Keeping hard at work after releasing his second solo album in four years, 2010’s XXX, Jimmy Edgar just dropped a brand-new single via !K7, called “New Touch.” That 12″ holds a few remixes of the track, including one from Montreal’s Jacques Greene and an alternate version by Edgar himself. “New Touch (Jimmy Edgar’s Hard Makeover)” is just about exactly what its title implies: a dark, sharp-edged rework à la the producer’s usual proto-techno, ’80s sex-jam style. Chilly synth arpeggiations dance around low-octave basslines and smashing dance beats while the auteur waxes robotic every so often, delivering tinny, vocoded hooks, sounding not unlike much of his recent output. Edgar might as well have called the track “New Touch v2.0.”

New Touch (Jimmy Edgar’s Hard Makeover)