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It's 5:30 AM here and I need to go to sleep but OMG. I am listening to 4DaFunk's Playtime for the first time and it's blowing my mind. I've heard a lot of the songs before. A few I haven't. And some of the versions are new to me too. What's blowing my mind though is the ... scale of it. It's a 4 CD set - that's four hours - of songs often-played-live/never-available-as-studio-versions. Four hours with no hits, no B sides, no filler even, no connection to his recorded body of work. And some of the songs are so good that ... I kind of want to smack him upside the head for not releasing them.

Details here . The last sentence at that link gives you some idea of the incredible editing that has been done - "the sheer pleasure of listening to all these joints together flowing seamlessly as if it all were part of a single live performance, will at times- we hope- make you succumb to the illusion that you are being treated to "the impossible aftershow"!" - and also why it's so damn hard to stop listening and go to sleep!

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Doozer said:

Don't forget to replace Our Destiny and Roadhouse Gardem with the soundboard versions that surfaced on From The Soundboard: 1984 Birthday gig that surfaced after Playtime was compiled.

Thanks @Doozer! I took your advice. That makes a great compilation even better.

Excellent driving music