nto a future called House Music. Remixed by Yvonne Turner after the legendary Arthur Baker (her employer at the time with his label Streetwise Records) agreeing to her request to remix this jam. Unfortunately (and criminally), her name was erroneously not included in the label credits on the release, to Arthur’s frustration and bafflement to this day. It is an unfortunate echo of the times, when females did not get the credit or the breaks that they truly deserved in such a male dominated industry. Yvonne Turner was undoubtably a female trailblazer (along with early people such as Prince’s favourite engineer Susan Rogers), and I adored Yvonne’s vibe with her work. She was a teenage DJ, worked at Downstairs Records in Midtown New York and was a disciple of the seminal and massively influential Loft parties thrown by the legendary David Mancuso (she even calls herself a ‘Loft baby’). One very fortunate DJ mix ‘helper’ for me was the fact that she had also done a couple of fantastic remixes of a track by Willie Colon called ‘Set Fire To Me’. It was a gift to me to be able to get really creative and do a special mix of this with both of the versions of Willie Colon, due to them sharing the same groove track, tempo and musical key! They mixed together like cheese and wine. To me, Yvonne always had great ears and that funky, latin-tinged but soulful vibe that Larry Levan always had in his work, and to this day she is a massive influence and favourite remixer of mine and was (and is) criminally under-rated for the massive effect her productions had on the future of dance music. Thankfully, we are now living in more enlightened times where human beings are mostly given the same opportunities regardless of their sex, race, colour, creed or self-identity.