by Jason Birchmeier
Like its companion album, Different Tastes of Honey, released around the same time in early 2002, Suzuki in Dub features a variety of producers remixing tracks from Tosca's 1999 album, Suzuki. However, unlike Different Tastes of Honey, which offered over a dozen remixes of one song, &Honey,& Suzuki in Dub offers remixes of the other songs from Suzuki, including the title track, &Orozco,& &Busenfreund,& &Annanas,& &Boss on the Boat,& and &Zula.& These tracks are remixed by producers such as Burnt Friedman, Alex Kid, Walkner Moestl, Uko, Sasha Crnornja, dZihan & Kamien, Jürgen Nussbaum, Philippe Lussan, the Deadbeats, and a few others. The resulting album is much more diverse than Different Tastes of Honey -- and, of course, much more than Tosca's original album as well -- featuring a broad selection of styles. Most of these producers stick with a downtempo style, incorporating plenty of dub motifs; however, they venture far from Tosca's somewhat-trademark style, exploring the outer reaches of early-2000s dub such as Latin- and techno-inflected variations on the traditional dub style. This plethora of stylistic approaches is always interesting, though the resulting album as a whole doesn't flow from track to track quite as seamlessly as Different Tastes of Honey or the original Suzuki album.