and sometimes Y

A few years ago, the homies Diplo & Tripledouble put out an awesome mix of old records called AEIOU2. In the course of 12 mini-suites, they run through about 150 records, mixing psych, soul, funky foreign stuff and all kinds of things that have been sampled or oughtta be. They let very few of the songs ride, rock a lot of doubles, toss in some effects and generally multi-track the shit out of it. While their beat digger/A.D.D. approach that somewhat resembles the CDs by Soulman, Kon & Amir, et al., I think Wes and Tony put the songs together in a much more musical fashion.

The original mix was really limited but it's now back in print and you need it in your life.

It's a tough call, but this was probably my favorite song on there:


Exit 9: "Straight Up" (Brunswick, 1975)