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"Choose your own adventure," New York boy-girl duo HeartsRevolution declare on "C.Y.O.A.". Rather than going off and re-reading Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (there are only so many possible endings), Chicago DJs/remixers Flosstradamus appear to have taken that advice to heart for HeartsRevolution's forthcoming C.Y.O.A. EP on IHeartComix. The original "C.Y.O.A." had a slinky stomp of its own, but Flosstradamus' fine remix extends the song with the megaclub strobe-light synths and hip-hop strut of Flosstradamus pals like A-Trak and Kid Sister. Flosstradamus don't so much smooth out the HeartsRevolution version's punk-minded rough edges as pile all the jagged synths and distorted shouts into a sleek, house-informed Trojan Horse-- adding some breathy quotes from Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" for good measure. The political gets downplayed (like that drawn-out "No more wars" battle cry) in favor of the more generalized sort of angst a roomful of revelers can probably agree on, like, "We're all just lost/ Don't know which way to go." Well, it wouldn't be such an adventure if we knew where we were going.

MP3:> HeartsRevolution: "CYOA (Flosstadamus RMX)"
[from the C.Y.O.A. EP; due 04/15/08 on IHeartComix]