Diggin’ This: Uniri – “Celestial Waves”
Showers of space synths. Translated as “one unified dream,” Uniri is a London-based future jazz quartet headed up by Chiminyo and which also features Al Macsween (Nubya Garcia, Gary… Continue reading
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Diggin’ This: Aaron Frazer – “Into the Blue” (Dead Oceans) (Video)
David Axelrod takes a cross-country road trip with Ennio Morricone. The latest song from the Brooklyn artist and recent Los Angeles transplant Aaron Frazer imagines psychedelic soul through the… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Bad Tuner ft Pollena – “Repeat to Fade” (Foreign Family Collective)
A London-Brooklyn connection. The NYC producer Bad Tuner, whose rework of “Ooo La La” by Brijean landed at number 16 in my Top 30 Remixes of 2023 list, has… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Water From Your Eyes – “Barley” (Matador Records) (Video)
“1, 2, 3, 4…” With its centrifugal beat and pleading guitar lick, “Barley” by the experimental art-pop duo Water From Your Eyes is relentless and hypnotic. Water… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Helado Negro – “Gemini and Leo” (Private Energy/4AD)
Roberto Carlos Lange returns with “Gemini and Leo,” a slow slice of indie-disco buoyed by a rubbery bass guitar line that closes with a chorus of rich solo’d strings. … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Crumb – “BNR”
Spacey, psychedelic indie ruminations from Brooklyn. Love the texture of those drums. Crumb – “BNR” “BNR” is out today. Get… Continue reading
Recommended Gem: Nick Hakim on NTS Radio – January 29, 2021 (Radio Show DJ Mix)
A recommended gem of a radio show. Essential through and through, from the muted digital funk of the James River outtake of D’Angelo’s “1,000 Deaths” to the… Continue reading
Listen back to Loops + Dots Episode 20 – Music from 4hero, Courtney Pine, Attica Blues, Roy Ayers & Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Public Enemy, Madlib – Special Guest: Kassa Overall (Includes an Unreleased Kassa Track!)
Show number 20! For LOOPS + DOTS this month I had a chat with Brooklyn-via-Seattle experimental jazz musician Kassa Overall over Zoom outside a Starbucks in Queen Anne, Seattle. … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Coco – “Empty Beach”
Mysteriously mysterious. Not a lot is known about Coco, an unknown group from an unknown locale making very beautiful music. To date, they’ve only released “Empty Beach,”… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Kassa Overall ft Joel Ross & Theo Croker – “Please Don’t Kill Me” (Brownswood Recordings)
2020, we’re here. Already starting this year strong with the Brooklyn-via-Seattle experimental jazz visionary Kassa Overall and his vibe-heavy (in every sense of the word) cut “Please Don’t Kill… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Andre Wiken – “Get Avion” (Astro Nautico)
“Get Avion” by San Francisco musician and globetrotting hatmaker Andre Wiken is a watercolored and dreamlike house stomp that sits nicely alongside the uptempo beat collages of the Avalanches and Tycho. … Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Lionlimb – “Clover” (Bayonet Records)
Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger, otherwise known as Lionlimb, are a duo from Nashville. “Clover,” the opening song from their new album, Tape Recorder, is a wistful indie-folk meditation flush… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Photay – “Screens” (Astro Nautico Records)
Alien grunts, chairs squeaking across the spaceship floor, kaleidoscopic handclaps, cascading synths, piano chord blips, and more alien grunts all feature on my new favorite Photay song, “Screens.” Track… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Recloose ft Mara TK of Electric Wire Hustle – “Spirit Knows” (Aus Music)
Recloose returns a soulful and sunshine-fueled robust house cut. An airy, outdoor, nature-near vibe permeates “Spirit Knows” throughout, thanks to that brilliant, shimmering and shivering vocal sample pinned in place by… Continue reading
TV by Dan Digs: Watch a New Episode of the Latest Series of Crate Diggers Vinyl Show Featuring Sake One
Check out this new episode of the latest series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM. The show focuses on vinyl aficionados and their love of wax. Here we spotlight… Continue reading
TV by Dan Digs: Watch a New Episode of the Latest Series of Crate Diggers Vinyl Show Featuring Danny Krivit
Check out this new episode of the latest series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM. The show focuses on vinyl aficionados and their love of wax. Here we spotlight the… Continue reading
TV by Dan Digs: Watch a New Episode of the Latest Series of Crate Diggers Vinyl Show Featuring Natasha Diggs
Check out this new episode of the latest series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM. The show focuses on vinyl aficionados and their love of wax. Here we spotlight… Continue reading
