Some not-so-new stuff from Pizzicato Five and Handsomeboy Technique. Last year, in celebration of the 5th anniversary of P5’s breakup, Columbia Japan re-released the band’s entire back catalogue on Columbia, plus two greatest hits compilations—that’s a whopping 17 CDs. And if that wasn’t somehow way more than enough, Columbia also put out a remix album two months later, on May 24th (or 5/24, which leads to 524, which is apparently a phonetic synonym for “Konishi,” one of P5’s founding members). Pizzicato Five We Dig You is eleven tracks of five-minute mashup mixes by a bunch of Japanese producers and artists, and bringing up the rear is a Handsomeboy Technique mix with a suitably excitable name (three exclamation marks!). Fittingly, it clocks in at exactly five minutes and 24 seconds.

Though all the mixes are apparently spliced together from Pizzicato Five material, I don’t know nearly enough of P5’s discography to say what comes from where. In any case, it sounds essentially like a Handsomeboy Technique song, but with the influences floating a bit closer to the surface: a bit of old-school hip hop here, a dash of Motown there, a light sprinkling of children singing, and a heaping spoonful of Technicolour wonder all around. In other words, fantastic.