Mike Digi – Digital Diamonds (WEB) (2023) (320 kbps)

Digital Diamonds is as much a sequel to North Carolina producer Mike Digi’s first album Kindred Binge as it is a tour de force of hip-hop excellence in general. The beats here remain soulful, but there’s so much more to this record than nostalgia-fueled yearning and referential worldbuilding. For another 15 songs, Mike Digi makes a very convincing argument that he’s one of the genre’s best curators of sound.

The earliest example of this on Digital Diamonds is ‘A Real Occasion’, the urgency with which the album’s proper song it titled matched perfectly by an incredibly satisfying drum loop and a cheerful melody. This is exactly the kind of song that a producer should kick their project off with, it’s a wonderful appetiser that leaves listeners salivating for more. The jazzy undertones of ‘Diamond Like Recollection’ certainly scratch that itch, an unmistakable groove flourishing beneath the pining of the primary vocal sample. I honestly think that this single song evokes a greater range of emotion than most beat makers are able to accomplish across an entire album.

Tracklist:

01. In The Rough
02. A Real Occassion
03. Had To Switch It Up (feat. Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon)
04. Diamonds Like Recollection
05. Sun From Back East
06. Diamond Bullets
07. Neon Pine Trees
08. Straight Jimi Hendrix’n // The Come Down
09. 100 Grand (feat. JayPluss & Big Kahuna OG)
10. Getting The Band Back Together
11. Blood Sacrament
12. Selfish Soul
13. Stayin High
14. Parts From The Past
15. Lost in a Maze

Download:

320 kbps – Wayshare