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The winner was an unknown producer called altrice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailing from Tucson, Arizona of Iranian\/Mexican descent, altrice took the bright euphoric highs of the original and crumbled them into rumbling lows, the crystalline edges becoming rough and undefined. Along with a bursting goody-bag of prizes, Snaith also provided altrice with the stems for the rest of \u003ci\u003eSwim\u003c\/i\u003e and the offer to remix the whole album track-by-track, creating 'stem'. Aside from a further dream-come-true remix of Radiohead, this is largely the last we heard from altrice in the past 12 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA year and a half ago though, having kept up correspondence with Snaith over the years, altrice began sending new material. 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The track represented something of a continuation in the Daphni catalogue, its roots growing from Cherry’s ‘Cloudy’ and its subsequent Kelbin remix, something in that song’s makeup having a profound effect when played on dancefloors by Snaith and countless others. ‘Sad Piano House’ deployed more intangibly irresistible bendy piano to equally satisfying effect and continues to achieve similarly rhapsodic dancefloor saturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eButterfly\u003c\/em\u003e is a showcase of the wonderful variety and surprising twists and turns that made that album such an exciting new prospect and that still to this day make Snaith such an intriguing DJ. 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