KNOTORYUS is in mourning today.

We are fans.

To tell you the truth, we’re a bit stumped. It feels like such a loss.

Our favourite vids and tracks + what I find to be the best Michael Jackson mixtape ever, created by DJ Ayres: after the jump.

DOWNLOAD THE DJ AYRES CHRONOLOGICAL MICHAEL JACKSON MIX HERE

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Beat It. The video that drew me in. I was 7 at the time.

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Favourite guilty pleasure: Liberian Girl.

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The performance that changed everything: “Billie Jean” live at the Grammy Awards 1984 (25 years of Motown celebration)

This Vinyl is from 1969: Diana Ross introduces a new band called The Jackson 5, live on stage.

Favourite MJ tracks of all time:

LGF

1. Man in the Mirror

2. P.Y.T.

3. Human Nature

4. Don’t stop ’til you get enough

5. I want you back (Jackson 5)

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1. Human Nature

2. Man In The Mirror

3. Will You Be There

4. Remember the Time

5. Smooth Criminal

You are missed.

As I was plowing through my mailbox this first gloriously snowy morning after KNOTORYUS Bootcamp, I bumped into a message from Mad Decent & PIAS  that the ‘best of’ remix album by Diplo (real name: Wes Pentz), “Recent Work For Decent Pay: Collected Works Volume 1″, will  also be released in Europe January 2009 (the US date was announced about a month ago).

Diggers & hardcore fans will want to get their hands on this European version or the first batch of promos. Both will include a remix of Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger” that, “due to clearance difficulties, will not be included on the finished album” in the US.
Stream the complete album HERE.

Full press release and tracklisting after the jump.

For more recent Diplo bangers, download the “Fear and Loathing in Huntsvegas” mixtape, released on “Paper Route Recordz”, a collaboration with DJ benzi. The free version has 12 tracks, if you’re ready to shell out 5$ or more, you get 5 extra tracks. Or stream the ‘screwed and chopped Mad Decent version’ HERE.

Press blurb:

“When Wes Pentz released his debut album, “Florida,” on Big Dada in the autumn of 2004, he was a relatively obscure DJ and producer from Philadelphia. Through the success of his club night, Hollertronix, production, tireless unearthing of new dance trends from around the world (in particular, Brazil), the inception of his own label Mad Decent and his never less than brilliant DJ sets, Diplo is now a force in music culture across the planet.

As a result, he’s become a go-to name for production and remix work for some of the most exciting acts around. “Decent Work For Decent Pay” provides an overview of what Diplo has been up to for the last four years, starting with classic tracks and out-takes from “Florida,” taking in production work on such huge records as M.I.A’s “Paper Planes,” Kano’s “Reload It” and Bonde Do Role’s first album for Domino, plus a host of remixes for the likes of CSS, Spank Rock, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Black Lips and Peter, Bjorn & John.

Also included on the finished version will be a data file of mp3s including the individual tunes recorded for the “Diplo Rhythm,” the Johnny Blaze remix of “Way More”, the video for “Percao” and Diplo’s remix of Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah”.

In theory achingly hip, Diplo’s greatest achievement is in fact an uncomplicated love of rhythm and movement – unpretentious, hyper-charged and, at root, fun. “Decent Work For Decent Pay” gets your party started. Right?”

DIPLO Newsflash (feat. Sandra Melody)
DAFT PUNK. Harder Better Faster Stronger (DIPLO Work is never never over remix)
M.I.A. Paper Planes (diplo remix)
SPANK ROCK. Put That Pussy On Me (diplo tonite remix)
KANO. Reload It
DIPLO. 200
BLOC PARTY. Where Is Home? (diplo remix)
CSS. Lets Make Love….. (diplo remix)
BONDE DO ROLE. Solta O Frango
SAMIM. Heater (diplo extended edit)
HOT CHIP. Shake A Fist (diplo remix)
DIPLO. Way More Brazil
BLACK LIPS. Veni Vidi Vici (diplo remix)
CLAUDE VONSTROKE. The Whistlerz (diplo remix)
DIPLO. Smash a Kangaroo
PETER BJORN & JOHN Young Folks (diplo youngest folks remix)