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  "slug": "major-lazer",
  "name": "Major Lazer",
  "description": "Major Lazer appears once in our Daggering list, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/major-lazer/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 2009,
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    }
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      "trackKey": "major-lazer--pon-de-floor",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/major-lazer--pon-de-floor/",
      "title": "Pon de Floor",
      "year": 2009,
      "label": "Mad Decent",
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      "whyItMatters": "Diplo and Switch's producer's-eye view, with Vybz Kartel on top and Eric Wareheim's video doing the exporting — a suburban cartoon of daggering that travelled further than any Jamaican footage of it. Two years later Beyoncé built Run the World on the same track.",
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Major%20Lazer%20Pon%20de%20Floor",
          "exact": false
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}