Founded: 2008
Location: Jamaica
Major Lazer is a Jamaican-American electronic dance music and DJ trio, which includes record producer Diplo, and DJs Walshy Fire and Ape Drums. It originates from Kingston, Jamaica, and was founded in 2008 by Diplo and Switch, with Switch leaving after three years in 2011. He was then replaced by both Jillionaire and Walshy Fire. In June 2019, Jillionaire left the group and was replaced by Ape Drums. Its music spans numerous genres, mixing reggae with dancehall, reggaeton, soca, house and moombahton.Major Lazer has released four full-length albums: Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do in 2009, Free the Universe in 2013, Peace Is the Mission in 2015, and Music Is the Weapon in 2020. They have also released six EPs, including Apocalypse Soon in March 2014, which featured vocal contributions from Pharrell Williams and Sean Paul, and Know No Better in 2017, which featured appearances from Camila Cabello, Quavo, Travis Scott, and J Balvin, among others. Major Lazer has also notably produced Reincarnated, the debut reggae album by Snoop Dogg under his "Snoop Lion" persona. In March 2018, Billboard ranked Major Lazer at number five on their 2018 Billboard Dance 100 ranking of dance musicians.
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"'Be Together' is a really neat bit of pop music. It's sweet but not overly so. There's balance. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the accompanying remixes on this EP."
"The enchanting performance draws us in with a powerful and alluring force to really make us connect with the emotionally charged mystique."
In a race to #1.
"Major Lazer seems now Diplo’s flagship sailing toward chartland, and it’ll be time for many to hit the lifeboats"
Though not his best work, Apocalypse Soon proves a solid party mix.
Aerosol Can comes from the new Major Lazer EP.
Guys were ripping their shirts off – who are we kidding, girls were doing the same – and it was the party to end all parties.
This show is calculated and brash, repeated ad infinitum through every stop of the Major Lazer world tour. But it is irresistible. This is Major Lazer. This is where the party’s at.
"I never go in the studio with someone like Justin Bieber because there’s a bag of money there."
The Diplo side-project will turn Sydney Harbour into a body-bouncing party