Sounding somewhat like an especially chilled AlunaGeorge, 22-year-old Mexican-French producer and singer Andrea Balency introduces her first single, “You’ve Never Been Alone,” a futurebound, striding cut of metallic R&B and glimmering electronic soul.… Continue reading
How’s things? Excited to share with you a new blend of my new favorite new tunes! Let me know where you’re listening from via facebook.com/dandigs or twitter.com/dandigs or… Continue reading
Christchurch, New Zealand’s Ladi6 gets spacey on this downtempo jazz-soul jam with a delectably drowsy ‘n’ snappy beat. Ladi6 – “Hold Tight” (Official Video) … Continue reading
Heartfelt Renaissance ruminations on youthful ruination from 22-year-old Nigeria-via-East London singer Vicktor Taiwò. Says Taiwò, “Before, children had time to think that the world was beautiful, and I think that should… Continue reading
One of this decade’s best partnerships in electronic music. A very, very welcome return for Aaron Jerome aka SBTRKT and Sampha, here with a brand new track called “Temporary… Continue reading
Love the pouncing piano, widescreen strings, and simmering drum beat on this new leftfield soul jam from Wellington, New Zealand’s Electric Wire Hustle. I played the Flako remix of this track on… Continue reading
Britain’s Atjazz aka Martin Iveson steps in the name of underground electronic soul on this beautiful remix of Zara McFarlane‘s new single, “Move.” Watch for those lush 4-heroic strings,… Continue reading
LA producer and DJ Kero One flips D’Angelo’s classic original into an uptempo, early evening groove. Perfect for ushering in summer. D’Angelo – “Spanish Joint” (Kero One Remix)… Continue reading
All of my favorite songs from right now, all blended together in this latest two-hour podcast DJ mix! Say hello and let me know where you’re listening from via facebook.com/dandigs… Continue reading
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
Seattle electronic three-piece Beat Connection return with this excellent, flute-tootin’, sample-happy, percussive low-slung jam. Love me them guitar lines, those handclaps, and that humming that starts at 3:44. … Continue reading
Singer Amelia Meath & electronic music producer Nick Sanborn hail from Durham, North Carolina. Together they make experimental, beat-driven, indie-folk as Sylvan Esso. Their previous single, “Hey Mami,”… Continue reading
42 of my very favorite songs from right now all in the podcast mix. New and very necessary tracks from Until the Ribbon Breaks, Clara Hill, Ras G, Ed… Continue reading
“We have no time to pretend, we have no time…” New York’s Mizan does this electronic soul business right with an assortment of glowing organ chords and a strict, bouncing kick drum.… Continue reading
If you’re due an early summer vacation, let Rotterdam’s Moods take you right there, right now. Moods – “417 Miles” Check out more… Continue reading
Strongly diggin’ these strong shades of two of my very favorite artists Fink and Bonobo that surface on this brand new soulful acoustic jam from Birmingham, UK’s Benjamin Yellowitz. … Continue reading
Michigan natives Mayer Hawthorne and 14KT recently joined forces to create Jaded Incorporated. Here they boost and bump Phantogram‘s “Fall in Love,” giving it some shine and speedy shuffle. … Continue reading
Boston producer Goldenhaus and vocalist Solei are Goldbloc. Those bass murmurs, that before-sunrise beat, those vocal cut-ups that resemble hearing a Todd Edwards track in slow motion. Goldbloc… Continue reading
Hyped to share with you my very favorite songs of the very recent past. Brand new brilliance from Gil Scott-Heron, Chet Faker, Until the Ribbon Breaks, Jack White, Moses Sumney, my own… Continue reading
An artisanal assortment of brand new and classic beats, treats, strings and things for Spring 2014 mixed exclusively for the always beautiful and always inspiring Urbanic Paper Boutique on Abbot Kinney in… Continue reading
I’ve been following the music of Aussie crooner Chet Faker ever since I got switched on to his brilliantly lethargic haze-hop cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” in April 2012. … Continue reading
Those loose, loose guitar strings, that “Steady as She Goes” angular drum pattern. Ray LaMontagne – “Lavender” Ray LaMontagne‘s new album, Supernova, is out now.… Continue reading
Those vocodered vox, those synthetic finger clicks, that loose twangy gee-tar, and that chorus. Stockholm’s Mapei may have just written this year’s answer to “Royals.” Not… Continue reading
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
Soulection fam Dpat and Atu weave something wonderful on this slowed-down flip of Maryland musicians Abhi and Dijon’s “Let You Know.” Houston producer Dpat first wowed me with his drum designs… Continue reading
So raw. The splintered, graveled voice of the legendary Gil Scott-Heron resurfaces as part of a new compilation of the late New York musician’s previously unheard recordings entitled Nothing New. … Continue reading
CLICK HERE & SCROLL TO 4MIN 16SEC TO WATCH THIS SEGMENT ON VEVO.COM NOW. Check out this piece on one of the most talented and experimental soul and jazz musicians I know, Washington D.C.’s Diggs Duke,… Continue reading
That echo-step soul. Love this chilled new heat from Minneapolis’ Psymun on the beats, Bobby Raps on the raps, and 16-year-old vocalist Spooky Black on the vox. Spooky… Continue reading
“My heart feels full…” Mightily diggin’ this new rhythmic basement soul jam from South London trio All The People that features the Sampha-tico vocals of Curtis Dennie, Ashley Arnold on drums, and Simon Arnold on… Continue reading
We return with a mix of more brand new music! My favorite 34 tracks of the week, featuring newness from Little Dragon, Magical Mistakes, King Britt, Wu Tang Clan, a double… Continue reading
Los Angeles Filipino-American singer and harpist Low Leaf recently partnered with the legendary King Britt to create this wispy, digitally dusty beat jam. “A Light Within” is an outtake from King Britt’s forthcoming… Continue reading
I’ve been a fan of the aggressive neon sounds of Austrian producer Cid Rim ever since hearing fellow Austrian musician Dorian Concept’s brutish electronic jazz remix of his track “Draw.” … Continue reading
Welcome to another brand new show! My favorite new beats, bass, hip-hop, house, and electronic soul cuts all up in your speakers. Get in touch and let me know which… Continue reading
When the Monsta met Marvin. Torrance, California’s Jennifer Lee bka Tokimonsta flips Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “If This World Were Mine” and simmers it in the Los Angeles sunshine. From… Continue reading
Dig this! So much good music in the mix this week. Brand new tracks from Talib Kweli, Tosca, Quadron, Bibio, Illum Sphere, and my new musical project Bright Bright Flashing… Continue reading
Really cannot get enough of this latest wave of late-night electronic soul transmissions that seem to be dominating my headphones at the minute. Ed Thomas, Erik Hassle, Perera Elsewhere… all of these mightily… Continue reading
My favorite song of today. British Berliner Perera Elsewhere turns the volume down to two and delivers a hushed, intimate, ghostly transmission of understated indie-soul. Perera Elsewhere – “Drunk Man”… Continue reading
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
Dubbed-out, squiggly, hairstylin’ funk from Wellington, New Zealand’s answer to Mr. Scruff. Lord Echo – “Digital Haircut” (Official Video) Lord Echo‘s new album, Curiosities, is out now on Bastard… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
