Seattle drummer and producer Kassa Overall's core shtick is to thread jazz through MPC pads and mixing boards, making as quick work of this e-augmentable solution as he does with the more straitlaced live kit. Here he returns with Cream, a crate-digging rethink of top rap benchmarks; this awesome octet retools The Notorious BIG, Wu-Tang Clan, OutKast, Juvenile and more, filtering their rhythmic DNA through tangled drum edits and free-flowing wily wristed improvisations, as wonky beats should. It's neither homage nor novelty: more like a sonic thought experiment in rhythm and texture, treating the hip-hop canon not as sacred scripture but open material for mutation. With previous releases like Animals and Go Get Ice Cream And Listen To Jazz, Overall's approach has always been fluid, dissonant, and sharp-witted, and Cream keeps that inspiratory channel oiled.