Dylan's Room

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things I knew

The full 10-track project is available exclusively on Bandcamp. Thank you for listening.

DJM

© NOTHING NICE

FULL PROJECT

NTLTN. (full EP on Bandcamp)

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. I am always praying for you.

Duval Timothy - Fall Again (ft. Lil Silva & Melanie Faye)
Kendrick Lamar - Feel
Navy Blue - Moment Hung
De La Soul - Trouble In The Water
Erykah Badu - Orange Moon
Wu Lu - Sailor
SiR - Nothing Greater
SiR - the Recipe
Chronixx - Never Give Up
Diogal Sakho - Massa Thiono

Image: ©Harry Gruyaert

Dylan's Room: 001 // "I'm in the middle ground looking for love again."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Life is good.

Snoh Aalegra - DO 4 LOVE
Roman GianArthur – Send It On
Waldemar Bastos - Teresa Ana
Smino – Modennaminute (ft. Lucky Daye & Phoelix)
Brent Faiyaz – BAD LUCK
Nala Sinephro - Space 1
Yusef Lateef - First Gymnopedie
Donald Byrd & Booker Little - Quiet Temple
SAULT - Envious
Cleo Sol - Don't Let It Go to Your Head


Image: Scene from "Laurence Anyways" by Xavier Dolan

Dylan's Room: 002 // "I search to find the love within."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. May your heart be set aflame. 

Duval Timothy - Through The Night
Saba - Mrs. Whoever
Jay Electronica - Fruits Of The Spirit
Little Simz - Heart On Fire
Michael Kiwanuka - Solid Ground
D'Angelo - Unshaken
Sona Jobarteh - Kafaroo (ft. Ravid Kahalani)
Mereba - Souvenir
Sonder - Baldwin Park
Alice Smith - I Put A Spell On You

Image: House to Protect Against the Wind (Agadez, Niger) © Not Vital

Dylan's Room: 003 // "The prayers of the slaves are the wings that carry us."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Guidance, Peace and Blessings.

Alicia Keys - Feeling U, Feeling Me
Iniko - Hourglass
Gaidaa - Morning Blue
Andreya Triana - Something In The Silence
Marco McKinnis - Silence 
Common - GO!
Sainté - Soul Mate
Free Party - Minnie Driver (ft. Aleana)
Rachelle Ferrell - I Forgive You
Márcio Faraco - Efemera

Image: Provincetown, Justine (1977) by Joel Meyerowitz

Dylan's Room: 004 // "صباح الخير"

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Choose light when you are ready.

Fernando Falcão - Barracas Barrocas 
Milton Nascimento - Tudo o que você podia ser
Mos Def - The Boogie Man Song
Common - Good Morning Love (ft. Samora Pinderhughes)
Omah Lay - Understand
Jurdan Bryant - Can We Still Hang
Goya Gumbani & Kiina - Blasé
Contour - From Exile (3rd Ward)
Bheki Mseleku - Meera-Ma (Divine Mother)
Ambré - Jay’s Reprise

Image: Joel Meyerowitz

Dylan's Room: 005 // "I see the day as a new beginning"

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. You, me, us, we, ... a changing thing. 

Cktrl - Lighthouse
Bj The Chicago Kid - On My Way To Your Heart
Nnena - Somewhere
Bob Andy - The Ghetto Stays in the Mind
Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love
Alabaster DePlume - Visit Croatia
Àbáse - Oya (ft. Luciane Dom)
Contour - At All
Amber Olivier - One Unread
James Blake - Why Don't You Call Me

Image: Deana Lawson "Mama Goma" (Gemena, DR Congo)

Dylan's Room: 006 // "What I am, what I am, what I am..."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Much Love.

Planet Giza - LIMB
Chase Shakur - Too Far Close
Playa - Cheers 2 U
IAMNOBODI - Imani (Faith)
Tenerélle - GOOD GOOD
Larry June - Ocean Sounds
Vince Staples - EAST POINT PRAYER (w. Lil Baby)
Navy Blue - Kill Switch
Nipsey Hussle - Dedication (w. Kendrick Lamar)
rum.gold - All I Wanna Do (Voice Memo)

Image: Screenshot 2022-01-17 at 5.37.25 PM

Dylan's Room: 011 // "Hearing ocean sounds..."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. All in due time.

