Doncaster-via-Johannesburg songsmith Skinny Pelembe has signed to Gilles Peterson‘s Brownswood Recordings, the perfect home for his new single. “I’ll Be on Your Mind” is a despondent doo-wop-hop complete with ominous Massive Attack-ish atmospherics,… Continue reading
Long live the jazz. UK producer JD. Reid has teamed up with fellow London musicians Henry Wu and Venna to produce “Just Know,” an agile and taut, future-proofed jazz-grime cut.… Continue reading
Bonobo meets Rhye. Bristol, UK-based producer Henry Green starts 2018 strong with “Another Light,” an emotive and gentle, garage-folk [Is that a thing? Let’s make it a thing!] Jon… Continue reading
My favorite 30 remixes of this year. 30. Kelela – “Truth or Dare x Steve Gurley’s Hotboys” (Bok Bok Edit) 29. De Lux – “875 Dollars” (Juan Maclean’s Casa… Continue reading
A list of the 30 albums I enjoyed the most this year. 30. Dauwd – Theory of Colours (Ninja Tune) 29. The xx – I See You (Young Turks)… Continue reading
Right before your very ears, here are my favorite tracks, songs, beats, melodies, and vibes from the year that was 2017. 100. Jadu Heart – “Harry Brompton’s Ice Tea”… Continue reading
Stuck on “Glu.” 22-year-old Norwegian musician Sofie Tollefsbøl and her 9-piece band make music as Fieh. Their latest track is irresistible from the start, with ascending horn lines, jazz… Continue reading
One of 2017’s most innovative artists, Korean-American singer and producer Yaeji turns in an irresistible and delicate house rework of the Manu Chao-assisted “Leave Me Alone” by New York’s Calypso Rose. … Continue reading
Chileans Brian Silva and Jossip Tkalcic came all the way to Barcelona to meet Carlos Ramos and Marc López and form the Zephyr Bones, a band who specialize in crafting exquisite and lazy psychedelic… Continue reading
Love is all. One half of Crazy P, Chris Todd, better known as Hot Toddy, is no stranger to disco-fueled house burners. “Love Can Set You Free,”… Continue reading
Literally impossible to dislike. Texas trio Khruangbin return with the absolutely delightful “Maria También,” a rigorously funky first single from their upcoming second album, Con Todo El Mundo, which… Continue reading
Whooo are youuu? Equal parts JMSN and Jai Paul, I’m utterly entranced by this debut single from 23-year-old London musician Miink, with its ethereal chimes, snare snaps, bass murmurs,… Continue reading
My time’s made up, I gotta go. One of my all-time favorite songs gets a nocturnal djembe beachgaze rework. SUNRAYYS – “Tea Leaf Dancers” (Flying Lotus… Continue reading
Completely in love with this beat. London-via-Stockholm singer Fatima returns to Eglo Records with “Somebody Else,” a collaboration with London producer JD. Reid that features razor-sharp drums, fractured digital… Continue reading
Last Saturday saw Worldwide FM broadcasting live from the Eagle Rock Music Festival. Was truly a pleasure to join Steve Nalepa, Money Mark, Jimetta Rose, and Iman Omari on… Continue reading
The stunning, psychedelic, freeform acoustic jazz effect. LA-based singer-keyboardist Eli Goss and NY-based drummer-bassist Harry Terrell are the Breathing Effect. Their song “Josephine,” which I played on my… Continue reading
For my latest show on Worldwide FM, I spoke with Charlotte Dos Santos, one of my favorite artists of 2017, backstage before her debut Los Angeles show at Center for the Arts Eagle… Continue reading
Bleep-hop for the beach. Germany’s Max Graef steps up to remix one of Brazil’s finest drummers and one third of Azymuth, Ivan “Mamão” Conti. Graef’s rework of “Azul” is… Continue reading
Handclaps, finger snaps, meandering bass drones, plucked strings, and soothing vocals make up the entirety of Sudan Archives‘ very excellent new track, “Water.” Check out the video below, directed… Continue reading
Dusty vintage drums, my favorite kind. On “Hot Dinners,” New Jersey’s Lazy Salon, also known as Sean Byrne, throws said dusty vintage drums, reminiscent of early DJ Shadow, against… Continue reading
Very excited to share this new video and podcast series with you. Backstage with Dan Digs is a new music-centric interview series set in green rooms and iconic concert… Continue reading
Those strutting drums, those dripping guitar chords, and those honeyed vocals that transport you from ’17 to ’71, “Birdie Bees” is my favorite Gavin Turek song to date. Track… Continue reading
Good times as always on Worldwide FM last week. I hosted and spun a selection of my favorite tracks live from the mighty Red Gate Recorders studio in Highland Park. Musical gems in… Continue reading
That scraped-flute-meets-old-violin intro. On the instantly interesting “Sideways,” the 19-year-old Ghanian-Australian singer-songwriter Genesis Owusu takes inspiration from the music of William Onyeabor and enlists the production expertise of Simon Mavin and Perrin… Continue reading
After kicking off my birthday celebrations with an early morning Hollywood Sign climb, it was a pleasure to jump on Worldwide FM in the late afternoon to host and spin a selection… Continue reading
