Jim + Digbee, "Hidden Hits: Best of the Basement + Sand 16"
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Music by Jim + Digbee
33 RPM
2xLP. Two albums in a gatefold jacket.
1 hour, 27 minutes total.
180g black vinyl.
Includes three photo-inserts.
Edition of 500
Released 11/25/2025
Master tape transfers: Adam Lepkowski
Source + super tape transfers: Joe T. Kelly
Mastering: Dan Angel
Cover photos: Jason Rusnock
Center photo: Daniel Fishkin
Layout: Michael Olivo
Thanks: Dad
Jim + Digbee's first and final work, Hidden Hits: Best of The Basement + Sand 16, is a sprawling, double-LP anthology of a great band that almost was and which will always be. After years of limbo amid endless boxes of cassettes, the project was finished just weeks before the untimely passing of Digbee. More than just a record, this release preserves the memory of an intense period of friendship, freedom, and innocence that would forever mark the lives of its authors.
Opening like an old scrapbook, the album recalls precious years of late-night laughter stitched together with dusty pianos and endless summer insects almost indiscernible against the warm hiss of warped cassette tape. Spanning four sides, the listener drifts through distinct sonic worlds united by an aggressively independent and enigmatic approach to home recording.
Hidden Hits: Best of The Basement compiles early 4-track pop experiments; including tragically lost hits like “Sleepwalker” with the intense stereoptic audio-collages which comprised their only self-titled CD-R. Sand 16, the duo’s uncategorizable lost opus, synthesizes years of subterranean experimentation into 16 warbling transmissions of alien folk, self-taught chamber orchestration, and primitive homemade instruments.