Major Lazer f. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky, “Keep It Goin’ Louder (Diplo Remix)” MP3
- story Peter Macia
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)”
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posted on Oct 12, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Diplo, electronic/dance, Major Lazer, Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze, Switch
Video: Major Lazer f. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze, “Keep it Goin’ Louder”
- story Matthew Schnipper
Not sure if it’s too Hipster Runoff to say that this video for Major Lazer’s candy-cane-sweet freestyle bumper “Keep it Goin’ Louder” looks super fun. Could just be the animated zombies, but it could also be that Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze together is an unstoppable outer borough dream team. But it’s October—this is a summer jam! Though they surely could not wait to bust out the ridiculousness of the “Pon De Floor” video, that’s so much more a creepy autumn song, like Icabod Crane produced the drums in his secret Sleepy Hollow studio. But “Keep it Goin’ Louder”’s rah-rah spirit is indeed seasonally non-denominational—clubs are open when it is cold out, and there’s always next summer’s block parties and parades. Plus, the internet (where this video lives exclusively on NME’s site) is essentially a frozen state. Or maybe an overheated one, always toasty.
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO tags electronic/dance, Major Lazer, Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze
Major Lazer Zombies Eat Our Face + Diplo Remix
- story THE FADER
That is a euphemism for copious sweating: we lost 13 gallons of body water at SOB’s on Saturday night, where Major Lazer kicked off their Stateside tour. We also may have dropped it a little too low? Basically there was a lot of Diplo + Switch preeminently DJing dubstep, dancehall, Ace of Bass (whoa) and intermittent tracks from their totally awesome album, while FADER fave 77Klash pumped the crowd, tossed out toy laser guns, and sweated a lot less than the two young girls wineing on the stage the whole time. Ricky Blaze, Nina Sky and Jahdan Blakkamoore, all subjects of past FADER features, each came out to do their tracks from the album, and. Oh! And Ricky Blaze opened (but he only did one song, “Cut Dem Off”) and brought out the amazing Chelley, who performed her interminable late-night club hit “Took the Night.” Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do is out tomorrow (and Ricky Blaze’s mixtape is coming out soon!) and we will have a shitload more to say on both topics. In the meantime, Diplo is streaming his dance remix of the Major Lazer Nina Sky song, “Keep it Going Louder” on his MySpace.
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posted on Jun 15, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags caribbean, Chelley, dance/electronic, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Major Lazer, Nina Sky, Ricky Blaze
NYC: Sean Paul, Ricky Blaze, Badda Badda Gals + More Wear their Sunglasses at Night
- story THE FADER
Tomorrow night Max Glazer and Kenny Meez celebrate the 10th anniversary of Federation Soundsystem presented by Sunglass Hut, Business Class and, duh, Federation Sound, at Santos Party House. That means Max and Kenny have been repping dancehall since the last millenium. Like since Sean Paul was an underground artist. Since before Cipha Sounds was a member of the Big Dog Pitbulls. Since before FADER was a magazine. Since when Guiliani was Mayor and Al Gore was the next President and Max was the reggae buyer at Fat Beats. Since a long-ass time, basically. Lucky for us though this event promises to be less of a nostalgia-fest and more of a nowadays thing, and since Sunglass Hut is the sponsor we can only assume everyone will be properly shaded up and Bruk Up’s new “Sunglasses” dance will be getting heavy rotation (we also assume the whole crew will be dipped in Lacoste ‘cause we saw Max and the Badda Badda Gals walking by Habana Outpost with a baby-stroller full of new Lacoste kicks last week—true story). And finally, since those gals are guaranteed to perform alongside Sean Paul, Ricky Blaze and Cipha Sounds, we assume the door situation will be banana clips and you’d better get there early. Come true!
Freeload: Ricky Blaze f. Kardinal Offishal, “Dreamland”
- story THE FADER
Someone recently called Ricky Blaze the “poor man’s Ron Browz,” which was simultaneously hilarious, because Ron Browz is the poor man’s Ron Browz, and misleading, because the only thing Ricky Blaze shares with Ron Browz is a healthy relationship with auto-tune. Where Browz uses it to hypnotize dudes into spilling rum and cokes on each other, though, Blaze prefers to strap his choruses to it and blast them into the Planet Cher. Don’t hate, Cher has had a really long career. Of course, this will not be a very good defense against sassy rap bloggers, but whatever, we stand firm: Cher and Ricky Blaze for the streets!
