i was just playing the what else is there ep that finally came in the mail (three amazing remixes, which is totally wreaking havok with the silly self imposed rules i made for my year-end cdr). listening to the vitaic remix (for my money the third best, which is saying a whole hell of a lot about the quality of this ep) i was reminded of a song i loved a couple of years ago and have since almost forgotten about: do you like that, by john spring (which was included on eucalyptus, one of sami koivikko's awesome free mixtapes [edit: it looks like he took down the one i was thinking of. i bet the new ones are good though.]).

when they get going (~3 mins in for spring, 2 mins for vitalic), the two songs share a similar super-insistant mind-controlling robo-funk groove that i absolutely love (on a tangential and unnecessarily bitchy note, i wish music for robots would post more music that actually sounds like it's for robots). other than making my body want to move in ways my brain can't really fathom (how do non-cyborgs dance to this? really, i want to see it done), they aren't that similar i guess... the john spring track is more, um, sproingy, and the vitalic track is, while less drenched in testosterone than most of his tracks, still so much more male than almost anything else out there that it's messing with my notions of robot non-sexuality. still, they share a special spot in my mind: the music i like to think that industial/assembly-line robots dance to at night after all the humans leave the factory. which is, as you may have surmised, some of my favorite music ever.