Ultraísta – Remixes

The list of remixers on this album by Nigel Godrich's Ultraísta project is a who's who of experimental electronic music, perhaps giving a key insight into how well-regarded Godrich is a producer after his work with Radiohead, Atoms for Peace and a host of others. Laura Bettinson's soaring vocals anchor the fidgety, intensely complex beats, and Prefuse 73 has fun making them even more intricate.

Four Tet's mix clips along at an uptempo house pace with his customarily strange sound sources lifting Smalltalk into eclectic dancefloor fodder. Falty DL uses Bettinson as an instrument, making glittering, louche house out of the beats. Nathan Fake's tke on Party Line heavily recalls Atoms for Peace, while Matthew Herbert's batshit reinvention of Static Light is wonderfully deranged, with buzzsaw bass and glitchy vocals. It's David Lynch's industrial, witchy take on Strange Formula which deviates the most, but taken as a whole, this is a remarkably effective expansion on the original material. [Bram E. Gieben]