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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