An Alter Ego mix and a SuperMayer mix on the same 12”? Count everyone and their brother in, right? Much like Getting Even, though, it all looks better on paper than it does on the dancefloor. Ego’s mix of “Brain of Glass” falters via the repetition of a rather boring hook, amid an overbearing synth pattern that fails to yield in the path of inevitability. Too many hooks going on at once and not in that Basement Jaxx kind of way. The SuperMayer mix, on the other hand, fails from the exact opposite problem: it never gets up off the ground. Like a very low-rent “Wurz and Blosse,” it could do with a lot less subtlety and one heavy bass hit (that never comes) to set it on a different path.

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[Todd Burns]