Artist: Tosca
Title Of Album: pony - no hassle versions
Year Of Release: March 26, 2010
Label: G-stone recordings/a
Genre: Nujazz / headz / groove
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps CBR
Format: unMixed
Total Size: 135mb

Tracklisting:

1. springer (smith & mudd version) (5:12)
2. birthday (grant phabao version) (5:41)
3. my first (nicola conte version) (5:04)
4. elitsa (kotey extra band disco version) (6:28)
5. rosa (rodney hunter version) (6:56)
6. elektra bregenz (bottin's disco spritzer mix) (5:21)
7. joe si ha (spirit catcher version) (7:04)
8. joe si ha (reverso 68 version) (5:52)
9. oysters in may (kalabrese version) (5:33)
10. rosa (k&k streichquartett version) (3:56)

If you’re looking for the meaning of it all, better not try to decode this record: "Somewhat absurd... like, 'Pony'", says Richard Dorfmeister about the conceptual side of "Pony - No Hassle Versions". No meaning might have a meaning here. A certain lack of meaningfulness describes the nature of Tosca pretty well; on their equine record even more so.

Releasing an album of remixes of their most recent work stays in tradition with the Tosca modus operandi. There's been at least one remix album for each 'original' Tosca album to date. In the case of "No Hassle", Tosca’s 2009 longplayer, this might make even more sense than before, since "No Hassle" was an introspective work. "Pony" brings the more club-oriented face of Tosca to the forefront. To put it simply, Tosca, the project of the two Austrians, Richard Dofmeister and Rupert Huber, combines bass-heavy downbeat music with abstract soundscapes of found sounds and material from numerous studio sessions.
When these recordings are handed over to remixers, everything changes; texture, dynamics, structures. Still, "Pony" is a true Tosca album; the sound signature of Dorfmeister and Huber cannot be superseded by a remix.