Last year urban radio was entranced by the hypnotic 4/4 stomp of house music; this year, and much more briefly, R&B seemed smitten with throwback breaks and beats, a nostalgia-triggering retro-bounce sourced either directly from old-school funk records or the sample-heavy hip-hop singles of the late...

(click the image below to listen!) embed this episode in your myspace/blog/whatev: All the education you need is right here on the Mixtape Show. Okay, maybe not - but I’ll keep the written short and say this - if you don’t get something out of every track on here, rewind. Tracklist iLLiT...