*** CIBO MATTO, “Super Relax,” Warner Bros.

The band’s name means “food crazy,” and their songs have such titles as “Beef Jerky” and “White Pepper Ice Cream,” but Cibo Matto is no mere concept act. Its 1996 debut album, “Viva! La Woman,” was a rangy, street-wise delight that seemed to take a big slice of Manhattan and put it on wax, like a Lower East Side counterpart to Beck’s “Odelay.”

This nine-song EP again presents the idea of food as dreams, repressed anger and ultra-revved desire. Singer Miho Hatori and keyboardist-sampler Yuka Honda once more set the smorgasbord against a positively infectious beat.

The centerpiece is a song from the debut called “Sugar Water.” Here, the sweet hip-hop elixir of the original is turned into a buzzing space-trip by Mike D. of the Beastie Boys and Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, then mixed into a spare, acoustic Asian blues, then spun into a dance-dub whirl by British deejay duo Coldcut.

But it’s the new work that makes this collection tasty, if not as stunning as “Viva!” “BBQ” is a house-party-perfect gem, with Honda and Hatori rapping poetry in their trademark broken English over weird scratching and jangling hip-hop clanks. “Crumb” is a delicious collection of found sounds. Simins returns for a quirky duet version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Aguas de Marco.” In all, an appealing side dish.

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