Hotel Costes is a "legendary, exclusive hotel" in Paris where celebs such as the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Emma Bunton and Craig David enjoy hanging out. This fourth instalment of their music series highlights the slick and impressively alternative music selection played at this bohemian, avant-garde establishment. Mixed by Parisian scenester Stephane Pompougnac, the collection of super-cool "hotel" nuggets includes a host of highly digable material like the beautiful openers "London in the Rain" by Variety Jam and "I've Got a Cat" by The Method. There's plenty of uptempo vibes too, with Dublex Inc's "Tango Forte", slow-burning deep house missives like Slowsupreme's "Granada", Pompougnac's own "Closer To Julie" and Jon Cutler's classic "It's Yours". After raising our temperatures with some Brazilian vibes from Imada on "Playground Do Brazil", the afro-cuban sway of Major Boys' "Sous Le Soleil" and Doctor Rockit's seductive "Cafe De Flore", Pompougnac brings us back down to floor level towards the end with Gotan Project's "Epoca", Shantel's sophisticated shuffle "Whatever" and Orbient's supine "Boarding". This is, all in all, a great listen and a refreshingly different selection of tracks. --Paul Sullivan