What we're gonna do is take you back. Way back. Back before twerking, before "Harlem Shake," before Blackberry's and even M.I.A, back to the time of 2004 and a 26 year old scallywag named Wes who made a tripped out ode to his home state.Diplo's first album, Florida, released on Ninja Tune's hip-hop-centric imprint Big Dada in 2004, was populated by trip-hop vocalists, samples from Scandinavian dream-pop bands, and tangential musical journeys that trekked from free jazz to chiptune – all while being loosely based around instrumental hip-hop. It was a highly promising, albeit messy debut from the future Mad Decent head honcho, and now it's being released on BitTorrent as part of the F10rida bundle that includes stems for "Into the Sun," curated art, and a remix from wonk-bass provocateur EPROM. Check out more on that here.While Dip was at sea this weekend for the Mad Decent Boat Party, he also managed to bring a life into the world. His ex-partner Kathryn Lockhart gave birth to their second son, named Lazer. As if that wasn't enough, Mr. Pentz made the cover of Fast Company mag (while wearing lipstick?) to talk about Burning Man and how he's so productive.A photo posted by diplo (@diplo) on Nov 11, 2014 at 7:43am PSTWe're not gonna try to take all the credit here, but, only a couple days after we deliver a particularly damning tongue-lashing about his antics of late, Dip goes back to his roots, births a child, and ends up on the cover of one of the World's most relevant business mags? Nah, come to think of it, we'll take all the credit.
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Diplo Re-releases 'Florida' on BitTorrent, Proving He's More than Just Gossip Fodder
Wes goes back to his roots. He also made a baby this weekend.
