Circlesquare's new album Songs About Dancing And Drugs is a veritable box of surprises, and the stunners just keep coming. "Hey You Guys," the second single, features remixes from DFA artist The Juan MacLean and Ed Banger's Mickey Moonlight aka Midnight Mike. Taken as a whole, the four-track EP spans a range of moods from the morose to the manic, making an unexpected keystone in the arc from rock to dance music. --- "Hey You Guys," the opening track off Songs About Dancing And Drugs, is the perfect introduction to Circlesquare's contemplative and conflicted world - blissed-out shoegaze, Seefeel's electronic dub, Fugazi at their most precise. --- The Juan MacLean are turning in a slow-burning powerhouse, amped up on acid oscillations and overdriven drums. If Songs About Dancing And Drugs is a look back at the wild life, the remix is a snapshot of dance-floor mayhem in full flame. The Juan MacLean is no stranger to the groove—his cuts like "Give Me Every Little Thing" and "Happy House" plus his remixes for the likes of Daft Punk, Matthew Dear, and Roy Davis, Jr., have become club staples for the way that they bridge the worlds of disco, house, and rock. This time out, he does the seemingly impossible by crafting a peak-hour stormer that crawls along at 110 BPM, possibly less! Circlesquare's music has never been stranger to the pleasures of the slow and low, of course, but MacLean sheds the languor in favor of a methodical, machine-fueled grind that's lubed with sweat. Both versions of the remix, vocal and instrumental, are simply mammoth. --- Rising star Mickey Moonlight switches up the mood considerably, kitting out "Hey You Guys" in dreamy synthesizers, bells, and kalimba. Lush and psychedelic —not what you might expect from an artist affiliated with the Ed Banger camp, but Mickey's catalogue so far (including remixes for Franz Ferdinand, Natacha Atlas, and D.C. Recordings' Higamos Hogamos) suggests that he's not your average blog-rocker. No wonder The Guardian's Tony Naylor dubbed his debut single "the thinking fan's pop moment of 2008." With its loping groove and careful balance between live play and programmed beats, the Mickey Moonlight mix pulls you in and holds you close, drawing an unexpected innocence out of a song that's all about disillusionment. More than a parlor trick, it's positively magical.