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digdug (Agartha Audio)

vibrations from the Hollow Earth to your headpiece

About Me

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". 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.), and 9th Scientist (Domination Records), DigDug's sound has been described as " Herbie Hancock meets the Swamp Thing". He's also produced soundtracks for videos by Energy Skateboards and AllOut Productions, and his instrumentals have been used by Element Skateboards. His influences include Johnny Appleseed, Goethe, Black Elk, Noam Chomsky, and Zeb 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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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/24/2005
Band Website: uncommonmusic.net
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
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Uncommon releases out Aug. 2!

Arc's album "Oculus Fang" is finally out thru Uncommon - cop that fire immediately!Peep Arc getting down on the guitar over some real heavy drums, as well as album artwork by me, digdug. also out is t...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:38:00 PST

RIP MF BORAT

According to my sources, MF Borat passed at 7:36pm, March 23, 2007. His page was deleted mysteriously, and he ceased to be. RIPYou will be missed.
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:39:00 PST

Image prints for sale at deviantart.com

http://agarthaarts.deviantart.com/Just signed up with deviant art, you can cop prints there of some of my paintings. (See my pics section for examples). I've had a bunch of cats message me about buyi...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:51:00 PST

CAFETORIUM ALL-STARS RELEASE PUSHED BACK TO MARCH

It'll drop march for shizzla!
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:40:00 PST

Urb Magazine review

Urb Magazine, August 2006 (Issue ..138)We Are, Vol. 1 (UN-03)3 1/2 StarsWe called it and the Vyle cut is the best. Dig Dug and Arcsin win with the best beat, with warped drums and space synths. MCs ...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:44:00 PST

Agartha Audio & Element Skateboards

Element Skateboards just bought 2 beats for the upcoming DVD 'Elementality, vol. 2'. been skating for 21 years now, so i'll be hyped to see some dope riding along to my music. its a free promo, and s...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:50:00 PST

my 8 year old MC will tear up your 8 year old MC

for the last 2 years, I've been going into my daughter Maya's class (Washington Elementary) to create and record hiphop music with the kids (2nd and 3rd graders). We set up a computer with Reason and...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Agartha Audio on Uncommon Radio

me and Nac1 are up on Uncommon Radio this month, come check it out:www.uncommonmusic.netto hear an interview, new collabos between DigDug, Nac1, and various artists including The Presence, L.I.F.E. Lo...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:17:00 PST

more beats at download.com

i have a few more beats at: music.download.com/dig_dug/
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Philip K. Dick

http://www.fusionanomaly.net/philipkdick.html this cat was on some real shit, all you MCs check this out: "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words." Phi...
Posted by digdug (Agartha Audio) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST