“It’s Like That” proves a great song is not fixed — it’s a template. From Run‑DMC’s streetwise original to Jason Nevins’s global club makeover and the inventive Raxon E repacks, the track’s evolution is a small history of how music moves between communities, technologies, and eras. Each version speaks to a different crowd, but all keep the original’s defiant heart.
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If you manage to acquire this repack (often through private trackers or production Discord servers), here’s how to use it respectfully and creatively:
The Jason Nevins remix revitalized “It’s Like That” as a mainstream dance classic; a Raxon E Repack that pushes the remix into modern EDM territory will likely succeed as a club tool and festival filler. It’s an effective, high-energy reimagining best enjoyed in social or workout settings; listeners seeking the raw historical hip-hop vibe should stick with the original.
Few tracks have bridged the gap between golden-era hip-hop and 90s house music as seamlessly as It’s Like That by Run-DMC vs. Jason Nevins. Originally released in 1997 (peaking in 1998), the track became a global smash, introducing a new generation to Run-DMC’s 1983 classic. Fast forward to the modern electronic underground, and the track has found new life once again—this time through the lens of French DJ/producer Raxon E, whose “Repack” breathes fresh, club-ready energy into the iconic record.
In music production slang, a repack is:
The "Raxon E Repack" specifically refers to a fan-made, high-fidelity reconstruction of the Jason Nevins Remix of "It's Like That".
(Note: If you want a short timestamped DJ cue sheet or a comparison table of the three versions, tell me which versions you have and I’ll produce it.)
Here’s a story blending Run-DMC’s iconic track “It’s Like That” (in its Jason Nevins remix energy) with a fictionalized “Raxon E Repack” — think of it as a lost, high-voltage remix EP from an alternate timeline. run dmc jason nevins its like that raxon e repack
Title: The Raxon E Repack: It’s Like That (Jason Nevins HardDrive Mix)
Logline: In 1998, a burnt-out record store clerk discovers a forgotten DAT tape labeled “Raxon E Repack” — a ghost-produced, never-released remix of Run-DMC’s “It’s Like That” by Jason Nevins — and must protect it from a ruthless A&R man who will do anything to bury the past.
The Story
It was 3 a.m. in the sub-basement of Vinyl Vengeance, a crumbling New York shop that smelled of mold, broken needles, and broken dreams. Leo “Deckwreck” Hernandez was supposed to be cataloguing dead stock. Instead, he found a shoe box behind a water-damaged crate of 12-inches. Inside: a single DAT tape, handwritten in silver Sharpie:
Raxon E Repack
It’s Like That (Jason Nevins HardDrive Mix)
(DO NOT RELEASE – CONFIDENTIAL)
Leo knew the legend. In ’97, Jason Nevins had already flipped “It’s Like That” into a global house anthem. But before the official version, there was the Raxon E Repack — a session where Nevins, under a pseudonym, stripped the track to its bones. He replaced the beat with a glitching, industrial-locomotive rhythm. He ran Rev Run’s “Unemployment at a record high” through a blown guitar amp. He added a hidden third verse from D.M.C. that never made any album — something about digital ghosts and “repackaged souls.”
The label killed it. Said it was too dark. Too fast. Too dangerous for radio.
Leo slid the DAT into the shop’s ancient player. The first snare hit sounded like a car door slamming in an empty warehouse. Then Jason’s signature filter sweep — but corrupted, bleeding red. Then D.M.C.’s voice, slowed then sped up: “It’s Like That” proves a great song is
“People talkin’ but they just inventin’ / Repack the truth, now the whole world’s bent in…”
It wasn’t a remix. It was a warning.
Before the second verse dropped, the lights flickered. The front door shattered inward. A man in an expensive leather trench coat stepped through the wreckage — Marcus Vex, a legendary A&R fixer known for “erasing mistakes.” He didn’t work for a label anymore. He worked for whoever wanted the past rewritten.
“That tape,” Vex said, brushing glass off his sleeve. “It’s like that, Leo. And by ‘that,’ I mean it never existed.”
Leo grabbed the DAT and ran — through the stockroom, up the fire escape, onto the rain-slicked roof of the Lower East Side. Vex’s men swarmed below. Leo’s only weapon: a portable DAT walkman and a pair of Sony MDR-V6 headphones.
He pressed play. The HardDrive Mix kicked in at 128 BPM, but the tempo wasn’t steady — it hunted. Every kick drum synced with his fleeing heartbeat. As Leo leapt from rooftop to rooftop, the track remixed reality: traffic lights pulsed to the bassline, neon signs flickered Run-DMC lyrics, and for one insane moment, the skyline spelled RAXON E REPACK in broken LEDs.
Vex caught up on the 14th floor of a parking garage. “That mix changes the ownership of the song,” he snarled. “Too much truth in the B-sides.”
Leo held the DAT over the edge. “Then let it fall like a bad single.” Want a published‑ready HTML version or a shorter
Vex lunged. Leo dropped the tape.
It didn’t fall. It hovered — spinning like a phantom 45 — then shot skyward, dissolving into a million data particles that rained over the city as static. Every boombox, car stereo, and Walkman within a mile crackled to life, playing the Raxon E Repack for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Then silence.
The next morning, the official “It’s Like That” remix was #1 again. But if you listened close — between the radio edits — you could still hear it: a ghost snare, a buried D.M.C. growl, the faint hiss of a repack that refused to stay packed.
Leo opened the shop at noon. On the counter, a new DAT tape. Silver Sharpie.
RAXON F REPACK
“You Talk Too Much” (Jason Nevins Lost SubMIX)
He smiled. The fight wasn’t over. It was like that — and that’s the way it went.
End credits track: Run-DMC vs. Jason Nevins – “It’s Like That” (Raxon E Repack – Live from the Rooftops)