This week's electronica CDs reviewed

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Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve Re-Animations, Vol 1 New State ****

When Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve go to work on a track into their remix lab, they always include a dollop of imagination. A collaboration between Erol Alkan (probably best known for helming the Trash indie club and for his hip indie remixes) and Richard Norris (The Grid, etc), BTWS take tracks that you think you know like the back of your hand, wave their magic wand and – voila – that same track reappears to sweep you off your feet. Here their flights of fancy and bouts of derring-do transform Franz Ferdinand, Badly Drawn Boy, Tracy Thorn (their version of her Raise the Roofis a revelation) and Midlake from plonk to true dancefloor vintages. Even tracks that have perhaps suffered through familiarity (Peter Bjorn John's whistling Young Folks) receive a sparkling makeover that make you fall for them all over again. www.beyondthewizards sleeve.co.uk

Download tracks:Tracy Thorn, Raise the Roof; Midlake, Roscoe