Louisville five-piece VHS or Beta stormed into the dance-rock world with their second album Night On Fire. The title track and first single from the album was given to various eclectic and well chosen members of the music community to try their hand at remixing. Carlos D from Interpol, electro grandpa Tommy Sunshine and Cut Copy were amongst the artists given permission to have their way with the track. There were mixed results, but as the original was such a strong track it meant that the remixers had a much easier job. The group’s preoccupation with all things flaming continues with Burn It All Down, the first single from their most recent album Bring On The Comets.

They have continued the trait of again choosing excellent and so-hot-right-now artists to do the remixing duties on Burn It All Down. Fred Falke, Midnight Juggernauts and Surkin have all been enlisted to fill the triplet of B-sides for the single, with the A-side being the album version. The album version is mix of distorted guitar rock, spacey synths and drum machines with a catchy vocal hook of you guessed it, “Burn it all down”. Vocalist Craig Pfunder has a strong voice that could be perhaps compared to Editor’s Tom Smith and his Cure namesake Robert Smith. It is a slick and well produced rhythmic rock track that has hooks galore and is very danceable.

The first and perhaps strongest remix is a synth heavy filter house gem from Fred Falke. Falke has been asked to remix for everyone from Hot Chip to Kelis and more recently recent blogosphere darling Ladyhawke. Falke is from the Daft Punk school of house that likes analogue synths, filters and lots of them. He drops in a crisp kick drum and 4/4 beat and fills it out with an arpeggio keyboard and deep bass. He chops out a significant amount of vocals and adds some echo to them to give them a bit more of a haunting effect. Very solid from the Frenchman, make sure you catch him while he’s still in Australia.

Next is another Frenchman and blog favourite Surkin. Signed to too-for-school French label Institubes, Surkin’s debut LP is due any week soon but he still seems to be finding time to hammer out some remixes. This is definitely the liveliest and electro version of the three remixes and has some nice Klaxons style sirens throughout with some heavily filtered and chopped up vocals over a nice squelchy bass line. Probably the most different track from the original, it’s got Electro De Francais written all over it.

Last but definitely not least we have Australia’s own Midnight Juggernauts. The Juggers distort the guitar line from the original and add some playful, punchy synths over a nice handclap 4/4. Like the Surkin remix, just the chorus vocal is used and repeated instead of any verses. Add a dash of crisp cymbals and it comes out as a great example of the thunderous Aussie way of doing electro pop. All in all a very solid release with a great original and 3 quality remixes from 3 quality artists, get your hands on it.