P.S. You Love Me

by John BushOne year after P.S. I Love You, his surprising valentine to Europe's experimental-electronics community, Kid606 received a mash note of his own, in the form of the remix album P.S. You Love Me. Combined with three new productions from Kid606 himself are remixes by some usual suspects: friends from the Bay Area like Matmos and Twerk, the abstract fringe of indie rock (Pan American, Electric Company), and European experimentalists like Atom TM (aka Atom Heart), Farben, and Rechenzentrum. Matmos offers the typically tongue-in-cheek "Twirl (Photoshoot Remix)," in which they blend found-sound samples of camera clickings and whirrings (no doubt a photo shoot for some glamour rag like Alternative Press or Magnet). Farben's mix offers the usual deep, clicky dub, while Pan American pushes the sound a bit farther with experimental ambience. Kid606's own contributions sound much better than proper-album cast-offs, and Rechenzentrum comes through with the highlight of the collection, an experimental dub track that occasionally breaks out of the mold with some extroverted whip-cracking effects.