High on style and whatever was in Ganja K's five-foot bamboo chalice, "Skillenium" slows, but doesn't screw, Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat" to curb-detector crawl. Khule and his Hip Hop Kclan could move mad cow at the auctioneer battles documented in Herzog's How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck? For L.A.'s chop is as fast as Houston's is slow. It ain't codeine, and Lloyd Bridges knows, as his Airplane! clip leads off with "I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines." "Faces of Def" is even more frantic, with spigot-drop bass and a mouse having a seizure inside a cowbell. Next morning, the reader-walker rocks headphones.