The album starts with an introduction by Gil Scott Heron entitled Sex Education. It's quite obvious what he's talking about when he says: "I was doing it in my teenage years.." & "I was doing it when I arrived in college..." but could Fadd Jr. also be trying to lay down his credentials? Already I could be reading too much into this.

The Fugees' Killing Me Softly remixed with the already classic from Outkast, Miss Jackson, quickly follows. This one had me tossing & turning, trying to decide whether I like it or not, but I've overcome my initial reservations about the vocals not matching the backing track and now think this is one of the better tunes on the album. It grew on me, shame it's so short.

A superb show of mixing later and I'm listening to the Gorillaz, the song is Tomorrow Comes Today. Surprisingly enough this song was the Gorillaz' first release from their debut but was very quickly shrouded by the unforgettable Clint Eastwood. A great song all the same, pay particular attention to the start as the change from the previous tune to the Gorillaz is superb.

Next we have How Sweet It Is by Mr. Scruff & Mark Rae, a nice beat, good choice, can't fault it. Replaceable though, I'd imagine.

Now we come to my favourite track off the compilation - the booster remix of Shirley Bassey singing Light My Fire. I've only just recently heard the original Shirley Bassey version and it reaffirmed my praise of this remix. With vocals on the chorus that sound something like Air, a funky guitar loop, a fitting beat and Ms. Bassey herself singing, there's a lot here to appreciate for 2 minutes & 41 seconds.

Another seamless mix and I'm presented with Nightmares on Wax - Ease Jimi. This song continues where the last one left off by further relaxing you into the album. It's moving pretty quickly too for a, so far, laid back compilation.

Track 7, Mr. Live with The Good Life. I've not heard of this guy before but I like what I hear. Coming off the Fat City Recordings release, Heavy Loungin', his song signals the start of the more MC dominated tracks on the compilation.

The beat changes more dramatically than anything since the start and I'm now listening to another classic - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five with The Message. This is almost an early as popular Hip Hop gets (released first back in 1982) but it doesn't lose anything with age.

Continuing with the conscious rap, next up is Arrested Development (the first hip hop group I went mad about) and their forgotten first release, Tennessee. Well, maybe not forgotten but you rarely hear this song anymore compared to the still-popular People Everyday or Mr. Wendal so it's good to hear it here. A favourite of the oft-remembered Freakscene back-bar, it deserves its place.

De La Soul and Ring Ring Ring. Another fitting choice as this song shares in the genre-meshing flow of this album - De La Soul sampling the Curiosity Killed The Cat number, Name & Number to good effect to produce this infectious little ditty.

With a familiar "Da da da de daaa" Otis Reading takes centre stage with the funky Hard to Handle. It's a tale of a man, or rather "THE man on the scene" who tries selling his strengths to entice a woman from another mans arms.

On the other side of the coin is Stevie Wonder with the sultry Maybe Your Baby, a song about losing your girl to your best friend. A great song from Stevie's best period but it does slow the cd right down. Perfect time for an interlude.

Kenny Dope with That Gansta Shit follows the interlude. There's nothing particularly bad about this track, the beat's good and a good intro too, but overall it's pretty uninspiring. Where it does shine however is in the way it's used to lead to the next track: Alive by the Beastie Boys. More seamless mixing and you've got the distinctive sounds of white rap. 'Alive' is a first-rate choice and adds well to the compilation.

Two to go and yet another classic: Beats International, Dub Be Good To Me. A dub anthem with a simple bass line, a great vocal and Fatboy Slim messing around in his early days. It'd be hard not to like this tune.

The last song is probably the strangest choice of the whole album in that I would have thought it hard to put The Cure on an album like this. But this album is not straightforward. It's not exclusively a hip hop album though there are mostly hip hop tunes on here. It's got some soul numbers, some songs that are closer to dub or dance than hip hop, so it's no surprise to find this Cure song fitting well with the whole compilation.

That's it. So what's the conclusion? Judging the compilation by the songs alone, if you've not got many of these in your collection already then you wouldn't go far wrong by picking this up. It's a cd packed with great songs spanning different genres but all working extremely well together. It's one you could quite easily put in the cd player and leave for an age. However, if you are looking for a pronounced Fadd Jr. influence then you are probably going to be disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the choice of songs is reminiscent of the Freakscene back bar and Jr. is on the ball with nearly all of his selections but apart from the mixing between tracks and the Fugees/Outkast mix, the rest is other people's work. I'd like to have heard more of an influence on the songs themselves rather the bits in-between. 7/10

Sacksy.