MGMT – Electric Feel [2008; Columbia, Sony BMG Music Entertainment]

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The album mix opens this single, with glimmering synths and strutting bass making for a pop/funk/electro melt that doesn’t seem worried about much beyond maintaining the beat’s groove.  The B-side remix by Justice does seem rearrangement of the elements, cutting between conga drumming and deepened bass wells, while charging the synth lines with the electric buzz that characterized their album, released the previous year.  It makes for a more energized take on the track, but the fundamentals don’t move much, despite the extensive mixing treatments given to the assorted channels.  A neat twist, but one which stays more or less on even footing with the original.

Here’s the alternate cover art.

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