Mad Decent With Diplo

This year i've seen some good DJ sets. 2ManyDjs at Snowbombing reminded me how good the Belgian duo are. Benga Vs Skream in Berlin was special. The Count and Sinden killed it at the Camden Crawl.

But Diplo @ Bugged Out (and IN some car park) was unbelievably banging. Though he started with his tradmark Baille funk house sound the Baltimore boy swerved from the that path early on- playing a version of Smells Like Teen Spirit. Obviously he laid an M.I.A acapella on the top too.

Here are two highlights. This Booka Shade tune was played with the opening lines of N.E.R.D's Everybody Nose over the top. "All the girls standing in the line" etc...



And this was part of the hip hop finale. It's Diplo's own production for M.I.A with a sample of The Clash's Straight To Hell playing a key role. The pair wrote it to send up commercial hip hop- those gunshots and till registers in the chorus give it away. Yet the track was nominated for Best Song at the Grammys. This is the remix...



(FIND OUT ABOUT DIPLO AND DAVE TAYLOR'S NEW PROJECT MAJOR LAZER HERE)