dot_fennel | DJ N-WEE - The Slack Album (slackalbum.net) (Reply)

The Black Album vs. Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted. Great idea! Wait, no, is it?

Several of these tracks use such tiny bits of the S&E tracks that the implied mashup-style equality between Pavement and Jay-Z is far gone and even knowing Pavement pretty well, I'm only taking DJ N-Wee's word for it that he's used the song he claims. I could take or leave those, though some are strong. (And I respect his choice to combine each record's 14 tracks one-to-one, in order, Oulipo-style.)

I'm in this instead for the full-bore collisions, like "In The Mouth An Encore" and "Our First Singer". N-Wee presumably couldn't edit out Malkmus's vocals while leaving the rest of the song intact but I love having him mumbling in the background. And Pavement's music already supported lyrics with more portent than sense well; turns out it does the same for rhymes with more bluster than point.

I had to relearn just how BitTorrent works to get this (like, maybe I used it once before) and I'd call it worth the effort.