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Turntablist extraordinaire and reigning DMC champ DJ Craze dropped by the home studio of Edgar Farinas (a.k.a. Push Button Objects). The end result is this abstract meeting of the hip-hop minds: an odd blend of off-kilter beats suffused in a crunchy timbre that attains a head-nodding forward motion almost in spite of itself. With so many elements floating in and out of the mix (a windshield-vibrating bass line, a disembodied bellowing Guru vocal, Craze’s own frenetic vinyl scratching), songs like “Behavior” and “I Can’t Understand You” shouldn’t cohere. But like the best experimental electronic sounds coming out of South Florida these days, Farinas and Craze don’t just reveal their hometown influences; they transcend them.