Madonna Hit The Studio With DJ Dahi And Blood Diamonds

Christina Lee | September 21, 2014 9:31 am

Just when Madonna appears ready to release a new single, she reveals two more collaborators for her forthcoming 13th album: DJ Dahi, the producer behind Drake‘s “Worst Behavior,” and Blood Diamonds, a producer and frequent collaborator with Grimes.

While DJ Dahi is best known for collaborating with rappers, his tastes are broad. For example, he sampled electro-pop duo Beach House ‘s “Silver Soul” while producing Kendrick Lamar‘s “Money Trees,” off his 2012 debut good kid, m.A.A.d city. Most recently, DJ Dahi produced the title track of Lily Allen‘s Sheezus.

“A lot of the stuff I do is very rhythmic, but also melodic, and it allows people to have ideas. Melodic stuff allows them to get kind of spacey and try new ideas,” DJ Dahi has said.

Meanwhile, Blood Diamonds was a video game design student when he began toying with production. Soon after he shifted his focus to music, he met and started collaborating with Grimes, for songs like the title track of his 2012 EP Phone Sex. This year he collaborated with Grimes in “Go,” a song that was originally written for Rihanna and inspired a video partially inspired by Korn‘s “Freak on a Leash.

See Madonna’s snapshot of DJ Dahi and Blood Diamonds (“Sex Boyzzzzzz,” in her words) below.

[via Pitchfork]

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