Mad Decent Block Party, EDM impresario Diplo's now-annual traveling dance circus, kicked off in Calgary last Friday and will be criss-crossing the continent for much of the remaining summer.
To celebrate the upcoming July 26 Toronto date at Fort York, Mad Decent's local DJ/producer Grandtheft has put together a field-filling mix that ranges from crate-dug club-bangers to Kanye and Missy remixes to his own banging productions.
"I wanted to put together an hour of mostly brand-new music that I love right now, high energy stuff that reps the vibe of the Mad Decent Block Party," Grandtheft tells HuffPost Canada Music. " But, as always with me, I threw in all different kinds of club music. Also haaaddd to throw in the Africanism classic 'Block Party.' I've never played a block party without playing that!
The Toronto Mad Decent Block Party features Major Lazer, Zeds Dead, RiFF RAFF, Grandtheft, A Tribe Called Red, Thugli, DJ El Dusty and will be hosted by The Iron Sheik. (Yes, THAT Iron Sheik.)
Urbanears x Mad Decent Block Party Mixtape By Grandtheft
Kingppin (Rockwell Remix) - Friction & Skream
KillaGraham - Ice Cream Anthem VIP
Mr. Carmack - Hopscotch
Grandtheft & Hedspin - Mobbin
Willy Joy - 281
Grandtheft & Skratch Bastid - Miley
Tropikillaz - Hotdamn!
TWRK - Nolia
Missy Elliot - Work It (Lunice Remix)
Pickster & Riot Earp - Ratchet Gas
Brillz X Dorrough - Rvtchet Bitch After Party (DJ Spider Blend)
Leftside X T.I. - Bubble (Dubble Dutch Blend)
Hardhouse Banton - El General
Machel Montano - The Fog (Major Lazer & Grandtheft Remix)
Jack Beats - KYD (Major Lazer X Jack Beats Remix)
Africanism - Block Party
Africanism - Block Party (Alvaro Remix)
Destructo - Higher
Kanye West - New Slaves (DJ Snake Remix)
Jay-z - Tom Ford
Partysquad - Molly
Grandtheft & Hedspin - Cockiness
Mayhem & Antiserum - Pakistan
RL Grime - Heard Me
Zeds Dead - Ratchet
Keys N Krates - Ratchet Hoe$
Rustie - Slasherr
Migos - Versace Feat. Drake
Rocky Fresh - Superman OG Feat. Lunice
Gilbere Forte - Polaroids (Prod. Grandtheft & Raak)