It’s 2014! So – if you’re going to make a mixtape it should contain elements of the following: Hardstyle Hip-Hop, Aggressive Trance, Experimental House, Industrial Euro Pop and Mosh Pit Rap. Pictureplane completely nails the 17-track next-level Alien Body Mixtape released on his Bandcamp yesterday to celebrate his birthday (and DUDES! It’s only $5! Just sayin’…). Travis Egedy shows off his skills as a hip-hop producer and master remixer with collaborations with rappers like Sole and Dose One and re-workings of bands such as Trust and Tearist.

He also has some jams of his own, including Cramping on the Ice (which you can download for free on his Soundcloud) that blends his signature blown-out trance with an edge of blissfuly hard shoegaze that makes one want to hardcore chill out and dance.

This mixtape manifests a post-packaged pop world occupied only by the sublime and transcendently weird sonic collage that magically evokes the spirit of Genesis P. Orridge or a Y2K Burroughs. The materials that Egedy works with in his song Party in the Pit brings this spirit to mind with its Hellraiser Coil synth meets industrial futuresque hip-hop (and, duh, the Mosh Pit!). It’s lyrics even riff on the current state of the post-download world of music: “A thing called the game, which, to me is a terrible metaphor for making art.”