This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As part of the music business’s endless quest to fill every conceivable — and inconceivable — marketing niche, EMI brings us this offering designed to bridge the gap between the lounge and the dance floor.
And as a concept, it sounds pretty groovy; classic lounge tracks remixed by electronica artists like µ-ziq, Meat Beat Manifesto and Utah Saints. Too bad the results don’t sound quite as cool. While some cuts are neat — Tranquility Bass turns Louis Prima’s Jump, Jive An’ Wail into a kaleidoscopic dub plate, and The Rip-Off Artist’s version of Dean Martin and Julie London’s Sway suggests Timbaland in Vegas — too many others are like a badly mixed Manhattan, pointlessly diluting Martin Denny and John Barry’s bachelor-pad melodies with bottom-heavy bass riffs and beatboxes. Maybe there are some gaps that don’t need bridging after all.
