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Buying a remix CD is like buying a newer model of the car you already have, only now it can morph into six other autos, ones that you've always wondered about. So instead of merely driving Boom Bip's 2002 model, Seed to the Sun -- a luxury electronica sedan in the body of a hip hop Yugo -- you can cruise down the highway in Lali Puna's krautronica or Four Tet's Spastic Glitchsprinkler, courtesy of Corymb. But there's a problem: The reason you bought Seed in the first place is you liked the way it hugged the curves and glided down the straightaways, mesmerizing you with its textural vastness and giddy beats. Maybe you don't trust Mogwai's Simplistic Minimalistic; maybe you can't stand Venetian Snare's garish colors. Sure, Bip offers three new songs and two "Peel Session" tracks here, but are these worth purchasing a whole new roadster for? Might we not wait for a fully new model, one that exceeds the imagination, that rockets us into outer space?