Mark your calendards because New York’s Electronic Music Festival takes place on Labor Day Weekend, September 4 and 5, 2010.
The 2nd annual Electric Zoo will take place at Randall’s Island Park; the open air festival will go from 11am-11pm each day with more than 70 Artists Over Multiple Stages.
The 26 acres of Randall’s Island park will be barraged by a non-stop assault of beats, grooves and electronic medleys by some of the world’s leading DJs and artists.
2-Day General Admission Passes are available now. VIP Upgrades are also available with optional parking….
Judging from their website, Pomp&Clout are one of those cool creative companies that do some videos and other cool shit, while occasionally knocking out some design work for Apple, BBC, Mazada—you know, baller brands. Diplo is the sort of cool multi-media dude who is usually pals with companies like P&C, so he decided to do a mixtape for them. No track listing or anything. A quick scan through the MP3 reveals a lot of old-sounding psychedelic rock. Nothing I recognized except David Essex “Rock On.” Just 60-odd minutes of Diplo playing very cool records very well. For free. On the Internet. Enjoy.
Mad Decent has announced a multi-city series of weekly block parties, starting July 31st in Philly, and hitting NYC and LA before ending in Chicago on August 21st. The specific line-ups for each event have yet to be announced, but it’s pretty much all URB faves on the flier, from Diplo to Mike B, so you can’t really lose.
On Tuesday night in Hollywood, Mad Decent hosted a screening of Favela on Blast, the baile funk documentary directed by Diplo at Cinespace. Afterword, the director took some questions from the audience of assembled hipsters. They mostly talked about the film, but a few took the opportunity to ask about some lee expected topics, including working with M.I.A. as well as an update on the Major Lazer show in production for Adult Swim. …MORE
Lured in by the promise of an epic after party, the audience at the Los Angeles screening of Favela On Blast at the popular dance club Cinespace was as interesting as the film itself. Produced by Philadelphia native Wesley Pentz, popularly known as Diplo and also one half of the duo Major Lazer, the film delves into the Brazilian Baile Funk culture, a strong influence on his work. The popularity of Diplo led to the unusual make-up of the crowd for a film that would usually be screened in front of a room of musicologist and critics. With a rough median age of twenty-two, and adorned in vibrantly colored sneakers and respective LA hipster dance gear, the audience waited patiently as though they were at a grade school assembly. The Q+A afterwards was a continuation of that dynamic, with Diplo leading the young Los Angeles dance scene into the world of ethnomusicology. …MORE
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