A few years ago, Diplo put a picture of his passport on the internet, his Angolan visa stapled to it. He went there to collaborate with DJ Znobia and other kuduro producers, putting in the actual work, money and other stuff where his mouth is. This excitable, curious tenacity—local or otherwise—is why we have always loved Diplo. He worked to make sure OG Baltimore club DJs got the attention they deserved, brought baile funk DJs up from Brazil and signed Bondo do Role. Dude did a remix for Gwen Stefani. He’s diverse and insatiable and we have come to expect from him things we did not know. So the prospect of Blow Your Head, Diplo Presents Dubstep had a lot of weird potential to us. What unheralded North Dakotan dubstep had he dug up now? Well, some we already heard. And it was from England (mostly). But that’s cool! We were curious about his deviation in path from the road less traveled to one, you know, like some people already have been on. Not everyone, but it’s definitely not a secret street. He filled us in on the origins of the Mad Decent compilation and his plans for further Blow Your Heads. Buy it now, and download Diplo’s bonus mix, too.
