Diplo shares his Kingston dancehall diaries with Vanity Fair
Diplo, progenitor of a more globally-minded form of dance music, has kept a bit of a running travel log with Vanity Fair over the last year or so. In his latest installment, the American producer and DJ steps out into the world of dancehall in Kingston, Jamaica with photographer Shane McCauley. Dancehall, in case you're unfamiliar, is a "beat-heavy descendant of reggae" as Vanity Fair puts it. Diplo seems to travel back and forth between Jamaica and his home base in LA to work on new music with quite some frequency and he writes to us in his latest photo essay of the scene's intricacies and main characters. Check out some of the photos below and click through to see the full slideshow on Vanity Fair.
Watch this: Diplo, Skream, Nicolas Jaar, Four Tet, Baauer, others on Manchester’s Warehouse Project
If there was ever a question they do it better in the UK, this video will probably clear up any doubt in your mind. Pitchfork recently released a mini-documentary on the now prodigious Warehouse Project club in Manchester. These people have been throwing parties in Warehouse Project form since 2006 and have been consistently known for pushing the limits of what is known, accepted, or cool in the dance music industry. In turn, the producers and DJs lucky enough to perform for these discerning crowds only have multitudes of praise to give about the planning, atmosphere, and originality of the events. Hear what names like Skream, Diplo, Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, AlunaGeorge, and Scuba have to say about the experience.