Kicked off with a Truth and Soul remix of Dinah Washington’s “Cry Me A River” that echoes like liquid smoke in a hot lounge, the latest Verve Remixed compilation doesn’t mess around.

Like the three volumes before it — all crammed with delicious remixes of sweet, sweet old soul, funk and motown loves — Verve Remixed 4 puts living legends like Antibalas, 9th Wonder, Cinematic Orchestra and Diplo into the studio with larger-than-life legends like Anita O’Day, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown and — because no Verve would be complete without it — the High Priestess of Soul herself, Nina Simone.

The series as a whole, re-released as a four volume box set also this week, is one of my favorite examples of remix magic. In these tracks, remix is not the shoddy production trick it’s become, but finds again it’s power to transcend; the voices that cooed and screamed sonic life into this American century’s social movements go hoarse again, brought to bear through remix on the ills we still live with and the fights that don’t stop.

As the Priestess sings, “I can’t stand it no more, so why don’t you give me some”; check out Dinah’s Truth and Soul here.