Claude says:Mike Stroud and Evan Mast had been building their instrumental guitar-and-synth sound since meeting at Skidmore, but their remix series let them stretch it over rap vocals — turning Memphis Bleek, Jay-Z, and Saigon into something weirder and more propulsive. You grabbed this in spring 2009, right as they were moving from LP3 into new territory, and cycled through a handful of tracks — "Alright," Despot's freestyle, the Biggie collaboration — before letting it drift off by summer.