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The most interesting thing about this new track from Major Lazer is the constantly shifting beat, which hopscotches between stadium fist-pumping techno, baby elephant walk polka and booty-dropping dancehall every 16 bars. The song, which made it’s debut on Zane Lowe’s BBC 1 show this weekend, lacks the hooks that made us love the first Major Lazer record. But it gives an indication that messieurs Switch and Diplo might have some new tricks up their sleeve when the follow-up drops sometime soon.
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Diplo and Switch have been hard at work on the next Major Lazer album, but the duo found time to remix the Beastie Boys collaboration with Santigold, “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win.” The result is the sort of dancehall flava’d jammy jam one would obviously expect when all these faves arrive at the same party.
Download: Beastie Boys f. Santigold “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” (Major Lazer Remix)
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Diplo and Switch have been had at work on the follow-up to their surprisingly popular Major Lazer album, Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazer’s Do! So they’ve once again de-camped to Jamaica, where they’re finishing up the record. This quick preview video captures the two hanging out a bit before heading ont the studio where we catch Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors about to record some vocals. So it’s probably safe to deduce that the second Major Lazer album will feature the same mixture of true-school dancehall acts and indie fave guests as the first.
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The past year was a bit of a rough for M.I.A. A combination of media backlash, political paranoia and an album that sadly failed to live up to extremely high expectations made us wonder if the colorful star would come back into favor. But she’s getting in the last word in 2010, dropping this mixtape of unreleased music plus some new gems produced by Diplo, Blaqstarr, Switch and M.I.A. herself.
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The best and worst of human nature can rear their twin heads at any time, maybe especially so at festivals. Camp Bisco has a reputation, and it’s often overlooked in the pantheon of festivals; a gem to those who take ownership of it as “their festival” and who’d just as soon you don’t know and don’t come to the party, thank you very much. It’s intimate like that, private and a little “just for us” to 15,000 people. That could be about to change as people in the northeast wake up, and realize what they’ve been missing right there on their doorstep.
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