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What is this which stands before us? A long shadow spreading its magic o’er scores of artists all bearing its seal, certainly. But if we go Back to the Beginning, we can still unearth lots to learn from the band forged from steel unto a wicked world on fire. Whatever your connection to Sabbath today (and certainly you have one), look beyond the lore with us before you know the way you’re going to feel.Follow us on Instagram (@tunedig) for daily listening recommendations, and check out more episodes at tunedig.com.

For Fela Kuti’s 88th birthday, we’re joined by our first-ever guest—Nick Alt of Vinyl Me, Please—to Felabrate the man who reminded us that “music must be for revolution,” to unpack VMP’s beautiful new Best of the Black President box set, and to revisit our original 2022 conversation about the vital, visceral document Expensive Shit.The story of Fela Kuti — one of the most famous people on an *entire continent* passionately struggling to liberate power to more people — is absolutely one worth deeply knowing, regardless of whether you find yourself drawn to Afrobeat or (cringe) “world music.” But once you know it, it’s almost impossible not to fall in love with Fela and Afrika 70 as their revolutionary grooves rewire your brain in magical and meaningful ways.Follow us on Instagram (@tunedig) for daily listening recommendations, and check out more episodes at tunedig.com.

Music can be this?! Five North Carolina dudes took the full range of the human spirit and musical styles into the woodshed, and from the loom came a technicolor dreamcoat of power, precision, and progress that we’ve worn with pride through nearly 20 years of long, strange trip.Join us in looking back with gratitude for getting to be there during a special band’s watershed moment and looking ahead with renewed enthusiasm for the boundless possibilities still beyond the dark side of the moon.Follow us on Instagram (@tunedig) for daily listening recommendations, and check out more episodes at tunedig.com.

As the 2010s cleaved culture into fractals and alienated humans from their being, Tahliah Barnett beamed down from the cosmos, a biblically accurate angel contorting into shapes embodying pure emotion. Her singular, decade-defining debut offers prescient wisdom for our AI age: the path to the world begins back in our bodies. When (FKA) Twigs moves, you move.Follow us on Instagram (@tunedig) for daily listening recommendations, and check out more episodes at tunedig.com.

Time's funny, innit? As today's youth excavate the nineteen hundred and nineties for the ecstasy of seemingly simpler times, here lies a fossil record containing so much of the DNA of how it was done — layers upon limestone layers of cultural source code. Keep digging and you might just find a place to get off your biscuits. The Big Beat goes on.Follow us on Instagram (@tunedig) for daily listening recommendations, and check out more episodes at tunedig.com.