Honestly, I wasn’t thrilled when I first heard this album. The opening tracks feature heavily shuffled rhythms with a quirky mash of samples, seemingly only for the reason of fusing shuffle and quirk. It ends up leaving these cuts as too much of a juxtaposition — tracks that scream “hey, look at me, I’m eccentric”, leaving you only wanting to punch their artsy presumption in the face. Thankfully, things get increasingly better as the album rolls along. By the time the snappy hip hop instrumental Sik Wid It rolled around I was hooked, doubly so with the dissonant downtempo musicality of First Light ft. Rayelle. And lastly the hands-up funky drum and bass roller of Full Ahead that I originally bought this thing for. Welcome to the weekend.

Mix N Blend – Sik Wid It
Mix N Blend – First Light ft. Rayelle
Mix N Blend – Full Ahead