Unlike the , 's body of work lends itself to the kind of glitzy mash-up soundtrack requires -- which is a roundabout way of saying the soundtrack to their 2011 production feels a little sounder than the ' . Of course, is by far a more ambitious work, creating new songs out of old samples, whereas is unabashed Vegas glitz, songs truncated or elongated to the demands of the stage, audio drops of music videos or interviews triple underscoring already apparent sentiment. Producer never recontextualizes the original recordings; he favors hits-on-parade medleys, letting the hooks -- the melodies, the rhythms -- sink in before moving on to the next snippet. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that roughly half of the album is devoted to music made after : after he parted ways with flitted between attempts to reconcile with hip-hop and old-fashioned show biz. Here, the latter overwhelms, bending all the disco and dance to its sensibility, and if it is frankly unnecessary as an album -- why listen to this when there are plenty of hits available? -- it's an effective soundtrack for a lavish, expensive dance production. [This deluxe edition splits the set into two discs and adds seven additional bonus tracks.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine