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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Troy Nelson on Oakland’s Orchestra GOLD

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP DJ Troy Nelson about Afro psychedelic rock band Orchestra GOLD and their new, self-released song “Dakan.”

Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
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0:00.0

From K-EXP, an independent music station based out of Seattle, you are listening to in our headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.

0:09.9

My name is Yvie Stokes. I am so happy to have my friend Troy Nelson here with me.

0:14.6

He's a DJ on K-EXP. You can hear him on Saturdays from 3 to 6 p.m. Pacific Time.

0:22.9

And Troy, you brought a song to share with us.

0:27.4

What do you have for us today? I have to share this one with you because when I first heard it,

0:33.4

I was like, wow, what is this? And they are orchestra gold. And the song is called Dakhan. Tell me about it.

0:41.0

It is just wild.

0:42.3

When I first heard it, I just knew we weren't in Kansas anymore.

0:45.4

I was like, wow.

0:46.4

And how this song only has 5,000 streams is going to drive me nuts until it gets to at least 100,000.

0:52.5

Well, hopefully we help with that.

0:53.8

Exactly.

0:54.8

This has to be the most authentic, psychedelic soul-slash-world music I have heard in quite some time.

1:03.1

It sounds and may have been recorded analog, and it's just the coolest, authentic production

1:09.3

with the fuzz guitars and lightly distorted vocals.

1:13.5

And this song can just take you places you didn't even know you wanted to be.

1:17.7

And as long as you listen and let it take you there.

1:21.4

And this band is seriously tapped into another dimension and you should let them take you to these other dimensions.

1:27.2

It's just wild.

1:28.3

Wow.

1:28.6

Well, the way that they, they describe themselves on their van camp when I was looking, it's

1:33.5

psychedelic rock collides with Malian soul in a sonic ritual where fate dances with shared

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