To co-incide with their album, 'Blur', and their creative rebirth, Blur handed out tracks to a variety of producers and asked for remixes. 'Bustin' + Dronin' is a collection of these remixes. It was created mainly for the Japanese market, but had a limited UK release, and in all honesty, that's all it deserved. The idea behind the record was a good one, and individually, all of these remixes have their merits. Sadly, despite the range of people involved, the collection feels a bit samey - each track has been made slightly darker, slightly heavier, and slightly more morose. You never get the sense that any of the producers involved had had much fun. The Walter Wall Mix of 'On Your Own' deserves to be singled out - it's like three mixes in one, and it's fifteen minutes long, which is inexcusable.
The second disc is a live performance from John Peel's house of tracks from 'Blur', with an added rendition of 'Popscene'. This is better, showing the band at their most aggressive, but even this disc is a bit one-note - while the parent album is varied in its texture, the same can't be said of this. All in all, this is a reasonably good collection, but an ultimately unnecessary one.
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