Tag Archive: Video

“Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records)” – Stones Throw Records Documentary (Official Teaser)

The consistent quality of leftfield hip-hop, soul, and jazz label Stones Throw Records is unparalleled.   “Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records)”  (Official Teaser)   Out 2013. More info… Continue reading

Humus ft Ekow – “Love Affair” (Official Video)

Full-blast future-doo-wop neo-soul from Finland. Heikki Soini and Tiia Marjanen team up with rapper Ekow from Helsinki hip-hoppers the Megaphone State for a rare English-language excursion on “Love Affair.”   The duo also… Continue reading

LV ft Ruffest – “Ultando Lwaka” (Official Video)

South African emcees and kwaito specialists Ruffest (pictured below) meet South London Hyperdub beatsmiths LV.     This one has some serious bounce.    

Homeboy Sandman – “Not Really” (Official Video)

Relaxed rhymes from Homeboy Sandman that are so spacious you could sail a zeppelin in between bars and not even touch the sides. Flute loops and piano keys courtesy of the producer Jonwayne.… Continue reading

Gizmo ft Nick Hakim – “Lift Me Up” (Official Video)

Boston bassist, composer, and producer Gizmo lifts souls with soul.   More songs from Gizmo‘s latest album Red Balloon here.    

Immanu El – “On Wide Shoulders” (Official Video)

Waves of Elliott Smith and Sigur Ros summit and swell on this song by Swedish melodic post-rockers Immanu El. “On Wide Shoulders” is graceful and driving, like the steady, patient course of a… Continue reading

Flying Lotus – “Putty Boy Strut” (Official Video)

FlyLo continues to fly over standard musical boundaries here on “Putty Boy Strut” with what sounds like wandering robot whines and an army of androids keeping time by uniformly clapping their metallic pincer… Continue reading

Poolside – “Only Everything” (Official Video) (Free Download)

Daytime disco duo Poolside uncover the neon nocturnal wildlife of urban Los Angeles.   Download the ravey strut of “Only Everything” for free from the good folks at Scion AV here.    

Azealia Banks – “1991” (Official Video)

Brace yourselves for the incoming and imminent 90s house music revival.   Expect loads more Crystal Waters house keys and Soul II Soul swing in your musical future.    

How to Dress Well – “Cold Nites” (Live at Way Out West 2012 in Gothenburg, Sweden)

Soaring, ethereal R&B and experimental beats from Brooklyn’s Tom Krell aka How to Dress Well. Here he performs his song “Cold Nites” in a candlelit church in Gothenburg, Sweden as part of the… Continue reading

Sure Thing – “Holding You Tight” (Official Video)

Bristol, England goes boogie! Sure Thing is a live boogie funk outfit fronted by the legendary drum ‘n’ bass DJ and producer DJ Die (who also spins disco under the name Laminate Radio),… Continue reading

Hidden Orchestra – “Vorka” (Official Video)

Edinburgh, Scotland’s electronic jazz collective Hidden Orchestra returns with “Vorka.” The title references Slavo Vorkapic, a well-regarded Serbian filmmaker who produced short montage pieces in the 1930s for Hitchcock and other film directors.… Continue reading

Wrongtom Meets Deemas J – “Jump + Move + Rock” (Official Video)

Wrongtom meets Deemas J meets East London meets hazy dubs meets surprisingly engaging 80s homemade reggae vibes.   Love how from 3min 13sec onward Deemas J just decides to go and explore a… Continue reading

City Calm Down – “Movements” (Official Video)

City Calm Down (great name) are a four-piece live electronic outfit from Melbourne, Australia, who have quite possibly titled their band after fellow Melburnians (real word, I checked) Architecture in Helsinki‘s song of… Continue reading

Naytronix – “Baby Don’t Walk Away” (Official Video)

Sofa soul. Future funk. Naytronix is the solo project of Nate Brenner, bassist for tUnE-YaRdS and Beep. Fans of Jonti and Sonnymoon will no doubt dig.   “Baby Don’t Walk Away” is second… Continue reading

David Byrne & St Vincent – “Who” (Official Video)

Martin de Thurah‘s video for this voluminous, expertly written song is as imaginative and whimsical as that parping horn melody.   “Who” appears on David Byrne and St Vincent‘s upcoming full-length, Love This… Continue reading

Roger Robinson – “Spaceship” (Official Video) (Free Download)

