Come through and vibe on the rooftop on Thursday, February 4. Frank Foreal and I will be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B, and soulful house upstairs at Ace Hotel in downtown… Continue reading
Zurich musician Georg Bleikolm aka KnoR is an electronic shaper. His latest song “Don’t Go” is a textured and brooding composition with a surging, club-rooted bass and drum pattern.… Continue reading
First, a few answers to your questions: 1. It roughly translates as “echo-dust” in Norwegian (“klang” = “echo”) and Dutch (“stof” = “dust”). 2. Yes, the guitar does sound a bit Radiohead-y,… Continue reading
Stabil Elite’s Lucas Croon and Christina Irrgang are Düsseldorf duo BAR. Los Angeles music collective Pharaohs (which counts Suzanne Kraft and Dublab founder Ale Cohen among its members) have reworked their latest track, “Anjali… Continue reading
East Flatbush, Brooklyn producer MeLo-X has a prodigious musical output; scroll through his never-ending Soundcloud page to see the extent of his work. On his latest song, “The Cure,” a line… Continue reading
A perfectly charming house groover from the Wolverhampton, UK producer duo of Richard Roberts and Andrew Harber, collectively known as Letherette. Track of the day. Letherette – “Rayon” … Continue reading
“All the Songs” sees San Francisco’s Joel St Julien crafting a beautifully scratchy, otherworldly beat ballad that is equal parts Yorke and Lotus. Track of the day. Joel St… Continue reading
Cannot stop listening to the indelible greatness that is “Love” from London brothers Will and Matt Ritson aka Formation. Track of the day. Formation – “Love” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX2SejGh6jM … Continue reading
Bolingbrook, Illinois’ Yusef Rumperfield is the newest addition to the Tall Black Guy Productions label. If the name Yusef Rumperfield sounds familiar, it may be because it recently appeared on the 80’s… Continue reading
That gospel-electro-r’n’soul. Love those soaring chorals, bass stirrings, and that beat that plods but never drags. Track of the day. Seramic – “People Say” … Continue reading
Come through and vibe on the rooftop this Thursday, January 7! Frank Foreal and I will be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B, and soulful house upstairs at Ace Hotel… Continue reading
Celebrate the start of 2016 on a day when you know it won’t be commercialized! Come through and vibe with me poolside at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs this Saturday, January… Continue reading
30 of my favorite remixes, refixes, edits, VIPs, reworks, reconstructions, and re-freaks from the year that was 2015. (Not to mention my own Dan Digs remixes, too… listen to… Continue reading
Having previously released songs via innovative music titans Majestic Casual and Flow Fi, Minneapolis producer Su Na teams up with London singer Alo Lee on “Blood,” three minutes of trickling beats and cascading synths, all etched… Continue reading
Hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops hoops. Love this new one from London songstress Jones as remixed by Brighton, UK producer Salute. Track of the day.… Continue reading
Bittersweet and sophisticated (much like the libation in question) string descents and piano meanderings taken from the Miles Davis instrumental “Nardis” provide the backdrop for Wellington, New Zealand-born, Sydney, Australia-based singer-songwriter Wallace‘s latest future-forward soul… Continue reading
Future bass-juke-ragga jungle-traversing magic from Austria’s Sun People aka Simon / Off as remixed by Paris, France producer Moresounds. Track of the day. Sun People – “Flowers” (Moresounds Remix) … Continue reading
London’s Katy B has linked up with two of 2015’s hottest electronic music producers to create this bouncing yet understated house gem. Track of the day. Katy B & Four… Continue reading
Filmed live at Orly Ouest, Terminal 3, last month. If only every airport did this. Track of the day. Nicolas Godin – “Bach Off” (Live at Orly Ouest… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
