Apparently it doesn’t take just milkshake to bring the boys to the yard. Cargo reckon it takes a bit of live music, DJ’s tearing up the wheels of steel and even candyfloss and popcorn! Did I also forget to mention its all for free? I’m game as they definitely know the way to this boys heart, but the real reason why I’m excited comes in the form of genre-defying MPHO. She first came under my radar when she opened for Mr Hudson in Manchester last month and didn’t fail to impress. Sure, her debut single ‘BoxNLocks‘ is strong – a slick electronic pop tune with an urban edge that almost seems it was written specifically for droptop-down convertible mustang driving. But it was seeing perform her rendition of Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ (above) live that plucked some heartstrings, and live is where MPHO really comes into her element. So do what you must to get down to Cargo tonight, or miss this at your musical peril. Details after the jump.
Fucking finally! You know that feeling when you hear an amazing tune, have it stuck in your head for ages not knowing what it is and hum the 3 seconds that you do know over and over again just to remember the overall greatness of the tune? Yeah, well its shit. Except of course for the one-in-a-million times that you do eventually figure out what the absolute blinder is. The video above is Major Lazer – Pon De Floor, a tune Diplo dropped in his set at Lovebox and I’ve had in my head ever since. I did try and ask a mate as we were leaving what the tune was, but as I started to replicate the electronically mashed up chorus I realized how much of a twat I looked (even next to the paralytic dickheads in pink furry cowboy hats) and that was that. So if you don’t know about this tune in all its bass heavy booty poppin goodness, GET TO KNOW!
