''Suzuki'' is the second studio album by

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Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

, released by

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and G-Stone Recordings in 2000. Unlike many of Tosca's subsequent releases, ''Suzuki'' is essentially an

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album, with vocal samples integrated throughout, but in such a way that they "become a part of the instrumentation." The album is dedicated to the

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master Shunryu Suzuki. The dedication can be found on the inside of the front cover. A dub remix album, ''Suzuki In Dub'', was released in October of the same year, and the compilation of remixes of "Honey", ''Different Tastes of Honey'', was released in 2002. It was awarded a gold certification from the

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which indicated sales of at least 100,000 copies throughout Europe.

Track listing

# "Pearl In" # "Suzuki" # "Annanas" # "Orozco" # "Busenfreund" # "Honey" # "Boss On the Boat" # "John Tomes" # "Ocean Beat" # "The Key" # "Doris Dub" # "Pearl Off"

Personnel

Richard Dorfmeister Kruder & Dorfmeister, named after members Peter Kruder and Richard Dorfmeister, is an Austrian duo, known for their trip hop/downtempo remixes of pop, hip hop and drum and bass songs. Career In 1993, they released their first EP '' G-Stoned'' ...

Rupert Huber Rupert W.M. Huber (born 1967 in Mödling, Austria) is an Austrian composer and musician. In 1994, Huber founded ''Huber Musik'' to publish his own music, and in the same year, founded Tosca with Richard Dorfmeister. Huber's 2006 release of ''Fu ...

* Anna Clementi, Mike Daliot - Vocals * Bo Kondren - Mastering

References

2000 albums Tosca (band) albums {{2000s-trip-hop-album-stub