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The elements that make Tocotronic one of the most potent indie bands in Europe are thoroughly obscured by this remix--remake, really--by Console. Happily, the result is a pulsing blips-and-bleeps electro pop tune that rivals Console's best stuff, such as the "14 zero zero" single. Atop analogue-synth waves reminiscent of early Human League, Gary Numan or Visage--or more recent retro-electro acts like Ladytron--Console runs the original vocal track through a computer voice-synthesis program. (It seems to have been done in English, but it's of no consequence as it's wonderfully unintelligible anyway.) The coherent whole is brilliant, propelled along rather than aimlessly gurgling, and retaining Tocotronic's short pop structure.

who is this Tim of brooklyn, who knows the work of tocotronic?

The elements that make Tocotronic one of the most potent indie bands in Europe are thoroughly obscured by this remix--remake, really--by Console. Happily, the result is a pulsing blips-and-bleeps electro pop tune that rivals Console's best stuff, such as the "14 zero zero" single. Atop analogue-synth waves reminiscent of early Human League, Gary Numan or Visage--or more recent retro-electro acts like Ladytron--Console runs the original vocal track through a computer voice-synthesis program. (It seems to have been done in English, but it's of no consequence as it's wonderfully unintelligible anyway.) The coherent whole is brilliant, propelled along rather than aimlessly gurgling, and retaining Tocotronic's short pop structure.