CD-ROM titled Garbage:Sampler, given away by Mushroom Records UK in conjunction with The Sun newspaper and Asda supermarket. The "Androgyny" video was uploaded to VEVO in 2009. Remixes The CD format of Beautiful Garbage contained an enhanced element where users could remix four tracks from the album, of which "Androgyny" was one of. Created in conjunction with Sonic Foundry, using a customized version of their drag-and-drop ACID Pro music sequencer software, the remixes utilized samples and loops taken directly from the actual songs. The enhanced section could be accessed when the user was online; a simplified version of the software featuring only "Androgyny" loops was accessible when the user was offline. The offline 'soundtoy' featuring "Androgyny" loops and samples was later included on the Garbage:Sampler CD-ROM. Interscope Records and Sonic Foundry launched a competition in November 2001, in which fans were invited to remix "Androgyny" by downloading free ACID Xpress software. Entrants could then upload their work to a specially created website (www.acidgarbage.com) to stream their mixes online. The winner received copies of Sonic Foundry's ACID Pro 3.0, Sound Forge 5.0, Vegas Audio 2.0, and five loop libraries. Remixes commissioned for the single release included club and dub mixes each from UK garage outfit The Architechs and Chicago house and electroclash DJ Felix da Housecat. His "Thee Glitz" remix was notably included on the 2003 2 Many DJs landmark mashup album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, and later remastered and included on the bonus disc of Garbage's 2007 greatest hits album Absolute Garbage. Interscope paid $75,000 for a funk remix of "Androgyny" by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, an American production duo known as The Neptunes with scheduled plans for it to be serviced to radio and clubs. A remix by Missy Elliot was also in the works; Butch Vig told NME: "We've talked about either "Androgyny" or "Untouchable". We'll send it off to her and say, Missy, do your thing, do whatever you want with it, because we love her and love her sensibility which she brings to it." Critical reception "Androgyny" was met with a mixed reception upon its late 2001 release. In early press, Kerrang!s Dom Lawson described it as "pretty collides with sterile" and "glistening"; while a reviewer for Heat claimed ""Androgyny" is a bewitching record, pirouetting between pop, rock and funk". Much comment was made on the songs notable genre-crossover from alternative rock.