Jazz guitarist & composer Gabor G.Kristof (whose family had left Hungary in 1956 to settle in Switzerland) and vocalist Nadjma (a Swiss resident of Iraqi origin) had recorded three amusing electropop tracks sung in Arabic. We came up with the idea to release them as one side of a mini-album, and to ask dub wizard Adrian Sherwood to do some radical remixes which would make up the second side. Adrian accepted, but declined the offer to listen to the original songs prior to the mixing session, arguing that he preferred to discover them on the spot. He flew to Lausanne, came to the studio, listened... and was slightly disconcerted, as these neat ...