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DJ Copy / Diva Mixtape Vol. 1
If you dug the bleep-n-bloop of folks like Ratatat and the Blow, the DJ Copy's The Diva EP is your bonus beat of the year -  six homebaked remixes where jankey keyboard lines and Mariah Carey give each other hugs. Mimi's "Emotions" gets a synthpop workout, "No Scrubs" is reimagined as a recital for electric bass and Sega Master System, and Janet ditches Jermaine Dupri for Johnny 5 on an ultrahot version of "Someone To Call My Lover". Some of the accapellas now jag where they actually should diva out, but the bangers bang - and the whole time you wonder why this concept is relegated to a vaguely artsy homemade CD-R instead of an actual album. The Postal Service sold half a mil doing this kinda shit with Death Cab schlubbing on the mic.