It makes me sad man, but like anything, just because you slap the word ‘experimental’ on something does not make it good. Hopefully Diplo’s upcoming works don’t sound as rushed as these tracks did.

The first one isn’t that exciting. Some parts of it remind me of “Toy Soldier” from her last album, though, and I think the two would be interesting if mixed together (maybe on a prerecorded set so you could really fuck with em). He also got really lazy with the vocal track. Britney sings “There are two types of guys out there; the ones that hang with me, and the ones that are scared.” Diplo, assuming you can’t hear the lowered vocals clearly anyway, uses “and the ones that observe” from earlier in the song. It kinda threw me off and makes the track seem even more like a rush job.

The second one is along the same lines until about 2/3 of the way through. I wasn’t sure why I liked it until I realized that Diplo used the same sample on his mixtape for M.I.A. on Bucky Dun Gun. So…that explains that. Yeah.

I have to say, though, that Diplo’s one-off remixes are always a grab bag. He’s in his element when he’s doing continuous mixes, but too often he tries to pull the same energy into his single-track remixes without regard for progression or utility (i.e., a lot of his remixes sound like they were pulled out of a mixtape and played standalone).