Songs about space always have a certain inherent beauty.   “Spaceship” is taken from the forthcoming solo album New Broken Things by King Midas Sound vocalist Roger Robinson. Download the song for free… Continue reading

JJ DOOM – “Guv’nor” (Official Video)

JJ DOOM is the collab between leftfield hip-hop’s rapper-producer Jneiro Jarel & London-born, metal-masked MC DOOM.   Viewing notes: 1.  Saying “Ello guv’nor!” in an overly angular Cockney accent is oddly satisfying. Dropping… Continue reading

Black Atlass – “Castles” (Official Video)

London, Ontario, Canada’s Alex Fleming is Black Atlass.   Bleak yet monumental, as castles often are.    

Funkineven & Fatima – “Phone Line” (Official Video)

There were two great songs released this summer that primarily concern themselves with telephones and calling someone, maybe. This is the one you can admit to liking.   Funkineven & Fatima – “Phone… Continue reading

Homeboy Sandman – “FOUNDation” (Video)

Queens, NY rapper and Stones Throw signee Homeboy Sandman shares his story.   The Boy Sand‘s full-length debut album First of a Living Breed is released on September 18.    

Listen/Download this Week’s DIG DEEP Radio Show with Dan Digs: Beats, Bass & Electronic Soul on KBCS 91.3FM Seattle – August 4, 2012 Tracklisting – Special Live Future Beat Mix in the Studio from Kasata Sound (Video)

Two hours of the freshest, newest, and most vivacious beats, beats, hip-hop, and future soul, plus the odd hand-brake swerve as we careen through genres and musical boundaries on that late late late… Continue reading

Antwon – “Living Every Dream” (Official Video)

This video for Antwon‘s 2012 summer jam “Living Every Dream” manages to look and sound like a pitch-perfect recreation of everything 1993.   I’m off to scour YouTube for taped VHS uploads of… Continue reading

Walter Ego ft Trim – “Set Off” (Official Video)

Joining the dots. To get familiar with East London MC and former Roll Deep member Trim, listen to his track “Confidence Boost” as excellently reworked by James Blake under his Harmonimix alias. Here… Continue reading

Zara McFarlane – “Police & Thieves” (Junior Murvin Cover)

  August music in every sense of the word.         This sublime soul-jazz cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae standard “Police and Thieves” will feature on Zara McFarlane‘s second album out… Continue reading

TNGHT – “Bugg’n” (Official Video)

I never thought I would say the sound of a metal spatula banging on rusty basement pipes would be the future of music, but here we are.   I also never thought Elmo… Continue reading

Doc Daneeka & Abigail Wyles – “Tobyjug” (Official Video)

Considering that this is a Toby Jug, it’s not first thing I would have thought of titling this beautiful, understated slice of late night bliss.   “Tobyjug” is out now on Ten Thousand… Continue reading

“Planet Rock and Other Tales of the 808” (Video Promo)

“Nothing sounds quite like an 808.” Nicely done, video promo edit person who had the brainwave of meta-chopping and meta-repeating this promo’s own soundbite samples thus staying true to the musical style that… Continue reading

Koreless – “Lost in Tokyo” (Video Edited by Blunted Soul)

Borrows footage from DarwinFish105. Mixed with “Sais (Dub)” by Floating Points. Taken from Jamie xx‘s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.   Beautiful in every which way.    

House Shoes ft Jimetta Rose – “Castles” (Official Video)

This beat.   “When you appreciate someone else’s art, it makes your art better.”    

Phonte ft Median – “Eternally” (Official Video)

The Foreign Exchange’s Phonte teams up with Median to take the hip-hop gospel door to door and make music video history by being the first to rap to camera while wearing bicycle helmets.… Continue reading

Om Unit ft Tamara Blessa – “Dark Sunrise” (Official Video)

Katy B might have popularized the pop-dubstep template, but this goes one better by sounding far more subtle, underground, and woozy.   Om Unit plays Stop Biting at Lo-Fi in Seattle on August… Continue reading

Scuba – “NE1BUTU” (Official Video)

90s! Love everything about this. The Mad Men-like attention to historical detail is commendable, right down to the first few seconds of VHS fizz and the appearance of early 90s British youth television… Continue reading

Chief – “Shadows Collision” (Official Video Trailer)

Late-night boom-clap.   More from Swiss beat-chef Chief here.    

