In what has to be the loosest gig I’ve been to in a very, very long time, Major Lazer completely tore The Palace down. Supports Flosstradamus kicked the party into gear with their trap, trill and heavy electro mashes opening with Flux Pavlillion’s Do Or Die remix, setting the crowd up for what was to come. With enough lighting effects to cause an epileptic fit, the majority under-25 crowd were completely into every track they dropped and it was hard to not get into it.
With the dance floor now turned into a mosh pit, and ending with their Major Lazer remix of Original Don, The Palace was filled with Illuminati diamonds in the sky as Josh of Flosstradamus announced to the crowd “God damn this is the best fucking show of the whole tour.” And it wouldn’t be too hard to believe either.
In a recent interview, Lorde did say that Diplo was her dream producer. Interestingly enough, Major Lazer opened their set with a rasta-remix of Royals. Their set after their cruisey cover was nothing but all killer and no filler. From hard EDM bangers of the Bingo Players to a sped-up remix of Watch Out For This, and reggae-dancehall remixes to tunes like Bubble Butt to twerk to, the night was nothing but a fabulous fusion of music and a celebration of completely losing yourself to dance.
With girls’ skirts happily over their head as the compete in a twerk-off on stage, to people actually taking their tops off when Diplo tells the crowd “this is the part where you take your tops off”, Major Lazer had the crowd in the palm of their hands. Armed with two fabulous dancers, a man dressed as a cartoon Major Lazer, confetti, Diplo in a bubble-ball, streamers, visuals and crowd participation, twerk-offs between girls and boys, the Major Lazer show is more of an experience to be had, as opposed to DJs playing their tracks or remixes, and is one in which the concept of ‘YOLO’ is well and truly in full-effect. Major Lazer’s show was without a doubt, the most electric and sweatiest party I’ve ever been to, and that’s just the way it should be.
BY MIMI VELEVSKA
Photos by Ben Gunzburg
Loved: Everything.
Hated: Diplo’s interruptive crowd participation.
Drank: Sweat.
