It's hard not to love this kind of super-international cross-pollination: France's Institubes has enlisted Brooklyn's Curses! (aka Drop The Lime) and Germany's D.I.M. to remix "Road To Recovery," the latest infectious single from Australia's Midnight Juggernauts. The result is a double-sided destroyer of a single that definitely does not get filed under "world music." Curses! does a fake-out on his remix(1), starting off with a messy-sounding take on the original which quickly implodes on itself and turns into a straight-up pounding house mix. (Okay, not "straight-up house" - this is Drop The Lime, after all.) If you liked D.I.M.'s singles on Tiga's Turbo label, you'll be loving his remix(2) here, which features the same bassy, hypnotic techno as "Airbus Baby" and "Sysiphos" along with some of the Juggernauts' angelic harmonies and laser synths. Plays at 45.

reviewed by Larri Byrd