Download: Ricky Blaze f. Kardinal Offishal, “Dreamland”
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posted on Apr 21, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags caribbean, electronic/dance, freeload, hip hop, Ricky Blaze
Freeload: Ricky Blaze f. Ron Browz, “Feel Free”
- story THE FADER
For all those people who are tired of auto-tune, may we recommend you not listen to music for about another year or so because there are many dudes beyond Kanye making a living off robotizing their voices. Brooklyn and Harlem’s primo auto-tuners, Ricky Blaze and
Ron Browz, respectively, merge up for this post-crash ode to buying things up and signing deals.
Download: Ricky Blaze f. Ron Browz, “Feel Free”
Audio: Ricky Blaze on Federation Radio
- story THE FADER
Our dudes Max Glazer and Kenny Meez of the mighty Federation soundsystem do this internet radio channel for Scion, and today they brought our other dude Ricky Blaze on for an interview and a little freestyle session. The Ricky segment is aaaaallll the way at the end of the show so you have to listen to a whole lot of reggae and dance remixes of reggae to get to it (sorry), but it’s totally worth it because even though he is uncharacteristically mellow in the interview part, the freestyle Ricky drops over “I Get Money” is kinda nice.
Stream: Federation Invasion on Scion Radio with special guest Ricky Blaze
NYC: Ricky Blaze & Ding Dong At Teen Passa
- story THE FADER
So technically, it’s the weekend before the last weekend of summer, especially if you’re a schoolkid, so you’re probably gonna be out there trying to smoke loosies, drink cheap wine and make out with everyone you see. But kids! There are more constructive things to do with your time! Like load all of your new supplies into your backpack ORRRRRR dance your face off in Brooklyn this Saturday at the Teen Passa Passa party (”where teen dancers buss!”). In Issue 53, we profiled Ricky Blaze and his place in the growing scene of indigenous Brooklyn dancehall, and Ricky’s performing there along with Ding Dong (FADER 38), Fresh Prince (hear him with Ricky on “How Mi Look”), Jason Fox (”Aunt Jackie”), DJ Webstar (”Chicken Noodle Soup”) and a grip of other folks. There’s also a troupe appearing called the Acid Dancers who we have to think are going to be mindblowing in every way. We’ll be there sometime between 2pm and 9pm perfecting our Gully Creepa on the sidelines (we’re not teenagers), so holler if you’re in the neighborhood. Full flyer after the jump.
Freeload: Ricky Blaze, “How Mi Look” + “Let It Fall”
- story THE FADER
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard much new from young Ricky, but apparently that’s just because we were just checking his MySpace page and not the entire Fire Unit/Rolling Stones contingent, which as far as we can tell includes half of Brooklyn. But we are diligent and found these new joints along with a bunch of others at Rolling Stones, Fire Unit Squad (Dutty Fridaze Riddim = nuts), Merital Family, and Chelley’s spots for you. It’s a lot. As is the above video going along with “How Mi Look” with tons of nice moves from Fresh Prince (not the one you’re thinking of) and a devastating finishing move by the inimitable Skerrit Bwoy, who, we shit you not, has taken to wearing a kung fu outfit and doing spinning roundhouses over girls’ backsides. And as if that’s not enough, you can read read our Ricky Blaze feature from FADER 53 right here.
Download: Ricky Blaze f. Fresh Prince, “How Mi Look”
Download: Ricky Blaze f. Chelly, “Let It Fall”
Ricky Blaze, “Attention”
FADER 53: Ricky Blaze Feature
- story THE FADER
Back in our April issue we jumped on the Ricky Blaze train early, documenting he and the Fire Unit’s leading roll in the nascent Brooklyn underage dancehall scene, from pirate radio shows to hectic parties. Now, just in time for Ricky and company’s summer takeover, you can get acquainted with our FADER 53 feature story after the jump.
