The Digable Planets burst on the scene with their debut at the height of jazz influence in major label hip hop. The roles seemd to have reversed by now with heavier hip hop on the charts and subtler sounds banished to the underground.Anyway the sampled bass line and triangle hit here come from a source that fits perfectly with the chilled vibe of 1992's critical and commercial darlings, who soo...
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Topic: The Digable PlanetsThis Bohemeian and Muslim influenced hip-hop group ate up some serious car stereo time in my adolescence. I consider them to be the pinnacle of the jazzy hip-hop movement in the early to mid nineties, excellent sampling and an overall creatively stoned vibe and just enough east-coast boom-bap. Intelligent lyrics that were more accessible to me than the merging violence...
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The Digable Planets......and MC Lyte
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Happy Funky Friday, MOG Funkateers. I'm in a bit of chill funk mood this morning and dug out the Digable Planets. Not raucously funky, more relaxo funky. I used to play the heck out this CD when it came out 93. Get free, y'all.
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Digable Planets' Blowout Comb ... so best on a Friday. New reviewage posted at Delusions of Adequacy today -- my glowing write up of Kinetic's Sun and Glacier made it the Pick of the Day, heh. Check out the other stuff while you're on the site, too - them's some good scribers there at DoA.
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Haha, I freakin love Twitter man. You can talk to and reach out to just about ANYBODY. I just got hit up by Doodlebug from the infamous Digable Planets. He’s got a new video out above and...* Summary only. Visit the site for full article!
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I know I haven't been around lately, but I'm still working on getting situated here in LA. After all, it's been said that good things take time. Things continue to look up, though. Plus I hit the beach last weekend - had to work on my base tan and get my flavor back - and caught *Kinky* at an outdoor performance at the 3rd Street Promenade. Damn, they're fucking good.The only hiccup I've had, s...
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The shuffle feature on iTunes is bar none one of the best Apple ideas since the original Mac itself. It not only allows you to dive deeper into your collection but also allows you to rediscover those albums long since passed over. While walking the dog tonight through the Michigan sleet, a Digable Planets song came on the iPod from Blowout Comb, the follow up to the well known 90s release Reach...
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We are unbelievably psyched to present one of my favorite groups of all time, the legendary Digable Planets , next Tuesday, November 18 , at Dallas ' own Granada Theater . We've got 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this one courtesy of the Granada; e-mail us at gorillavsbearcontests@gmail.com if you want a pair, and I'll pick 5 winners this weekend. And if your only exposure to the DP's ...
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Just in my last post I discussed VH-1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs countdown, which brings me to another gripe: Digable Planets' Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) at No. 62. That seems criminal for a song that really helped usher in that jazz-infused hip-hop style, an important period for the genre, even if it [...]
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I recently heard this song on a Tide commercial. I thought it was hella dope that Tide would bring back a classic and incorporate it into detergent lol. Anyway, Digable Planets is one of my all time favorite groups so I thought it was right to put them on the blog. It would actually be nice to get the music video, but you know that YouTube is something else. Press play and sit down to the jazzy...
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Looks like Digable Planets are back on the scene. They just released this new mixtape entitled Sounds of The 7th Dimension (mixed by DJ Alex J). The project is meant to support their tour that kicked off on the 13th (dates after the jump). The tape includes exclusive rare remixes of classic Digable Planets material, and also includes new unreleased music from Butterfly and Doodlebug. Check aft [..
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Plain and simple: Digable Planets can still bring it. A small part of me feared I'd let nostalgia get the best of me. I think that's natural, especially when you hear those opening bars on a song like 9th Wonder (which I woke up with in my head). But the DPs, who played almost two [...]
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After a tasty dinner at Nopa http://www.nopasf.com headed to the Indie, for yet another great show. I was bummed that they didn't have the upstairs open but I quickly got over it. X-clan was not really my gig but I there to see DP anyway. Ok, so maybe I'm just get'n old but 11 on a school night was a bit late. I soaked up as much DP goodness as I could but barely lasted past midnight. In c...
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Ant: Chocked full of Digable favs and other beats and treats
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