Known for their production work with the Rapture and the Juan McLean, James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy have developed a reputation for stripped down, artistic dance music with lots and lots of cowbell. Though Murphy took some time to work on his phenomenal LCD Soundsystem project, the two have managed to maintain a high level of remixes for artists existing both in and outside the mainstream. It'd be pretty hard to top the original version of Le Tigre's "Deceptacon," but they do a pretty decent job at turning it to minimalist disco funk. Minimalism is the word when discussing these remixes - the bulk of which (especially Gorillaz' "Dare" and Fischerspooner's "Emerge") remove layers of instrumentation, highlighting a select few. The results are mixed - I wasn't too pleased to hear Chemical Brothers' "The Boxer" reduced to an instrumental, and given that these tracks are lengthy, they may be better suited to the dance floor, rather than your iPod. Criticism aside, the production duo bring a level of artistic credibility that is somehow lost on most remixers.3.5 (out of 5)
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LCD Soundsystem have done pretty well in the U.K. Le Tigre bombed and personally I wasn't unhappy about that.
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