Live: DJ/Rupture, Maluca, Matt Shadetek & Jahdan Blakkamoore, Sonido Martines at One Step Beyond

Though lacking a cameo from Jason Voorhees, every DJ killed it (wokka wokka) at our One Step Beyond series this past Friday the 13th. FADER friends DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines took turns hijacking the makeshift dance floor at the planetarium. Whether you were way up front or sneaking into the Mammals of North America exhibit, Sonido Martines’ twisted cumbia was inescapable and Maluca’s insane party starting helped more than a few audience members get real loose. By the time Shadetek and Blakkamoore took the stage, half the audience were trading dance moves under space lights. The other half wandered the museum’s halls, indulging their grade school selves by finding out who weighed 69 pounds on Mars as DJ/Rupture closed out the night.

-Text and photo by TJ Kosinski

Contest: Win Tickets to This Friday’s Edition of One Step Beyond

You already know the lineup (if not, it’s on the flyer up above) and you’ve hopefully already purchased your ticket (if not, there’s still a few left here), but now is the time to throw caution to the wind and try to win your way in. Hit us in the comments and let us know why you want to go and will pick a few lucky winners. As usual, remember to use an actual email address so we can find you to let you know if you won.

NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines

Not sure about anyone else, but we’re going to be spending this Friday the 13th (the rarest of days) at the Museum of Natural History for the next installment of One Step Beyond. This time featuring FADER mega favorites DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines. Insert appropriate joke about dancing near the moon here, and then go buy your tickets before they sell out right here.

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Contest: Win Tickets to Buraka Som Sistema

It’s fully cold out, so what better way to warm up then to head over to Le Poisson Rouge next Tuesday November 4th to catch Buraka Som Sistema, Maluca and Gecko Jones. There will be a lot of dancing, so leave your coats at home (don’t get sick though, no one likes being sick). You know the drill, hit us in the comments with a legit email and we’ll pick a few lucky winners. Non risk-takers buy your advance tickets here.

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)

Total Freedom & Nguzunguzu, “Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)”

Club Vortex is a monthly held at Glasslands in NY where all manner of outré/vanguard worldwide dance musics are played, and prior to each episode the guest DJs make a mixtape. The next installment is Kingdom’s b-day, FADER fave Maluca is performing live (always a rad time) and guest DJs Total Freedom and Nguzunguzu from Los Angeles are bringing the vibe of their Wilderness party to the Brooklyn warehouse setting, which according to this mixtape may include the Keri Hilson vox from “Swag On” over some kind of organic sounding triple-syncopated kinda-ragga rhythms, a possible Bollywood track blended with maybe the song from the “Natasha!” scene in Party Girl, Nicki Minaj “Go Hard” with a total BK-style drumline backing track, and copious drops filtered through a witness-protection-program vocal converter. This is all speculation, not actual scientific tracklistage, but the tape is hot and when you go to the party this Friday, July 10th (details here), you will not be hearing anything boring, played, wack or 100% identifiable. Happy B-day Kingdom!

Download: Total Freedom & Nguzu Nguzu, Wildness (Club Vortex Mixtape)

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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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Freeload: The FADER Issue 62 Podcast

We and you and everyone we know has been trumpeting the Summer Of Love 2009, and it was our mantra as we put together FADER Issue 62. We scoured the universe for the summeriest, most barbecuey music this year and came up with an issue that, if you scratch-and-sniff it, smells vaguely coconutty like Hawaiian Tropic (not really). As such, this issue’s podcast, presented by Bacardi B-LIVE, is about as clear a definition of what we think you should be listening to in the coming months as we could possibly make. It’s got songs from every artist in the issue from cover stars Phoenix, Major Lazer, Maluca, DJ Sega and Popo; featured power-bros Young Dro, Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, Crocodiles, Family Time Records fam, Gen Fers Omega, D-Lo and Sleepy D, Esser, CFCF, and like a trizillion more people! Download it below and listen while reading the issue, scorching hot like the sun on newsstands right now. And come back to TheFADER.com in two weeks for the free issue PDF that you can save on your computer until the robots take over.

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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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FADER TV: Major Lazer Live at the F62 Party

Last night about 400 of our closest and overarchingly attractive friends rolled up on a secret Bushwick rooftop for one of the most epic FADER issue release parties in recent history, celebrating FADER #62, starring Major Lazer and the new Mad Decent vanguard. We rented some palm trees, made a lifesize cardboard cutout of Rodney Dangerfield holding a boombox and handed out buckets of Budweiser and Southern Comfort. After amazing performances by NY princesa Maluca and Philly destruction punks Popo, Major Lazer commandeered the stage. Everybody at the party flocked to them like moths to flame: Their album dropped yesterday, and after their NY performance on Saturday, it seems like the entire city just developed an Empire State-sized boner for them. So when they performed party faves “Pon De Floor” and “Hold the Line,” with bespoke-neon hypeman 77Klash, extra focused hand drummer Prince Terrence, and two of the most energetic young mummies we have ever seen, the crowd became the definition of berzerker. It was kind of cold outside, but it felt like the perfect spark for hopefully the best summer ever.

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