Label: Manifesto
Year: 1999
Running Time: 71:15

Tracks:

Traveller (Kid Loco's Once Upon a Time in the East Mix)
Dub in Ya Mind (Beach Club Mix)
The Messenger
Homebase
Beautiful (7" Canny Mix)
3.2 Bedrock (Ambient Mix)
Satie 1
Homelands
A Distant Invitation
Existance (Edit)
Oh Home
Les Kid Nappeurs Main Theme
Ill Street Blues
The Look of Love

The last in the series, Jose indicates in the liner notes that he is going to work on other projects than the Cafe del Mar series, ends with a mellow almost 70's feel to it. It certainly is a lot less jazz influenced than the last album whilst retaining that slightly dreamy flow to itself. Only a few tracks really stand out as being noteable in & of themselves (Talvin Singh's 'Traveller', Mandalay's 'Beautiful' and dZihan & Kamien's 'Homebase' ) but the rest work as a whole and the tone of the album is a slightly wistful one, dreaming of past times.

It is a strong, but not blockbuster, end to a series that I will miss greatly. However based on Jose's solo album 'Souvineir' I look forward to his other musical endeavours with interest. Jose is a talented artist in his own right and while I am slightly sad to see the series stop I do want to see what he will produce when unencombered by the demands of compiling. We have seen hints of it with some of compilation discs featuring tracks Jose has either written or remixed. Now it is time for the man himself to come out fully from the shadows and show us what he can do.