Oddisee – “Caprice Down” (Official Video)
Usually the only time you would say the title of this track is when someone accidentally drops a gourmet pizza. In the new video for “Caprice Down” below, D.C. beatmaker Oddisee provides a… Continue reading
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Motor City Drum Ensemble – “Send A Prayer Pt 1”
No lie, I probably listened to this track over a million times today. “Send a Prayer Pt 1” is straight soulful deep house from Germany’s Danilo Plessow. Motor City Drum Ensemble… Continue reading
Erik Hassle – “Pathetic” (Produced by SOHN)
Disgruntled bass murmurs, upfront finger clicks, bell echoes, sandy shakers, and yearning Prince-alike vocals from Stockholm, Sweden’s Erik Hassle. “Pathetic”—this track is anything but—features production from England not Austria’s SOHN, fresh from teaming… Continue reading
Flamingosis – “Flamingosis” (Free Album Download)
Aaron Velasquez aka Flamingosis gets wavy with the disco gravy. Not only do I love the golden, filtered production sheen and 1974-updated-for-2014 beats on this record, I also love the fact that he… Continue reading
The Seshen – “2000 Seasons” (Official Video)
Tru Thoughts‘ latest signing is psychedelic electronic San Francisco seven-piece The Seshen. The heavy bassline that oscillates throughout “2000 Seasons” is especially tasty. The Seshen – “2000 Seasons” (Official Video) … Continue reading
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPISODE OF THE DAN DIGS PODCAST: 120 MINUTES OF BRAND NEW BEATS, BASS, HIP-HOP, & ELECTRONIC SOUL. SUN, FEB 2, 2014.
New heat! Fresh beats, bass, rhymes, and grooves in the form of 42 of my latest favorite songs. Hope you dig the sounds. Get in touch at twitter.com/dandigs or facebook.com/dandigs.… Continue reading
Seven Davis Jr – “One” (Official Video)
“Wassup, wassup, wassup, wassup with you and meee?…” Houston-born, LA-based producer and singer Seven Davis Jr gets dancefloors everywhere moving with this vocal-house-funk jam gem. Seven Davis Jr – “One” (Official Video) … Continue reading
Fatima – “La Neta” (Produced by Flako) (Official Video)
Sweden-via-London singer Fatima recently partnered with “soul documentarian” Flako to produce this tempo-shifting, uplifting, singalong synth beat jam. Fatima – “La Neta” (Produced by Flako) (Official Video) … Continue reading
Ed Thomas – “Hurt” (Free MP3 Download)
London’s Ed Thomas weaves gentle vinyl crackle, orchestral strings, and pitter-patter drums on this excellent, soulful serving of 2014 R&B. Ed Thomas – “Hurt” (Free MP3 Download) … Continue reading
Kwabs – “Wrong or Right” (Official Video)
While I’ve written about the versatile vocal talent of Kwabs before, and while his name may remind you of Tweety Bird announcing his favorite seafood in plural form, London’s Kwabena Adjepong’s latest release deserves… Continue reading
Phife from A Tribe Called Quest – “Dear Dilla” (Free MP3 Download)
Funny how this morning began with an extended conversation with friends at our music startup about the genius of N.E.R.D.’s “In Search of…”—a conversation I am always happy to have—and then shortly afterward… Continue reading
Outfit – “Thank God I Was Dreaming” (Official Video)
On new song “Thank God I Was Dreaming,” Liverpool outfit Outfit employ a gently clicking garage beat to back a blend of sunny indie falsetto, tropical guitar, and cloudy yet warm synth washes.… Continue reading
Tycho – “Montana”
San Francisco’s Scott Hansen records music as Tycho and still finds time to work as a designer under the name ISO50. His latest musical creation, “Montana,” moves away from his previous solo work in ambient… Continue reading
To Be Frank – “Half the Man”
To be frank, Suffolk, England’s To Be Frank‘s intensely dreamlike video for “Half the Man” looks like Darren Aronofsky had a go at directing a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk commercial. The beat for the… Continue reading
The Chemical Brothers – “Life is Sweet” (Daft Punk Remix)
Inspired by this brilliant piece I read today on the life and times of the Chems‘ “Setting Sun,” a song that sounds as vital and compelling now as it did when it shot… Continue reading
Listen/Download the Latest Episode of the Dan Digs Podcast: 120 Minutes of Beats, Bass, Hip-hop, & Electronic Soul. Sun, Jan 12, 2014.
