Well, well… well. Resurrecting ‘Tunes I Dig’ has been on my to-do list for years. Ages, even. I got really busy sometime in 2015, after having posted regularly for 4 years, and I had to then put it on pause for a bit. I was doing too much traveling, work… partying… that I didn’t have time to upkeep everything. To be quite honest, it shouldn’t take much, but it was because a lot of work had to go into a single post as basic as the posts were.



I went offline, by the looks of the last post, in summer of 2015. So we’re now in January of 2019, three and a half years later. Initially, I mean to only put it on hold for a year. I actually had that in mind. Then, a year rolled around and I was still traveling, working… partying… and I was like, fuck it, let’s keep it off for a while. I remember when I hit 3 years, this passed summer, I felt a little upset. Although, in my defense, I had a rough latter half of 2017, and 2018 I spent trying to pick up the pieces. In fact, the saga in which I had a rough go the last 16 months, will be coming to a close this week.



So did I plan rekindling Tunes I Dig as signaling of this momentous occasion? No. I didn’t. It actually… kinda just happened. I bought a new theme, fixed everything the way I wanted it to look, and the best part is… the things that made the posts so time consuming 3, 4, 5 years ago… have now all been consolidated. With YouTube’s streaming service, which only became web-based this passed summer, makes it absurdly easy to post music. Before, I had to compile buy links, album name, album cover, etc., etc. But now, I literally just copy and paste a YouTube Music link into the body of this post and it does everything for me.

It’s amazing. I’ll be able to post more often, the artists will get payed for each stream, all the information will be readily available and make my blog look polished.

And of course I’m expecting to do more than just post music and music videos from before.



I’m going to be running contests for ticket giveaways, vlog album reviews (only of the tunes I dig, of course), do live streams at shows for those that can’t attend, and be posting the videos on my Instagram (@tunesidig) afterward, and if I get time, a few other surprises.



This is so strange. Typing in this box. It feels like I never left. 3.5 years gone, but would ya look at that… I’M BACK BABY!



And to kick things off, I wanted something that fitted the essence of Tunes I Dig, as well as this 4am time slot. I’ve been up fixing the theme plus answering some comments on Reddit regarding the Bonnaroo lineup (ugh, I’ll probably get to that tomorrow), so I thought, why not take a gander at the music I was posting just before I went offline 3.5 years ago.



It didn’t take long before I stumbled onto “Fumes” by Submerse. Funny… stumbled onto, as if I was discovering it for the first time, except I’m not, and I’m the one that posted it LOL.



Anyway, this song is remarkably chill and upbeat at the same time. No singing, just instrumental. It’s absolutely fantastic is what it is. Would be perfect for mid-morning when you’re “coming down”, nom sayin’?



Haha… come down… nom sayin… like I never left.