Rewind The Classics: Why Are So Many Great Records Getting Remixed? -“Derrick May’s “Strings of Life” is the most sinned against classic dance track. Reversioned countless times, those who have approached it have never come close to the heights that the Detroit producer scaled - and it is hard to imagine anyone who remixed it crying naked in their apartment like May claims he did when he wrote the tune. At best such remixes of classics are pointless, while at worst they sound like the people who commission them are trying to make a quick buck by pimping out timeless music in watered down variants. The prevalence of new versions of vintage material has become more commonplace recently. Indeed in the past few years, new remixes have accompanied re-releases of classics by Shake, Juan Atkins, Octave One and Sterac. Why is this practice becoming more common?”