Peanut Butter Wolf - The Best of Peanut Butter Wolf

The Best Of Peanut Butter Wolf is a slightly premature release -- the turntable master, despite having released singles for over a decade, had only made one previous full-length album, 1999's My Vinyl Weighs A Ton, and a good chunk of that album is reprised here, occasionally remixed and even retitled -- but it's a solid overview of the skills of one of the best DJs in underground hip-hop. If anything, the album focuses too much on his work with various MCs (most notably My Vinyl Weighs A Ton's Rasco, who appears on half a dozen tracks) and not enough on the wiggy breakbeats and cerebral crosscutting that are Peanut Butter Wolf's true strengths. Read More