It’s no accident that DIPLO’s musical brainchild is becoming one of the more distinguished players in the electronic game. In a world bloated by cookie-cutter samples and stock sounds, MAJOR LAZER offer something fresh — blazing a trail with rasta-fire and brassy brimstone, all the way lighting the way for others to follow.
Before Queen Bey was running the world, there was ‘Pon De Floor’; before the coming of Yeezus, MAJOR brought dancehall to the disco. Their latest offering wears that distinctive sound on its banana-leaf sleeve, drenched in the sweaty Caribbean aesthetic of their own.
What is essentially a remix from ETC!ETC! is mostly reductive, insofar as it trims the fat off the original and boils it down to those more typical MAJOR LAZER flavours: horn-driven reggaeton shot through with club-friendly electro house and breakneck, almost illiterate vocal layers. Those vocal duties here rest on the sculpted bronze shoulders of one SEAN PAUL, that babbling Kingstonite who told us to ‘Get Busy’ back in 2002. Busy he gets, spitting words without relent until the horns and lasers phase him out, tag him back in, and phase him out again.
In LAZER we trust. Majorly.
Words by Gavin Butler
SEE ALSO:
MAJOR LAZER ‘AEROSOL CAN’ FT. PHARRELL (MR CARMACK REMIX)
MAJOR LAZER ‘SWEAT’ (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
BONDE DO ROLE ‘BRAZILIAN BOYS’ FT. CE’CILE (MAJOR LAZER REMIX)
