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PAPADIGI01-X | 2013-10-01  
Fifteen years is a long time in any art form, but with the dizzy forward push of modern club music, it seems especially long. Several times the career stamina of average talents, it's a good moment to reassess accomplishments, especially for someone whose past includes brushes near pop star status and collaborations with some of the biggest names in dance music. Thus, after fifteen years of beat-making and a break to build a family, Dave the Hustler returns to relaunch Paparazzi Records by revisiting classic tracks with remixes from friends Dachshund, Lad, and Julien Bracht.

In this context, Dave and Evil C's 1998 original "Get Up" has withstood the test of time particularly well. The taut, minimalist, chugging rhythm would come to be called tech-house but had not then been so named, while elsewhere funkier touches and hints of dub slot it in favorably with many 2013 deep house tracks.

Frankfurt's Bracht melds the modern affinity for techno industrialisms with the original's more gentle aspects, resulting in a smart rhythm track imbued with subtlety and poignancy.

True to its title, Dachshund's "No BS Mix" is all about the dancefloor; it incorporates many elements of the original but employs them in its own muscular fashion with emphasis on building, filtered samples and shifting drum programs.

Fellow Geneva producer and Caduceus Records label head Lad turns in a transformative remix that begins with heads-down intent and gradually adds layers of nastiness and psychedelia as it charges inexorably towards its dramatic finish. For a digital bonus, Dave returns to '90s deep house roots with a devotional remix that lands closer to New York than Chicago; old school in a way the original is not, it's a fitting tribute for a producer revisiting his and his genre's past.

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