Diplo Releases "A Very Decent Christmas"

Diplo is a man that seems to never cease working. Whether it be producing for other artists, working on his own music, playing live shows or whatever else, the Godfather of EDM never seems to stop moving. Today, he released a project of dance music Christmas songs, perfect to get Grandma moving after the family dinner. Diplo curated this Mad Decent family compilation album titled A Very Decent Christmas. The project does remixes of past classics, as well as bringing the thumping of Moobahton to the holidays in their own unique ways. Check out the project below and get your holidays turned up.

A Very Decent Christmas:

01 Gent & Jawns: "Turn Up Ye Merry Gentlemen"
02 Diplo: "Frosty Bounce" [ft. Angger Dimas and Nicky Da B]
03 Vjuan Allure: "Rude-Off 2013"
04 DJ Snake: "Bird Machine" [ft. Alesia] (Jingle Bells version)
05 Juyen Sebulba: "SuperJam (Deck the Halls)"
06 Astronomar: "Back to the Beat" (Jingle Bells version)
07 Kennedy Jones: "Came to Party on the Rooftop"
08 Mitch Murder : "Don't Let Me Spend Christmas Alone" [ft. Santell]


[Video] Major Lazer: "Sweat" (feat. Laidback Luke & Ms. Dynamite)

It seems as if Major Lazer are aiming to shoot videos for all their songs on Free The Universe, their latest full-length release. "Sweat," the boisterous collaboration with producer Laidback Luke & rapper Ms. Dynamite, is the newest visual treatment they've put together and they did so with help from Noisey. The clip was shot in a dark-room filled with neon lights and people dancing, check it out below.

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Grizzly Bear: "Will Calls" (Diplo Remix)

The Grizzly Bear team got the Diplo treatment today for their track, "Will Calls" off the sonically beautiful 2013 release, Shields, for which they dropped a remix project earlier this month. Diplo slows things down on this one, opting for careful, slow-moving beat aesthetics instead of the "Bubble Butt" twerk-inducing vignettes he is known for. Check out the track here below.

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Photo from Mad Decent Block Party Dallas by RaRa Photography

Major Lazer x Zed's Dead: "Turn Around" (Feat. Elephant Man)

Diplo's Major Lazer is just a huge moving party. The project has spawned it's dancehall offshoot of Moombahton and brought it to the collective consciousness of white girls in crop tops across the country and creating a "Twerk Wall" in honor of his "Bubble Butt" track. Anyway, they managed to squeeze the loaded production of EDM duo Zed's Dead alongside Major Lazer onto one track, with Elephant Man on there as well. It's always nice to Elephant Man getting work out there. Check out the track below:


Sasha Go Hard: "Gimme Mo" (Feat. BJ The Chicago Kid)

Chicago's own Sasha Go Hard is back with this latest release, "Gimme Mo," featuring BJ The Chicago Kid. BJ lends a crooning hook to Sasha's furious rhyming for a solid single, produced by Tony Roche of The Odd Couple. Fresh off Diplo's Mad Decent tour series this summer, Sasha will be with Travi$ Scott performing live in Chicago this Saturday Sept. 28th for Sneaker Pimps Chicago before heading out to Pittsburgh for a show with Chief Keef before heading off to London for a date at the famous Fabric night club. Check out the track below.


Diplo previews new track, announces "Revolution" EP

While putting in work and rocking crowds at each stop he makes while on tour for Mad Decent Block Party, Diplo announces that his new EP, Revolution, will be set to release on October 8th. Diplo has already given the people a taste of what is to come when he dropped the track "Crown" featuring Riff Raff  and Mike Posner as Boaz Van De Beatz. This time he gives us a one minute snippet  of a track titled "Biggie Bounce," which features Angger Dimas and Travis Porter. Rappers Action Bronson and Mr MFN eXquire are both featured on the EP as well. Take listen to the track below and get a taste of what you'll be in store for come October 8th.


Mad Decent Block Party: Q&A with Big Gigantic

The Mad Decent team has been steadily criss-crossing the country with an also-steadily changing group of performers. As the summer begins hitting the homestretch, Mad Decent heads to Texas for an all ages performance at the Whitewater Music Ampitheater before the festival series heads off to the west coast for a pair of final dates in Los Angeles and San Diego. The New Braunfels stop includes headlining sets by Major Lazer, Bauuer, Dillon Francis and Flosstradamus, as well as Big Gigantic who we were able to catch up with before they hit the Lone Star state for a brief Q + A. Check out the interview below with drummer Jeremy Salken and head here for tickets if you'll be in the area this weekend.

Jake: Last time I talked to you two, you were preparing for New Year's Eve in Chicago. How have things been since?

Jeremy: Wow that was a long time ago! Now we’re prepping for this tour and New Years in NEW YORK!! Things have been freaking incredible.  We literally just finished up our summer festival season and it couldn’t have gone better.  We didn’t play as many festivals as last year but we headlined a few which was a huge step up for us! Cant wait to be back in Southern TX though! Things tend to get a little crazier down there!

Jake: What's the experience playing Mad Decent Block Party so far?

Jeremy: We’ve done 2 so far and they’ve been great!! Its an earlier show and the music literally never stops.  It goes hard from start to finish and is always insanely entertaining!

Jake: Where is the direction of the music headed/plans for a new album?

Jeremy: The music is constantly growing and evolving.  We were hoping to drop the new album this fall but are pushing things back to the beginning of 2014 to really get it where we want it to be.  Dom has been working endlessly night and day writing, producing and working on putting this masterpiece together.  He has the vision of what he wants it to be and you just cant rush that kind of thing.  As much as we wanted to put it out as soon as possible, it’ll be better to take a little more time with it and get it perfect (or as close to perfect as he can get).  We’re dropping a few tracks here and there for kids to check out to hold everyone over until 2014!

Jake: You two have been touring incessantly for a couple years now, any burnout? Going strong?

Jeremy: Stronger than ever!! The more we do it the more we figure out about how we want to do it.  We used to just hit the road endlessly and tour tour tour. Now we kind of do it in chunks and take little breaks in between to recooperate.  I think that’s one of the tricks to keeping it fresh!

Jake: Plans for the rest of 2013?

Jeremy: We’ve had a mellow summer so we’re hitting the West Coast for 2 weeks now, then we have a break before ROWDYTOWN at Red Rocks!! That’s like our hometown throwdown.  It’s the most beautiful venue we’ve been to and just such an epic place to play and have all our friends and fam come rage with us!  We have a break after that then we do a month long tour of the rest of the country in October!  November/December is pretty much open to finish album stuff then Mayan Holidaze w/ the homies and 2 Nights in NYC for New Years! Then we get a short break and things start right back up again! I Guess we don’t take off as much time as I thought! Haha, good thing we LOVE playing music!

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