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This is the fourth year that Red Bull Music Academy and Major Lazer have teamed up over the August bank holiday weekend to throw a huge party on the corner of Portobello and Acklam at Notting Hill Carnival.
This year the organisers opted for a central facing stage that made way for a dance platform and more surface area to get your skank on. They also fitted a second bar stage left to keep ravers refreshed.
The 2000 or so revellers who subscribed online for guest list spaces were treated to an array of future talents and performances from reggae legends Toots and The Maytals and Rodigan. Kito opened the party with joints by Boddika, Ramadanman and her V.I.P remix of Disfigured Dubz release L.F.O.
The main man of Moombahton Dillon Francis hooked and with French selector Brodinski to play a strictly 108 bpm carnival set. Causing hysteria from the toilet block to the food queue and educating party revellers about this colourful emerging sound from LA.
Oneman went back-to-back with Jackmaster and Jessie Ware who did a live rendition of I’m Nervous, Right Thing To Do from her SBTRKT collaboration. The boys murked the dance with a set that transcended two decades of dance music drawing for garage classics a la Zinc’s 138 Trek, Lethal B’s Pow and Dizzee’s I Luv U. Before moving into the past and future sounds of dubstep with Joy.O and Boddika’s firing track Swim, Mala’s Lean Forward, Coki and Warrior Queen.
From the coast of Miami and Jamaica Black Chiney rocked the stage with hyperactive dancehall refixes of 50 Cent, Major Lazer, Beenie’s Rum and Red Bull and a bad gal Nicki Minaj version of Gyptian’s Hold Yuh.
Chiney’s set was interrupted by David Rodigan who played an impromptu 15 minute set before clearing the stage for reggae legends Toots and the Maytals. Toots got the crowd feeling irie with classic hits like Monkey Man and Funky Kingston.
Show closers and stage curators Major Lazer took to the decks aided by Skerrit Bwoy, a harem of dancehall shakers and Marawra The Amazing. Opening with a custom Bruno Mars duplate they switched it up blasting a refix of I Wayne’s Can’t Satisfy Her, Zinc’s Fugees dnb bootleg before drawing for Major Lazer classics Hold The Line, Pon The Floor and the track the duo produced for Beyonce. A lot of drinks got spilt during this set and it was so huge that RBMA Radio had to create two episodes for y’all!
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