Nicholas Britell - Jezebel
Lizz Wright - Grace
The RH Factor - Liquid Streets
Habib Koité - Bolo Mala
Drake - Fire & Desire
Benjamin A.D - Let Me Explain (Feat._A2)
SiR - Nothing Even Matters
Sara Tavares - Exala
The Cavemen. - Obiageri (with Mama)
Nicholas Britell - Eden (Harlem)

Image: Still from Gabriel Moses's Director's Cut of Manifesto for Change featuring Samuel Ross

Dylan's Room: 016 // "I dedicate to you..."

ever near
ever far

***
written, produced, arranged, performed and mixed by Dylan James Moore
additional mixing by Lixel “LIX” Müller
mastering by Lixel “LIX” Müller
additional bass, keys, guitar: Wolfgang Dolder
additional trumpet: Rachid Freudemann
additional Vocals: Assane Seye

cover design by Dylan James Moore

BLEU.

FEELING

in the eyes of the moon
somehow it said I knew
felt like this
always here

***
written, produced, arranged and mixed by Dylan James Moore
written & performed by Dylan James Moore, Asé, Brother Portrait, Kai Jowett
additional mixing & arrangement by Lixel “LIX” Müller, Nelsoniq
mastering by Lixel “LIX” Müller
additional violin written and performed by Alexander Graf

cover photo by Dylan James Moore

SANDALWOOD

Sandalwood (w. Asé, Brother Portrait, Karma)

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Share your gifts.

Childish Gambino - Baby Boy
Duval Timothy - Kam (ft. Mansa Maca, KBangs & Sammy Søsa)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Ilyas Ahmed - The Closer You Get To Being Invisible
Carlos Niño & Friends - Pleasewakeupalittlefaster please...
Duval Timothy - First Rain (live in Sierra Leone)
Bill Evans - Lullaby for Helene
Nina Simone - Just Say I Love Him
Fred Again - I Saw You
Aja Monet - Give Thanks
Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist - Love is the Message (feat. Mansur Brown)

Image: still from "Abouna" by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Dylan's Room: 019 // "...a healer."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Trust in what you feel is right.

Bernice Johnson Reagon - I Won't Crumble with You If You Fall
Majestics - Key To Love (Is Understanding)
Khamari - Drifting
Bremer McCoy - Op
Sampha - Spirit 2.0
Isaia Huron - TEENAGE FEVER
Lindsay Muepu - Want It All
LeRoyce - Turnt Up
India.Arie - Always In My Head
Outkast - You May Die (Intro)

Image Source unknown

Dylan's Room: 020 // "Now I'm drifting into open skies..."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. I am always praying for you.

Toco - Outro Lugar
Giggs - Time
Jah Shaka meets Mad Professor - People Of Yoruba
Dom Kennedy - Lovers Anonymous (w. Don Toliver)
Marcus Harvey - Areyeng
Jail Time - Low (feat. Makondo)
J. Cole - Love Yourz
Piero Piccioni - Amore Mio Aiutami (Main Theme)
Mick Jenkins - Mop
Raveena - Hypnosis

Image: ©CHESTER HIGGINS JR.

Dylan's Room: 025 // "Had the world in my hands..."

french samples, poetry and so forth. 

written, recorded and produced by OCAPO, Dylan James Moore
mixed by OCAPO, Dylan James Moore
additional mixing & mastering by Lixel "LIX" Müller

© NOTHING NICE, 2024

SO YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGES (TOO)

GARDENS AND FLOWERS (IN PERFECT BALANCE)

HOME (EDIT)

french samples, poetry and so forth. 

written, recorded and produced by OCAPO, Dylan the Narrative
mixed by OCAPO, Dylan James Moore
additional mixing & mastering by Lixel "LIX" Müller

© NOTHING NICE, 2024

THE BLUEST (MAY NOT PAINT THE SKY)

NO ISLAND (REALLY)

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be.

Mayan Temple Flute
Fabiano do Nascimento - Noite
Anna Homler - Almost Beautiful
Black Star- Respiration (Feat. Common)
Mach-Hommy - Kriminel
A.CHAL - Shoot To Kill
Lenn - been a minute
Little Simz - Far Away
Sonny Rollins - Where Are You
Bobby Womack - Stupid

Image: © Jack Davison

Dylan's Room: 036 // "Breathe in, breathe out..."

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. It is.

