New York hipster Tommie Sunshine has jumped on the nu electro bandwagon with his latest mix-CD, Relax, This Won't Hurt, due Tuesday on Ultra. The bangin', almost hard-house-like mix fits in with the kind of nu-electro DJing I've witnesses in L.A. (Daft Punk spun at 132 beats per minute, rave anthems dropped at random, diva house mashed-up, etc.). Audio Bullys, Moby, Diplo, Midfield General and Sunshine himself make appearances on the track credits, and there's more than enough rave nostalgia (the old "jack has a groove" house sample, a snippit of Kathy Brown's "Turn Me Out"). The mix is a welcome step back into linear mixing for a DJ who once dropped rock and electroclash into his sets, although it is a consistent evolution. Sunshine was one of the minds behind the defunct electroclash movement, which has been reawakened in the form of nu electro (Simian Mobile Disco, Justice, Guns N Bombs) like a zombie on Halloween. The cool kids will dig this particularly infectious, hand-clapping stomp.Sunshine, by the way, isn't the only oldster to have reinvented himself in the name of candy-colored Ray-Bans and neon punk grooves (see Kanye West, Armand Van Helden, Felix Da Housecat and the Black Ghosts).
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