Tryna bring a good feeling back to the rave fantasy I miss & crave so much.
Run this up!

Intro sayz “I’m musing on something RAVEY, something sentimental, something groovy, glitchy, and strange. Hope you’re down for the ride.”

DEBONAIR invites Dee Diggs / NTS 06.05.2021

This is me warming up the room... thus is why you’ll hear me play long drawn out tracks & some throwbacks in the first 25 or so minutes. I wanted to set a sensual, warm, welcoming tone for the rest of the night. 

I saved all the bangers for when the floor was starting to get packed. Funny enough my recorder’s battery died after the Hex Hector Whitney Houston remix I played. There is another 32 minutes of the set lost to our memories, but the recorder’s timing literally makes my intuition tingle. Maybe we did conjure and dance with the most legendary of angels that night. 

Enjoy the archived feelings and rhythms of this night I will never forget.

Track list to come!

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Let me set the scene:

This set was my last live performance of 2021. This set in the main room of the Knockdown Center (my first time playing that side of things) was my victory lap on my home turf. Many shows in town had cancelled that night because of the endless virus surges, but some of us really needed this. So I showed up to play my part. 

After a year like 2021, when my DJ career snapped back like a rubber band and picked me up out of very pessimistic place, I needed this.

I am so grateful that I got to play this show with Ash Lauryn and Honey Diijon. Two djs I really admire and look up to! 

Ash said something to me back stage that illuminated how legendary this lineup was simply because of who we are: 3 generations of black women DJ’s carrying a very holy torch of love, light, & musical legacy by way of house music. :')

Full Fantasy NYC - Opening Set ~ 88 minutes of black.gurl.bliss

Taking the prompt from Allies in Arts’ mission to support artists who are: BIPOC, women, and/or a part of the LGBTQ+ community, DJs Dee Diggs and Lunàtica curated a 2 part mixtape to remind us that Pride never ends. This mix tape outlines the sounds that fill our queer imaginations, pulling from old and new source material. So grateful for this opportunity and hope you enjoy the mixtape!




Side A: 

A psychedelic discoe-y, house-y, rhythmic emotional ride by Dee Diggs

Pleasure Principle, Thoughts on loving, living, and leaving, hard on the edges, soft in the middle, BBQs/beach days/outdoor hangs that linger into dancing under the stars, accidental meanderings into morning, the tender vulnerability of the new sunrise cracking open before your eyes.

Tracklist: song - artist

1. Burn (Black Water Remix) - Honey Dijon & Tim K feat. Jason Walker Black Water Remix
2. I Can't Get No Sleep (No Sleep In '95 Mix) - India, Masters At Work
3. In The Name Of Love (Kim Anh Re-edit) - Sharon Redd
4. Pleasure Principle - Janet Jackson (Boston Chery Remix) - Boston Chery
5. I See Your Face featuring K'Alexi Shelby (K'Alexi & Russoul Mix)- Paris Brightledge, K'Alexi Shelby
6. Dance, Freak & Boogie (Special 12' Disco Mix) - Nightlife Unlimited
7. Weekend (Weekend Club) [the Wam Bam Mix] - Todd Terry Project
8. Saturday (Original Mix) - Bumforhire, Mood II Swing
9. Take Me To The Bridge Glen Rivera ReStructure Mix - Vera
10. Living The Life (Drummapella) - DJ Minx featuring Lady C
11. Living For The Love Of You (David Morales Def Dub Mix)  - Jimi Polo
12. Flip Phone freestyle (prod. black surfer) - Aura 
13. Microdosing - UNiiQU3
14. I Can Tell - The AM
15. Lick It - Roula
16. Everyday 2gether  - Bored Lord
17. Lovin is Really My Game Remix  - Sylvester

Art credit is to @kkanva on instagram

Allies In Arts Mixtape -  Side A - DEE DIGGS

Everything's more beautiful in hindsight. 
IDK why that is.
 Here's something to mark 2022, to archive where I'm at on this hybrid- digital meets vinyl sound journey. 

Sometimes you listen to the recording and it reveals you had a real squeeze on the room and the vibes reflected are a pleasant surprise. As always listening back was a reckoning with my fIaws forcing me to deep listen and switch on some self acceptance til my mistakes become poetic mishaps meant to coax the message thru. I was touched seeing the divine feminine magnetizing in my sound and bringing the gurlz to the front of the dancing crowd at the Great Northern in San Francisco where this was recorded live - post-thanksgiving weekend in Nov 2022. Jazzy, sexy, manic, strange, grown, and very much me. Enjoy it!

