Major Lazer - Jah No Partial ft. Flux Pavilion

What this video is

Released at the precise apex of the global EDM festival boom (2012–2013), 'Jah No Partial' documents a historically significant cultural collision: Jamaican dancehall and reggae traditions (via Johnny Osbourne's sampled 'Mr. Marshall'), UK dubstep's bass-weight production (Flux Pavilion), and the Mad Decent label's championing of pan-diasporic dance music for Western festival audiences. The video's three-location…

Why it matters

A landmark document of the dancehall-EDM crossover moment, demonstrating how global bass producers like Diplo mainstreamed Caribbean sound palettes for festival audiences while the video form itself — multi-location vérité documentary — became a template for authenticity-signaling in dance music…

The director

Shane McCauley is a New York-based photographer and director with a long-standing creative relationship with Diplo. He co-authored the photobooks '128 Beats Per Minute' (Rizzoli, 2012) and 'Blow Your Head: Dancehall Volume 1' (Picturebox, 2012), both with…