A-Trak

The fedora-wearing music extraordinaire has come through yet again with a freebie for his fans. This time, it's the second installment of his epic Dirty South Dance compilation. Featuring acapellas from the Top 40ist of Top 40 hip-hop (doesn't Soulja Boy have some high school classes to finish?) over funky electro jams, Dirty South Dance 2 deftly walks the line between cheesy mashup disc and bona fide remix compilation.

There are a few tracks that, on first glance, don't seem to belong here (a Craze remix of Fools Gold's newest MC export, Donnis, for example), but after a few listens, I think it's clear that electronic production and hip-hop have just become so fused together in pop music that "concept" mixtapes like this seem almost regular. In either event, this mix is a surefire party soundtrack for summer. And in ten years, when musicologists finally look back at this decade and wonder "what the f*** happened?" Dirty South Dance 2 might just be their Rosetta Stone.

Get the full compilation for here and look out for a physical package in the near future.