Mixes-Live Recordings-Mixtapes-etc. <3 Dee Diggs

@dee_diggs, the queen of Brooklyn, closed out Hemlock Hole with a bangin', soulful house set.  'A selectress with no inhibitions', Dee gave her heart and soul to the crowd and the dancers gave it all right back.

Campout Series:  Dee Diggs

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

@dee_diggs plays with a sense of rapture that can be soft or heavy, but is always fun. The East Coast selector is Brooklyn-based, and that's where her House of Diggs party offers a place for marginalized groups to express and organize themselves. Next to this, she has a residency at Public Records but no matter where she plays, you can be sure it is always with real respect for the Black roots of house, techno and disco while touching on everything from sensual grooves to euphoric thumpers. 

This week's mix is a seat-of-your-pants selection that is unashamedly party-focussed. The good vibes flow from the first moment as Dee races through passionate house and vocal laced classics. There are moments of all-out hands in the celebration next to boogie workouts and a heart-swelling Mariah Carey edit. It's a quick, tight, and impossibly enjoyable listen from this cultured party-starter.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 384 - Dee Diggs

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Dee Diggs & Suze Ijo @ The Lot Radio Juneteenth Block Party 2022

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

Dee Diggs — live from Boiler Room at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Dee Diggs | Dekmantel 2022 | Friday

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

Live from The Junkyard at Lost Village 2023.

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Next Edition: 22—25 August 2024

Live from Lost Village - Dee Diggs

A sexy opening set from Dee Diggs at RDC "Sound Horizon" on 24th November 2023.

RDC 065 - Dee Diggs

Alias: Dee Diggs
Pronoun: She / Her
Location: Brooklyn, NYC
Music labels: Toucan Sounds
Name of the mix: House is a Spiritual Feeling
About the mix: For me, House music is a 44-year-old genre of music that originated and popularized in the black gay LGBTQ+ nightclub spaces of New York, Chicago, and Detroit that spilled on to influence and inspire the world. House music is a living breathing relic that tells its own story in the hits, the lyrics, the parties, and our legends and legacies in local and worldwide scenes. 
House music is a mode of being, a ritualistic euphoria we gather for, a space of praise, connection, and unadulterated feeling, healing and dancing- kind of like church should be, a dance floor where there is room for someone like you.
The mix I made explores a spiritual realm of House music with influences of Jazz, Disco, Gospel, and African and Latin Diasporic sounds. 
Its infectious rhythms take you into a certain sentimentality. This is an ancestral conversation twisting into different messages of hope and resilience. The heart, soul, and mind are wrestling with big themes in these transitions. Though breaking through at times to find lightness, this one is meant to go deep. I love that House Music can hold all the multitudes and complexities of being human. 
Follow: @dee_diggs

#tracklist
01. Dee Diggs - Go Deep [*unreleased* Toucan Sounds, 2024]
02. Trinidadian Deep - Euston Street [ Future Shock Music, 2021]
03. Paul Johnson - Dream of You [Chiwax!, 2017]
04. Danny Tenaglia - Do You Remember (Original Mix) [Tourism, 1998]
05. Ben Cenac - Africa [ Rush Hour, 2023]
06. Sounds of Blackness - The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) [Perspective Records, 1991]
07. Debbie Winans Lowe & Korean Soul -  It's All Good (Louie Vega Remix) [Nervous Records, 2022]
08. Steffi - Fallin (Vinyl Remaster) [Dolly, 2020]
09. DJ Patti Kane - You (Soulminded mix) [House Royalty Records, 2020]
10. Lynette Smith - Only You (Nu Birth Test The Dub Mix) [Defected Records, 1998]
11. Martha Wash - Carry On (Tee's Crazy mix) [Delirious, 1997]
12. Dialect - Sitting in the Sun (Derrick Carter's Winter Crazy Vocal Dub Reprise) [Distance, 1998]
13. Salākastar - On Black Thoughts: Dreams and Joyful Movement [Salākastudios, 2023]
14. G.U. - Detroitism [Strut Records, 2012]
15. dunnEasy - Won't Stop (feat. Monique Bingham) (dunnEASY Club Mix) [Jellybean Soul, 2008]
16. Ananda Project - Straight Magic (feat. Heather Johnson) (Wamdue Kids Jazz Mix) [Nite Grooves, 2020]
17. Mariah Carey - Anytime You Need a Friend (Boriqua Tribe Mix) [Columbia Records, 1993]
18. Stevie Wonder - Another Star (The Jackal's 'La La La' Edit) [unofficial remix]
19. Felix Dickinson feat Blane Lyon - People's People (Ron Trent Remix) - [Ugly Music 2023]
20. Sole Fusion (House Nation Mix)  - Bass Tone [Strictly Rhythm, 1994]
21. Louie Vega feat. Luisito Quintero, Nina Rodriguez  - Yemaya (Louie Vega's Bassline Mix) [Defected Records, 2018]
22. Delano Smith - Ancestors (Deep Mix) [Kolour Recordings, 2010]
23. Naked Music NYC - It's Love (Joshua's Mo' Musique Vocal) [OM Records, 1997]
24. Joe Claussell -  Je Ka Jo (Original Vocal) [Ibadan, 2000]
25. Wamdue Kids - Echoes & Instruments [Guidance Recordings, 1996]
26. Tarika Blue - Dreamflower [Chiaroscuro Records, 1977]

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House of Others #053 | DEE DIGGS | House is a Spiritual Feeling

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Dee Diggs is a DJ and music producer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is unapologetically black, queer, and a lifelong student of the tenets of House Music. She describes herself as a lifelong ‘music-head’ and music lover. She cultivates a dance community of peers and collaborators through her parties named, House of Diggs, usually held at Public Records in Brooklyn.

