Pitchfork

Who's got an exacting ear for disco-worthy grooves and a taste for the grandeur of classic rock? Who, you might ask, has the temerity to use such whorishly handled sample-material as The Who's "Who Are You", and the precision to make it new again? To whom can we give thanks for rescuing this Pete Townshend gem from the nether regions of TV Land? With all due respect to Jerry Bruckheimer and the 25 million viewers who religiously tune in to CSI every week, the correct answer is the dancing cut-and-paste juggernaut that is Jason Forrest. "10 Amazing Years" effectively (and shockingly) erases all previous incarnations of "Who Are You" by getting you to do two things, sometimes simultaneously: 1) Stomp your feet even as you sit at your desk, and 2) polish off your dusty ol' air guitar windmill.

Forrest deftly employs Townshend's famous power chords, as well as a series of other guitars (both strummed and atmospheric), extended keyboard/piano passages, spliced-up vocals, and a leftfield sample of The Beatles' "Because"-- and then peppers it all on top of his shifting start/stop beats and intense drum breaks. Despite the sonic overload, the track never quite goes haphazard; Forrest sews it all together with imagination. Of course, the better a listener knows the source material, the more they're likely to appreciate this irreverent assemblage-- and if you've committed the original to heart, Forrest is likely to have your expectations and your dancing shoes pulled so joyously in divergent directions that you'll shake your head and wonder: "Who was that masked DJ?" Oh yeah, it was Donna Summer.