Album Review: Various - Triple J House Party (Mixed by Nina Las Vegas)

For the purpose of this review your humble scribe decided the only way to accurately evaluate this collection of triple j faves with a few classics thrown in was to actually have a house party with this double compilation being the soundtrack. After initially having to call in a few friends of friends to achieve an actual half-decent sample size, it wasn't long before things were underway.

Fans of the radio station automatically lost their minds as Parachute Youth's admittedly very good Can't Get Better Than This kicked things off and proceeded to seep into similar-vibing tracks in The 2 Bears' Bear Hug and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' Tapes & Money. The early inclusion of The Chemical Brothers' Do It Again raised some eyebrows, but they didn't take long to resume normal stature as the party descended into banger town, thanks to tracks from Nero, Knife Party and Jack Beats. Flume side-project What So Not's “ooo-ing” Idea Of Happiness remix went down well, while Gerling's Dust Me Selecta got a few of the old hats off the couch.

The chin-strokers on the night bemoaned the brevity of the actual mixing, while the non-DJs (outnumbered five to one) couldn't have cared less, especially when we arrived at disc two and shit got ghetto thanks to M.I.A, Dead Prez, A$ap Rocky and Missy Elliott. Once again Flume featured with his cracking re-work of Hermitude's HyperParadise, before heading back into some j-standard fare from The Rapture and Hot Chip, closing with LCD's Daft Punk Is Playing At My House.

And while that French duo definitely weren't playing at my house, it certainly felt like Nina Las Vegas was, and a good time was had by all accordingly.