Two new tracks and two remixes from Max “Paradroid” Wendling that find his brand of popping minimal funk working to fine effect. A-side “Faked Moon Landing” snaps and swerves with panache over some mellow chords, while the remix by Manutchehr Ghassemlou (what a name!) strips things down a bit further but is basically cut from the same cloth. The flipside, “Technology Dream Was Squashed,” treads similar territory, but the Elco Park (aka Wendling and occasional partner-in-crime Tobias Lorsbach) version turns it out and is the highlight here. All four tracks resemble each other a bit too much for comfort, which is a shame as some radical reconstructions of these tracks might have been spectacular, given that the source material is strong and swinging.

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[Todd Hutlock]