Major Lazer f. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky, “Keep It Goin’ Louder (Diplo Remix)” MP3

There is no doubt Diplo will one day just remix remixes of remixes of his own songs until he has to just release shit and name it “Diplo” to keep from breaking the internet. And it won’t break. The songs will all sound different—like this one sounds a little like Brick Bandits—and will only be available as lolcats embeds on YouTube. And some day, maybe ten years from now, this site, and your site and Google and everywhere else will be known as Diplolz and Google Wave will look the Bill of Rights in comparison. This is how the end begins, with one extra hot remix of one super duper club jam while people are seriously worrying about Obama’s Peace Prize and global warming. Wake up, World!



Download: Major Lazer f. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky, “Keep It Goin’ Louder (Diplo Remix)”

Borgore, Ice Cream Man Mixtape [Dubstep is Metal]

Yesterday, Diplo twittered links to a couple of his new favorite songs: One of them was Soulja Boy covering Drake, the other was some absolute mayhem by Israeli producer Borgore called “Saturday Night (Gorestep).” Go check that out real quick, give it a second to get going. So that song was essentially an instant validation of FADER editor Julianne Shepherd’s belief that dubstep was the new metal—made almost solely for dudes to bang heads, let off steam and feel awesome about life. Coincidentally, after some minor research, it turns out Borgore is in fact the drummer for Tel Aviv metal band Shabira, so Shep was on the money. But this stuff is insane. “Saturday Night” is from Borgore’s recent Gorestep Vol. 1, which is more of the same, a kind of logical, maniacal extension of the gnarliest dubstep, for instance, Caspa & Rusko’s “Power Shower,” but also, like, the last song you ever want your mom to hear. Where “Power Shower,” and others like it, drill holes through your brain with augural bass and suggest some subtle misogyny, Borgore just smashes your head up with sickening syncopated high-speed bass and drum patterns, spits pornish lyrics and samples things we cannot speak about in public. We don’t know how anyone would dance to this, but it would probably involve punching someone or one’s self in the face a lot and a willingness to not be around any girls for several hours. We’ll have to find out when Borgore tours the States in September and October. In the meantime, check out his Ice Cream Man mixtape below, which features many of Gorestep’s tracks, nods at Prodigy and Wiley, a Britney Spears remix and bunch of other crazy shit.

Download: Borgore, Ice Cream Man Mixtape

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Major Lazer f. Prince Zimboo & MIA, “Baby (Switch RMX)” MP3

This track is a short, powerful burst of autotune baby, sparse rhythm and Prince Zimboo’s “heh” as a counter-rhythm, which sounds awesome, though not sure we really needed to hear him talking about breast milk before MIA’s politically charged treatise and heart-hurting confessional about growing up without a pops. MIA gets multiple daps for repping single moms, and “Baby,” off the Major Lazer Mishka mix (and Prince Zimboo’s Facebook page), proves MIA, Switch and Diplo remain the most powerful trio of all the potential Major Lazer combos (you probably found this by googling), their collective intensity fitting together like global diaspora Tetris. Sidebar: MIA’s kid in Henry Holland (above) is just like, the cutest shit ever.



Download: Major Lazer f. Prince Zimboo and MIA, “Baby (Switch RMX)”(via Generation Bass)

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The Dead Weather, “Treat Me Like Your Mother” (Diplo Remix) MP3

Coming soon on a list of collaborations that probably don’t need to exist but are surprisingly fruitful, if only for the mindgarden effect: Milli Vanilli covers Vampire Weekend, the entire cast of Superbad in a music video for Antony and the Johnsons, Will Oldham remixed by Santogold while wearing each other’s clothes. And, for one that somehow happened, Diplo, our current cover star for some reason, has remixed The Dead Weather, our current favorite supergroup. “Treat Me Like Your Mother,” which has the ring of a filthy song Diplo may have played at some point (and maybe was a runner-up for the name of the Major Lazer album), has been reworked into a total wheezing mess of ideas and bounce. This is like listening to four songs at the same time but only listening with one ear.

FEATURE: Major Lazer x Mad Decent Interview

  • story Matthew Schnipper
  • photo Gabriele Stabile

Diplo owns a gun. He says so while peppering a clerk with questions about a very Rambo-esque semi-automatic at a gun store in Philadelphia. His gun, used for hunting with his family, is in Florida, not here at either his apartment or the enormous old mausoleum he uses as the headquarters for his record label, Mad Decent. Despite the two touchpads, Diplo is rarely in Philadelphia and is in the process of moving out of the very cheap apartment, which is currently crammed with records, sneakers, old magazines and years’ worth of other crap. Being there is more like a weird sideshow for him than a trip home. Some guy with a ponytail wanders shirtless out of the back room. He doesn’t introduce himself and Diplo says he doesn’t live there.
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FADER TV: Inside the Mad Decent Mausoleum With Popo

On the very busy day that we conducted the massive eight-person Q+A that is our cover story on Mad Decent and Major Lazer, the boys in Popo were nice enough to give us a tour around their adopted home, Diplo’s clubhouse, studio space and crash pad, the Mad Decent mausoleum. It’s an enormous North Philadelphia space that used to house a sculptor’s studio and now houses some parties, an empty Red Bull fridge, a huge projection system for playing Wii and generally a lot of guys. Watch through to the end for our favorite part, a brief cameo by Diplo’s manager Kevin Kusatsu.

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FADER TV: On the Road with Bacardi B-LIVE, Episode 13 – Washington D.C.

It’s been a minute since we just sat back and enjoyed the energy-rock stylings of FADER Label’s Matt & Kim on the Bacardi B-LIVE 2009, so when the duo rejoined the party train in the nation’s capital recently, we just pointed and shot and it turned out pretty good. Stay tuned for more episodes from future dates along the way including interviews, live performances and who knows what else only on FADER TV.

FADER TV: On the Road with Bacardi B-LIVE, Episode 12 – Philly

As Bacardi B-Live 2009 rolled into Philly, it wisely added that city’s most storied DJ, Diplo, and his infamous UK Major Lazer partner, Switch, to the bill. Coincidentally, these dudes are also on the cover of The FADER’s brand new issue. We interviewed them issue and it is a great read. Such a great read that we decided to interview them again for FADER TV. Maybe we’ll interview them again next week. And the week after that. There is only one way to find out and that is to continue checking for these videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday right here. Nice suits, dudes!

FADER TV: On the Road with Bacardi B-LIVE, Episode 11 – Boston

Bacardi B-LIVE 2009 and Beantown came together for some unBelievably Bonkers Bananatownery recently, so of course we hit up Best Beatjuggler under the Big Blue Sky… oh, it’s A-Trak, sorry about that, thought it was a B thing. Anyway! Dude is still nice with it! He blogs excellently for FADER and is one of the nicest dudes we know. So of course as soon as we had the chance we caught up with him to talk about his progression as a DJ and his globetrotting prowess. Stay tuned for more episodes from future dates along the way including interviews, live performances and who knows what else only on FADER TV.

Live: FADER 62 Issue Release Party

Word on the street is that we totally killed it with our Summer Music Issue, so to celebrate we jammed as many people as we could onto a huge roof in Bushwick and set up a bar with Budweiser, Southern Comfort and Vitamin Water. We’re into simple pleasures, so that alone would have been enough, but Popo, Maluca and an iteration of Major Lazer featuring Diplo, Switch and BK’s very own 77Klash all tore up the stage. The city lights were blinking in the distance and we were surrounded by nearly all of our friends. After the jump check a small selection of images from the epic night.

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