digdug (Agartha Audio)

Bio:

DigDug is a founding member of the Agartha Arts Collective, a group of musicians and artists from the San Francisco Bay Area working to create a hybrid mythology through sound and image to function as social/political criticism, science fiction, and hallucinatory aid. The Collective serves Agartha, a city located in the interior of the Earth, where an inner sun illuminates another world inside ours. According to the Hermetic axiom, 'as above, so below', Agartha also simultaneously exists inside each of us. The collective mission of Agartha Arts is to excavate both realms and disseminate their findings through art and music. The Collective has shown work in galleries in Japan, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Oakland. Born to a human mother, but fathered by a reptilian from the hollow interior of our planet, DigDug has since ascended to the surface of our world, and planted a series of vibrations he's labeled "Sinister Sound-Wave Seedlings". .DigDug's sound has been described as " Herbie Hancock meets the Swamp Thing," combining keyboard skills with subterranean samples and dirty drums. Dug's resume includes producing tracks for Nac1 (FSC, Bomb Records), the Presence (Uncommon Records), Remo Conscious (Soul Cipher Records), L.I.F.E. Long (Stronghold), Tracy Jones (SMI, Uncommon), The Hindrance (OTC Records), the Beatmonstas (Beatmonstas Ent.), 9th Scientist (Domination Records), Karniege (Uncommon Records), and Dopestyle 1231 (Run, Daly City), as well as soundtracks for videos by Energy Skateboards and AllOut Productions. His instrumentals have also been used by Element Skateboards and Texaco. Influences include Johnny Appleseed, Naga-Buddha, Black Elk, Howard Zinn, and Zev Love X. Keep an eye out for DigDug - you can't miss him, he's the kid with yellow cobra eyes and scales on his neck. ....

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Member Since:

March 24, 2005

Members:

Influences:

Herbie Hancock, Philip K. Dick, MomDukes, Heraclitus, Thought Forms (Besant and Ledbetter), Ultramagnetic, Public Enemy, Ravi Shankar, Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith (RIP), Booker T, Johnny Otis, Shuggie Otis, Pharoah Monche, Organized Konfusion, Carlos Castaneda, Shamanism (Mircea Eliade), Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco), Led Zeppelin, Cool C and the Hilltop Hustlers, Afrika Bambaata, Sun Ra, The Secret Life of Plants (Tompkins), Timaeus (Plato), KMD, Brand Nubian, Chauvet cave painters, Bruce Conner, Lao Tzu, Goethe, Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino), Johnny Appleseed, Ronin (Frank Miller), BDP, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Book of Thoth (Aleister Crowley), Carl Jung, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Spear of Destiny (Ravenscroft), Del, Heiro, Hobo Junction, FSC, Bas One, Duchamp, Giotto, Hendrix, Aceyalone, Mikah 9, Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku d'Etat, MF Doom, Monster Island Czars, RZA, old WuTang, Fela, JB, Antibalas, All the OG Agartha heads - Naga Buddha, Arjuna, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, all the Feathered Serpents, the whole Hopi nation, Kircher, Helena Blavatsky and the entire Theosophical Mob, Rudolf Steiner, Kandinsky, Hidden Messages in Water (Emoto), Mondrian, Beuys, Nac One, Gigster, Mischief Mike, Sarg, Nasa, Cirrus, Masai Bey, Neo Rauch, Chavin artists, R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Mouse & Kelly, C-Rayz Walz, Lif, Sly, Company Flow, Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze and Guattari), Death of the Author (Roland Barthes), Craig Baldwin, Gangstarr, X Clan, Kool Keith, Tao of Physics (Capra), HP Lovecraft, Show and AG, Big L, Immortal Technique, Scienz of Life, Davy D, APG Crew, 415, Sigmar Polke, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Mike Davis, Clive Barker, The Golden Bough (James Frazer),and last but not least my twin brother Theo.

Sounds Like:

The Minotaur Bursting Out The Labyrinth

Record Label:

Uncommon Records