Special thanks to @polyglamorous-club

I got the stuff that you want, the thang that u need.
More than enough to make you drop to your knees - Whitney Houston

TRACKLIST BELOW:

1. The Boss (Eric Kupper Extended Remix) - Donna Summer
2. Shelter (Ron Trent Remix) - musclecars
3. Gypsy Woman (Kaytronik Remix Extended Version) - Karizma, Nicholas Ryan Gant
4. Stop Playing With My Mind (feat. Darryl D'Bonneau) [Whiplash And Turner Vocal Mix] - Barbara Tucker
5. Sandman OG - Blue Boy 
6. (VINYL) Throb David Morales legendary club Mix - Janet Jackson 
7. Another Sleepless Night [David Morales Redzone Mix] - Mike 'Hitman' Wilson ft. Shawn
8. Do Ya (Sure Is Pure Remix) - Inner City
9. (VINYL) Hot Shot '97 (Da Techno Bohemian Hot Vocal Mix) - Karen Young 
10. Stolen Frequency - Nativesun
11. Motor City Madness (Underground Resistance Remix) (Edit) - Waajeed
12. Work (Extended Mix) - Honey Dijon featuring Dave Giles II, Cor.Ece & Mike Dunn
13. Desire (Fabrice Africa Pain) - Aural 
14. Work SOHA (DJ Gregory) Work the Walk Mix - Masters At Work Feat. Puppah Nas-T & Denise
15. Can We Live (Farley & Heller Roach Motel dub) - Jestofunk
16. (VINYL) Supernature (Danny Tenaglia's Twilo Club Mix) - Cerrone 
17.  Midnight Mouse (Revised) - Mighty Mouse
18. Reach (Basement Jaxx Firecracker Mix) - Lil' Mo' Yin Yang
19. (VINYL)  Last Rhythm  (Cammellato Mix) - Last Rhythm 
20. (VINYL) Losing My Religion (Apollo 440 House Remix) - Rozalla
21. It's A Raid ! (Original Mix) - Deep Elementz aka Dj Elementz
22. Sex Machine DJ Mix  - 20 Fingers feat. Katrina
23. Space Bass - Slick 
24. Peaches & Prunes (Ron Hardy Re-edit) - Nightlife Unlimited
25. Relight My Fire (ft. Loleatta Holloway) (Dimitri From Paris Remix) - Dan Hartman
26. My All [Morales "My" Club Mix] - Mariah Carey
27. Let’s Dance - Cajmere & Russoul
28. Hot In Herre Edit - Arma
29. I Hear The Music (Mondo Grosso Re-Edit) - Ralphi Rosario & Linda Clifford
30. (VINYL) Needed U Stereo Dub - David Morales
31. Ancestors (Deep Mix) - Delano Smith
32. Big Beat - LADYMONIX
33. Summertime (Kelvin's Summertime Afro Dub Mix) - Brutha Basil, Sacha Williamson, Kelvin Sylvester
34. Future Sonic (Original Mix) - Trinidadian Deep
35. (VINYL) Deep - Creation feat Fantasy & X-man
36. Couldnt Love Your Bounce - Sade Vs Todd Terry
37. Queen Of The Night (Cj's Master Mix)  - Whitney Houston

Poly Glam Live SF Recording - End Of 2022 Mix

Foundation FM Mix Hour - Dee Diggs 5.24.23

This a recording of my set at Nowadays Nonstop from December 2024.

Shared this to commemorate the Voüch zine I was on the cover of for Valentine's weekend 2025 ~~~ (insta: @vouchwick)

Did you get your copy?
Gotta ask IRL 
when you see me or Zach <3

before it's out of our hands and into the archives.....

~Reflections~

My favorite moments in the mix are when a sense of urgency to play around, to switch moods, to linger and lean into experiments,  all of it riles up and smooths out the beat connection again and again. Just like the oceans tide, it comes in swells of beautiful music and risky stitching of all the messages together. It's not perfect, but I am living in these songs for this moment. Washing them through my being and my perspective, that's the fun part and the part I feel the deepest, that somehow I'm bringing this music to life through appreciation and reverence. 

Giving you something new at the end. The culmination of all the inspiration - when new meets old music in perfect harmony - I am in awe that these hands are the channel for this risky jazz but kno she must keep twisting the knobs and sonically pushing to channel more light to this world, as God herself intend. 

<3 
DD

Nowadays Nonstop Dec 2024 Closing set

We made time… we made magic… This is what I sounded like at the Majestic Stage at Making time Festival in Philadelphia, PA during late September 2024. 

