The album, which consists solely of music from the label's catalogue, displays the happy gabba or "popcore" sound that had emerged from Dutch underground raves during the mid-1990s and had partly started to reach mainstream success, such was the case with the album's lead single "I Wanna Be a Hippy" by Technohead.

[3] After the label had seen international success with "I Wanna Be a Hippy" by Technohead in late 1995 and early 1996, the Make 'Em Mokum Crazy compilation album was conceived by Mokum in attempt to document their catalogue and how the "popcore" sound was transitioning from its underground origins "to the top of the Euro pop charts.

[6] Technohead also appear with the "Mobile Mecca Mix" of their song "Headsex" and with "Happy Birthday" which samples a Martin Luther King Jr.

"[4] Party Animals appear with a recording of the traditional "Hava Nagila"[2] and a "ride-the-lightning cover" of "Have You Never Been Mellow" by Olivia Newton-John.

[7] In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau rated the album "A−", indicating "the kind of garden-variety good record that is the great luxury of musical micromarketing and overproduction.

"[12] In his 1999 book Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Simon Reynolds cited Make 'Em Mokum Crazy as key happy gabba release.