Never mind digging in the crates -- the Avalanches seem to find a new purpose for each vintage recording they touch. Bent on filtering their all-encompassing record collections through sampling and original instrumentation owing most to hip-hop, the Australian group truly arrived in 2000 with Since I Left You. An expansive suite in the lineage of sample-based landmarks such as Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, and DJ Shadow's Endtroducing....., the album distinguished itself with an unbridled sense of joy -- exempl...