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Any smarmy hack can slap on a Fu Manchu and cop some Travoltamoves, but it takes a fearless artist to turn the radio pop of themuch-maligned ’70s into an aesthetic revelation. Here, formerWFMU DJ and IDM miscreant Jason Forrest gives me-decade soundchunks--mirror-ball disco, classic rock, bubblegum pop--a lovingblastoff. One track pits the Cars and Creedence Clearwater Revivalin a pinball battle to the death, another gives Elton Johnelectronic boob implants. It’s both subversive andrespectful, vaporizing mash-up amateurism and retro pretense oncontact.