MGMT / Photo by Nick Haymes

Ever since Freelance Hellraiser got the Internet's nutz in a twist with 2001's "A Stroke of Genius" -- a seamless mash-up of the Strokes' "Hard to Explain" and Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" -- the ultimate, 21st Century tribute to the It rock band of the year has been an endless barrage of (mostly) unauthorized mash-ups, remixes, covers, and alternate versions. And without a doubt, this year's chosen mashees are Spin's November cover boychiks MGMT. Here's an incomplete, but still seemingly endless (25 or so) round-up, in order of my personal preference:

• "All My Children" (MGMT vs. LCD Soundsystem), Immuzikation
  Immuzikation, a.ka. Athens, Georgia's Alfredo P. Lapuz, Jr., is the mash-up man of the moment, and this extended massaging of LCD's "All My Friends" (basically a mash-up of Steve Reich and New Order, anyway) with MGMT's "Kids" is a fascinating mix of aging hipster regret and childlike hipster nostalgia. The soundtrack to a changing of the guard? (DOWNLOAD MP3)

• "Nasty Feel," MGMT vs. Justice vs. Notorious B.I.G.
  Brooklyn duo ddpesh modestly describe their music as "Daft Punk plus Premier's beats divided by the Chemical Brothers" (um, good luck with that, fellas). But this hilariously ingenious mash-up of Biggie's "Nasty Boy" with Justice's remix of MGMT's white-soul wafer "Electric Feel" gets a damn sight closer than anything they've ever done before. Never thought I'd hear Frank White "freekin' these bitches like Jodeci" over the hackey-sack slow jam of the year. (DOWNLOAD MP3)

• "Kids" (We Don't Care EP version), MGMT
  The original, cheaply made version sounds like actual guileless kids stumbling into magic -- the singing's less affected, the drama less studio-enhanced, and when the vocals kick in after the electro breakdown and sound of children playing with about minute left to go, you honestly stop caring for a second what the hell they mean by a family of trees wanting to be haunted! (DOWNLOAD MP3)

• "Of Moons, Birds & Monsters" (AmpLive feat. Mistah F.A.B. Communication Edit), MGMT
  Bay Area DJ/producer AmpLive (of Zion-I) takes this frilly deep-album psych stroll and reinvents it entirely, hooking up a personalized rap from hyphy's crown prince Mistah F.A.B. (DOWNLOAD MP3)

• "One More Time to Pretend" (MGMT vs. Daft Punk), Immuzikation
  Perhaps this mash was inevitable, but Immuzikation just nails it, allowing MGMT's "Time to Pretend" to bubble out of Daft Punk's disco fanfare "One More Time" like it'd always been there waiting to emerge. And the Doors outro is pure comedy genius. Thank you, and tip your doorman in sequined hot pants on the way out. (DOWNLOAD MP3)

>> Get more MGMT remixes on page 2.
>> For part one of last week's "I Started a Joke (or Careful: MGMT at Play)" click here.