Joe Black - Warm Up Sessions
Saba - Ziplock
Thee Sacred  Souls - Easier said than done
Dijon - The Dress
Sharon Robinson - Forever In a Kiss
Hen Harper - Forever
Gurrumul - Wiyathul
Frazey Ford - Runnin'
Kamaal Williams - Shinjuku
Terrace Martin - Release

Image: source unknown

Dylan's Room: 042 // "Have patience for yourself..."

All i know is all i don't
All i see is all i won't
Seeing all i'm shown
Show me more
Reaping what i've sown
Seeing it again
Seeing who we don't
Know we are

Tell me what's best for me
Tell me when i better let it go
Tell me what the sun can't show
Moon can't share
Night won't dare
Bare witness
The pretty and the distant
This city from afar
Looking like, all that we did then
Some days more, some just different
Pardon the moments
Ears didn't hear, i was just there
Heard it was life
Times and emotions
Hiding a lot, still
Can't not mind

Took me a minute to see
Took me  a minute to see this
Took me a minute to see
Took me a minute to see this
All i see is all i don't
All i know is all i won't
Seeing all i'm shown
Show me more
Reaping what i've sown
Seeing it again
Seeing who we don't
Know we are


produced by. DYLAN JAMES MOORE & NELSONIQ
mixed/mastered by LIX
Artwork by @6mangoes / Dorentina Emini

© NOTHING NICE

*how best to live

MINUTES (w. Asé)

Dylan's Room is a weekly selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Trust your senses.

Bored Driver - Waterfall (slowed)
Sade - Like a Tattoo (Live Video from San Diego)
Jode - Tomorrow Is Gone
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Pass Me By
Kenny Dorham - Alone Together 
Ganavya - Nithākam
Daft Punk - Within
Babeheaven – Sink Into Me
M -  Ocean (Live for The Line of Best Fit)
Lex Amor - BEG

Image: ©RUVEN AFANADOR

Dylan's Room: 044 // "Quand je la regarde..."

Ah
and I keep
Yeah
and I keep
I

keep playing it for me
keep saying that it's sweet 
I keep safely out of reach
been playing it for weeks
keep saying that it's less 
still I guess

more patience, peace
more money on my mind
more time to remain
I got ways I guess
ways I've been
then I'm taking a step 
and I see through it all
been through the fall and the rise
been through the seasons again
got reasons again
blood to the page
word to the wise
yet there's nothing to say

I won't I won't wait
wait to know it
I won't I won't wait
wait too long
I won't I won't wait
wait to know it
I know I won't wait
wait to

I keep saying it to you
could be saying it to be
same ears same room
keep saying that its true
I believe when I can
but for now I need space
been playing it for days
got some where I speak
got some where I
stick to the script
got stuck on a page
things that I knew just flew
like, say no more

I won't I won't wait
wait to know it
I won't I won't wait
wait too long
I won't I won't wait
wait to know it
I know I won't wait
wait to

-

written & performed by DYLAN JAMES MOORE
produced by Gabiga
mixed, mastered by LIX

track 3

Knew you in your worst way 
Knew you on your best day 
Knew you wouldn’t tell me
anymore 
Knew you wouldn’t find out 
You ain’t got the time now 
Used to dream a life long 
evermore 

Falling apart for you
Calling around for you 
Heavenly bound 
All up & down 
Just to end up where we started 
Holding it down for you
Calling around for you 
You can’t be found 
I’ll keep you next to nowhere

keep you next to nowhere

I don’t remember it

-

written & performed by DYLAN JAMES MOORE, Liberty
produced by Gabiga
mixed & mastered by LIX

NORWAY

NORWAY (w. Liberty)

Really just wanna know
If you would tell me
Really just wanna know
If I could see this too
Really just wanna know
If you could help me
Really just wanna know
If I could be with you
Really just wanna know
If you could
Really just wanna know
If I can

Really just wanna know
If you would tell me
Really just wanna know
If I could see this too
Really just wanna know
If you could help me
help

Honey, Oh I plead your patience
Have me, be all about it 
Baby, we done stuck drowning 
Pick a piece of my heart & let love in 
Ooh
Let love in 
Ooh
Let love in 
Ooh
Let love win 
Ooh

-

written & performed by DYLAN JAMES MOORE, Liberty
produced by Gabiga
mixed & mastered by LIX

things i knew

reallyjustwannakno. (w. Liberty)

