Jim Carroll listen's to a various-artists remix of Simian Mobile Disco's Attack Decay Sustain Release.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO

Sample & Hold

Wichita

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Simian Mobile Disco probably owe their very existence to a remix - in the shape of that classic Justice take on their former band Simian's We Are Your Friends- so getting a gang of remixers in to rework last year's excellent Attack Decay Sustain Releasealbum is apt carry-on.

Naturally, some remixers fare better than others. Dubliner-in-New-York Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot, has a whale of a time with It's The Beat, locating a whole new dynamic within that well-weathered tune.

French producer Joakim tweaks Hustlerto a whole new level, Erol Alkan and Richard Norris, as Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve, find psychedelic gold within Loveand the Silver Apples turn Scottinto a moody soundscape.

Others are not so fortunate - Pinch's version of I Believedoes neither the remixer nor the artist any favours.

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JIM CARROLL

Download tracks: It's The Beat (Shit Robot remix), Hustler (Joakim remix)