A News: A-Trak / Various - Fabriclive .45

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On Fabriclive .45, A-Trak manages to encapsulate most of the major dance music trends of the last decade and condense them into a neat little package. There's a little B-More club (DJ Class), a little Baile funk (DJ Mp4), some spacey electro pop (Metronomy), a bit of dubstep (Skepta) and some disco-fied house (Voodoo Chilli). There's even some classic turn-of-the-millennium UK garage (DJ Zinc). In the hands of almost anyone else, a mix album that squishes so many styles into such a tight space would quickly degenerate into a scattered, disjointed mess. A-Trak, on the other hand, makes rapidly switching...