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Two minutes with Diplo at the Spin party
Friday’s punishing heat and sound problems could have derailed Diplo’s DJ set st Stubb’s during Spin’s afternoon party, but like the superstar tune spinner he is the Philly resident pulled through to keep the people-watching masses entertained, or close to it. The bathrooms at Stubb’s weren’t available, so the sidewalk out front had to work as the venue for Diplo to talk about playing for the beautiful people, his Mad Decent record label and surviving the Texas heat.
360: In so much as you have one, what’s the strategy for DJing a party like this versus an actual show?
Diplo: Nobody even cared when I was playing and from the monitor it seemed like only a bass frequency was coming out of the mixing board, so I figured I’d just play some random stuff. I had to play some psychedelic rock and garage rock but I also screwed around. After Vampire Weekend I was playing the “Coming To America” theme song just to be a (jerk), but nobody heard that one either.
Yeah, the people here were pretty aloof. You’ve got to be looking forward to doing some other parties then.
I’m leaving now to DJ with Santo Gold, play some music for her, then I’m gonna go hang out the rest of the day at the Jelly’s (NYC Texas) Garage where all the bands for my Mad Decent label are playing. Two of them missed their flights today and didn’t make it here but we’ve got Blackstar, Drop The Line, me and related artists like the Death Set and Black Ghosts.
How do you approach those shows versus what you just did here?
Oh, I just totally play the hits of today. All these people come from all different cities and all different scenes, whether it’s here in Austin or L.A. or down from Canada, New York, Baltimore, Philly … my people in Philly are telling me that this house party we did, everyone’s saying it was legendary.
When was that?
We just did it. That was last night till like 5 in the morning.
So how are you doing all this? In this heat you’ve got to be dead.
I’m just drinking water, man. I’m from Florida, this is easy. I’m just happy to be in some sunshine for a change.
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