Live recording from Dee's opening set at Nowadays with Stacey Hotwaxx Hale.

Dee Diggs
"Legacy connections on the dancefloor and in the dj booth inspire me to go deeper than ever before. Usually, I can do this by tapping into a spontaneous element of playfulness that allows me to seek catharsis in the imaginative layering of sound, using intuition to connect the messages within the lyric soup of my selections and braiding them all into a story, a feeling or an atmosphere.

I'm grateful for a recording that captured the pure passionate expression and alignment of this night. I got to play Disco, House, and Soul with and for someone as esteemed as Stacey Hotwaxx Hale! This is the opening set, the opening of a portal where the soul awakens and gets to shake and dance to an ecstatic peak in the night."

Deep South Podcast 141 Dee Diggs

Instant ignited fire from Brooklyn, DJ producer and vocalist @dee_diggs takes us on a 90 minute journey, just the way we like it. Playful, eclectic, soulful and with an unique drive. 

Last month she released her amazing EP ‘’Go Deep’’ on Toucan records. Her set at ADE in 2022 is still very freshly imprinted in our memories! 

Take us higher Dee!

Dee Diggs...IsBurning #147

Reveal Yourself to the Pure Elements of Groove in the Afternoon

This set is a nature spell, an afternoon praise break, the trees shook with us as we followed the source energy through the drum beat with disco, house, gospel, all kinds of soulful music for the funky people of the rainbow. 

I am reminiscing to this. It brings me back to visions of the sun peaking as white light through clouds, the sweat, the incense, the smiles, the moments of elation and rhythmic sensation. 

Thank you for letting me play music from my heart for you this afternoon. My one woman jazz takes many bumps twists turns, and you all were there for the journey! It felt so good. Your energy & memories are diffused into these sounds now too. Gratitude to all the forces that brought me here, to be a conduit of joy - Dee Diggs

Dee Diggs at Draaimolen Festival 2024

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 - is new music - sonically pushing to channel more light to this world.

Nowadays Nonstop Dec 2024 Closing set

Just like class, good house music never goes out of style. Just ask Dee Diggs, the latest contributor to SonarMix. Ahead of her dual debut at Sónar Lisboa and Sónar by Night (together with 90s diva Ultra Naté) this year, she's served up a spiritual, soulful session that pays tribute to the black pioneers of dance music, with a fresh twist on the genre. Get into the groove. 

@dee_diggs

Tracklist:
Kamasutra - Censored (Under Version)
Elastic Reality - Cassa De X (Deep Dish Does X)
Bette Middler - To Deserve You (Arif’s Club Mix)
Make A Dance - EL U VEE
Craig Loftus Presents Grand High Priest Featuring Dajaé - Mary Mary (Terry’s Don’t You Weep Mix)
Detroit Boogie Assemble - Feelings Mix 2
Ultra Naté - Pressure (Extended Vocal Mix)
Shawn Christopher and Stonebridge - Make My Love (2020 Remaster)
Carol Jiani - Hit ’N Run Lover (Remix)
Derrick Carter & Chris Nazuka - Life is Like A Circle
Roland Clark - Show Me (Ki Creighton & Giovanni Remix)
Janet Jackson - Got It Til It’s Gone (Armand Van Helden Bonus Beats)
Ron Trent - Paradise Regained
Aphrodisiac - Song of the Siren (Dazzle Drums Remix)
Pacha - One Kiss

SonarMix 059: Dee Diggs

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

Dee Diggs joins us for Phonica mix 132, a 90-minute session that traces a fluid line through U.S, deep house and disco. Based in Brooklyn, Diggs is a DJ, producer and curator whose work foregrounds the Black and queer roots of dance music. Her sets balance emotional depth and rhythmic precision, drawing from a wide palette while maintaining a strong sense of narrative. First emerging through New York’s queer party circuit, she’s since built an international profile through thoughtful mixes for platforms like Honcho and Dekmantel, as well as her own event series, House of Diggs. With each project, Diggs makes clear that dance music is both personal archive and political practice. 

Phonica Mix Series 132: Dee Diggs

For the 81st entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Brooklyn's @dee_diggs! A champion for black, queer, femme visibility, Dee uses her influence to create space for marginalized groups to express & organize themselves. This mix is fierce embodiment of her love of house music. Enjoy!

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Honcho Podcast Series 81: Dee Diggs

A selectress with no inhibitions digging & choosing parts that build to adventurous, energetic, seductive, & rapturous sets spanning many genres: Dee Diggs is a DJ and writer based in Brooklyn, NY.  She is unapologetically black, queer, and a life long student of the tenets of House Music.

Her energetic, yet deep approach to DJing has seen this Boston to Brooklyn transplant lighting up dance floors all over; in particular, garnering attention in the queer party scene. The year 2020 found her at the top of her game after a debut European tour during August 2019 and gearing up for another tour in April 2020 before the COVID-19 shutdowns took the world spinning in a different direction. Now, she can be found making DJ mixes that range from easy listening for those quarantined at home to high energy nostalgia for those who miss the clubs. 

Notes on the Mix ///
"I wanted to do an interesting split in this mix: 50% what I consider easy-listening and then ramp up into 50% songs I would play more around others or in a DJ set. Practicing that progression can be one of the most nuanced parts of live DJing or mix making. It is a pleasure to combine 2 moods and have them bridge seamlessly. I think of it as the dissonance between what I was listening to at home or in the car before the gig and what I will press play on when I arrive inside the booth at set time."

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XOXA BLEND 017 - DEE DIGGS

Radio 80000 x Blitz Take Over — Dee Diggs [31.10.20]

say something//send me traxx: deediggs617@gmail.com
To book me, please contact these emails.
North & South America: ryan@liaisonartists.com
EU & Worldwide: Ilyas@minor-am.com
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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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