One day I'll know
One day I'll know
One day I'll know
One day I'll know
One day I'll know
One day I'll know
One day I'll see again
One day I'll see again
One day I'll see again
One day I'll see again
One day One day

Don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Don't wait for me
Please don't wait for
Please don't
Please don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Please don't
Please don't wait for me
Please
Please don't wait for me
Please don't

Don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Don't wait for me
Please don't wait for
Please don't
Please don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Please don't wait for me
Please don't

-

written & performed by DYLAN JAMES MOORE, Liberty
produced by Gabiga
mixed & mastered by LIX

seeagain.

seeagain. (w. Liberty)

Synergy, energy, empathy
sympathy, everything is everything

Send for me, I’ll never be far
except for right here with you
calm and collected, I bared your truth
used to need reasons, I rarely do
used to be pieces, now I share with you
I bare your truth, as you do mine
never gave up, you knew time
saw through the dust, he was building a house
a room for the love,  a roof for your smile
a two-floor building for children to stay
I played to your stories and Michael's arrangements
I stood on your shoulders 
I think it was greatness
found me again, again and again
found me again, even when aimless
I used to need pressures 
I used to not sleep very much
(you) 
never really spoke
poised when I wrote, all through the night
life long visions, calling again
(calling a lifelong) 
calling for you

calling a lifelong
calling a lifelong
calling a lifelong
calling a lifelong

used to be pressures
used to need questions
used to just leave when it got too loud
used to find freedom outside alone
somewhere on a rooftop, singing my songs
standing my ground, even when stood up
looking inside, questioning less
made no sound
balancing the precious
never did I know I was channelling you
never did I ask for anything else
just to be weightless
trust to be held
out here waiting
grains of sand
out here lifted 
again by the hands

caught in a lifelong
caught in a lifelong
all in a lifelong

caught in a lifelong
caught in a lifelong
caught in a lifelong
all in a lifelong

-

written & performed by DYLAN JAMES MOORE
produced by Le Marchand, DYLAN JAMES MOORE
mixed, mastered & additional arrangement by LIX

HANDS

-

Written & Performed by
DYLAN JAMES MOORE

Produced by
EVAL, ORE

Mixed by
Lixel Müller

Mastered by
Subglue Studios

NTLTN.

ANGEL STEPPIN`

Dylan's Room is a selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be.

Víkingur Ólafsson - Sung (After Brahms)
Sophye Soliveau - Leave
Web Web x Max Herre - Thesa-Mbawula
Rosie Lowe - There Goes The Light
Cortex - Go Round
Millkzy - Book Full of Butterflies
cedar redd - fleece
SiR - the Recipe
ouri - boucles
Navy Blue - La Noche

Image: ©DYLAN JAMES MOORE



Dylan's Room: 045 // "that is the door..."

-

Written & Performed by
DYLAN JAMES MOORE

Produced by
Kreaem

Mixed by
Lixel Müller

Mastered by
Subglue Studios

before.

55
55 angels by my side saying pray for me
Be the light, see the day for me
Be the light, see the day for me

55
55 angels by my side saying pray for me
Be the light, be the day to me
55 nights wide awake just to see it
Set the tone and be it, yeah
Cleo on repeat, saying please don't let it go
If you don't really need it
I was on my knees and then
I was on my feet again
Home in about a week or so
Home is but a feeling when
Everything I needed then
Between me and my ceiling went
Missing and I 
Didn't even listen to no reason then
50 till I see again
50 till I feel again
Miss me with the listen
I just need you to be me again
See you without seeing them
Be you without being them
Me, you and these two 
Till I rise like it's 3am
Before me like I need it then
All is but a dream again
Calling just to, just to hear your voice
Calling just

Yeye
I'm calling just to hear you
I'm calling just to hear you
I'm calling just
Just to hear you
I'm calling just to
Just to hear you
I'm calling just

Set the tone and be it

-

Written & Performed by
DYLAN JAMES MOORE

Produced by
Lawren, The III & DYLAN JAMES MOORE

Mixed by
Lixel Müller

Mastered by
Subglue Studios

55/cleo (reprise)

Trying to shake the room
show you what I do
yeah, that's all I want to do
Trying to shake the room
show you what I do
yeah, that's all I want to do

