AraabMuzik is a producer behind beats for Cam'ron and Lloyd Banks, but he made his name live, crafting dazzling cacophony on the fly: You're unsure whether to dance, headbang or get the man a Clif Bar. His 2011 debut, repackaged here with six bonus songs, isn't as assaultive, but it's still drunk on drums: thickets of high-hats, echoing claps and vertiginous snares. His trick is to lend hip-hop swagger to synths and dance-diva vocals he's snatched from déclassé genres like trance and gabber. The result is goofy, gloriously crass and thoroughly galvanizing.

Listen to AraabMuzik's "Golden Touch":

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.