Peace Orchestra - Reset (CD)

All Music Guide

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 RB 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, All Music Guide