It's the rare producer whose skills can match that of
Peace Orchestra (aka
Peter Kruder, half of all-timers
Kruder & Dorfmeister), so it's easy to expect good things from the remix album
Reset. Not to say that these tracks improve on the originals, though the imagination, range of ideas, and quality of sound is at an extremely high level throughout. Among well-wishers and fellow beat heads like
Trüby Trio and
Kosma, highlights come with the deeper-than-deep R&B and thick hip-hop of newcomer
DJ D.S.L.'s "Double Drums," the pointed beats and precise acid-house of fab Frenchmen
Chateau Flight, abstract tribal breakbeats from
Gotan Project, and the distorted keyboard progressions of
Beanfield on "Meister Petz." ~ John Bush