Digital dancehall collaborative Major Lazer, spent a couple days in Cambodia. Here is what they did: Tried out the shooting range, which included a score-celebrating jig, hung out with the kids at the Tiny Toones youth centre, and, oh yeah, threw one of the wildest parties Cambodia has ever seen.
On Jun. 23, Major Lazer, represented by American DJ/Producer Diplo and Antiguan-born reggae singer Skerrit Bwoy, nearly sunk Pontoon. At least, that’s what it felt like as the floating club swayed under the mass of several hundred attendees. There is dancing, and then there is what was in truly fine form that night—the hip shaking, arms waving in the air, extreme sweat yielding, throw-all-inhibitions-out-the-window kind of dancing.
Best described as a whirlwind on the turntables Diplo twisted up a crowd-pleasing medley of hip hop classics, reggae jams, and tunes off their album with a hard-hitting bass line. Swinging from the rafters, soliciting cheers, and demonstrating the risqué Jamaican dance form known as daggering, emcee Skerrit pumped up the party with his rowdy antics. The ship wasn’t abandoned until well into the early morning hours, yet somehow it survived the onslaught.
Photos by James Grant
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