Diplo ‘Decent Work For Decent Pay’.

DJ and Producer Diplo releases the first compilation of his recent production work, bringing shedloads of hyper-charged, poppers o’clock remix brilliance to a host of hipster-baiting and chart-bothering artists’ biggest hits.

Things start well with M.I.A’s ‘Paper Planes’, a track that throbs so sexily you can only paw helplessly at your moist crotch before scurrying to the bar to get whatever it desires. Things get even better with Diplo’s own ‘200’, a tightly regimented stomp that kicks the cynics out the door before dragging you to the dancefloor by your very ears. CSS’s ‘Let’s Make Love…’ begins as a moody slither before exploding in a firestorm of glitter like an electro tranny strapped with dynamite. Admittedly, the wanton experimentia of Hot Chip’s ‘Shake A Fist’ is a bit guff – but if you never lose, how are you going to know when you’ve ever won? Largely, ‘Decent Work For Decent Pay’ is the sound of Diplo going toe-to-toe with today’s zeitgeist and getting it exactly right.

All told, Diplo’s laconic and sinful exercises in noise pollution look set to pay off big; making his remix debut a bona fide, day-glo, amoral, bottoms-up-noses-down partystarter that rocks like an absolute bastard. In the infinitely wise words of Catchphrases’ Roy Walker, “It’s good but it’s not right”.