
When you own one of the most heavily sampled catalogues in hip-hop history, it's something of a no-brainer to streamline it into one easy-to-access anthology. Accordingly, Concord Music Group, who re-launched Stax in 2007, are attempting to cash-in with this very well-curated starter's guide. If for some reason, you don't know about Stax, Netflix Wattstax immediately. In the meantime, this compilation gathers the usual suspects: The Emotions' "Blind Alley" ("Ain't No Halfsteppin'); Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalym istic"("Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos") and "Hung Up On My Baby" ("Mind's Playing Tricks on Me"); Wendy Rene's "After the [...]