Tired of that same old diva vocal? Over rehashed classics a-la Bob Sinclar? Filtered guitar lines not getting your fleuoro singlet hot anymore? Forget what you know about house and let Yousef re-educate you. Spanning two discs, Yousef has put together a 3-hour live set enlisting some of the best underground house/tech generals who are ready to tear you a new one. Bushwacka!, Dennis Ferrer, Digilatism, Trentemoller, Nathan Fake, Josh Wink and of course the man himself march side by side in the battle for your aural pleasure.

After opening up with DK7’s minimal Instone, we are hit with Bushwacka!’s vocal dub of Blake & Monroe’s Summer’s Gone. The ghostly vocals continue with Carl Craig’s remix of Siobhan Donaghay’s Don’t Give It Up. The driving beats ever present in I-Cube’s Acid Tablet and the jazzy keys of Dennis Ferrer’s Son Of Raw, seriously can this guy do no wrong? If you like things a little glitchy then you will dig Danny & Nick Chatelan’s Duty Free Boys and the hypnotic groove of Bookashade’s Tickle. Disc one closes out with some harder edged techy beats like Trentemoller’s African People and Josh Wink’s Thick As Thieves.

The second half of the mix opens up with the tribalistic singing of Pier Bucci’s Hay Consuelo, remixed by so-hot-right-now producer Samim. The distorted riffs of Digitalism’s slamming track Jupiter Room lead into the Nic Fancuilli acidic dub of Sandy Rivera’s Lollipop, a fairly ordinary track in its original form but Fancuilli gives it some edge with some driving beats. Yousef makes devasting use of just one note on the keyboard in his own track The Approach. The highlight on the album is however his track Spooky with the vocals from Quentin Harris’ U Don’t Me layered over the top. Very cool.

Yousef has created a very intricate mix, blending house, electro, techno, acid and everything in between. You could listen to this mix twenty times and still hear something fresh every time, and the mixing is extremely tight. For those of you familiar with Yousef this may not be what you expect, it is a lot less funkier than his previously mixes, focussing much more on electronica. If you like your house techy or your tech housey then this is the album for you.

In a word: Deep