Finding ourselves in the last days of a decade that made its entrance with an exhilarating, if not somewhat misguided, electro resurgence, it can be disheartening to realize that much of the music has aged as unmercifully as the haircuts. Among the precious few that still hold their own is this standout single from Swayzak’s 2002 LP, Dirty Dancing.

This remix of their original collaboration by production duo Headgear (currently working separately as Circlesquare and Konrad Black captures the unselfconscious fun of the heyday of the electro years, while avoiding the excessive irony that permeated the scene by employing the same depth and restraint that propels each of the artists’ current work.

The song’s long running time is used effectively- an affected vocal set against a synth that would make Annie Lennox blush, sectioned off by a series deep and swaggering breakdowns. I once played this in a friend’s car, and the airbags deployed.

Swayzak – In the Car Crash (Headgear’s Crashing In the Same Car Mix) 9:57 mins/ 192 kbps/ 13.6 MB