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Diplowatch 2010 #1: Diplo Produces a UK Screamo Record
That is indeed real live yelling from Rolo Tomassi, a British screamo band whose album Diplo produced. Dude really is interested in covering all the global bases. Check out their aggressively titled...
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Diplowatch 2010 #2: DipLOLz
Maybe MIA had a NEET intern work these up after she read Diplo’s Black Book interview. Major LOLzer after the jump!
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Diplowatch 2010 #3: Diplo Rates Hot Girl Tumblrs
“Diplo’s Top 50 Hot Girl Tumblrs” is the reason the internet exists. If someone introduced Al Gore and Diplo the Large Haldron Collider would probably start working. A few of our favorite comments:...
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Diplowatch 2010 #4: Diplo Did Not Get Nominated For a Grammy This Year
Last year Diplo got nominated for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ favorite Record of the Year. He lost to Alison Kraus and Robert Plant, but looked real good in a gray suit … read...
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Diplowatch 2011 #4: Diplo Cannot Keep You Out of the Poorhouse
A couple years ago, Diplo met Maluca (bka Nathalie Yepez) at a karaoke night at 205 Club in New York. They dated for a while, and when they broke up she played him the music … read more »
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Diplowatch 2011 #5: Diplo’s Guide to Jetsetting and Writing Haikus
This week, man-about-the globe Diplo was asked to compile a list of travel essentials for GQ. Wes’ recommendations aren’t shocking—tips like carting around your own stash of green tea and bringing fx...
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Diplowatch 2011 #6: Diplo Got a Manatee With a Machine Gun Tattooed on his Ribs
Twitter ‘came out’ at #SXSWi (SXSW’s Interactive week, for dorks!) in 2007. Yesterday, Diplo was in Austin, TX tweeting and making money as a DJ: Early in the day, he mentioned seizing the slow pace …...
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Diplowatch 2011 #7: Diplo vs. Venus Iceberg X and Ghe20 Goth1k
Last Saturday, some time between waking up kind of drunk still, eating cookies with the weed delivery dude and when my phone died, #relevant #radical #goddess Venus Iceberg X and her Ghe20 Goth1k crew...
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Diplowatch 2011 #8: Interview: Diplo on Pre-Digital Dancehall
In 2007, legendary Jamaican label Greensleeves released a two-disc telling of their history, guiding listeners from “Wa Do Dem” through “Twice My Age” to “Oh Carolina.” This winter, Greensleeves...
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Diplowatch 2011 #9: Diplo is Not Friends With MIA Anymore, Has a Kid Named...
Jessica Iredale wrote about Diplo in yesterday’s WWD. She describes him as an aspirational dude who’s newly into fashion and glad to fly business instead of coach. Before breaking the news that Diplo...
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Diplowatch 2011 #10: Get Seasick with Diplo
In 1996, storied writer David Foster Wallace wrote an essay for Harpers magazine about the nearly-lethal luxury of megaship cruises. He spent a week on deck, whining and wondering why being cloistered...
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Diplowatch 2011 #11: Major Lazer Preview Their New Album in Jamaica
Diplo and Switch, reporting live from paradise, reveal some facts about trees and snippets of their upcoming Major Lazer sophomore LP. That’s Jahdan Blakkamoore on the video’s first track, Vybz Kartel...
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Diplowatch 2011 #12: Is Diplo’s New DJ Mix Technology Cool?
Diplo is selling a new 40-minute mix, called Mad Legit, via a recently developed platform that allows DJs to circumvent the expensive, laborious process of clearing samples. The technology, called...
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Diplowatch 2011 #13: Diplo Models Turtlenecks
Diplo, budding fashionisto, appears this month in GQ in a six-page spread all about turtlenecks. In 1996, Tom Junod wrote a National Magazine Award-nominated piece for GQ called My Father’s Fashion...
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Diplowatch 2011 #14: New Major Lazer
In an interview with GQ’s Sean Fennessy, published on their website earlier this month, Diplo said, “I feel like I’m a snowball.” He’s working with Radiohead, Beyonce, No Doubt and Shakira, going to...
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Diplowatch 2012 #1: Diplo is Writing a Book
Diplo, Blackberry anthropologist and Vanity Fair culture columnist, has composed his first printed tome, a hefty book entitled 128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo’s Visual Guide to Music, Culture, and...
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Diplowatch 2012 #3: Diplo to Headline “Ridiculous” AXE-Sponsored College Tour
Turtleneck model and budding author Diplo is teaming up with AXE, the purveyors of lacrosse-scented mens’ fragrances and grooming products, for a headlining tour of college campuses across the US....
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Diplowatch 2012 #4: Diplo and Friends to Host Weekly BBC Radio Show
Label head and Justin Bieber supporter, Diplo, will premiere a new radio show this Saturday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. “Diplo and Friends,” featuring new Diplo mixes, Mad Decent and “big name” guests,...
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Diplowatch 2012 #5: Diplo is Touring Canada with Skrillex and Grimes on a Train
Diplo will tour Canada in July, supporting headliner Skrillex on his Full Flex Express tour. Grimes, KOAN Sound, Pretty Lights and TokiMonsta will also join the land-bound rave cruise, traveling...
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Diplowatch 2012 #6: Diplo is Finally on Instagram
Justin Bieber collaborator, map collector and Blackberry spokesman Diplo has joined Instagram.”I kind of wanna be Instagrammy,” Diplo conceded before beginning to use the app, talking on Jason “Them...
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