The unfadeable Dr. Titts makes his return to Vicious Pop with The Afterparty EP, featuring five tracks of finely-diced and heavily gimmicky Bmore club. Tittsworth is seriously miles above most of the other (million) Bmore "producers" out right now, always lacing his tracks with unexpected housey elements, original production and whatever else he's got kicking around in his bag of tricks. Big samples abound here as Titts flips PM Dawn's "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" for the synth-heavy "Dawn(1)," The Police's "Roxanne" for the BONKERS "Rocksand(2)" (those layered Sting screams are intense) and, my personal favorite, Earth Wind & Fire's "Brazilian Rhyme" on the mellow and funky "Rhyme(3)." He also freaks the Taana Gardner disco classic "No Frills(4)" and a joint that nobody here can quite put their finger on for "Whips Remix(5)."

reviewed by Larri Byrd