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‎"After months of waiting, the Major Lazer EP, called Lazers Never Die, will hit stores on July 20. So, we decided now was a pretty good time to revisit our chat with Dip [Diplo], in which he told the story behind the collaboration with Yorke.
"He came to our party in London in August, the Carnival party — the Notting Hill Carnival — it's one of the biggest Caribbean parties in the world, 1.5 million people there, dancing to disco, dub music, everything, and Thom Yorke was at our party. He got in, was moshing basically the whole party, like going crazy for Major Lazer," Diplo laughed. "I met him and we traded some information, and he asked to do a remix for Major Lazer. ... And of all the tracks he could've remixed, he picked 'Jump Up,' which is this jumping, crazy, hype record. And I was like, 'All right, you sure?' And he's like, 'Yeah, we can do that one.'
"And he did it, I mixed it down a little bit and put it on our EP," he continued. "It's pretty good. It sounds like what you would expect. It sounds like a Thom Yorke remix. It sounds something like 'Idioteque' off the Kid A record. I'm a huge Radiohead fan. ... What they do kind of influences our music so heavily. I feel like sometimes, Radiohead maybe has a mistake in the studio, and they build with it. They clean it up and make something out of it. And that's what we kind of do. I feel like most of the stuff I do is an accident."
And that includes spilling the beans on the Die EP, though, even back in March, Dip seemed confident that eventually, fans would be able to hear it. Even if he had to take matters into his own hands.
"People will find it," he laughed, winking at the publicist. "If it doesn't come out soon, you'll find it.""
"He came to our party in London in August, the Carnival party — the Notting Hill Carnival — it's one of the biggest Caribbean parties in the world, 1.5 million people there, dancing to disco, dub music, everything, and Thom Yorke was at our party. He got in, was moshing basically the whole party, like going crazy for Major Lazer," Diplo laughed. "I met him and we traded some information, and he asked to do a remix for Major Lazer. ... And of all the tracks he could've remixed, he picked 'Jump Up,' which is this jumping, crazy, hype record. And I was like, 'All right, you sure?' And he's like, 'Yeah, we can do that one.'
"And he did it, I mixed it down a little bit and put it on our EP," he continued. "It's pretty good. It sounds like what you would expect. It sounds like a Thom Yorke remix. It sounds something like 'Idioteque' off the Kid A record. I'm a huge Radiohead fan. ... What they do kind of influences our music so heavily. I feel like sometimes, Radiohead maybe has a mistake in the studio, and they build with it. They clean it up and make something out of it. And that's what we kind of do. I feel like most of the stuff I do is an accident."
And that includes spilling the beans on the Die EP, though, even back in March, Dip seemed confident that eventually, fans would be able to hear it. Even if he had to take matters into his own hands.
"People will find it," he laughed, winking at the publicist. "If it doesn't come out soon, you'll find it.""
He had the nerve to further mix Thom's remix? I don't know DJ etiquette but that sounds like a no-no. Thom Yorke gives you something and you leave it ALONE! :-)
Just discovered that the original Lazer song was for the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto.
Haha, Thom mixing video game music?
You can hear the same "yea" from kids voices just like in 15 step in the original mix!
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=26jMBvWUXkA
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