Is it ever acceptable to remix a classic?

Even Underworld's 'Born Slippy' isn't safe from the remix treatment. Recently, I travelled to Vietnam to cover Epizode Festival and I heard the same tech-house remix of 'Born Slippy' twice and by the second time I was well and truly bored. To be honest, Andrew Meller's 'Reincarnation' mix isn't a bad remix of the track. Carl Cox, Nicole Moudaber, Edu Imbernon and Claptone have all been drawing for it and it's a pretty chunky 'hands-in-the-air' moment but does an already epic piece of dance music history really need to be remixed?!

The functional cut is far more assured and competent than some of the other remixes of classics floating about but once you get stuck into the minute and a half long breakdown of the original, you kind of just want to hear it untouched and unedited. Alas, a big, thick drop comes and all that's left of 'Born Slippy' are the looping vocals. It's not bad, it's not great, it's just a little pointless really. Why not just play the original in all its nostalgic glory rather than opt for a new remix? You'd get far more props from dancers for having the guts to play the cut that we fell in love with all those years ago rather than some attention-demanding remix.