Show number 14! Welcome along to the show! Hope all is well with you. We’re back with another special all-music mix for LOOPS + DOTS… Continue reading
What. A. Collaboration. Fresh from breaking a five-year hiatus from music, Mtendere Mandowa aka Teebs recently returned with the Panda Bear-assisted “Studie.” More singles and an album announcement… Continue reading
Here comes the sun. I can’t lie, I need this Mr. Sun track on high and heavy rotation. Gratitude to London’s Greentea Peng for crafting this trippy,… Continue reading
Show number 13! Glad you’re here! Hope all is well with you. We’re back with a special all-music mix for LOOPS + DOTS episode 13!… Continue reading
Breathe with me. I am currently very much here for “Haze,” “a song about meeting someone who changes everything for you” and the latest track from Sydney’s Sean Walker (formerly… Continue reading
Show number 12! This week we welcomed the wonderful Salami Rose Joe Louis to the show! I had a chat with Salami Rose over the phone from Columbus,… Continue reading
It’s August 20th, but summer is still in full effect. Featuring Lori on vocal duties, Rhythm Section’s Silent Jay on saxophone, and Simon Mavin, Paul Bender, and Perrin Moss from… Continue reading
Show number 11! The eleventh installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new newness from Joe Armon-Jones & Georgia Anne Muldrow, Godtet, Jamila Woods,… Continue reading
Woozy, still. “Savanah” is currently my favorite song from London’s Zach Cayenne-Elliott, otherwise known as Melo-Zed. Enlisting the musical assistance of James Walker, it’s a woozy number with gently… Continue reading
How’s it going? So glad you’re here. Having been recently asked to join the Mixcloud Select massive, I’m excited to deliver my first subscriber-only mix for your listening… Continue reading
Show number 10! The tenth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new hotness from Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, math-rock-prog-jazz-band-of-the-moment Black Midi, the winning… Continue reading
Show number 9! The ninth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new sonic serendipity from Jai Paul, SAULT, Chong the Nomad, Joe… Continue reading
Show number 8! The eighth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new heat from Innovative Leisure’s Jonah Yano & Nono, LA musician Jacob Mann,… Continue reading
Coming up next. Antoine Pierre, Jerome Klein, Veronika Harcsa, and Lorenzo Di Maio are two Belgians, one Hungarian, and one Luxembourger making experimental sounds as Next.Ape. Their song “The… Continue reading
Show number 7! The seventh installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new sonic greatness from Oisima ft Wallace, Crumb, DJ Nobody, Flying Lotus… Continue reading
Can’t stop playing this. Fashion designer, founder of the Milan-based Off-White label, DJ, and artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear collection no less, Virgil Abloh knows a good thing… Continue reading
Show number 6! The sixth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new sonic greatness from Sweatson Klank, Travis Stewart (aka Machinedrum) and Jimmy Edgar’s project… Continue reading
Dah, dah, dah, dahdahdahdahdah, dah, dah… Elevate to this gorgeous wave of electronica-flecked R&B from Dallas producer Medasin. Piano keys dance around a lazy beat while singer Kathleen ably… Continue reading
Show number 5! The fifth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new audio excellence from Loyle Carner & Sampha, Szjerdene, and Reginald Omas Mamode… Continue reading
Show number 4! The fourth installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new hot heat from Anderson .Paak ft André 3000, Flying Lotus ft Little… Continue reading
Flutes, echoes, it’s all happening! Melbourne, Australia four-piece Midlife are here to make you boogie. For their latest release, James Donald, Adam Halliwell, Kevin McDowell, and Tomas… Continue reading
Show number 3! It was a pleasure to get into the DJ mix for the third installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab. Brand new… Continue reading
Hooked from the moment I heard those piano keys. “Africa” from Johannesburg, South Africa quartet Seba Kaapstad is nouveau neo-soul with a heavenly jazz twist. Shades of Robert Glasper,… Continue reading
No time-wasters please. Instantly infectious and incessantly grooving, listening to “Don’t Waste My Time” is time well spent. The song is the second single from Sault, a trio… Continue reading
That ever-so-casual Shibuya strut. “Bottom of Tokyo” is an unbothered groover from Japanese trio and my personal new favorite band name Wool and the Pants. Consisting of Yu Tokumo on… Continue reading
