Ollo’s second album ‘The If If’, released through local independent label Groovescooter in 2006 showed the Sydney-based duo of Alex Crowfoot and Lars Chresta undergoing something of a stylistic shift. They moved away from the straight-out electronics of their ‘Sleeper’ debut, towards a lusher, more multi-instrumental sound, complete with occasional lead vocals.

Two years on, this seven-track EP acts as a remix companion to ‘The If If’, with a range of friends and associates called upon to rework tracks from the album, including Faux Pas, Dsico, UK producers 40 Thieves and former Ninja Tune signee Neotropic. Local producer Faux Pas opens proceedings with a reworking of title track ‘The If If’ that tailors things towards wistful, analogue-synth laden indie / hiphop, shortly before the emergence of glittering electro handclaps signals a left turn that leads straight out into retro disco-house pastures (complete with tinkling soul pianos and massed backing vocal harmonies).

From there on, the predominant aesthetic adheres fairly closely to this disco / punk-funk mood, with Dsico offering up both a ‘Krautrockremix’ and a ‘Spacedubremix’ of ‘Campaign For Real Bread’, both of which call to mind James Murphy / LCD Soundsystem’s rolling, hypnotic grooves and see him developing further the stylistic themes introduced on his ‘You Fight Like A Girl’ and ‘Fool’ Eps.

London house producers 40 Thieves meanwhile rework ‘Summersalt’ into a squelchy bass-heavy slice of midtempo hiphop grooves in a moment that harks back to the more ‘electronics-dominated’ Ollo of old, albeit with additional strokes of what sounds like ring modulated blues guitar noodling, before Neotropic offers up the one downbeat / ambient-centred reworking amongst this collection, reshaping ‘The If If’ into a forlorn post-rock landscape coloured by languid guitar strokes and orchestration, distant female backing harmonies and the background wash of digitally manipulated textures. While at first it appears to represent a shift to more downbeat atmospheres, it proves to be the one moment of its type here, as the fantastically-named Hot Cock closes things out with a remix of ‘Summersalt’ that pushes the bpms back up towards Bambaataa-esque electro-laced house.

An inspired remix companion to Ollo’s ‘The If If’ album that’s well worth grabbing.