In Lectro Black: Last Train to Paris Mixtape, P. Diddy and Chicago house legend Felix Da Housecat are “here to take your mind, body and soul,” or at the very least they want to make you dance.  Only Diddy would think that he could get your soul in exchange for a free mixtape, stop being cheap and throw in a bottle of Ciroc or some Proactiv, but I digress.

The mixtape was released earlier this year, August to be exact, in anticipation of Diddy’s concept album Last Train to Paris.  Based on the grimy pounding rhythms, Lectro Black stands a good chance of making you dance.  Felix’s mix starts off with hard, grinding electro tracks and gradually progresses to lighter, less grungy, techno sounds.  Puffy serves as the “conductor” of the album, interspersing the vocal-less tracks with random, and sometimes incoherent, musings that alternately tell the stories of Diddy’s globetrotting from Rome to London to Paris in an attempt to meet up with Felix; of Lectro Black’s musical motivations (“make you lose control . . . make you shoot up the club”); and of the true theme of Last Train to Paris (rekindling a relationship with a mysterious women in Paris).

In all, Lectro Black is a compelling piece of work.  While it is yet another example of a hip-hop artist dabbling in the world of electronica (more please), Diddy gets props for actually crossing over into Felix’s world and letting the music stand on its own (this is the type of mix you would hear at a live performance, sans the Diddy-speak), rather than repackaging electronic music into a hip-hop friendly format and throwing a few rappers on top.

Download the mixtape here.