Kevin Bronson on February 11th, 2014

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Generally, remixes get us as excited as the mouthful of grounds you get with that last gulp of morning coffee – especially if the knob-twiddlers get their hands on a song that’s a modern indie classic. Like LA Font’s “Diving Man,” the title track to the local quartet’s guitar-tastic 2013 album. The forthcoming “Diving Man Remixed” is reason to rethink. The EP features remixes by Body Parts, Hands, Blake Straus of Hunter Hunted and David Shane Smith, among others, each bringing their own warped sensibility to the song (and Danny Bobbe’s perfectly mewling vocals). What’s more, the project is a benefit – all proceeds go to the Downtown Women’s Center, which has battled homelessness among women in Los Angeles for 35 years. Hands turns the song to rainbow colors; in Body Parts’ hands it’s a glitchy disco stomp; Straus’ playful vocoding of the vocals suggests he has Bobbe trapped somewhere in his machines; and rather than outer space David Shane Smith characteristically takes the song deep into the bowels of the earth. Fun for the whole L.A. family.

||| Stream: After the jump, stream all of “Diving Man Remixed”: