Aidy's Girl Is a Computer

VINYL FORMAT. Darkstar's last single on Hyperdub, "Need You," released early in the summer of 2008, was Pitchfork's # 1 dubstep single of the year, and turned many towards their developing melancholic sound. Championed by Radiohead, they recently returned the nod of appreciation by recording a version of "Videotape" for Mary Anne Hobbs' new Planet Mu collection, Wild Angels. On Aidy's Girl, the duo confidently define and refine their catchy melodic sound with a song that's perfectly pop, while at the same time possessed of strange and intriguing bittersweet machine soul. Over at the other side, Detroit teenage wunderkind and Omar S. protege Kyle Hall recalibrates the original into a blissful robotic Motor City house opus on his Oats B So Good remix, with a massaging bass line that sounds like sunshine on melting wax.