Screw lists - happy new year!

I used to work for a music magazine here in Athens several years ago, writing mostly album reviews. These last days before the year's end, we would always publish our top tunes and we were all asked to make a list with our favorite tracks and albums of the year, counting downwards from 20 to 1. Sometimes we would make lists with our favorite albums and tracks of all times. The horror! Most of the times I didn't have 20 favorite albums for one year (I rarely enjoy one whole album and not just a couple of tracks from it) and I had to fill the list with things that I could definitely live without. And of course the numbering was totally random -except for number 1. Maybe.

This whole thing stroke me yesterday as I realized I was seeing lists spreading everywhere all over the internet. That moment I also perceived that this past month has been nothing but lists. Well, don't expect to see any lists of that kind in soundigger today. I'm just gonna say goodbye to 2013 without knowing exactly which track or album was my favorite one this year, coz I adored a huge amount of tunes equally. And I'm definitely not gonna make a list about what I wanna change this year -if I can't remember it, then it's not worth changing. The only list I'm gonna make is for the super-market supplies, which has no countdown on it.



Happy new year everyone! Spread love and screw the lists!

track's info: 
Lyn Collins - Take me as I am (Disco Tech Edit)
2013

To pitch or not to pitch

Although on Sundays I usually take things slower, at my own relaxing and comfy pace, today I think I have a thing for this +pitched version of Vaneese & Carolyn's "Goodbye song".

Apparently, some dude decided to share his own pace with the world and groove some of us up, even on a lazy Sunday morning -where it takes time to even move your hand to catch the phone and call a friend to ask what the hell happened last night and your head is about to explode. Now a nice, inspired, clean and funked-up edit of this could give these last days of the year a proper boost and send them away with fine tunes.

track's info:
Vaneese&Carolyn - Goodbye song
Polydor 1978

Take me to the circus

We've seen deep&disco before (here and here) and we've seen Heion before (here) as well. But we've never seen them together. This is what they sound like when combined.



In the middle of winter and it feels like mid-summer. Thank you guys.

track's info: 
Heion - Circus (JKriv remix)
So much soul (remixed part 1)
Our Nights Recordings 2013

Who's a Christmas person?

There's a Xmas track that doesn't make me hurl, doesn't involve high-pitched, synchronized kids' voices, has nothing to do with Christmas carols and does not involve the oh-my-god-take-me-now triangle sound from hell.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind Christmas. It's the jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way (to hell) thing that I would like to vanish. And I prefer Otis Redding to keep me musical company, whose version of this '47 tune is my favorite. 

Have a good time y'all.
Eat like there's no tomorrow and select beautiful -for your soul- sounds.

track's info:
-Otis Redding - Merry Christmas baby
Atlantic 1968

Classic L.A.

L.A. isn't all about glamour and show-off. Ok, maybe it is, but it seems that they can also make good music out there, fact proved by Classixx this time, several months ago, when they released their Hanging Gardens album. Michael David and Tyler Blake (formerly known as Young Americans) is the classic -oh, the irony- case of childhood friends who shared the same passion for music and instead of letting it go to waste, they formed a duo together and said "now we're gonna blow you away, world!" (I just made that up, but wouldn't it be cool if they had actually said it?).

Anyway, what happened to me these days is that I appreciated this album once again, while I was listening to it as I was driving (everything has to pass the driving test: if I don't eager to listen to something when driving, it's of no actual importance for me). And the second appreciation test, gave me these favorites. 

When I listen to piano in dance tracks, I get a very intense old-skool feeling and then all my wrinkles disappear and I'm 18 again. Really.

My kinda sound, my kinda beat, my kinda everything (Hot Toddy "tickled" this one, listen here)

This one is an outsider for me. I mean, if my favorite tracks were kids, they wouldn't normally play with this one. But once they get to know it, they 'll never let it go.

tracks' info:
-Classix - Dominoes
-Classix - Supernature
-Classix - Hanging Gardens

all from the album Hanging Gardens
Innovative Leisure Records 2013

Dreamin' on a disco train to begin with

From a dude born in the early '80s, in France, with influences that include Derrick May, Moodymann and Joe Claussell and with recent activity in the music production, I wouldn't expect anything less than this awe-inspiring disco train right here.

And this day-dreamin' track.

And this mind-boggling tune I probaby should have begun with.

