Bungalow gets an immediate gold star for not going the bog-standard remix album route with Peter Thomas. Instead, they dug up a bunch of previously-unheard Peter Thomas Sound-Orchester snippets and handed them out to artists whose current work bears the imprint of Thomas' influence -- Tipsy, John McEntire, the High Llamas, Stereolab, Saint Etienne and other not-quite-electronic luminaries -- and allowed them to, erm, get creative. If you've heard any of Thomas' stuff, you know his work meshes seamlessly with the modern retro-futuristic solid-state analog crowd, so this is clearly a match made in heaven. That's why Stereolab's "Blaue Milch" sounds like... well, a more lucid Stereolab, and why Saint Etienne's "Chaos in the Gym" drifts grandly around your head like a stoned astronaut on a spacewalk. Yoshinura Sunahara applies a slippery, soulful treatment on "PT vs. YS", and John McEntire strips "Neutron" to a simplistic- yet-haunting analog melody. On "The Bells of Senegal", the High Llamas all but invite Peter Thomas to join the band, so thoroughly and lovingly are his space-jazz ingredients incorporated into the bubbling syncopation of Mr. O'Hagan's stew. On the title cut, which closes the disc, Thomas teams up with The Maxwell Implosion to prove he's still on his game, concocting a symphony of bass, breakbeats, blips and bleeps that's one of Warp's most vigorous tracks. As if all this wasn't enough, Bungalow kindly includes the aforementioned source material on a second disc so that Peter Thomas Sound Orchester completists can sleep easily and so you can play "spot the sample". My only gripe: the artists represented here are all trendy and current and somewhat responsible for Thomas' mini resurgence. I'd love to hear what some older groups, whose Thomas influence stemmed from his TV work, would have done with this material.