Tiga is a lot of things—a genre ironist, a gender jockey, a genius debatably—but subtle he is not. On his latest, Ciao!, he waxes obvious about information overload “All I feel is in this data stream / I see the eyes in the computer screen /Misinformation is surrounding me / It brings me down, I’m on my knees”—but the big joke is that song itself (“Beep Beep Beep”) is frenetically overproduced mess of Purple One invocations, Basement Jaxx snipes and inch-deep pop profundity.

Enter Loco Dice with a dub that doesn’t even deliver anything close to the song’s hook until about six minutes deep into the cut. A persistent little string flick and some mechanically feisty bongos building to Tiga himself exhaling are all that remain. Now, I love taking something overdone and underdoing it for effect—but this is the remix equivalent of Garfield Minus Garfield.

Parisian mnml producer Kaine goes the opposite route—instead of dialing back Tiga’s enthusiasm—he organizes it. What was funky and goofy on the original becomes all New Romantic lush and dark. Tiga James Sontag’s “beep-beep-beep” refrain stops being a reminder of technological interruption and starts to be the sexy pulse of the cyborg nightlife. The message is lost, but who cares? This B bangs. [<-----------read more @ RA------------>]