Mock & Toof

“Lycra Virgin” is one of those tracks that is destined to bounce around the internet. There is no avoiding it.

Re-edits of ‘old’ songs often have an unavoidable sense of irony… They often take on what we now expect the past to sound like. “Like A Virgin”, even though it is the ultimate artifact of the 1980s, actually wasn’t really supposed to sound the way it did. That wasn’t the 80s. There wasn’t enough synth. There wasn’t enough sampling. It wasn’t plastic enough. Mock & Toof tell it like it really was with “Lycra Virgin.” The irony is that 2006 sounds more 1984 than 1984 actually did.

And of course, Mock & Toof’s take is certainly better than Christina and Britney’s version. Sans kiss that is.

“Lycra Virgin” is freely available on Mock & Toof’s Myspace profile (for now)… where you can also stream their forthcoming remix for The Juan McLean that Pitchfork loved back in February.

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Mock & Toof – “Lycra Virgin”