Diplo drops the latest installment of the Mad Decent Blow Your Head mix series for the month of February, and fills the hour-long mix with plenty of party jams from the likes of Drop the Lime, Nero, Codes, Juicy J, Rusko and Nicki Minaj. Of course there’s plenty of Diplo and Mad Decent remixes thrown […]

In the context of electronic producers leading the vanguard in sound creation, Skrillex has quickly leapt into the forefront of the global conversation. The man creates music that’ll terrorize those with weaker hearts, while sending flocks of adrenaline-seeking youths into states of dancefloor delirium. His Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP launched him into the […]

IFC yesterday debuted the video for Rusko’s latest single “Everyday”. Directed by Jason Miller, the video juxtaposes the positivity of Rusko’s dancefloor anthem with scenes from the Salton Sea — one of the most economically depressed areas of California, a standing environmental disaster a couple hours outside of Palm Springs. Regardless of what a shithole […]

Mad Decent’s resident dubstep champion Rusko drops his first official single today since last summer’s debut album O.M.G. The track, “Everyday”, comes loaded with remixes by the likes of Netsky, Original Sin (who give it the drum n bass treatment) and a funky garage remix from DJ Q. The B-side “Lick The Lizard” is a […]

As a new year’s present to the world, on January 1st M.I.A. released a free Wikileaks-inspired mixtape titled the Vicki Leekx Mixtape. Featuring new productions from her trusty stable of producers (Diplo, Switch, Rusko, Blaqstarr et al), the 19-track 36-minute mix is a call of support of Mr. Julian Assange. This is the just-released video […]

Today M.I.A. dropped the latest video off her MAYA album for the Rusko-produced track “Story To Be Told”, and while I like the song the video leaves a lot to be desired. It looks like something my old college room mate would come up with after a night of Ritalin-induced “inspiration” working on his “visual […]

I seriously cannot figure out what everyone is smoking. I don’t care what the haters say, the new M.I.A. record is brilliant: the beats are sparce, complex, bad ass. I’m not sure — were people expecting 12 “Paper Planes” in a row? I can understand Perez Hilton, soccer moms and tweens that discovered her while […]

Let’s face it, Diplo made his name on the mixtape — first with his Hollertronixxx mixes with Low Budget back in the day, and then his gamechanging Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape that put M.I.A. on the map back when she couldn’t even read a map. Then there was his superlative mix with Santogold, Top Ranking, […]