I wasn't familiar with tosca's 'suzuki' when I purchased this disc so I thought it was a release of new material. This is a slick disc with a clever concept: 14 different dub versions of the track 'honey' from the amazing disc 'suzuki' interpreted by different remixers and artists.
What I like about this disc is the music. Each track flows seamlessly into the next one yet remains totally distinctive from each other. Every track maintains the deep, sexy and funky grooves tosca is deft at creating. My favorite is the Shelter Ave dub and its stuttering take on the vocals. Other noteworthy dubs are Funky Lowlifes, Biggabush and Supatone. I also like the cover art. It reminds me of those sexy album covers the Ohio Players did back in the 70s. They even have an album called 'Honey' with a honey clad girl on the cover. Perhaps tosca's influence for their cover art.
With that said and done, what I don't like about this disc and the reason why I removed half a star to give this 3 1/2 stars, is every track, with the exception of three or four, uses the same line over and over and over again: "I want my honey ... I want my DA DA DA ..." I played this while a friend was over and after about the ninth track or so he looked at me and said: "Hasn't she been saying this for 30 minutes now?" After about the 60th time you hear this line it's enough to drive you crazy and on repeated listenings it begins to detract from the music. My solution to this is to program the tracks I liked and it helps to alleviate the irritation factor.
Overall this is an excellent disc good for chilling out after a long evening, listening to on headphones or playing as background music at cocktail party. Buy this in addition to tosca's 'suzuki' and peace orchestra's debut (peter kruder's project) and you'll have enough chill out grooves turn any place into a den of cool.
This album consists of different mixes of the Tosca track "Honey". While the song is amazing, and some of the mixes especially the Markus Kient Dub (Track 2) the low fi Supatone Dub (Track 7), and the surreal feel to Azoia dub (Track 12) -its' dreamy - i'd only recommend it if it Honey was your favourite song in the world and you really really loved it. After the 14th mix of the song it gets all a bit much however its incredible how the song is reinvented, 'cause each mix sounds distinctively different from the next.
This CD is a surprise, a good surprise. I thought that maybe one or two tracks would be notable but every track is catchy. This is worth a listen; it is not repetative at all.
