One of the big problems with the internet is that you never quite know what it is you’ve downloaded, especially when it comes to music from file-sharing apps. This was one of the first MP3s I’d ever downloaded, from the original file-sharing application: FTP servers. It did take a while to realize, though, that this wasn’t the real version of “Little Fluffy Clouds” everyone knew. Once the original commercials for the new VW Beetle came on, it was pretty obvious. Incidentally, those commercials also taught me there were more remixes of Fluke’s “Absurd” than I could possibly imagine. 

It wasn’t until this year that someone finally told me what this was—a ten-minute cut from the Live 93 disc. This explains the rambling, organic feel of this particular mix, and just about everything from the preacher at the beginning to Rickie Lee Jones’ return at the end of the song is note-perfect. This is one of the definitive mixes of a massive electronic hit.