Tag Archive: New Favorite

Diggin’ This: Carlos Niño & Friends ft Madlib & Strings by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson – “It’s All Happening!”

  It’s all happening at once.     Love this new cosmic composition from Los Angeles-based producer, composer, ensemble orchestrator, Dublab host, and mentor Carlos Niño, here teaming up with sonic scientists Madlib and Miguel… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: TRUCE – “Head Hung”

  Mysterious UK musical duo TRUCE are back with their second single, “Head Hung,” a boisterously bassy and succulently synthy affair.       Track of the day.   TRUCE – “Head Hung”… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Nadia Nair – “Dear Brother”

  Half-Swedish, half Malaysian-Indian singer Nadia Nair returns with a genre-defying new single, “Dear Brother.”       Love that tabla that comes in at 2:02.   Track of the day.   Nadia Nair –… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Sam Irl – “Raw Land”

  A jazzy house groover from Vienna-based producer Sam Irl to properly start your weekend.       Track of the day.   Sam Irl – “Raw Land”         Sam… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: 30/70 Collective – “The Strut”

  Melbourne (what is it with the inordinate amount of musical greatness that emanates from this city?!) nine-piece 30/70 Collective come correct with the feel-good, soulful bounce of “The Strut.”       Track of… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Jodie Abacus – “Space Buffalo” (Produced by Royce Wood Junior) (Free Download)

  Mightily diggin’ this cosmic, Stevie-ish, leftfield funk odyssey from Jodie Abacus and produced by #DanDigsShow favorite and Jamie Woon’s former flatmate, Royce Wood Jr.       Track of the day.   Jodie Abacus… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Koi Child – “1-5-9” (Produced by Kevin Parker from Tame Impala) (Official Video)

  Western Australia’s finest hip-hop-jazz outfit, Koi Child, return with a brand new video for “1-5-9.”       Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker produced the song (and their forthcoming album), giving “1-5-9” a… 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

Dan Digs Live: DJ Set with Frank Foreal at Ace Hotel Downtown LA on Thursday March 3

  Come through and vibe on the rooftop on Thursday, March 3!       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

Diggin’ This: Eric Lau – “Glad”

  Perfect Sunday afternoon groover right here courtesy of London-via-Hong Kong beatmaker Eric Lau.       Track of the day.   Eric Lau – “Glad”         Hear more from… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Philippe Edison & The Black Luster Quintet – “Chris Dave’s Theme”

  Sometimes music sounds tightest when it’s loosest.       Shout out to Chris Dave.   Track of the day.   Philippe Edison & The Black Luster Quintet – “Chris Dave’s Theme”    … Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Flamingosis – “Frugal Livin'” ft Ian Ewing (Free Album Download)

  Strut to this!       New Jersey producer Flamingosis aka Aaron Velasquez returns with a fantastic new album, Great Hair.   According to Velasquez, the cover picture to said fantastic new… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Miles Bonny – “I Bring You Love” (Official Video)

  After meeting at a show in Melbourne (which has clearly proven to be rich and fertile soil for amazing new music), singer, producer, and DJ Miles Bonny teamed up with Osunlade to create the ethereal and… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Niv Ast – “Before I Let You Go”

  Tel Aviv musician Niv Ast has penned the introspective and mournful “Before I Let You Go,” built around walls of synth wails and cymbal twinkles.       Track of the day.   Niv Ast – “Before… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Open Mike Eagle & Paul White – “Check to Check” (Free Download)

  Check one-two.     Equally dizzying in their dexterity of their respected crafts, LA rapper Open Mike Eagle and London producer Paul White collide on “Check to Check,” a winsome bleep-laden beat and an anti-ode to technology’s… Continue reading

Music by Dan Digs: “Feeling a Bit Dodgy”

  It may be still winter but this “dodge-disco” edit plants you firmly in the middle of summer.       Dan Digs – “Feeling a Bit Dodgy”         Listen… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Jonny Drop – “You Got to Be” (Free Album Download)

  One quarter of the Expansions and live drummer for the likes of Andrew Ashong, Connie Constance, and the Gene Dudley Group, Jonny Drop is an skilled beatmaker in his own right.    … Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Johan – “Danger_us”

  Boston musician Johan‘s debut song “Danger_us” is a mystical and nocturnal concoction complete with a vocal inflection that could appropriately be mistaken for a lone lupine howl.       Track of the day.… Continue reading

Dan Digs Live: DJ Set with Frank Foreal at Ace Hotel Downtown LA on Thursday February 4

  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

Diggin’ This: KnoR – “Don’t Go” (Official Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Klangstof – “Hostage”

  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

Diggin’ This: BAR – “Anjali Reverse” (Pharaohs Remix)

  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

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

Diggin’ This: Letherette – “Rayon”

  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

Diggin’ This: Joel St Julien – “All The Songs”

  “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

Diggin’ This: Formation – “Love” (Official Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Yusef Rumperfield – “Dreams Are Funny”

  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

Diggin’ This: Seramic – “People Say”

  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

Dan Digs Live: DJ Set with Frank Foreal at Ace Hotel Downtown LA this Thursday January 7

  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

Dan Digs Live: DJ Set at Ace Hotel Palm Springs this Saturday January 2

  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

Diggin’ This: My Top 30 Remixes of 2015

  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

Diggin’ This: Su Na ft Alo Lee – “Blood” (Free Download)

  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

Diggin’ This: Jones – “Hoops” (Salute Remix)

  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

Diggin’ This: Wallace – “Negroni Eyes”

  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

Diggin’ This: Sun People – “Flowers” (Moresounds Remix)

  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

Diggin’ This: Katy B & Four Tet & Floating Points – “Calm Down”

  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

Diggin’ This: Nicolas Godin (from Air) – “Bach Off” (Live at Orly Ouest Airport in Paris, France) (Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Evan Geesman – “Take a Chance”

  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

Diggin’ This: Stephen – “Crossfire”

  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

Diggin’ This: Adrian Younge ft Loren Oden – “Sittin’ By The Radio” (Official Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Kamasi Washington – “Re Run Home” (Kon Rework)

  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

Diggin’ This: Bonzai – “Nikka” (Produced by Mura Masa)

  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

Diggin’ This: L’Orange & Kool Keith – “The Green Ray” (Official Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Free Wize Men – “Is Ya With Me?”

  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

Diggin’ This: Shelter Point – “Glass Into Gold” (4hero Remix)

  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

Diggin’ This: Nightports – “Nowhere in Between”

  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

Music by Dan Digs: Thundercat – “Them Changes” (Dan Digs’ “Thundercat Ate My Homework” Disco Remix)

  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

TV by Dan Digs: Watch Episode 1 of the New Series of Crate Diggers featuring KCRW’s Jason Bentley on Fuse TV’s New Channel, FM (Video)

  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

Diggin’ This: Calibro 35 – “A Future We Never Lived”

  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

Diggin’ This: Bones & Beeker – “World Behind”

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