Major Lazer Collaborates W/ Vybz Kartel On “Nobody Move”
Major Lazer will celebrate fifteen years of their game-changing, speaker-detonating 2009 debut album, Also, releasing a track with Vybz Kartel. Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do, with a deluxe 15th anniversary edition digital reissue, set for release on November 15.
Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do (15th Anniversary Edition) features four bonus tracks, including the re-release of “Zumbie” with Andy Milonakis and three previously unreleased tracks—“Where’s The Daddy?” with M.I.A., the instrumental “Pon de Streets,” and “Nobody Move” with Vybz Kartel, which debuts today alongside an animated video directed by Major Lazer visual mastermind Ferry Gouw.
The original version of the album will also be repressed on vinyl for the first time in fifteen years to celebrate the anniversary, also due out November 15 — pre-order the 2xLP vinyl reissue HERE.
In addition to newly reimagined cover art from Ferry Gouw, Major Lazer’s longtime visual mastermind and the creator of the iconic Major Lazer cartoon character, the digital 15th Anniversary Edition release is being remastered by Switch in Dolby Atmos spatial audio for Apple Music.
“Nobody Move,” out today on DSPs, reunites Major Lazer with Vybz Kartel, the dancehall icon with whom the group previously collaborated on “Pon De Floor,” the light-years-ahead-of-its-time, breakout single from Guns Don’t Kill People…Lazers Do. Newly unearthed from the Major Lazer vaults, “Nobody Move” lyrically references Yellowman’s 1984 dancehall classic “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt” across an ethereal reggae rhythm that recalls the dreamy island haze of Major Lazer’s 2012 smash “Get Free.”
Perfectly complementing the lo-fi audio is Ferry Gouw and Andy Baker’s ghostly video, a grainy VHS transmission direct from a 1984 Saturday-morning cartoon block starring the group’s animated avatar, the one-armed, zombie-fighting Jamaican commando called Major Lazer.
“‘Nobody Move’ is a long-lost gem newly unearthed from the Major Lazer vault, so I wanted the video to feel like a newly found VHS tape of an obscure ’80s cartoon T.V. show,” Ferry Gouw says. “The tape feels like someone has compiled their favorite moments from the show, a ‘Best Of’ of sorts, except these were recorded over footage of home videos and other T.V. shows and adverts. This video was also an homage to my very first video for Major Lazer for ‘Hold The Line,’ except this time I didn’t animate it on tracing paper but worked with the brilliant Andy Baker Studio to bring it to life.”