Video: KillaQueenz & South Rakkas Crew, “Double Up”

Weird “Native American headdress” issues aside, is this the best video we have ever seen in our lives? Cooking, wining and taking a bath with some goldfish are things we do/want to do on a regular basis, particularly with a soundtrack that is this next level. We’d also like to be friends with KillaQueenz, we want to eat ackee breakfast with them. Is all of Australia getting down like this? Should we go there? Someone fly us out so we can trade wardrobe secrets with KillaQueenz. (via AudioPorn)

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I Blame Coco f. Robyn, “Caesar (Diplo Remix)” MP3

A few years ago, Diplo remixed Mike Jones, Paul Wall and Slim Thug’s “Still Tippin” by dropping the barracuda beat completely and adding a loop made from PJ Harvey’s “Down by the Water.” It felt unholy. But it was also really good. This was around the same time of MIA’s debut and the budding of Diplo’s interest in pairing women’s beautiful voices with bizarre, occasionally abject sounds, though always with punchy rhythm. Word comes now that he is producing Robyn’s new album, and he’s given us a taste with this remix of “Caesar” by I Blame Coco (aka Coco Sumner, Sting’s daughter), on which the Scandinavian sensation is featured. He goes heavy on the little drummer boy snare, get a little trance-y and a little Santigold-y and it sounds like a banger for any party the Cobra Snake will be photographing.



Download: I Blame Coco f. Robyn, “Caesar (Diplo Remix)” (via A Tribe Called Next)

Diplo Presents: Free Gucci (The Best of the Cold War Mixtapes) MP3

Somewhere on the internet, someone is already mad about this mixtape. Do your thing, people. We’re gonna be over here chilling with Gucci over wonkyass dubstep and crazy Flying Lotus mind spirals and a bunch of people who’ve already done Gucci remixes. Half this shit sounds kinda like the spirit of Shawty Redd conjured it on a bhang bender anyway. Tracklist after the jump.

Download: Diplo Presents: Free Gucci (The Best of the Cold War Mixtapes) (email sign-up required)

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The Party Squad, “Murderer (Diplo & Jayou RMX)” MP3

The first time we heard Hollertronix we were in a record store in Portland, Oregon, sampling the wares aka loitering for like seven hours on a Saturday. We had a crush on the clerk. He threw Hollertronix #1 on the instore turntable. It was more of a mash than a mix, and dude said something snide like, “Is this really necessary?” Clearly some people thought it was. Fast forward to 2009, after like 400 legendary Philly parties where people sweated and got preggers and shit, total Diplo world domination and the birth of a record label releasing some of our absolute favorite music, Hollertronix #10 ends the series with a killer true-form dubstep track with a Barrington Levy sample and heart fluttering subbass. Hollertronix is over but left a legacy. The crush died. The record store in Portland shut down. You can still buy this jam on vinyl via the internet AKA God’s Record Store!



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The Party Squad, “Murderer (Diplo & Jayou RMX)” (via Mad Decent)

Gucci Mane, “Dangers Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)” MP3

Ha! Diplo interpolates Mariah for the first leak from Mad Decent’s Gucci Mane remixtape, coming soon. The original appeared on this year’s Guccimerica if you’re craving a less candlelit version, and of course, this is all in service of Gucci’s actual album, The State vs Radric Davis, which is available for purchase today.



Download: Gucci Mane, “Dangers Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)”

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Diplo Wants to Spring Uncle Gucci from the Clink

Diplo’s label Mad Decent is known for its cheeky wearable merchandise, our latest (as in just-now-discovered) favorite being this Pon de Floor sweatshirt with a squiggly font that implies, to us, the wiggly freneticism of daggering (or being daggered). For their newest newest look, they’ve brought back the “Free _________” t-shirt trend that was so gianormous in 2003 and added a detailed, strangely regal illustration of Gucci Mane that we would definitely rock with some kind of miniskirt both as fashion and actual statement. If the Mad Decent Gucci support seems weird to you, it’s not: it was just announced that Diplo is working on remixing Gucci’s Cold War tapes with a bunch of his friends, one of whom may or may not be featured on the latest cover of the FADER. His quote in the press release was also hella funny:

“Gucci Mane is an underdog, and a divisive artist,” says Diplo. “I thought it would be cool to have a bunch of kids and weirdos do some mixes of his songs. We all are fans and we are from different scenes. Gucci is a rapper that doesn’t try and be anything he is not; he’s straight up. Maybe it’s ironic and all, but I’m just a fan and have been since day one. Gucci Mane is the cool uncle I never had even though I’m pretty sure I am older than him.”

What kind of uncle would Gucci be? We posed this question to resident Gucci mega-fan, FADER editor Felipe Delerme, who responded, “The kind who always in jail, and when he shows up to shit he grabs food and segregates himself, and doesn’t talk to anyone, and leaves way before the gathering is over (unless he needs his mom to give him a ride).” Diplo please let us know if that is the general cool uncle steez or specific to this particular cool uncle.

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Drop the Lime, “Devil’s Eyes (Diplo’s B-Live RMX)” MP3

Drop the Lime’s foreboding/vampiric “Devil’s Eyes” is deeply convincing in its evilness, his anguished, fearsome yowl snaking through bass pulses like warning shots. Diplo gets in on the game with his own type of foe, though, clearly less freaked out by the devil than a platoon of Robocops going rogue and shooting off their laser guns all crazy-like. Actually, maybe we could pit the Devil’s Eyes against the Robots’ lasers and they could kill each other off like Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, saving all humanity? Get a load of the antsy cowbell in this remix, with echoes of kuduro but mostly there because Diplo might have a little ADD seeping into his mad genius.



Download: Drop the Lime, “Devil’s Eyes (Diplo’s B-Live RMX)” (via Funkism)

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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