
Shoulders above his contemporaries, Bootie Boston resident DJ Lenlow commands multiple sources into superjams that I'm almost reluctant to call "mashups"- his reconstitutions of the familiar transcend the genre's typical A+B format to create wholly original tracks that taste more like a dance friendly Negativland than fellow buffet-style samplers Immuzikation or Girl Talk. Lenlow's "Do Your Thing to the Music" is a kaleidoscopic prize, as natural a single as Sly & The Family's pop breakthrough first was back in 1968. In fleshing the song out with psychedelic soul homage acts like Basement Jaxx and MGMT, [...]