For their volume of the Board Up The House Remixes 12" series (which also includes installments from Crucial Blast, Relapse, Lovepump United, and Temporary Residence), Anticon sets loose a couple of their regulars and some newer faces on four different Genghis Tron songs, putting a twitchy electro spin on the songs that make this fourth volume in the series the most "danceable" so far. Presented in another one of Jon Beasley's "remixed" Board Up The House jacket designs and pressed on some kind of bright fruity red/yellow splatter vinyl, Vol. IV offers up a spastic Tron from Subtle, a crushing dub of "Relief" by Telefon Tel Aviv, a krautrocky blissout on "Endless Endless" by Lucky Dragons, and "Colony Colapse" is given a booming breakbeat/dub do-over by Odd Nosdam.

The record opens with Subtle's "City Whipped", a mashup of the songs "City On A Hill" and "The Whip Blows Back". The group starts the track off with a slurred electro mutation of the central riff and synth runs from the first song, winding the lush melodic hook and Hamilton's squiggly shredding over a skittering breakbeat with Doseone's deep, sinister rhyming over top. As the track morphs into the "Whip", it becomes a malevolent industrial/breakbeat workout with more weird rhyming and vocal loops mixed in with acoustic guitar and layers of added percussion.

The Subtle remix/rework is cool and unique, and the next one is even better - Telefon Tel Aviv take the song "Relief", which was already one of the slower, moodier songs off of Board Up The House with Mookie's haunting clean vocals and the dark minor key hook that the song is based around, but Telefon Tel Aviv take it and stretch it out, pull all of the individual parts apart, the glistening synthesizer notes and washes of celestial shimmer, the thumping, almost slow-motion krautrock beats, the heavenly melody, and smear the whole sound in delay and reverb and turn this into a dark, heavy slab of tripped-out dub that sends Mookie's vocals flying off into a dense cloud formation as crushing, backwards-masked drum loops shamble back and forth in dubbed out bliss.

The second side starts off with Lucky Dragons, a Los Angeles based multimedia outfit who I had never heard of before, but their Teutonic translation of "Endless Endless" renders the original song almost indiscernable in the thick haze of distorted synths and heavily vocoded vocals, whipping it into a heady flurry of big delayed drums disappearing into the distance, whooshing electronics and chrome-plated howls that kind of sounds like a rabid deconstructed take on Laurie Anderson's "O Superman".

The last of the remixes has Anticon's Odd Nosdam turning "Colony Collapse" into a monstrous grinding electro anthem with the keyboards cranked up into a burly Hammond-like buzz, the guitar pulled out of the mix and turned into a crushing crumbling distorted bassline riff, and beats going everywhere, huge breakbeats halting and lurching and colliding with other skittery rhythms, dubby echoed beats, dubbed-out vocal lines whizzing into the ether, everything dark and epic and immensely groovy.

Limited to 1000 copies!