Look out for Playgroup's "Party-Mix" CD: it's a mix-cd but with a twist: it's not supposed to be for sale (i.e. it's a promo-only release) because none of the 260-odd(!) records used on it were cleared. Hence the inclusion of several Prince songs: "Erotic City", "Let's Go Crazy" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend", and the Lipps Inc. classic "Funkytown" (yes, there's a Prince connection, just look it up for yourself).

All records are only featured by a short but very recognisable snippet, most of the times they're just played one after another but it works really well, it's as if you're at a party and the DJ just plays one great record after another and never gives you a chance to be bored by it.

Who is/are Playgroup? Well, to quote Andy Kellman's bio of them from the All Music Guide:

Playgroup is a studio party/rumpus-room collective orchestrated by Trevor Jackson, a graphic designer (sleeves by Eric B. Rakim, Stereo MCs, and the Jungle Brothers), producer, and remixer (Massive Attack, U2) who has worked under the Underdog and Skull pseudonyms. Jackson also runs his own Output label. A melting pot of disco, funk, hip-hop, dub, new wave, and electronica, 2001's "Playgroup" album, released on the Source label, featured contributions from Roddy Frame (Aztec Camera), Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice, solo), reggae veteran Shinehead, Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre, Bikini Kill), and Rowetta (Happy Mondays). Astralwerks picked the record up for release in the U.S. in March of 2002.

That 2001 album is severely underrated BTW and contains some fantastic tracks.

More info:

http://www.astralwerks.co...ounds.html (this site has the entire mix as a streaming real audio file)
http://www.freakytrigger....group.html
http://shopping.yahoo.com...1921941929

Im listening to its now and it sho' is funky! I have the Playgroup album and I agree, its very underrated and should get more recognition; despite it getting good reviews in the UK Dance Music magazines' reviews. Whatever happend to ur website by the way Bart?!