Music

It’s easy to see the logic in remixing hipster indie tunes into party anthems. But when a record is a blizzard of bleeps to start with, a compilation of reworkings would drive any sane person doolally. Being sought-after remixers, DJs and producers themselves, SMD’s Jas and James have a contact book fit to burst. Here they’ve roped in Erol Alkan and Richard Norris under their Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve guise to take the disco-tised ‘Love’ into another realm, full of panting and clattering drums. Elsewhere DFA-signed Shit Robot successfully makes-over former single ‘It’s The Beat’ with its early ’90s piano stabs, stripping it back and adding bongos which makes the whole affair more summer block-party than a crazed computer breakdown.

Silver Apples’s remix of LP-closer ‘Scott’ takes the already psychedelic ’60s keyboard shimmers of the original and throws in some gorgeous Cornelius-style glitchiness. But more often than not this just makes you yearn for the originals.