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bloody awful, listened to some of the other major laser, just horrible, and presumably ripping off other people's productions without permission... bloody awful

It makes me want to play the real "Satisfaction" just to clean my ears!

I have the song on a JJ 7" with Carl Dawkins, the title of course being Satisfaction as mentioned before. Don't know if it's the original cut of the rhythm though. Nice song.

Congo: Major Lazer are very nice in my opinion even though I must admit I think their latest album wasn't as good as I had hoped for. But I like the thought that they take both new and old reggae and try to give it a twist of their own. Diplo is one of the most talented club music producers today in my opinion and that he lately has been so heavy on reggae I only see as a positive thing -- just the thought that a nowadays kid might have checked up and liked the original cut of Artibella after he sampled it for Snoop Dogg's song makes me smile.

First time I hear about Diplo ripping off other people's productions. I really hope this isn't the case and would even be a bit surprised since it would be a stupid move for Diplo and his credibility.

Some nice songs by Major Lazer in my opinion are ("old" and new):
Get Free
Original Don
Jah No Partial
Hold the Line
Pon De Floor
Bubble Butt

...and yeah. Major Lazer isn't to be regarded as a strict reggae project but something that gets inspiration from and tries to reinvent aspects of the genre. You'd be hard pressed to find any orthodox reggae in any of ML releases I'd say.

I listened to several major lazer tracks on Utube and they all made me want to vomit

Didn't realise it was an actual established act. I just assumed (given how crap it sounded) that it was some kid in his bedroom messing with original tracks... sadly, on no level does this pass as music to me

I like that one Mayor Lazer feat. Turbulance tune that's on David Rodigan's Radiostation in GTA4. So if Roddy does like it, I guess we hardcore purists are "allowed" to like it too

But new school Ragga is not my favorite style of jamaican music of course (not by a long shot).

Haha each to their own I guess.

Edit: Gabranth hadn't posted when I started replying. Was meant for CB.