When the LA-via-Berlin-via-Saskatchewan multi-instrumentalist isn’t co-writing songs for Kelela or producing Feist’s album Pleasure or working on his own sixth full-length album, expected in 2018, he’s unleashing the fourth installation of his excellent “Moxtape” series, How to Hit… Continue reading
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
Future perfect. Three of Vienna’s best reunite for “Four-Eighteen,” a laid-back jazz excursion patrolled by sky-high firewalls of MicroKorg synth. (And if you haven’t heard it previously,… Continue reading
Inspired by the jazz-soul audio designs of Bonobo and Calibre, UK beat architect Marenn Sukie, otherwise known as Chris Roth, has drawn up “Cascades,” a full-time-half-time mellow beat meditation with calmly chaotic… Continue reading
While an “internet dance” is probably something you did in 1995 while you were waiting for AOL to load, here Pretorian music wonder Sibusile Xaba gently gathers a storm of finger-picked guitar… Continue reading
Vintage instrumentation blends with sun-stunned vocals on “Been So Long” by Los Angeles musician Mike Edge, the result of which is a grapefruit-cherry cocktail that’s part Mac DeMarco, part Ned Doheny, and all… Continue reading
Went back on the air yesterday on Worldwide FM to host and spin an hour of the best of our WWLA live session recordings, followed by an hour of my favorite tracks in… Continue reading
“Antasma,” a brand new track from Dublin producer Sal Dulu, is a slinky beat collage that glues together soulful vocal phrasings, sax snippets, polished guitar licks, cloudy atmospherics, and quite possibly… Continue reading
UK producer ELWD (pronounced “Ellwood”) turns in “inbloom,” an all low-caps, lo-fi mellow groove that is as instantly relaxing as it is poignant. My only complaint is that it’s not… Continue reading
Back on Worldwide FM yesterday to host and spin a selection of my favorite tracks live from the mighty Red Gate Recorders studio in Highland Park. Musical gems in the mix from… Continue reading
“Safe to Me” is a faded and fidgety, r&b house bounce sunsetter by London producer LOXE that features the ethereal vocals of singer Alyss. No stranger to collaborations, LOXE has… Continue reading
A deft and delicate Floating Points-meets-broken beat-meets-synth jazz wonderwork courtesy of London producer Kieron Ifill, one half of DanDigs.com favorites Profusion and better known as K15. Track of the day.… Continue reading
Jumped back on WWLA, the Los Angeles branch of Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM, this week to host and spin my favorite new tracks live from the esteemed Red Gate Recorders studio in Highland… Continue reading
“Solar” gives you life. Turtle’s latest composition is a Jon Hopkins-esque beguiling blend of swirling piano keys and centrifugal drums. Track of the day. Turtle… Continue reading
South London songstress Tawiah returns with “Queens,” four minutes of tumbling percussion, sunset acoustic guitar plucking, piano key splashes, and vocals gleaming with UK soul. Track of the day. … Continue reading
Manchester, UK producer Sam Vicary, otherwise known as Hunrosa, is a member of perennial DanDigs.com faves The Cinematic Orchestra and Paper Tiger. On “All,” his debut single as Hunrosa,… Continue reading
On “Pick Six,” Denver producer Gila cooks up a weighty 808 beat that marches over Brothers Grimm harp breezes, clinical cowbell hits, and looped güiro scratches, the end result sounding not unlike the Nutcracker as reimagined… Continue reading
Come embrace the good times with us in my favorite desert this Saturday June 3. Frank Foreal and I will be spinning the best in leftfield beats, future R&B,… Continue reading
Flute wisps, persistent electronic piano chords, interwoven percussion textures, and a heavy, grooving kick drum make up Osage’s attention-grabbing new track, “Guanguan Riddim.” Osage (pronounced Oh-Sage), better known as Philly DJ/producer… Continue reading
It was great fun to put this mix together for one of the universe’s greatest radio stations: Dublab! Donate to Dublab today and get my Elite Cardiophonics DJ mix, a… Continue reading
“Temporary,” by Jaide finds the London singer’s heavenly tones ascending and descending over a highly original, delayed, stop-motion beat that sounds like it could’ve been crafted by recording different parts of an unfinished wicker chair… Continue reading
“Play,” the debut single from new collective Doctrine, helmed by composer Stephen Feigenbaum, he of the 2016 “Yeethoven” project that fused music by none other than Beethoven and Kanye West, is a tapestry of synth flashes and a… Continue reading
On “In the Lilacs,” LA-via-San Diego musician Julian Jasper melds soaring psyche-fuzz with pounding drums and a captivating guitar riff that speeds across an empty Californian freeway in the middle of the night.… Continue reading
Son of Incognito’s Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick, Daniel Maunick aka Dokta Venom is the in-house producer for the venerable Far Out Recordings. Having worked on music for Azymuth, Sabrina Malheiros, and… Continue reading
