Since Danger Mouse first mashed the sounds of The Beatles and Jay-Z, a slew of aspiring DJs and producers have done remix records of unlikely collaborations. In Stars & Stripes, Adrian Champion combines the biggest heads of the last decade of hip-hop (Nas, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Common, Outkast, Eminem) and the White Stripes for an epic mash-up compilation. The aggressive, blues-heavy jams of the White Stripes work remarkably well with the fast-spitting deliveries of wordsmiths like Pharoahe Monch and Busta Rhymes. As another sign of the shrinking gap between genres and cultures, Stars & Stripes is a novel revisit and tribute to a hall of legends. *** To download the entire record (free), visit http://www.starsandstripesproject.com/