Martin Ottesen, aka Funkstar De Luxe, hit his formulae in the summer of '99.
He began by flooding Ibiza with white labels of his re-working of Marley's classic 'Sun Is Shining'.
The timing and choice of song was little short of perfect for pop success and 'Sun Is Shining' soon got a commercial release and charted at number three in the UK.
Having worked it out, his hit machine geared-up for a repeat performance with Marley's 'Rainbow Country', which only made it number 11, but still demonstrated that you can pull off the same trick twice.
He has now pushed credibility to the limit by putting together an entire album of other people's hits songs.
In Ottesen's favour his re-workings of songs are less cheesey than they could have been. He manages to inject dance floor energy into tunes without totally massacring them and he renders songs that are cringe worthy in the first place, such as Black Machine's 'How Gee', slightly more palatable.
But that's just it. The most offensive thing about this album is that someone's had the nerve to select a bunch of hits and re-market them for a few dollars more. Otherwise there's little to displease. But there's also little to like.
Most of the tracks would be familiar to your grandmother. All of them end up sounding roughly the same once they've been run through the Funkstar mill, so you end up thinking 'What's The Point'.
MOR musical wallpaper for fitness clubs.
