Electronic gurgling meets sound effects from Star Wars meets hip-hop — this is where one would find Jaytram and Prefuse73’s split remix album.

Originally, the 13 tracks came from the mind of avant-garde hip-hop artist Epstein, who challenged the two to take the material and completely rework it. The product is an eclectic minefield of beats and sporadic melodies that would most likely be the soundtrack to your strangest of dreams.

Jaytram opens the album with it’s most accessible track, “Haunted Hotel Beat,” blending a steady hip-hop beat with much-subdued synthesizers. Followed shortly is the soulful “You Know They Out,” while synthetic twanging comes and goes as it pleases. The underlying hip-hop vibe stays constant in the first half of the album, but the tracks get weirder and weirder. The most off-guard tune, Prefuse73’s “Temporal Tempo,” slowly builds to a jumble of electronic static (I can’t fight the mental image of a robot exploded in a jazz club). Where coherence and logic could take form, Jaytram and Prefuse73 would rather chaotically fashion their own form of “logic.” Where adding a catchy hook could make a track spectacular, both explore pulling layers out instead of layering more. For the rest of us, this makes for a challenging experience, but one that doesn’t lack in creative energy.

The split album is offered online at a pay-what-you-want pricing, so pick up Epstein Remixed just to see how weird it is for yourself.

(Asthmatic Kitty Records, PO Box 1282 Lander, WY 82520)