Been painting it blue
when it could have been green
Been saying it's you
when it should have been me
Been saying it twice
like it's really alright
To the riots on the low
but that's nothing to me
Unfazed, some changed, unchained
all that I want to be, yeah
Quiet assumptions
eyes to the sunset
Letting it drift
lift spirit as I sit with it
Telling the breeze
let's do it with ease
I want to please
nobody but the young me
Things I knew, think I grew, but things I do
Still look different from afar
so I sit with it more
Ginger on my tongue
that's remedy
Timid ways, let them be
Been away, yeah I've been
Trying to get where I've been
Make it make sense
Seen past, present, not tense
Do it so effortless
to the ones that don't get it, yeah

I'm just trying to shake the room
show you what I do
yeah, that's all I want to do
I'm just trying to shake the room
show you what I do
yeah, that's all I want to do
That's all I want to do, yeah

I want to know
I want to know you

Ginger on my tongue, that's the medicine
Timid ways, menacing
Been away, yeah I've been
Trying to get where I've been
Make it make sense
Show you what I do
That's all I want

REMEDY.


Trust

I want you to grow
I want you to
I want you to grow
I wanna

I wanna see you grow
Wanna keep you closer to me
The irony of why we don't 
Even know to be free
I'm writing this to remind
I'm writing this to remember
I'm fighting urges to be perfect
Or at least to be tender
I been leading me there
Seeing it clear
Feeling a way
A need to repair
A seed on it's own
I'm rooting for you
But you got life ahead of yours 
And I'm here
Watching you grow

I wanna see
Seeing you grow
Keeping you close
Need you to grow
Stronger than me
Live longer than me
One for the team
One for the times
One for the tides
They may, but they might, but they don't 
They try and days come and days go and we know
Knowing it's few, and far in between
Two months ahead
Moving instead
Moving in shapes
Moving in weight
Lying awake
Right for this day
I wanna see you grow
I wanna see you closer to me
I wanna see you burst 
Through the opening
Casting a shadow
Growing in shades
Leading a way
Pick up where we left off
I need you to be best of alone
Loved by the people that surround
Tucked in safely when asleep

Dreaming every night, yeah I need
Need you to grow
Need you to know
Home is ever present where you want us to be
Need to know
Want you to know
Home is with us
Home is alone
Home isn't far
Know who you are
Show me the way
Bare the weight of a scar
Learning from her
Learning from me
Learning from you
See me through the eyes
And the skies in the blue

I want you to grow
I want you to

I want you to grow
Focused and free
Open your eyes
Know how to see
Be
Right by your side
As you're taking the Steps
Keep finding the time
Knowing it's best

--

written and performed by
DYAN JAMES MOORE

produced by ORE

additional instrumentation:
Rachid Freudemann
Sara El Hachimi
Valerio Lepori

additional Vocals:
LIBERTY
ORE

mixed & mastered by Lixel Müller

© NOTHING NICE, 2025

blue. (Songs for Sage)

Dylan's Room is a selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Be kind, if anything.

Lady Wray - My Best Step
6th Borough Project - Just A Memory
Terrace Martin & Kenyon Dixon - Body&Soul
The Night We Met - Lord Huron (slowed n reverb)
Moloko - Familiar Feeling (Acoustic)
Thee Marloes - Whats On Your Mind
Anaiis - Deus Deus
Reuben James -Teach Me
Venna - Veranda (feat. cari)
Insightful - Grateful

Image: La Fábrica, the home and architectural studio of the late Ricardo Bofill

Dylan's Room: 046 // "We say it all without..."

Dylan's Room is a selection of ten songs I have been listening to recently. Here's to a sense of elation and ease with time to think and be. Think good thoughts.

Loyle Carner - Purpose (feat. navy blue) live from brixton
Gabriel Jacoby - Forever
Reggie - Sometimes
Brent Faiyaz - Have To
Obongjayar - Spaceman
threetwenty - Let Me Grow
Corey Finesse (Freestyles on FunkFlex)
Chip - Invite Only (Freestyle)
Westside Boogie - Float (feat. mamii)
Dj Honda & Mos Def - Foundation

Image: "Mary" by DYLAN JAMES MOORE



Dylan's Room: 047 // "Wanna be near to where you are..."

a rough draft of collected thoughts over an instrumental found on a usb stick that was laying around in the studio. prod. by https://soundcloud.com/ararpad

sun.shine w. kai

had a second verse but the moment had passed. it's ok. 

bless, be, shine.

DYLAN JAMES MOORE

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