flip from one of the… Continue reading
That moment when you discover a new artist at the end of the year (like what happened to me exactly four years ago with BadBadNotGood) and one of their songs just ever… 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
Show number 58! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
I was down with this track from the first few bars, but as soon as I heard the peppy staccato of that jazz flute (love me some jazz flute), brand new cut “Is Ya… Continue reading
Dollis Hill, North West London’s finest meets Nottingham duo Shelter Point on this brand new 4hero remix! Love those wistful vocals, those sweeping strings, and those signature 4hero d’n’b drums. … Continue reading
Emily Lynn, Adam Martin, and Mark Slater are Nightports, a trio from Leeds and Hull in the UK that write extremely nocturnal and tantalizingly glitchy songs. They list their influences as Burial,… Continue reading
I’ve always thought that Thundercat‘s basslines and vocals would perfectly suit a disco flip. I was listening to a lot of early Daft Punk this weekend and thought about… Continue reading
Show number 57! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
Very excited to share with you the series premiere of the new series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM! The show, hosted by Anthony Valadez, focuses on vinyl… Continue reading
That slo-mo cinematic funk! Damon Albarn, Jay Z, Child of Lov, and Dr. Dre have all found noteworthy samples from Calibro 35 to use in their productions. The Milan,… Continue reading
Folk-beat heat straight outta Minneapolis! Loving the very inventive, harmonious, and blissful “World Behind” from Minnesota duo Bones & Beeker, made up of Anthony Newes and Brendan Kelly (also known as producer BK-One).… Continue reading
Show number 56! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
This is exactly the sort of music that gets made when people talk about forming a band while out star-gazing together, which is exactly what happened with Moonchild. Moonchild… Continue reading
I can’t help but love the psychedelic zippery-zappery of a reversed guitar tone. Mightily diggin’ this new one from West Midlands, UK musician and producer Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio.… 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
Show number 55! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
Such effortless beauty. Mightily diggin’ this new one from recent LA transplant Robot Koch, who originally hails from Berlin. Track of the day. Robot Koch ft Stephen Henderson… 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
Show number 54! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
Hold tight the foreboding piano keys and what sounds like a harpsichord! Huge love for this latest song and video from South London’s Simon Williams and Will Horrocks, together known as LV. … Continue reading
On “Drop Ship,” Tony Colman bka London Elektricity proves that drum ‘n’ bass is at its best when it’s constantly reinventing itself. Love that piano line, that organic yet… Continue reading
Looking forward to DJing again tonight at the incredible School Night! at Bardot in Hollywood! Always a great music-loving crowd, always a beautiful space. Come check out these amazing bands: Kona Christopher… Continue reading
Show number 53! The #DanDigsShow is now officially ONE YEAR OLD on Dash Radio! As always, the latest and greatest in leftfield beats and electronic soul, plus interviews with my… Continue reading
Psyche-rock band Boogarins was born when Fernando “Dino” Almeida and Benke Ferraz began jamming together as teenagers in their parents’ gardens in the central Brazilian city of Goiânia. The title of their latest album Manual… Continue reading
Mightily diggin’ these wavy gravy, future-sutured vibes from Couros. And it’s only his first song! Very excited to hear more from the London producer. Track of the day. … Continue reading
Show number 52! 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 at DashRadio.com.… 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
Come through and vibe on the rooftop this Wednesday, October 21! I’ll be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B, and soulful house along with one of my very favorite… Continue reading
Cool uncle, bro! Bobby Caldwell, Jack Splash, and Jessie Ware: seeing all of these names on the one song had me clicking “play” faster than the speed of light. … Continue reading
After revisiting the amazing music of Linda Lewis recently, I had to give her classic track “Reach for the Truth” the “poolside boom-bap” treatment. Dan Digs “My Name… Continue reading
Show number 51! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
Shout out to soulful production duos that are named after uninhabited islands in the English Channel! Originally from Yorkshire and now living in London, Tom and Ross are Burhou,… Continue reading
What is it with the Lone Star state and making gloriously expansive, post-rocky-shoegazey, starry, meditative music? Enter Texas three-piece Khruangbin, comprised of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar, and Donald… Continue reading
This vibe. “Frogs” is an instantly winsome, expertly assembled cut of swirling, simmering late-night soul from Brisbane, Australia’s Charles Murdoch that features Wafia, Hak, and perennial DanDigs.com favorite, Ta-ku. Especially… Continue reading
Show number 50! Whoa! 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
All hail the incoming—and long overdue!—two-step revival! Newbody Records is a brand new, Los Angeles-based urban dance label that focuses on soulful house music and two-step garage. The label’s head… Continue reading
Is this real life? Three of my all-time favorite otherworldly music entities—Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, and Thundercat—have come together via Adult Swim to form the musical Voltron that is WOKE.… Continue reading
Show number 49! 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 at DashRadio.com.… Continue reading
Love those bass murmurs, that clicky-clacky ambient percussion, that early evening pastoral guitar, and those thirty-foot walls of synth washes on “Watercolor,” a brand new song from New York City’s Ryan Egan. … Continue reading
That 80s TV show theme footwork! Having strong links with Chicago’s Teklife crew and the UK’s LuckyMe camp, in addition to his own Mall Music collective, footwork producer DJ Paypal recently signed… Continue reading
When he’s not playing keyboards in Lorde‘s touring band, Paraparaumu, New Zealand’s Jimmy Mac aka Scuba Diva makes brooding, wavy, washy, indie-funk excellence. “What’s the Point?” is produced by… 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
Show number 48! 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 at DashRadio.com.… 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
Primo Baker and Thomas Quemby are Syv. The UK duo’s new track “Knockin’” is a remarkably effective bass-heavy breakbeat swing workout. Perfect for revitalizing dancefloors everywhere. Track of the day.… Continue reading