Welcome to the first show of 2014! A wintry mix of downtempo beat jams, slow future funk workouts, classic covers, and experimental leftfield sonic adventures. Hope ya enjoy. Get in… Continue reading
Red Bull Music Academy Documentary – What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music (Official Trailer)
So inspired to create by watching this. I can’t think of an entity that aligns more with my musical taste than the Red Bull Music Academy. The RBMA is an invitation-only series of music… Continue reading
James Vincent McMorrow – “Red Dust”
“Red Dust” isn’t a new song; it’s been a favorite of fans of the Irish troubadour James Vincent McMorrow for at least a couple of years now. This brand new remake improves on the… Continue reading
Music by Dan Digs: “Benign Turbine”
Happy 2014! This is a beat jam I rustled up a few hours ago, inspired by this mesmerizing audio I found on YouTube. Dan Digs – “Benign Turbine”… Continue reading
Dan Digs’ Top 20 Remixes of 2013
Rrrrrrrremix! 2013 was a vintage year for the rework, the rejazzed, the re-booted and the re-beated. Here’s my favorite song versions of other people’s song versions of their favorite songs of other people.… Continue reading
Dan Digs’ Top 10 Albums of 2013
It would be hard enough to compile a Top 500, what with all of the under-the-radar Bandcamp treasures, glorious mixtapes aka .zip files, and of course the big, shiny, important album releases of… Continue reading
Listen to Dan Digs’ Top 100 Songs of 2013 – Part 2: 50-1 (Podcast)
So here it is, the second part of the Top 100: my Top 50 songs of 2013! Some very unknown, some very well-known, some very minimal, some very maximal, all very… Continue reading
Listen to Dan Digs’ Top 100 Songs of 2013 – Part 1: 100-51 (Podcast)
Welcome to part one of two of my top 100 songs of 2013! For my latest installment of this here radio show DJ mix podcast, I wanted to… Continue reading
Lorde – “No Better”
Lorde did a Beyonce this morning and dropped a new single out of the blue. Listen to “No Better” via iTunes here. Samsung apps, skyscraper projections, Wee Waa,… Continue reading
Burial – “Rival Dealer” & “Hiders” & “Come Down to Us” (Rival Dealer EP)
Earlier today, at around 10am, the nocturnal and bristly beats, clicks, and hiss from the brand new Rival Dealer EP from the unidentified, mysterious, and highly-acclaimed UK producer Burial were freshly streaming from the Internet… Continue reading
Caveman – “In the City” (Vacationer Remix) (Free Download)
Warm vinyl crackle, staggered handclaps, breezy guitar, easy organ chords lapping at your feet, and some beautiful post-tropical percussion all feature on Vacationer‘s remix of “In the City” by New York City band Caveman.… Continue reading
Mélissa Laveaux – “Pie Bwa”
With spritely yet melancholy fingerpicked guitar inches from your ears, Haitian-Canadian singer Mélissa Laveaux reworks and riffs on Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” singing entirely in Creole and from the viewpoint of the blood-stained… Continue reading
The Noise Figures – “Out Of Your Mind” (Official Video)
Greek garage rock duo The Noise Figures‘ “Out of Your Mind” slightly sounds like a slightly slowed-down and slightly sleepy “Fell in Love with a Girl” by the White Stripes. My favorite tune… Continue reading
Listen/Download the Latest Episode of the Dan Digs Podcast: 120 Minutes of Beats, Bass, Hip-hop, & Electronic Soul. Sun, Dec 1, 2013.
Yo! Two hours of brand new and magnificent beats, bass, hip-hop, and electronic soul, plus house, jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, and Paul Simon all cooked up together in a casserole of melodic… 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
Tev’n – “Rose Petal” (Free Download)
North London’s Tev’n Kennedy wafts waves of 21st century R&B vocal echoes and skittery beat twitchery at you. Tev’n – “Rose Petal” (Free Download) Download “Rose Petal” for free… Continue reading
Sub Focus – “Turn Back Time” (Paul Woolford aka Special Request Remix)
I cannot get enough of Paul Woolford‘s Special Request project; inspired by the glorious heyday of early 90s jungle and UK pirate radio transmissions. After remixing Lana Del Rey, London Grammar, Tessela, and Friend Within under the Special Request… Continue reading
The Moth & The Flame – “Sorry”
Provo, Utah-via-Los Angeles three-piece The Moth & The Flame parlay perfectly formed bass tones and driving psyche stomps and strums with “Sorry.” The Moth & The Flame – “Sorry” … Continue reading
DJ Koze – “Magical Boy” (Matthew Herbert Remix)
Matthew Herbert is the Dr. Seuss of beats. Far be it from him to wearily patch in an overused drum sample, percussion for Herbert means recording the clanging of a wrench on the… Continue reading
Flume & Chet Faker – “Drop the Game” (Official Video)
Both hailing from Australia with continent-sized electronic beat talent, Sydney producer Flume and Melbourne producer/crooner Chet Faker have combined their soulful musical superpowers to create this charged and melodious cut. You may remember the… Continue reading
Listen/Download the Latest Episode of the Dan Digs Podcast: 120 Minutes of Beats, Bass, Hip-hop, & Electronic Soul. Sun, Nov 17, 2013.
