Ghetto Palms 75: Flare Riddim / Giants / Ze Bula remix / Baobab

A certain operatic feel connects these two new jump up riddims from ZJ Sparks and Ding Dong’s Ravers Clavers crew, respectively. To be specific, Giants is scored to the opening shots of a suspense thriller, the pulsing cello-and-synth foreshadowing the drama that’s about pop off. Flare on the other hand sounds like the climactic point when the violinists in the orchestra pit look they’re trying to saw the necks off their instruments. Maybe someday, when people from this soundsystem generation are old and rich, the New York Philharmonic will be actually be playing these parts while Ding Dong and Chi Ching yell on the mic and make them pull up every five seconds.

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Premiere: DJ Ayres, Nick Catchdubs and Jubilee, “Flashing Lights Mix v. 4″ x NYC Party Info

Ayres, Catch and Jubilee are having the first installment of their glowsticky NYC monthly since Studio B shuttered its doors, and while we are sad about that closure, the train ride from our office-crib to their new venue 88 Palace (88 East Broadway) is way easier than trying to hike to Greenpoint’s industrial wilds (sorry dudes, if it makes you feel any better we didn’t see our cousin for like a year just cause he lived in Queens). If you’ve never been to Flashing Lights, Friday August 14 is the time to do it: not only will the resident trio drop their regular melange of synth rattlers, twerky house and subbass bombxplosions, they’re hosting guest stars Toadally Krossed Out’s NYC debut, which is marked on our calendars with little lightning bolts pointing to it, because these dudes go OD hard (heteropause) on every track they’ve dropped so far (including the exclusive that kicks off Ayres’ portion of this mix). AND it’s Jess Jubilee’s bday AND her single release with Nightshifters mega raver Udachi—so if you have any interest in dance music, fun, nature sounds, epic parties, amphibious rave music (raves on both water and land), sweaty drunk dudes taking their shirts off and/or blowing out your own synapses you should probably hit this up. Cop the Flashing Lights Mix v. 4 and tracklist here for a preview, flyer after the jump.
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Maluca, “El Tigeraso (Sticky K RMX)” MP3

Ms. Maluca Mala, FADER #62 cover artist, has been pwning dancefloors with her brand of provocative party jams and band of toughass backup dancers. She is also maybe the most adroit simultaneous vocalist/cowbell player/dancer ever. “El Tigeraso” is the first hit, a cheeky speed merengue side-eye to those random dudes all tryna wife you when you walk down the street (if you live in Brooklyn and are a girl, you know what she’s talking about). Though it’s been in our minds and hearts for a few months, her label Mad Decent finally dropped the single this week with a mini cornucopia of remixes—this one’s by up and coming SF producer/DJ Sticky K (whose gig this weekend, coincidentally, you can win tickets to here) and jacks up the brick-crushing rave factor by like 28 decibels. In the new wave of hybrid, digitized Latin tunes currently surging across the world, nobody reps NY like our fave Dominican badgirl wielding a mic.



Download: Maluca, “El Tigeraso (Sticky K RMX)

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Buraka Som Sistema, “IC19 (Toadally Krossed Out RMX)” MP3

We bought this track off iTunes the other day because we have an obsession with Toads that would rival an ornery 11-year-old Mark Twain character. Toadally Krossed Out’s tracks so far are ebulliently creative, ravetastic little numbers and their sampling of various ribbits, sproings, creepy chortles, and cricket twerks represent the specific coordinates where the natural world, the animated parallel universe, and the demonic flames of hell intersect. Some of it might even be performance art, hard to tell. Regardless, now they’re offering this remix for free and playing LA on Saturday, so you should download it while we wonder if our $.99 was enough, and whether we are qualified to run for Mayor of Stantowne (Toads Province).



Download: Buraka Som Sistema, “IC19 (Toadally Krossed Out RMX)

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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LA: Mad Decent Just Took Over Your Friday Nights

As New Yorkers, there’s not much that makes us wish we lived somewhere else, there is way too much shit to do as it is. But when Mad Decent dude and mega-bro Paul Devro hit us up to let us know about this Friday’s launch of his weekly Mad Decent Fridays party at 3 Clubs in LA we were more than kinda bummed that we couldn’t be there. This inaugural edition is a celebration of the release of the Major Lazer album (which you may have noticed is on the cover of our new issue), and besides Devro, it features super selectors Oro 11 of Bersa Discos, Sabbo, Erik Devereux and, um, Andy Milonakis live? Sure why not! To see what the deal with that is (and to get in for free) RSVP here.

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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Video: L-Vis 1990, “United Groove”

This video was either shot in the illest imaginary interweb club ever invented, or it’s a party inside Martin Short’s veins. Dennis Quaid aka Lieutenant Tuck Pendleton at the helm, we missing you! L-Vis 1990 is an inventor, this we know for sure, and we also bet on him being a lover of humanity for creating this house-inflected cellar-bass club track for us, the people. Single coming soon from your dudes.

Video: Major Lazer f. Andy Milonakis “Zumbie”

If you had any lingering doubts that the upcoming Major Lazer album Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do (Downtown, June 16th) was going to turn dancehall even crazier than it already was, here is the absurd video for “Zumbie” with “Let Me Twitter Dat” maestro Andy Milonakis auto-tuned and chomping brains, pum pum and Ruffles and sounding like Mr Vegas with a lot more time on his hands. Mad Decent)

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