I think one of the best things about the rapid ascendance of this current crop of electro-pop songstresses (see Boots, Little, Goulding, Ellie, The Diamonds, Marina and) is that they are, to a person, proving to be ripe, varied and exciting remix subjects. And we’re not talking just the straight up space disco/electro-house rewrites either; many of the tracks emerging of late are kinetic, heavy and bass-filled. Some of them are pretty much unrecognisable. Most of them are surprisingly good.

Our focus today is one of the current front-runners in the lady synth-pop stakes, Britain’s ever-lovely La Roux. Although this should come with a caveat – La Roux is actually a duo featuring singer Elly Jackson and producer type Ben Langmaid. But hey, Elly is the only one you ever see and hear about, so lady synth-pop it is. Onwards!

After veering dangerously close to the #1 spot in Britain with her first single ‘In For The Kill’ (featuring remixes by Skream and Lifelike), La Roux is returning on June 22 with the probably bulletproof single, ‘Bulletproof’. Which aims to repeat the half synth/half bass remix package of ‘In For The Kill’ by pairing the track with remixes by Zinc and Tepr. Although, to be fair, Tepr’s offering is hardly the usual tepid electro fare. Instead we get long, gorgeously rendered trance revival vocal stretches, punctuated by periods of jacking post-fidget. Yeah, that’s right, I said post-fidget. Fidget is dead. It’s over. Let it go….

Really very good.

La Roux – Bulletproof (Tepr Remix)

Next up is this straight-up but nonetheless caning dubstep remix of Bulletproof by the always impressive Foamo. And while this track is not featured officially on the single, and from all reports was a fairly casual effort from the man, I would suggest that, irrespective, it may well be better than the Zinc track they actually went with. A brilliant pairing of angelic vocals and devastating bass.

La Roux – Bulletproof (Foamo’s Dubstep Remix)

[via You Can Call Me Pelski]

You can pre-order the single here, an act of awesomeness that for around $10 will get you a CD, a 7″ and a KEYRING!!!!! A FUCKING KEYRING! GET ONTO IT!!!! KEYRINGS!!1!!

-luke