How’s it going? Hope your November is gloriously leafy and peachy. Here’s two hours of brand new beats, bass, hip-hop, and electronic soul, in addition to some house, jazz, boogie, indie… Continue reading
Marian Hill – “Lovit” (Official Video) (Free Download)
Sparse soul from Philly electronic duo Marian Hill, reduced to its most essential elements: a bubbling, breathless horn and fingersnaps precisely on beat from a thousand bionic lobsters. Love it. Marian Hill… Continue reading
Audego – “Fight” (Free Download)
In preparation for my podcast, I usually shuffle a load of potential song candidates on my car stereo to see which ingredients are truly fit for the gourmet audio soup that is the… Continue reading
Slakah the Beatchild – “I Surrender” (Official Video)
That chunky bass guitar, that soaring soulful vocal, that acoustic guitar strim-strum, that pleasing woodblockish beat from Toronto’s Slakah the Beatchild. “I Surrender” sounds like it could be an unplugged Raphael Saadiq jam. Slakah the… Continue reading
Ben La Desh – “Why Don’t You”
Rotterdam, Netherlands producer Ben La Desh comes correct with this late-night, bass-and-keys house groover. Best listened to in the dark. Ben La Desh – “Why Don’t You” “Why Don’t You”… Continue reading
Aloa Input – “Going Home” & “Someday Morning”
Every so often you come across a band like Aloa Input that is so astoundingly good (and, as of now, so astoundingly underheard) that you just can’t help yourself but listen to their… Continue reading
Yancey Boys ft Common & Dezi Paige – “Quicksand” (Official Video)
Common always sounds best over a Dilla beat. (His album Finding Forever is dedicated entirely to the late, great producer.) Yancey Boys ft Common & Dezi Paige – “Quicksand” (Official Video) … Continue reading
Mick Jenkins – “The Roots” (Official Video) (Free Download)
Alabama-born, West Chicago MC Mick Jenkins‘ laid-back yet perfectly controlled flow possesses an eery similarity to Ghostpoet‘s 3am drawl. Mick Jenkins – “The Roots” (Official Video) Download Mick Jenkins’ Trees &… Continue reading
Listen/Download the Latest Episode of the Dan Digs Podcast: 120 Minutes of Beats, Bass, Hip-hop, & Electronic Soul. Sun, Oct 27, 2013.
Another brand new installment of the Dan Digs radio show is now live! Two hours of beats, bass, hip-hop, and electronic soul-house-jazz music, plus some Icelandic and Peruvian folk gem surprises.… Continue reading
Diggs Duke – “Harsh Words with the Oracle”
One of my favorite soul and jazz musicians, Washington D.C.’s Diggs Duke returns with a brand new album. “Harsh Words with the Oracle” is the first track on his Offering for Anxious LP. Diggs… Continue reading
Botany – “Quatic” (Free Download)
Spencer Stephenson is Botany. Hailing from Texas, he blends synth washes with a collage of blurred bleeps, overcooked chimes, and ominous bells, all woven through a pleasing boom-bap beat. “I tried to evoke… Continue reading
Ben Westbeech aka Breach ft Andreya Triana – “Everything You Never Had (We Had It All)” (Official Video)
I first got switched on to the English singer and dance producer Ben Westbeech in the spring of 2007. He’d just signed to tastemaker’s tastemaker Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings and the label was releasing… Continue reading
Maribou State – “Blue Sunday”
I’ve always enjoyed Maribou State‘s musical output. All of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory’s sonic productions maintain a steady, consistent groove throughout, but what sets them far apart from other electronic acts in… Continue reading
Jonwayne ft Scoop DeVille – “The Come Up Pt. 1”
Resembling a college-aged, hip-hop-obsessed Hagrid, the very talented Los Angeles rapper and producer Jonwayne returns with this confident cut of soulful whoops and scats, spinning hi-hats, synth-brass punches, and abstract poetic rhymes delivered with… Continue reading
Sufjan Stevens – “Sister Winter” (Broke for Free Remix) (Free Download)
Oakland, CA’s Tom Cascino is Broke for Free. His remix of Sufjan Stevens’ “Sister Winter” is underpinned by a string of simple yet delightful tumbling drum rolls and throbbing piano pulses, making the… Continue reading