By now, announcing that Carl Craig's remix game has found a new gear is as dated as the idea that hipsters are re-discovering dancing. But let's just reinforce what is musically obvious: C2 has spent the past 18 or so months killing young fashionistas and old heads in the name of capital-t Techno, flooding the market with a parade of straight-up classics (remixes of Delia & Gavin's "Relevee", Theo Parrish's "Falling Up", Rhythm & Sound's "Poor People Must Work") and bangers that speak to the newbies' tastes for indie-dance maximalism, while at the same time invoking the canon that Carl is such a firm part of.

His take on the Junior Boys' "Like a Child" is another in that line. Carl's aesthetic formula remains tried and true: the melodies are transmitted on wide, reedy dollops of future-soul/-jazz chords, the rhythmic tides are built on the backs of titanic arpeggio basslines equal parts Giorgio Moroder groove and Detroit tension, while the textural odds and ends embrace dub warmth, industrial cold and the constant pitter-patter of drum-machines running around making everything more grand.

For approximately the length of a pop tune, Carl wipes away pretty much everything but Jeremy Greenspan's quiet voice and lyrics, in favor electronic drums, a bouncy low-end keyboard and a glacial high-end one, and 4x4 finger-snaps for movement. It's all synthetic intimacy mirroring the song's words before he starts building layers. At the three-minute mark, in comes the hi-hat to add a cross-rhythmŠand a bounce. And when at 3:45, Carl starts looping Greenspan's invocation that he's "got the end in sight," that's nothing but a call for the bottom to kick in and lead the track towards the Promised Land. Which, for the next five all-build no-release minutes, it does.