Josh Wink has always been keen on dismissing genre from his music. Electronica with acid, house, and techno filled the original album,
When A Banana Was Just A Banana. On the remix, some of the biggest names in techno and house, Slam, Radioslave, Agoria, rework all nine tracks but sadly lose some of the eclectic nature of Wink's music.
Though all excellent remixers there is a little concern that there is not enough variety on the album. First up Jimpster turns the disco slabs of Jus Right into a deep house anthem. Flickering vocals and gentle synths follow the track from start to finish ensuring the remix is anything but 'remixing by numbers'.
Slam work a fairly standard remix of Everybody To The Sun that loses the funk value of the original transforming the track into an after-hours after-party piece. Martin Buttrich's remix of Dolphin Smack is a stand out effort turning the original 'doplhins on smack' into a growling acidic tech-house record. The bending synths after the breakdown are truly glorious.
Nic Fancuili and Radioslave both work their magic on the album, the latter creating a ten-minute beauty of Stay Out All Night complete with signature melodic licks. Radioslave rarely puts a foot long and his presence on the album is of note.
Josh Wink has clearly got some big backing behind this album and some of the remixes are great tracks in their own right, however, the collection loses the eclectic nature of the original. Obviously a remix album will not have the same flow of a single product, but you can not help but think that more effort could have been taken to secure some different styles on the remix.