In the spirit of Rivet’s forthcoming Secret issue, I’ll confess to one of the worst CDs in my collection: Deconstructed, the Bush remix album I bought when I was 16 and in love with that band. (Really.) But even then I could realize that the “electronica” take on their grunge-lite sound was pretty much horrible, and I only listened to it once or twice.

The remix album is a tricky beast, but Mirah’s songs survive Joyride: Remixes, many of them quite nicely. The two-disc set features 22 new visions of songs from the Olympia musician’s first three solo albums. Some of them get the treatment from two different musical interpreters on two separate tracks, and the distinctions are definitely noticeable. While Hooliganship’s version of “The Light” is an exciting opener for the first CD, DJ Beyonda’s spin on the second disc gets too clubby when Mirah’s singing turns to silly stutters like “wh-wh-what’s the use.” Her pretty voice doesn’t need any tweaking, but it happens, like when YACHT’s “Jerusalem” stretches it like a rubber band with not-so-snappy results.

On the other hand, both adaptations of “La Familia” (from her first album, You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This) are great, maybe because it’s such a strong song to begin with. Guy Sigsworth’s rendering comes off so naturally it’s as if it’s the original, and Chris Baker’s is like a more ethereal reprise.

Mirah entrusted these songs to her friends to make Joyride; some of the rest of the gang includes Anna Oxygen, Tender Forever and Mt. Eerie. Join them at the record release party Sunday, Nov. 26 at the Northstar Ballroom in Portland. K Records has the details.