Diplo: Decent Work For Decent Pay: Selected Works Vol.1 CD

Doesn’t it seem like it was yesterday that Thingamajawn was coming out on Money Studies? And now the guy’s nominated for a Grammy and on TV commercials. They grow up so fast! This CD kind of serves as an early career retrospective, featuring a selection of both early original productions and official remixes that have been released over the last few years. Early cuts like “Newsflash” mingle with productions for other artists (Kano’s “Reload It” and, the mother of them all, “Paper Planes”) as well as remixes for artists like Hot Chip, CSS and Peter, Bjorn and John. The CD also features a bonus media folder containing MP3s for the other versions of Diplo Riddim (Pantera Os Danadinhos’ “Percao” and Vybz Kartel’s “Baby”), the Johnny Blaze Remix of “Way More” off of the Florida LP, Diplo’s remix of Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah,” as well as the video for “Percao.” 15 Tracks total, Recommended.

• music label: Big Dada Recordings 2009

reviewed by Hires