How can one man be so god damn funky, and still remain white? Krafty gives us another serve of the finest party hiphop and breaks on this double CD. In an interview earlier this year, Krafty said “I’m absolutely thrilled with this mix, it’s a proper representation of where I am at the moment and what I do as a DJ,” and after seeing him play at traffic late last year, I have to agree.

It simply an awesome collection of hiphop featuring KRS-1, Format, Million Dan, Ugly Duckling, Busta Rhymes, Black Eyed Peas and Kurtis Blow, with the tunes mixed with amazing intelligence and precision. Acapellas are played over instrumentals in such a way that you think you’re listening to an original. Samples and scratches are dropped and looped over later tunes, reprising the chorus of a tune you heard 3 or 4 tracks ago, making the whole CD more of an event than a mix tape.

Similarly, the second CD features tunes by Apollo 440 & the Beatnuts, Chicken Lips, Plump DJs, Freestlyers and Freq Nasty, with remixes by the likes of Stanton Warriors and Rennie Pilgrim, mixed in incredible ways with samples and acapellas. His mixing of the Dead Pres “it’s bigger than hiphop” over the Next Men Vs Cyantific drum and bass tribute to computer games in “High Score” is something that every drum and bass lover, every hiphop lover and every breaks lover should be made to listen to as an example of true musical genius.

Sure, the mix has had some computer trickatechnology applied to it, but non-computer edited mixes are hard to come by these days and, it’s only replicating what he does in a live performance in a cleaner and clearer fashion. Krafty cut his way to fame through his live performances, and this is a testament to what he can achieve.