Mathieu Clé (aka Closed Paradise) really knows his way on the 4/4.

tracks' info:
-Mathieu Clé - Disco train
2011

-Mathieu Clé - Dreamin'
55 Dreams in Oahu
Melodram Recordings 2011

-Mathieu Clé - To begin with
Midnight love
Apersonal Music 2011

Burn motherfucker, burn

When I get crazy over a track, I usually wait a little bit till I get over it to the point that I can make a decent post on the blog about it, without sounding like a psychopath (not doin’ a great job at it sometimes though. Damn enthusiasm!)

It’s been 2 days since I pressed play to this sucker right here for the first time. And it's still on the repeat mode. I take little breaks with other stuff and then I get burnt up all over again.



Just released from Dj Butcher's Chopshop Music, a first-class tune from Jayl Funk and sdjp, sampling the "Love fever" track by Gayle Adams.

Result: Two days, man!

*check out the whole Chopshop release here

tracks' info:
-Jayl Funk & sdjp - Burn it up
Sweet Ill Riding Funk
The Chopshop Music 2013

-Gayl Adams - Love fever 
Love fever
Prelude Records 1982

Mayday, mayday: tornado on the way

Whether it's Tornado Wallace or Lewie Day is of no actual importance. This dude rocks as he proves to be a real music chameleon jumping from deep groove to techno, being minimalistic yet grand at the same time and a true musician, playing piano, saxophone, drums and guitar.

This is my favorite.

And guess what, he's Australian too.

*check out his soundcloud page here.

track's info:
-Lewie Day - Soma kinda man
Melbourne Deepcast #1
Melbourne Deepcast 2011 

Groovin' backwards

If you loved this one

and this one

and this one

then you must adore this one

The beat is working after all...

tracks' info: 
-DJ Tonka - Feel
Force Inc. US 1995

-Fafa Monteco - To the rhythm
Cockatoo Club
Black Jack 1999

-Euro Funk - Everybody's dancing
Eargasm 1981

-Jimmy Ross - First true love affair
First true love affair
Full Time Records 1981

Stretched brothers

Vins seemed to have liked this Isley Brothers gem so much that he stretched it out and powered it up a little, so as to have a bit more to enjoy.



Jammin' tune in an extended version, aiming to make you grin a bit longer, offered with a free download, for slo-mo situations.

Bottom line? Stretching is good.

(*you can find the whole EP that includes this track here). 

tracks' info:
-The Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark (Vins edit)
Everything's an edit anyway
Audio Parallax Records 2011 

original track
-The Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark 
Go for your guns
T-Neck 1977

Spiced-up O'Jays

In 1976 the beloved O'Jays dropped a Message in the Music which included the "Darlin' Darlin' baby" track for the hopelessly romantic (and -let's face it- kinda mushy ones) out there. More than 30 years later, this sweet tune fell in the hands of JKriv, who did some work on it and came up with this.



I think I'll stick with this one for now, turn the volume up a little and honor the sound of the O'Jays, with a little spice of the nowadays. And then I'm gonna go with this one, a favorite track from Alan Dixon's dubby point of view.



And then I'll probably smile like the corny bastard that I am.

tracks' info:
-The O'Jays - Darlin' darlin' baby
Message in the music
Philadelphia Internation Records 1976

-The O'Jays - Darlin' darlin' baby (Deep&Disco re-work)
Philadelphia International: the re-edits
Harmless 2012

-The O'Jays - I love music (Alan Dixon Dub) 
2010

Mexican boogie

It's quite a certainty that when you hear "Mexico" your mind goes to Mariachi or maybe Carlos Santana, but surely not to nu disco or electro boogie sounds. Well, bazinga! Joseph Terruel, born and raised in Mexico, left all these guitarrón and violins aside and made his own contemporary music. Not that there's anything wrong with folk, but we prefer to have him on the nu disco side of music, making inspired releases like those he's already made in Bust A Dub, In the Woods and Thirteen Classics. A couple of days ago, I also found this wicked tune on his soundcloud page.



Bazinga it is!

track's info:
Joseph Terruel
Joy to be
Hotbox boogie 2013

Keep it cozy

Gloomy Sundays need love, coziness and good music -and some good food would be nice. But even if it wasn't that kind of Sunday today, I would still press play an infinite amount of times to this Magnetic Soul piece of awesomeness.



I leave it to your hands. Enjoy your day.

*if you haven't already, check out the whole album here.

track's info: 
Magnetic Soul - In your hands
Weapons Test
Dab Hand 2013