Puff Daddy remix of Smashing Pumpkins from 1998 surfaces

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Diddy mashing up Smashing Pumpkins? Apparently, yes.

Apparently this 1998 retooling of Ava Adore has been floating in the ether all these years, just surfacing of the six-CD, one-DVD Adore “super deluxe edition,” a reissue of the band’s fourth album set to drop September 23.

Here’s the new song:

According to RollingStone:

While Puffy’s Perfect remixes leaked to the internet years ago, this release marks the first time we can hear his version of Ava Adore, a tight edit that adds crisper drums and a string intro, that can also be streamed below.

Here’s the original:

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[h/t RollingStone]

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