Plaid

Istanbul's Doublemoon records is a veritable chic factory known for wedding the traditional and the cutting-edge in unbelievably hip contexts. So maybe our slight disappointment with this collection is the result of ridiculously high standards. It's not that anything's wrong with these DJ reworkings of Turkish artists. It's just so many commit one of two cardinal (albeit innocuous) remix sins: obtrusiveness (the pushy beats on "Karabiber" get in the way of Burhan Ocal's retro cool) or gratuitousness. Sultana vehicle "Dibidik" is (like everything that woman does) pretty awesome, however.