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

OMOLOKO — live from Boiler Room at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

OMOLOKO | Dekmantel 2022 | Friday

You know me, live from the board recording plus crowd mic. One of my final festival sets of 2022, closing out Making Time ∞ in one of my favorite cities, Philly (long live dave p!) eternal gratitude crystals to all and to all a good night <3

Avalon Emerson Live in Philadelphia 2022 - 09 - 24 @ Making Time ♾️

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

BUDINO (COCKTAIL D'AMORE)
RECORDED LIVE AT WHOLE
SAT, JULY 29, 2023
00:00 - 02:00
BEACH STAGE 
@budinoo

BUDINO

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

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/TheMix043EDOO

For 2024’s final instalment of The Mix, @eris-drew & @octoocta provide an hour of Motherbeat-infused ecstacy

"We wanted to do a proper, 128 BPM house mix. Our very ecstatic, house energy mix. It’s going to be just over an hour, because we want it to be in that radiant space for the entire time and play some of our older favourites, as well as newer favourites from our record bag over this past year. We’re not like ‘track of the week’ DJs, when we love something, it’s getting played over the span of a few years, sometimes even 10 years."

Tracklist + Q&A

The Mix 043: Eris Drew & Octo Octa

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

James Axon b2b Jason Kendig  (Planet Love Closing 09/14/24)

Josh Caffé welcomes us to paradise on SonarMix 063, a luxurious two-hour session of “deep, sexy and genre-bending” club music. Ahead of a pair of live shows at Sónar this year - you can catch him in Lisbon in April, and then in Barcelona this June - the multi-talented artist works up a sweat with this deeply seductive session. 


@josh-caffe



Tracklist
Aaron Carl - For The Money
DreamrDreamr - Escape Into
Sidetrax - Off Track (On The Right Trax mix 3)
Terrence Dixon - Return Of The Speaker People Kaustos Sudden Aphasia mix
Vulvareen & 1905 - Get Your Head Bust
Huey Mnemonic - Technician 3 (Max Watts Remix)
Skee Mask - A14 Vs Cb
Liano & P2P - Baile Duro
Malin Genie - Skump
DECIUS - So, So Strong
DJ Split - Agogo 4424
WTCHCRFT - 1 4 U
Eden_Burns - Xoh_dub
Dede - Actress - Typewriter World (DEDECUT)
MoMA Ready - SOUL DIVIDE
G-Emerald - 2-Dance
Vromo - Burn Up
Leftfield - Double Flash
CalvoMusic, DJ Glo 410 - Ga$ton Rasta feat. DJ Glo 410
Josh Steers - 100 PROOF
MCR-T - Top Shotta
Parris x Untold - Lip Locked
Marcus Mixx - Looked Down Upon By Rehabbed Butterflies (Multi Journeys In The Fog Mixx)
Materie - Landscapes Kaval Remix
Retromigration - YB
The Groove Room - Drift
DJ Bruce Lee - Jack Trak 1
Regal86 - Temperature (Hot mix)
James Ruskin - Mutate And Survive (James Ruskin Version)
G Flame - Da Wallz
G Flame - OGH
Soft Pink Truth - Soft on Crime

SonarMix 063: Josh Caffé

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

Shoulda Let You Go - A jackin’ house cut showcasing the chemistry between Flash 89 and Gramercy - a raw, underground groove with deep chords built for the house heads.

https://soundcloud.com/gramercydotmp3
https://soundcloud.com/flash89official
https://soundcloud.com/faintonemusic

Flash 89 & Gramercy - Shoulda Let You Go

Shota Deep -Deejay Dapi & Master k'meh (Remix)_Deep-House mix

Come Get Me

Buy On Bandcamp

Neat Mess - Come Get Me

Sónar 2026
18.19.20 June | Barcelona

Sónar Lisboa 2026
Dates soon | Lisbon

Sónar Istanbul 2026
10.11 April | Istanbul

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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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