TV by Dan Digs: Watch a New Episode of the Latest Series of Crate Diggers Vinyl Show Featuring Mark Farina
Check out this new episode of the latest series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM. The show focuses on vinyl aficionados and their love of wax. Here we spotlight… Continue reading
TV by Dan Digs: Watch a New Episode of the Latest Series of Crate Diggers Vinyl Show Featuring Quantic
Check out this new episode of the latest series of Crate Diggers that I executive produced for Fuse TV‘s new channel, FM. The show focuses on vinyl aficionados and their love of wax. Here we spotlight… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Von Sell – “I Insist”
Love these electronic whines and whirrs, digital geese gargles, clipped blips, delayed piano chords, and that very impressive vocal from Brooklyn-via-Berlin’s Von Sell on his latest track, “I Insist.” … Continue reading
Music by Dan Digs: “Bushwick Rooftops”
Wrote this on the plane back to LA after spending last week in Brooklyn. Dan Digs – “Bushwick Rooftops” Listen to more of… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: MeLo-X – “The Cure” (Official Video)
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
Music by Dan Digs: “Brooklyn New York City”
Beats at 36,000 feet! 26 hours in Brooklyn inspired me to write this track on the plane back to LA. See if you can spot the sample. Dan… Continue reading
The Dan Digs Show 030: New M.I.A., Bilal, Wild Belle, Van Hunt, Roska – Special Guest: Trace
Show number 30! As always, the latest in my favorite new leftfield beats and electronic soul, plus interviews with my favorite artists, DJs, and musicians, for your listening pleasure every Sunday… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Tei Shi – “Go Slow” (Blue Hawaii Remix)
Love the use of the slow drum ‘n’ bass loop on this remix of Brooklyn-via-Buenos Aires singer Tei Shi‘s “Go Slow” by Montreal’s Blue Hawaii. Tei Shi – “Go Slow” (Blue… Continue reading
Diggin’ This: Jesse and Forever – “Good Morning!”
Cali-born and Brooklyn-based, Jesse Scheinin weaves a magically warm beach blanket of sound with his band Jesse and Forever‘s brand new track “Good Morning!” Completely diggin’ this alt-psyche-soul-jazz… Continue reading
Sorceress – “Teacups” (Free Download)
Love this rollin’ ‘n’ clappin,’ Fat Freddy-Droppin’ house beat and these honeyed soul vocals on “Teacups,” the brand new track from New Zealand five-piece Sorceress. Formerly known as Funkommunity,… Continue reading
Grenier Meets Archie Pelago – “Phosphorent”
Brooklyn trio Archie Pelago create lush, bass-bouncing, live instrumental electronic music with drum machines, cellos, trumpets, and saxophones. Their track “Avocado Roller” was number 25 in my Top 100… Continue reading
Taylor McFerrin ft Nai Palm of Hiatus Kaiyote – “The Antidote”
Bobby’s son Taylor McFerrin is a very talented multi-instrumentalist and singer from Brooklyn, New York. Here he teams up with Hiatus Kaiyote head honcho Nai Palm for the shaker-driven and stirring future… Continue reading
Joey Bada$$ x J Dilla – “Two Lips”
Brooklyn’s Joey Bada$$ throws MC skill and Mos Def-ish sing-song rhymes over an unreleased J Dilla beat. “Two Lips” is available only via limited edition vinyl by Akomplice Clothing in order to raise… Continue reading
T.R.A.C. ft Yahzeed Divine – “This Is That” (Produced by Marc Mac)
This is that hip-hop of superlative quality produced by one of my musical heroes: 4hero’s Marc Mac. T.R.A.C. ft Yahzeed Divine – “This Is That” (Produced by Marc Mac) Get… Continue reading
Autre Ne Veut – “Play by Play” (Official Video)
This whole R&B futurism thing just keeps getting better and better. Like Prince reworking the Drive soundtrack. Autre Ne Veut – “Play By Play” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LFiupWwIZMY&noredirect=1 Magnetic. Butter.
Phony Ppl – “Statues” (Official Video) (Free Download)
First-person music videos are usually pretty powerful pieces of art. Without asking permission, both Gomez’s “See the World” and, more controversially, the Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” temporarily reverse the normal artist-fan relationship… Continue reading
How to Dress Well – “Cold Nites” (Live at Way Out West 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden)
Soaring, ethereal R&B and experimental beats from Brooklyn’s Tom Krell aka How to Dress Well. Here he performs his song “Cold Nites” in a candlelit church in Gothenburg, Sweden as part of the… Continue reading
Family Band – “Night Song” (Official Video)
Brooklyn ambient rock group Family Band describe their music as “heavy mellow.” While Johnny Ollsin, Kim Krans, and Scott Hirsch’s particular brand of dark and solemn, starless sky indie is indeed heavy, mellow, and… Continue reading
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – “Fire” (Mr Scruff Remix) (Snippet)
A snippet of new Scruff is better than no snippet at all. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – “Fire” (Mr Scruff Remix) (Snippet) Bass, brass, and cowbell spin you right round.