A couple days before my 30th birthday, my twenties came to an end after that weekend. This decade of my life took me from traveling across town from my college apartment in Boston to play basement raves all the way to the club and festival stages of the whole wide world. :''} I spent the weekend how I spent my 20's: DJing, dancing, smoking ouid, chatting it up and realizing just how much life and kinship my love of music has given to me. The bravery to take up space that it instilled in me is the ultimate gift. 

I planned a special mostly all vinyl set to play for this one because I owe it all to the music. I remember as soon as I could drive leaving high school on my lunch break  to  look through dusty bins at Papa Jazz records store in South Carolina.  I didn’t know what I was looking for in those dusty bins until it found me: house music, the connections of soul, jazz, RnB, and the real feeling type of music my gay and black ancestors planted seeds and reflections in for me. 

I got to play that last 20-something DJ set on maestro DJ and house music godfather, Theo Parrish’s custom rotary ISONOE mixer. 

Every DJ before him touched those knobs, but when it was my turn it became a Divinely Feminine rotation, a ritual of sound and spirit, sweeping synths and crackling of the record dust mimicking the planes flying over head, where my hands were thrown up in ecstatic motion at times, there was a synergy that could not be explained. It was a beautiful day.

I felt good about this energy work. I felt good lighting the incense. It felt good fulfilling my purpose, praise and worship, a musical acknowledgement of the source energy that flows and unites all things.

 I’m blessed to act as conduit when I’m tapped into the gift of persuasion of melodies and moods. I am charged by the power of the elements especially when I am playing in the outdoors like I was this day.

I pray many more birthdays come to find me doing what I love, what I was made to do, making a joyful noise as loud as they will let me and shining this light, my spark - this black magic woman starlight-  for all to see(and hear).

Track list soon come. <3 Dee Diggs

DeeDiggs_MakingTimeSet2024_Majestic Stage_29andfine

played PInk Noise @ Bella Luna & the Milky Way in JP in March 2016
I was honestly quite happy that night and I think it shows in my selection. 
I swear that I will house your body. <3
**my second live dj performance ever**
after this bb gurl learned how to beatmatch & left the controller at home & the rest is HERSTORY... ;)

Pink Noise Set

Black Jade is the dream stone
Black Jade is calm in the midst of the storm
Black Jade is in the middle of the dance floor with her eyes closed soaking up the atmosphere & sweating out peace.

Black Jade wishes you much healing to this electronic meditation.
It's a good idea to stretch to this b4 you go out into the world.
If there are still good vibes left in your vessel, lend some to receive some.


~Tracklist~
Variable - Isabella
Discipline - Funkineven And Jay Daniel
Baby Fraud - Beta Librae
Detroit - Robert Hood
Meridien S-Dos - NSDOS
Ath - Amotik
OH AH - Traumprinz
ok (JX Cannon Remix)  - UMFANG 
Sea Snake - Drexciya
Mda - Fer Marino
Higher State of Consciousness - Josh Wink
Dumb House - Isabella 
Smooth Track - Aquaphresca
Urban Tropics - Juan Atkins
Good Kiss (Urban Tribe Mix) - Rick Wilhite
🌹

Black Jade

Something to listen to when you're on that come down from the world
of noise & energy, these are soothing sounds, summon in the water, the light, the radio's white noise tuning, my humble cooing to imagine the realigning of your cells & your brain falling into perfect bliss. 

I hope to put you back to sleep or bring you peace. I hope that you peek at the window to behold the brilliant pallet of neon pastels b4 you fully disassociate. I bid you a good dream with butterfly kisses and rave angel whispers trembling in ya hi-fis.

TASCAM DR-03

06AM-7AM DJ/Live Vocals Hybrid Set for HalfMoonbk 24h stream June 2019

say something//send me traxx: deediggs617@gmail.com
To book me, please contact these emails.
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pronouns: she/her
a selectress with no inhibitions 
NO INHIBITIONS? //NO RIGID GENRE BORDERS IN THE BOOTH? //
YET FOREVER A STUDENT OF THE TENANTS OF 
BLACK AMERICAN HOUSE MUSIC
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Thru sound I lose my metaphorical restraints and commit myself to a sonic landscape, not absent of outside influence, yet deeply seeped in my references & love of history & hunger for myths of parties I never went to. I live to uncover and share these temporal moments locked in recordings of music magic taken place before I was born. I fall strongly in favor of sounds that are a reflection of my mood in the moment. {there is a song tracking every feeling & thought} I practice alchemy mono to stereo seducing the collective 'we' into movement & memories & emotions.
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