On Tuesday, Kylie Minogue released a pair of EPs for “Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love),” the fourth single from 2010’s stellar pop album, Aphrodite. There are several remixes, a live version from Kylie’s Aphrodite: Les Folies tour (one of the best shows I’ve ever seen), plus a new B-side, “Silence.”
If you’re a Kylie fan — fair-weather to foaming-at-the-mouth — you probably know this. But the release of the “Put Your Hands Up” EPs must be mentioned, if only because now we can get our hands on one very special remix.
Pete Hammond, a man whose sonic fingerprints are all over Kylie’s early discography as the house engineer for producers Stock Aitken Waterman, was commissioned by the singer to revisit that hallmark sound for a retro revamp of “Put Your Hands Up.”
It is, in the words of Kylie herself, “80’s-tastic.” And though Pete Hammond’s remix has been previously featured here, its effervescent genius bears repeating. Like, totally.
Besides the Pete Hammond remix of “Put Your Hands Up” (offered in extended 8-minute form and edit), I also dig Bimbo Jones’ disco-inflected re-do. The Basto and NERVO remixes feature a lot of banging about and veer too far from the original melody to please these eardrums (odd in the case of NERVO, since the twin-sister duo penned the tune with producer Starsmith).
I found it best to cherry-pick from what’s featured on both EPs, noting that only Amazon MP3 offers the extended Pete Hammond Remix on its own (though at a small premium).
Purchase Kylie Minogue – “Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love)” EPs via iTunes (Pt. 1, Pt. 2), Amazon MP3 (Pt. 1, Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love) (The Remixes)Pt. 2).