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For Otis Jackson Jr., life is what happens to you while you're busy making beats. As Quasimoto (and his alter egos, Madlib, DJ Rels, and Yesterday's New Quintet), the California producer/MC has studiously dabbled in everything from fake jazz to earthy hip-hop, often rapping about the pleasures of crate-digging (check "Return of the Loop Digga," from 2000's The Unseen).

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Glib little show-offs that they are, power-pop whizzes Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood surround the expected covers (a moody version of Britney's "...Baby One More Time") and novelties (the self-explanatory "I Want an Alien for Christmas") on their rare-and-unreleased two-disc compilation with smart original leftovers, many of which meet melodic expectations with thri

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Ah, the lure of the open road -- a central tenet of American mythology since Tom Joad rolled down dirt trails in his Ford-tough SUV.

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Slim Thug already had his name in the credits of two mix-tape heatseekers (his own "3 Kings" and Mike Jones' "Still Tippin'") by the time he signed with Geffen. And for his major-label debut, the hulking Texas MC could have kept pouring the same old syrup -- painkilling fonk, flossing lyrics -- that started his buzz in the first place.