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Greg Paulus - musclecars & Maher Daniel Remixes

Seth Troxler’s Slacker 85 and Greg Paulus revisit his 2025 album 'Close To Home' for a set of remixes from some of the label’s favourite contemporary producers.

Fellow New Yorkers musclecars are first up, stripping the Dillon Cooper-featuring cut 'Bond' down to its raw materials, rebuilding it from the ground up with a laid back jazz/funk instrumental that steers the track into Blackalicious and Digable Planets territory, and Cooper’s laconic rhymes anchored by a soulful backing vocal from Berlin-based soul vocalist Monica Mussungo.

Maher Daniel returns to Slacker following his contribution to the label’s behemoth 'He Ain’t Here' compilation in July. The Palestinian-American DJ demonstrates why he’s no stranger to the record bags of Villalobos, Raresh and Traumer, as he takes the skittering off kilter rhythms of 'Hold Dear' and applies a discretely urgent drum pattern that propels a swirling, sinister sub-bass under hypnotic snatches of vocal.

Greg Paulus - musclecars & Maher Daniel Remixes is released on the 18th of September via Slacker 85.

Release Date	September 18th, 2026
Catalog No	SLACKER014R
Label	Slacker 85

track	artist
Bond (Musclecars Remix – Explicit)	Greg Paulus	4:48
Bond (Musclecars Remix – Instrumental)	Greg Paulus	4:48
Hold Dear (Maher Daniel $1000 Remix)	Greg Paulus	7:39
Hold Dear (Maher Daniel Hornless Remix)	Greg Paulus	7:39
Bond (musclecars Remix – Clean)	Greg Paulus	4:48

Support

Jimpster

Pfft! This is HEAVY! Big ups Greg and Musclecars for pulling a big one out of the hat!

Ilario Alicante

Downloading for Ilario Alicante, thanks for the music!

Hector Romero

Fantastic original and great remixes to accompany it. H

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

LOVE IT!

Bassam Ibellini

Solid! Thanks for this release

Catz 'n Dogz

love this !!

Sally Rodgers

Liking the remix instrumental and the clean mixes here, thanks

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