Ever since house splintered from rap sometime in the early 80s, hip hop has remained America's dominant cultural (musical) force, and Thatch represents a bold and reasonably successful attempt to reunite the two genres in that sometimes dubious territory marked hip house.

Combining soulful funky, Latin US style house beats with catchy hip hop narratives, label chief Sean Holland and lead artist Lance 'Land Shark' Desardi deliver an infectious summery party mix that'll work as well on the beach as it does in car stereo with the windows wound down; particularly given its raunchy, tale telling narratives which all centre around one dominant theme; sex, or more precisely; fucking.

Opening track Three Kings' Shake Dat Booty (recently championed by Masters At Work at this year's Miami Winter Music Conference) starts proceedings smoothly, segueing seamlessly into Cowboy Johnny Christ's Lets Do It Again and Land Shark's Tie Me Up. Both artists provide 2 more tracks (all tracks previously featured on the CD first appeared as 12"s on Coco Machete) a does KC Flight, whose She's Sexxy dubs sound strikingly reminiscent of sampler pioneers Was (Not Was) at their early 80s best.

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