Diplo Talks Pharrell, EDM Influence, Trapstep, & More

*** Updated–Just watch the video above ***

*It’s translated from Dutch & so it may be tough to comprehend*

Have you called him and said that this could harm his career? (referring to the Azealia Banks/Munchi situation)

Diplo: “No, he knows himself. I know from experience that ultimately, it often pays to ‘spread’ your work. If I had made different choices in my career, I might’ve never made the track Climax with Usher. But make no mistake: Munchi’s music is very influential. He’s mastered every genre and is unique. What Boaz and Yellow Claw did, I would call “post-Munchi.”

How do you view the big breakthrough of Stairs in dubstep ? With a genre that originated in the hip-hop.

Walshy: “We are originally from Florida, where Stairs was filmed at. The parties where you’d go there, you had to prepare for the worst. The audience was so raw, like the beats you heard. It was music that you could physically touch, which you couldn’t help but put your fist up & start stabbing the air. I really love that wherever music goes, the world suddenly goes, totally unexpected. You can’t go anywhere without hearing a trapstep remix of your records. Everywhere you go, that music is going to the people just as loose as the ‘hoodest hoodest party’. ”

Diplo: “The most important element of that sound is the old 808 drum machine. How in the course of the years also has developed, that sound remains gold. Hard snares, the deep sub-kicks. My first album Florida was really inspired by that kind of music. I grew up with it. Original Don was initially a kind of tribute to that hardstyle, but that track has been given a new life through the step-remix by Flosstradamus. It suddenly became an anthem in a different genre. Amazing. ”

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