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Late Night Vibes is one of the most recent mashup albums to have such consistent quality in production, style, and presentation. It's a true-to-form mashup album at it's core, but the concepts and pairings here are too good to pass up. A pretty well done healthy mix of "WTF?!?!" and "this is too good to be real" here.

A solid as hell release from modern mashup's legends. While the tracks here aren't particularly my cup of tea, the ideas presented are pretty great. While the mixing can feel a little too in-your-face at times, Maranci proves here that he's a force to be reckoned with. Easily his best body of work thus far.

This is the direction mashup albums are going. When it wants to be funny, it can, but it absolutely does not intend to be funny. The album is made to live up to the hype and expectations it promises in it's first track, but by the time you reach the end, it does something completely different; it doesn't live up to the hype, it breaks the hype down until all that's left is a reminder of what once was. A clever construction of burnout and imposter syndrome. Jazzwave is leading this new wave of ... read more

A modern classic. Mandela! 3 is a perfect example of what a modern mashup album could be. It doesn't over-rely on it's jokes, and when it wants to be taken seriously or unironically, it absolutely does. Mixing is thick and tight as ever. A damn near masterpiece.