August 19, 2005
Who the F%#& are Diplo and Malboro? The New Yorker has the Answer!
There was another one of those excellent Pop Music stories by Sasha Frere-Jones in a recent New Yorker that's worth a drive-by on the Web. This time, Frere-Jones profiled the DJs Malboro and Diplo, who is largely the musical force behind the sound of British-Sri Lankan pop star M.I.A. and her recent album "Arular." Diplo is adept at assimilating disparate sub-pop musical style hybrids (Brazilian electro inspired by old-school Miami "bass," to name one) and foreign dance club hits (like "Bucky Done Gun," a big club hit by Malboro himself in his Brazilian homeland) and reworking them into a wholly fresh sound. That sound found its perfect compnaion in the singular vocal style and lyricsm of M.I.A. That, kids, was how a "shanty pop" supa' star was born. Now go read that NYer article for the deep and heavy intel. Chop, chop!
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Posted by Supercore at August 19, 2005 12:46 AM
