Hearing Inner City again in 2026 does something to my chest I wasn’t prepared for. Pennies From Heaven is a piece of Detroit history, Kevin Saunderson and Paris Grey’s fingerprints all over the original, and DJ Paulette’s remix treats it with exactly the right mix of reverence and irreverence. She keeps Grey’s vocal front and center, because you’d be an idiot not to, and rebuilds the floor underneath into something that would work in a Manchester basement at 2am today. The bassline has that rolling, warm quality that modern house spends fortunes trying to recreate and rarely nails. What Paulette understands is that you don’t remix a classic to prove you can improve it, you do it to introduce it to people who missed it the first time. The breakdown around 3:00 strips it back to just the vocal and a kick, and it’s a genuine goosebumps moment. Thirty-odd years on and this hook still sounds like pure joy. Some records earn their immortality, and this is the sound of one being carefully handed to the next generation.
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Inner City - Pennies From Heaven (DJ Paulette In For a Pennies Remix)
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