Emapea is a Polish producer who has been making some noise over the last five years. Stateside, he is probably best known for his collaboration with Los Angeles emcee Kid Abstrakt on the album Jazzy Vibes, which came out this past summer. Now he’s back with a compilation of tracks, Reflection.

Reflection is comprised of tracks that originally all had homes on a bunch of random releases, spread across several different projects, but if you didn’t know that when you pressed play, I’d doubt that you would guess that’s the case. That’s because not only do these tracks share some general vibes, but Emapea has sequenced things so perfectly that you would think you were at a live show where the deejay could just do no wrong with the way he’s mixing and curating the party. Emapea is a producer with a throwback approach, digging in the crates and finding the best breakbeats and turning them into the dopest hip hop, and good lord does he put together some fire with this comp. It could be some organ led jazz, it could be some symphonic ‘70s soul, it could be some dub/reggae, but whatever the source, you can be guaranteed that if it’s got a groove, Emapea will find it, flip it, and make something that you can’t help but dance to. Really, the biggest shame of this compilation is that we can’t have the proper sweaty summer dance party that this album is begging for.

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, it will be safe to have dance parties again. And when it is, deejays will be wise to keep Reflection close by as a secret weapon. These grooves are funky as hell, and they will just demand that you turn your stereo up, get out of your seat, and shake what your momma gave you.