DJ Yoda
DJ Yoda/ Various Artists
How to Cut & Paste - Eighties Edition
(Antidote)
Hot UK club spinner DJ Yoda presents excerpts of 1980s pop, interwoven and over-stitched with slick scratching, sampling, vocal extracts and other special effects.
Although a master of his craft, with a handful of compilation mix CDs to his name, Yoda's attitude towards dance is that fun comes first - there's no room for pretension.
Thus 'wet'' chart-toppers of the 1980s such as Rick Astley and A-Ha appear, albeit with a sprinkling of add-on light-hearted derogatory vocals, the odd gunshot and fearsome scratching that sometimes obliterates melody.
There are some serious memory-joggers of the era, from Grandmaster Flash, S Express, Blondie, ABC and Paul Hardcastle, and also excepts from advertising and films - such as the toga chant from National Lampoon's Animal House - and snippets of theme tunes from popular US TV series.
Occasionally, though, Yoda's fun degenerates into immaturity. A line in Grandmaster Flash's classic track The Message about 'p***ing in the streets' is illustrated with an appropriate recording in a WC bowl, and Herbie Hancock's Rockit suffers the indignity of what sounds like some very real breaking wind.