Side A
Artist	Song
Kurtis Mantronik	King Of The Beats
The Freestylers	B-Boy Stance (Cut & Paste remix)
Funkmaster Flex presents Wu-Tang Cream Team	Wu-Tang Cream Team Line-Up
Kruder & Dorfmeister	Original Bedroom Rockers
DJ Spooky	live at the Knitting Factory, NYC (part 2)
Redman	Whateva Man
Prodigy	Smack My Bitch Up (DJ Hype Remix)
X-ecutioners	Word Play
Assassin	La Peur du Metissage
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Jay-Z	One And A Million Questions
Coldcut	More Beats & Pieces (Beans & Pizzas Strictly Kid Teeba Jam)
U.N.K.L.E. vs. Portishead	The Time Has Come
Ghostface Killah	Daytona 500 (Instrumental)
DJ Cam	Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens
Time Zone	World Destruction
Ballistic Brothers	I'll Fly Away
Euphonic Vs. Soothsayer & Dr. Israel	(untitled)
Missy Elliot	Freestyle (from 'Funkmaster Flex: 60 Minutes Of Funk Volume 2')

Comment:

The first half of a two-volume set I made back in '98 of (largely) underground hip-hop, both vocal and turntablistic, along with some added beat treats which slotted in nicely. I HAD to start with Mantronik's "King Of The Beats," which is sampled in so many hip-hop classics (not to mention Beck's "Where It's At"), you'd nearly think it was a James Brown track. The DJ Spooky is from a promotional disc I nabbed in my college radio days, and absolutely stunning (less illbient nonsense, more of that scratchin' which just makes me itch). And then there's the instrumental track of "Daytona 500," without doubt RZA's apex: hard, rumbling beats, and the Force MD's (!!!) on the chorus. And those are just the highlights...

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