German death-disco champs The Fair Sex cough up a remix album featuring an array of dancefloor destroyers that stretch all the way back to their daze as pioneers in the guitartronica genre. I am not sure what’s changed about the songs now that they’ve been chopped up and revamped, but what remains still sounds like prime late 80’s dance-dustrial, all headspinning beats and clanging metal flourishes. The Fair Sex are smoother than the Skinny Puppy, but share many of same bad obsessions – depression, war-fear, creepy crawly coldwave beats, distorted man-thing vocals, and acidic guitar riffs. “You Have to Eat Me Now” is the most sinister track on deck, a throbbing, decadent beast, but I bet “Soulspirit” is the one that gets young Germans with severe haircuts laid the most. You hear this kinda stuff everywhere these days, even on TV, but the Fair Sex were one of the bands to develop this kick, kinky sound, and they remain one of the best. Check ‘em out if you dig paranoid gloom you can dance to. __________________________________________________

-Sleazegrinder