It was clear from Edan's debut album exactly how he defined himself. The title (Primitive Plus), the artwork (an extremely retro picture of a robot) and the music itself (old school rap wordplay set to occasionally deceptively unique beats) were defiantly nostalgic, but still retained a nod to modern, more sophisticated times. So when approached by Five Day Weekend to produce the next in their line of recent special projects (see our piece on Peanut Butter Wolf here), a mix involving unprecedented access to Brooklyn hip hop distributer Traffic's back catalogue, it seems fitting that Edan elected, rather than merely creating an old school party mix, to stitch snippets of old music together to create something utterly new; a thirty minute ride featuring old school call and response vocals, classic breaks, and Edan himself playing a mother fucking kazoo. Not only a mother fucking kazoo, but a mother fucking kazoo playing the riffs to The Stones' 'Miss You' and the song that started it all, 'Apache.' It really doesn't get much better than that.

To produce Echo Party, Edan took Traffic's offer of "full access" to the only logical conclusion that a borderline - scratch that, scarily obsessive student of rap could; isolating vocals, basslines and breaks barely recognisable to those of us not present in the studio at the time of the original recording. As a technical feat it is hugely impressive; sounding at once a nostalgic throwback and, due to his sophisticated cut and pastes and live instrumentation, futuristic and unlike anything else I have ever heard. Because it's not a mix album per se, (samples appear and are then ditched for the next idea in a matter of seconds) it demands to be treated as a single thirty minute piece of music. As such, some are likely to find it a difficult listen. In fact so much of it, be it the techniques used or the trademark playful humour, is Edan, it's tempting to describe Echo Party as his third proper album, and as such it is a worthy, if sometimes bewildering, follow up to 2005s Beauty and The Beat.