Can someone explain exactly what’s going on? Prior to this week, XLR8R had settled into a comfortable little relationship with the electro noiseniks at Ed Banger—namely, the label was a convenient whipping boy for everything that had gone wrong with electro-house. It may not have been fair, but at least we didn’t treat the French label as bad as, say, Steve Aoki. Regardless, now our whole world has been turned upside down, courtesy of Ed Banger’s DJ Mehdi. Yesterday we found his ace remix of Eli Escobar’s “Love Thing 2,” and now he’s got his hands in another quality tune, this remix of last year’s “Do! Do Do!” by Carte Blanche (pictured above), his collaborative project with Riton. To be fair, the original “Do! Do! Do!,” which first appeared on the Black Billionaires EP, is a paint-by-numbers electro-ish number with some largely forgettable rap-singing by Kid Sister. So all the credit on this one goes to remixer Strip Steve, who injects some jacking house flavor, picks up the tempo, and chops Kid Sister’s vocals into sexy oblivion. This version doesn’t appear on the new Black Billionaires: The Remixes EP, which came out yesterday, but that release does include re-workings from Green Velvet and Laidback Luke. Let’s hope their remix work is similarly impressive.
