Now available on CD, including all the remixes! Transatlantic connex! It's Texas legend vs. current Parisian club smasher as Devin meets up with TTC's Teki for 33Hz's "Paris, Texas(1)." Both MCs bring their usual swagger, and I know this will shock you but Devin rhymes about weed and girls. But the real clincher here is the smooth-as-shit 33Hz beat, which sounds like it coulda come out of either rapper's hometown with its surging keys and vocoders. Curtis Vodka's synthy, housed out remix(2) is cool, but Architecture In Helsinki(3) pull a nice trick out of their hat with their quirky and minimal (yet irresistibly melodic) style. In Flagranti(4) turn in the strongest remix of the bunch, tossing the original's vocoder'ed hook over a strutting new disco beat with a killer bassline. Also includes a grimey electro remix from Max Pask(5) and a bunch more. 10 tracks total.

reviewed by Larri Byrd