The jazz embracing deep house scene might take a good knocking for revelling in dance music's roots rather than embracing the caustic world of progress, but that misses the point and when it comes to passion and warmth of delivery there's little to be faulted in it. When it's good it contains a joyous empathy that can lift troubled souls to a higher state of hedonism.
Here the implacable Mr Yost delivers two warm, thigh moving mixes. The original bounces along on a sun drenched terrace, while the latter smoulders in a smoke filled back room bar.
The flip side sees Canada's Pepper Dig strip out the saccharin edges and toughen up the beasts in an obvious way, adding an equally obvious bass line and throwing in an unexpected bugle line (well trumpet) over the top.
While it's a shame to see those swelling warm chords given the cleaver, the result is reminiscent of an early MAW track or 95 North, as the otherwise soulless idioms of dance music are given a healthy booster injection of jazz to re-invigorate their dilapidated and perforated veins.
Finally Small Town Productions throw in a mix that pushes things as far as they can go towards the track being included in an Ibiza compilation without so much as unwrapping the cheddar.
This may be no best seller, but it's one of those EPs that will find you if it was meant to be.
Be sure to kick yourself if it wasn't.
by Ben Osborne