Show number 2! The second installment of my Loops + Dots radio show on Dublab aired brand new musical magnificence from Solange ft Sampha, Helado Negro, Natural Yogurt Band, Audego,… Continue reading
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Fresh from announcing tour support for DanDigs.com faves Toro Y Moi and the Cinematic Orchestra, today Bay Area artist Salami Rose Joe… Continue reading
Golden hours. LA’s Dexter Story teams up with Stones Throw maestra Sudan Archives (more of her excellent music here) in this veritably happy collision of inordinate amounts of musical… Continue reading
Excited and honored to announce that I’ll be joining the wonderful Dublab radio family! LOOPS + DOTS is my brand new leftfield beats, electronic soul, and experimental sounds show broadcast… Continue reading
That Scandinavian electronic soul. After a three year hiatus, Swedish producer August Landelius emerges from his home studio with the 3am future R&B cut “All You Can Eat,” an… Continue reading
Otherworldly organic soul. Clever Austin is the alter-ego of Melbourne musician and Hiatus Kaiyote drummer Perrin Moss. On “Blue Tongue,” he’s teamed up with the Texas producer Jon Bap… Continue reading
Kyoto protocol. I’m beyond hyped for Haelos‘ forthcoming new album, the most recently released track from which is “Kyoto,” a dark yet uptempo slice of raw electronic soul complete… Continue reading
Against my window… Recorded during the downpour in LA last night. SUNRAYYS – “I Can’t Stand the Rain” (Ann Peebles Cover) … Continue reading
Finally. One of my very favorite musical outfits, the Cinematic Orchestra make a welcome return in 2019 with “A Caged Bird/Imitations of Life,” taken from their first album in 12… Continue reading
The ideal sound to open up 2019. Cairo, Egypt experimental composer and musician Maurice Louca starts January in the best possible way with his new track, “The Leper,” which brims… Continue reading
Here it is. A list of my 30 favorite albums from the year two thousand eighteen. 30. Jungle – For Ever (XL) 29. Onra – Nobody Has To Know… Continue reading
Music of 2018, you were very, very, very good to us. Here are my favorite one hundred tracks from this year. 100. Kali Uchis ft Tyler,… Continue reading
November in December. West London’s Nancy Andersen and Jamie Travis write music as Babeheaven. Their latest song, “November,” is a stark and blue-hued indie-soul offering, enriched by steady strings,… Continue reading
The perfect combination of spaceship soul, digital doo-wop, bleepy blip-hop, astral bruk business, and satellite scat. It’s hard to pick just one, but the infectious yet delicate post-broken beat… Continue reading
“Don’t go bringing up the future to those who live in the past.” “Blooming In the Streets” sees Brisbane’s Sampology teaming up with LA-via-Houston’s Seven Davis Jr to create… Continue reading
It was a pleasure hanging out with Madison McFerrin on the air and playing some of her favorite songs while I was hosting the Destination OUT! Radio Hour yesterday morning at Dublab.… Continue reading
In the mood for some very excellent soupy psychedelic jazz that glimmers with experimental wonder? You are, then, very much in the right place. “Hold On,” from… Continue reading
Autumnal audio. Originally recorded in 1980 by the Korgis, the pop-ballad hit “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime” got the cover treatment a few years back by London soul musician… Continue reading
“Never lose what you know to be true.” Produced by Khari Mateen (The Roots, Jill Scott), Tokyo-via-New York-via Osaka singer-songwriter Nao Yoshioka‘s “The Truth” is an uplifting and ebullient neo-soul… Continue reading
May the falsetto be with you. Huge fan of this one-take low-lit late-in-the-evening live video of “Amnesia,” the latest single from rising LA-via-Nigeria future soul artist Teddy Obot. … Continue reading
Exquisite jazz happens when Ezra meets Jorja. From the very first bars of Femi Koleoso’s rimshot break to Jorja Smith‘s intro hums to Joe Armon-Jones’ keyboard tapestries to TJ… Continue reading
Bright is right. UK musician James Alexander Bright was formerly known as Hairy Hands. His album Magic, released via the esteemed New Los Angeles label, was number 18 in… Continue reading
So good. “Follow Your Feet” is a loose, summertime pop-soul jam made for 10pm July sunsets courtesy of Alex Barck, Claas Brieler, Axel Reinemer, Jürgen von Knoblauch and Stefan Leisering,… Continue reading
Had to get down with the bruk funk and remix one of my favorite tracks of 2018. Hear the original version of Jungle‘s “House in LA” here. … Continue reading
Let’s get along. Feeling the spritely and sauntering “Counter Culture” from Bodensee, Germany’s Henrik Schwarz, here teaming up with Metropole Orkest and Ben Westbeech for a piano-led journey into… Continue reading
