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Soca Beyond Carnival: Dissecting Bunji Garlin’s “Differentology”
Words by Greg Scruggs
“Differentology,” a soca jam sung by 32-year-old star Bunji Garlin, may just be Trinidad and Tobago’s unlikely new national anthem. A sleeper...
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Giving In to the Bright Light of Alex Clare
Words and Interview by Laura Smith. Photo by Dirty Souf Yankee.
One can argue that commercials carry a lot of clout when it comes to making a music career, but it...
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Frik-Out!
Name: Frikstailers (that’s Freak-stylers to you Anglo folk out there)
Where They’re From: Córdoba, Argentina
Genre: Electro-cumbia, global bass
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Are So, So Ready for 2013
2012, let's not even get into it. You are over and we are really fine with that. Barack Obama got re-elected and, hopefully, we'll never have to think about Mitt...
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Major Lazer is Finally Releasing an Album, “Free The Universe”
Major Lazer is releasing a full length in February, and we're relieved. Reason being: we're tired of posting about the Diplo alter-ego's ridiculously prolific singles...
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Major Lazer remix makes us actually like Bruno Mars for a second
That awful, ubiquitous concoction "Locked out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars is made marginally more likable with this dose of reggaefication by Major Lazer.
Thanks again,...
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Snoop Lion Sings “Lighters Up” with Mavado, Popcaan
On the Major Lazer and Dre Skull produced "Lighters Up" Mavado, Popcaan and Jahdan Blakkamoore round out an all star crew for the third single from Snoop Lion's...
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Stateless Bass: Four Hunks Of Global Dance Music In Transit
Global bass gets a little more global everyday. Kuduro, baile funk and cumbia may have originated in Angola, Brazil and Colombia respectively, but now you might hear...
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Major Lazer Covers The Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up”
We've talked about The Prodigy's amazing reissue and remix EP of the golden 90s rave oldie album Fat of the Land, out December 4. Now, Major Lazer has dropped his...
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New Mixtape from Major Lazer’s The Jillionaire
A nice little Caribbean-flavored mixtape has hit the interwebs this weekend, and you can bet that Major Lazer is behind it. The script-flipping dancehall outfit created...
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The Prodigy’s “Fat of the Land” Gets Remixed by Noisia, Major Lazer, and More
For electronic music enthusiasts, The Prodigy's Fat of the Land was lifechanging when it came out 15 years ago, becoming one of the first electronic albums to hit...
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Major Lazer and Flux Pavilion Collaborate On “Jah No Partial”
Dubstep and reggae have proven to get along like the cousins they are. Not gonna lie, "Make It Bun Dem," the Damian Marley/Skrillex collaboration was pretty cool. But...
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Major Lazer Dub-ifies Hot Chip’s “Look At Where We Are”
In pretty much a 360 to everything Hot Chip does, Major Lazer turned the UK electro-pop crew's track "Look At Where We Are" off their new album In Our Heads into...
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Did Crookers Create a Monster?
If you’ve kept even one ear trained on the dance music scene lately, chances are you are extremely familiar with Italian DJ duo Crookers. Members Bot and Phra have been...