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“I think pop as a form is basically incapable of carrying authentic content, so I’m looking for that weird mutant.”

“We had to find a drummer who could… not fill the shoes of Stanier because we weren’t looking to replace him, but someone who could execute the songs as tightly and as well.”

“Tim is a brilliant songwriter and such a great acoustic musician, so he just seemed like the perfect choice for so many reasons.”

“ I think there’s just some really great advantages to doing sponsored tours.”

“I also have a guilty pleasure of liking dance music and I’m trying to find a way with DJing to combine this with my love of punk rock.”

“I have a couple of violin solos I’ve got to record. I’ve got to do one next week actually cause there’s an Italian band that’s paid us the $500 reward to get one of us to do a solo on their album”

“I think most of those people don’t even know we exist, or just write us off”

“I feel like amber is like a mild form of time travel”

“I didn’t have any ideas at all. We just went to the beach and then all that fucking weird shit happened.”

Diplo and Skrillex Share 2 Chainz, AlunaGeorge Collaborations on Jack Ü Mix.. At the beginning of last year Mad Decent tastemaker Diplo announced he’d be collaborating with Skrillex in a project called Jack Ü. Both producers are leaders in their field, and both work hard to discover and support amazing new talent; so any project involving the two of them is predestined to be a boon. The two debuted at Ultra Festival in Miami, followed by the Mad Decent Block Party in September (hear that set here). Naturally, they blew up both stages with ease, including some serious heat with their first single Take Ü There feat. Kieza. Bulding the project’s credibility and the anticipation for a release even further, last night Diplo welcomed Skrillex to his Diplo & Friends radio show for a two-hour Jack Ü mix. It’s a monster of a thing (two hours), that gets very hectic straight from the get-go. Most excitingly, features more of a look into their new material – including a track with rapper 2Chainz

After a US premiere with Skrillex's Nest HQ, we got some Aussie love for Ribongia's latest.. We've been hailing Antonio Rosselli Del Turco AKA Ribongia as one of the country's most exciting producers since first frothing over his originals Slave Trade and Save The Children earlier this year. The best way to describe his music comes from the word 'ribongia', which means chaos or dissaray from Italy years and years ago, and his sounds are the perfect example of organised chaos. It feels like there's heaps of going on, but none of the parts ever impact the others in a harmful way, it just all melds together so well. Just as the EP you can stream below does, featuring the previously mentioned tracks along with new works It Began, Stomp and Gazela (the first and third featuring fellow Italian producer Clap! Clap!). Following the EP's US premiere on Skrillex's Nest HQ LAST NIGHT we're stoked to offer the stream below, you can grab the EP from Friday via October Records, and catch him on his

Meet the team behind Secret Walls - kinda like a rap battle with pens and paints instead of words and mom's spaghetti..