With the World Cup going on in Brazil, for those not caught up by football (soccer) fever it’s a good time to revisit DJ/producer Diplo and his label Mad Decent’s 2008 documentary Favela On Blast. The documentary is about the music sub-culture in the city of Rio de Janeiro (in the poor neighborhoods, the favelas) called Baile Funk or Funk Carioca: a bass heavy sound with electro drum beats, reminiscent of Miami bass and electro funk of artists like MC …
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DJ, producer and Major Lazor member Diplo makes a year-end mix for 2013. “I made this mix because I loved 2013 a lot R.I.lP. I’ll miss her,” he tweeted. The mix features Drake, Kanye West, Baauer, King Krule, Rihanna, Young Jeezy, Disclosure and a lot more. Diplo is an interesting and busy dude always globe trotting into something random. He sold a movie loosely based on his life to 20th Century Fox. He flew to Jamaica and produced some Reggae-influenced beats for the Dibble …
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