
With collaboration extending past the two main artists to a handful of guests on song-writing, engineering, and performance, this album freely mixes the turntablism of DXT(/DST) with Laswell’s instrumental funk. Splashes of weird humor (like a scratched-up baby coo) fuse neatly with the cool beats and vaguely sci-fi song titles (e.g., “Cut Virus”, “Phase Draft”, and “Scratch Code”), resulting in an odd (though faint) air of menace over the not-quite-dub. Despite the assortment of guests, the consistency of the style holds steady through the album’s ten tracks, as the fluctuations of samples, rhythms, and mood flow along with few bumps. There’s quite a bit of character to it, though no words are sung, and it serves as a nice demonstration of capabilities for those unfamiliar with the output of either of the main artists; solid background or foreground music.