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Watch Diplo’s Interstellar Stripper-Pole ‘Set It Off’ Video

Diplo’s self-expression continues to find new and bizarrely fascinating forms. A few months after the omnipresent DJ and producer released his handstand-inducing Express Yourself EP, a video for “Set It Off,” the EP’s collaboration with Vermont DJ duo Lazerdisk Party Sex, has hit MTV. As a chipmunk voice repeats the words “I wanna set it off” over a twitchily mesmerizing Dutch-house instrumental, the video follows scantily clad dancers on an infinite, outer-space stripper pole. Birds, balloons, and even a space shuttle emblazoned with Diplo’s name soar past. Selves are expressed; fireworks are set off where no fireworks have been scientifically capable of being set off before.