Tosca - Souvenirs flac album

Fans of "Opera" and "Suzuki", run. With 3 or 4 saving graces, the miasma of dance styles from this CD is bland, tasteless, and at times, revolting. Here's a run through of selected tracks, good and bad:- Track 1 - Irritating twangs, with an angry Theo Altenberg threatening the listener "I'll fuck your brain out" and a constipated bassline that's supposed to inspire fear. Oh please. Track 2 - Reggae-style, sung by Earl Zinger (aka Rob Gallagher). At the low bpm, his raspy voice makes me want to slit my throat. Track 3 - Gorgeous female vocals, set against a stylish, trippy, shuffling beat. Wonderful chill out music, remniscent of "Suzuki". Track 4 - A suitably quirky Rondo replete with chromatic scales that cascade out-of-tune and a mischievous guitar refrain that also threatens to spill onto wrong keys clumsily. The playful "off"-sounding chords poke fun at the by-now-familiar voiceover of a certain "Lin Sin Sin" from Singapore, mocking the typical Singaporean's pronunciation and grammar. Track 5 - Playful and delightful, light as soufflé, Senor Coconut lulls and intoxicates the listener on a sunny Fantasy Island surrounded with coconut trees, piña coladas, and beautiful people. Track 6 - This track starts off promisingly enough with an Ibiza-in-sunset guitar tune, only to be marred by a needlessly heavy-going bassline which royally messes up the track. Track 11 - Revolting. Ms Sandra Kurzweil (WHO?) sings like a fierce drag-queen repeatedly: "You can leave your PJ at hooooommmmmme" to beats that Club 69's Peter Rahoufer have long utilized to exhaustion. It just sounds sad now. Track 14 - 9 seconds of dead silence. John Cage had a point to make. What's Tosca's excuse? Even Henrik Schwarz of "Marvin" and "Chicago" fame could not rescue "Superrob" as he merely mixed downtempo beats to the tacky western-cowboy harmonica solo. Neither could the otherwise respectable Madrid De Los Austrias team on Damentag with cheesy lyrics ("Protect the AR-DAH"? No, THUNK-YA!) I don't know about you, but I'm bringing my PJs to any party remotely related to this CD.