128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo's Guide Music, Culture and Everything Between

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128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo's Guide Music, Culture and Everything Between

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Known internationally as a curator and influencer amongst the world's top DJs, producers, and artists, Wesley Pentz, better known as Diplo, is at the nexus of music, fashion, and cultural trends. His record label Mad Decent has helped bring Brazilian baile funk, Angolan Kuduro, and other unknown music to clubs around the world, while his work as a producer has brought a unique sound to hits like M.I.A.'s -Paper Planes, - Chris Brown's -Look at Me Now, - and Beyonce's -Run the World (Girls).-
128 Beats Per Minute follows Diplo on this fantastic journey, from his involvement with dub reggae in Jamaica to the electro/techno underground in Tel Aviv. Each chapter chronicles his tastes and travels, complete with tweets and playlists, as documented by photographer Shane McCauley. 128 Beats Per Minute provides unique access to the hottest scenes shaping music's landscape today.

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A new book, 128 Beats Per Minute, collects pictures of Diplo hanging out in exotic locales with beautiful people; the Travel Channel wanted to make a show documenting his journeys (it fell through); a Korean beer company paid him $80,000 to play a show with Major Lazer, his whimsical dancehall project; and billion-dollar brands from BlackBerry to Beyonce have hired him (the former for an ad campaign, the latter for two songs on 4M), hoping that some of his cool will rub off

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