This album is a great reason to get your arse to the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi, Sydney during September as you will be blessed by getting it for free! And if the Friday night gigs are half as good as this album then you will not be disappointed if you love all things beatsy – from hip hop to dancehall, funk to soul and drum n’ bass to breaks – these guys have it all for your listening pleasure. The nights are run by Bentley AKA. Benjamin Chinnock who mixed the third installment of this awesome series; he also plays regularly at the gigs and would be a great DJ to catch in the act.

There’s a great Ozzie turnout on this album, from some of the most well known Australian outfits n MCs like Pegz’s excellent 2007 release Propaganda, Omni feat. Hill Top Hoods We Are All We Have, Resin Dogs Coming With The Sound (Plutonic Lab Remix) and Urthboy from The Herd’s funky solo track We Get Around, to some of the more underground or up and coming Ozzies like Thundermentals with Carpe Diem and *Chasm Chumps, Tallman Sound System’s quirky but awesome track Perhaps, Scott Burns with Still Time, Killa Queenz Sweaty Wet, who are an act to look out for in the future as they have a very slick professional sound straight out of the Bronx, and heaps more.

A true highlight for me from the album has to be the Fatlip track What Up Fat Lip. Most dance fanatics would recognise Fatlip from The Chemical Brothers’ big hit The Salmon Dance that featured on their last album We Are The Night. But this is Fatlip in his own element, and at his best. Also the Jon Ohms track Breathe got me head nodding like a bobble head, his flow and sound is a little reminiscent of Q-Tip, a bit old-school but with a fresh twist and a unique accent.

There are also some tracks that come a bit out of left field like the Astronomy Class track All I Want. Guest vocalist here Ash Grunwald is a well know roots singer more at home at the Byron Bay Blues Festival, but in this track, thanks to Astronomy Class, I would swear he is some sort of funk/soul king from way back. The Percussion Junction track Bust Down Brown sounds like it comes from a French/Latin influenced/global music band, but it is actually the product of a Sydney-Wollongong based band (featuring Bentley himself) that has such a funky big sound that it will make you think that it came from anywhere in the world.

There’s a diverse range of music genres on this album, but it’s so seamlessly mixed that it becomes a great sonic journey, well worth getting on board for the ride.