There are way too many remixes in circulation these days. Upstart producers rework anything they can get their hands on to get noticed, and bands that are only vaguely connected to dance culture commission whole albums of DJ edits. Most of this stuff is decent at best. But Hot Chip are different. The London electro-pop group has a dance-music pedigree as strong as anyone and are prolific, talented remixers in their own right. (They've reworked cuts by Matthew Dear, Junior Boys, M.I.A., Amy Winehouse, and many others.) A Hot Chip remix record is actually worth getting excited about. This EP lets folks have a go at tracks from Hot Chip's recent One Life Stand album, and the band brings in some heavy hitters to do the job. House hero Todd Edwards, Caribou's Dan Snaith, and techno hotshot Osborne are a few of the guys on deck. It's an interesting task for these producers, though, because One Life Stand isn't the most dancefloor-ready Hot Chip record. There's propulsion behind it, sure, but OLS is fundamentally a poignant work-- it's lush and romantic and even ballad-driven at times. So the challenge here is to preserve these songs' emotional weight while pushing them in a bouncier direction.
A1 Hand Me Down Your Love (Todd Edwards Micro Chip Remix) 6:47
A2 We Have Love (Hot City Remix) 5:00
B1 Brothers (Caribou Remix) 5:10
B2 Take It In (Osborne Remix) 7:16