MS MR – “Hurricane” (Official Video)

This anonymous duo from New York call their music “Tumblr glitch pop.” This description is spot-on.   SO MANY IMAGES SO FAST.    

Alt-J – “Tessellate” (Official Video)

Dubstep-influenced bass and drum patterns are sneaking into every genre of music in 2012. Leeds, UK band Alt-J‘s video for “Tessellate” is a gangstered reversion of Italian Renaissance painter Raphael’s “The School of… Continue reading

Family Band – “Night Song” (Official Video)

Brooklyn ambient rock group Family Band describe their music as “heavy mellow.” While Johnny Ollsin, Kim Krans, and Scott Hirsch’s particular brand of dark and solemn, starless sky indie is indeed heavy, mellow, and… Continue reading

Boy Kid Cloud – A Better Version of Me EP (Promo Video)

Maximalist joy from a Prince-adoring bedroom producer from Leicester, UK.   Great songwriting that injects some real heart and soul into the laser synth storm and dubstep bass wobble.    

Cornershop ft Katie – “Solid Gold” (Official Video)

I wasn’t sure at first but the filtered disco bleeps at 0:26 won me over. From Cornershop’s latest album Urban Turban. As solid gold as solid gold.   As roller rink as the… Continue reading

Xolisa – “Be Felt” (Official Video)

While. I’m Not. Always. In. The Mood For. Spoken. Word. Poetry, this is pretty good. Superb soul-jazz beats and bass with a voice and flow that recalls a younger, laid-back Ursula Rucker.  … Continue reading

Disclosure – “Control” (Official Video)

Disclosure are two brothers from the UK who had their first single released on !K7’s Moshi Moshi imprint two years ago when they were just 16 and 18 years old.   Since everyone… Continue reading

The Sufis – “Sri Sai Flora” (Official Video)

Like listening to the Beatles’ “Taxman” after enduring a sleep-deprived long-haul flight and landing in a remote, exotic, sun-heavy island paradise, no?   “Like” the Nashville, TN psychedelic rockers on Facebook here.  … Continue reading

Herbert – “The Audience” (Video)

It’s all about the piano at 1:51.     Still classic.                    

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – 4Play Interview & Short Film for Channel 4 (Video)

Orlando Higginbottom (probably the most British name since Nigel Tufnel or Armitage Shanks) is a dance music producer from Oxford, UK, who also calls himself Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.   “Well I say… Continue reading

My New Favorite Korean Rock Band: Peterpan Complex – “자꾸만 눈이 마주쳐” & “You Know I Love You” (Official Music Video)

Over the course of their 10-year existence the K-Indie band Peterpan Complex, fronted by Jeon Jihan, have sounded like a spookily exact (and I mean exact) Korean replica of Radiohead Peterpan Complex – “You… Continue reading

Tall Black Guy Presents “Tempo Dreams Vol. 1” (Official Video Trailer)

Summer beat vibes.   Out now on Bastard Jazz.   Featuring music by Tensei, MonkeyRobot, Ta-Ku, Evil Needle, Teru, Chief, Jeriko Jackson, Buscrates, Floydcheung, Doc Illingsworth, Schecky’s Jazzy Tofu, and Tall Black Guy.… Continue reading

Weird Together ft Yaw Boateng & Karima Madut – “Chale” (Official Video)

I’ve been obsessed with Ghana’s azonto rhythms and saying “chale” a lot ever since hearing E.L.’s dancey and ridiculously catchy “Obuu Mo.” Suffice to say I was extremely pleased to stumble upon Weird… Continue reading

Poolside – “Slow Down” (Official Video)

I want to live in this video for a day or year. Already one of my favorite songs of 2012. If you appreciated the main sentiment of Friendly Fires’ “Jump in the Pool”… Continue reading

Mapzzz x Signal Flow Present Sharkbite Sessions: Shortcircles – “Meatball in Space” (Video)

Oakland, CA producer Shortcircles performs his track “Meatball in Space” with a live band including Geoff Saba of Forest Floor and Adam Myatt and Glenn Jackson of James & Evander.   That beat… Continue reading

Tarp Surfing (Video)

This is what happens when there’s zero surf for eight weeks on the island of Jersey, a British dependency off the coast of Normandy, France.   What’s even more impressive is the fact… Continue reading