But Crookers, aka Italian duo Phra and Bot, aren’t your run-of-the-mill house remixers as their long-awaited — and late — debut album attests.

With a foot in the hip-hop world and another in electronica land, Tons Of Friends is an album that, for want of a better term, is all over the place.

And that’s not meant to be a negative, either.

Kelis, Pitbull, Kardinal Offishall and Will.i.am lead the list of vocalists while lesser-knowns such as Rye Rye and Roisin Murphy also shine, especially the latter on the disjointed club tune Hold Up Your Hand.

Kelis’ contribution, No Security, could well be a single while Will.i.am’s Let’s Get Beezy has enough Boom, Boom, Booms to make it super familiar.

RATING: ★★★☆

IN SHORT: Varied