diff --git a/compressor/management/commands/compress.py b/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
index 59612a7..b293a42 100644
--- a/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
+++ b/compressor/management/commands/compress.py
@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ except ImportError:
 from django.core.management.base import  NoArgsCommand, CommandError
 from django.template import Context, Template, TemplateDoesNotExist, TemplateSyntaxError
 from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
+from django.utils.importlib import import_module
 
 from compressor.cache import cache, get_offline_cachekey
 from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.exceptions import OfflineGenerationError
 from compressor.templatetags.compress import CompressorNode
-from compressor.utils import walk, any, import_module
+from compressor.utils import walk, any
 
 
 class Command(NoArgsCommand):
diff --git a/compressor/utils/__init__.py b/compressor/utils/__init__.py
index e81c980..26d22b0 100644
--- a/compressor/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/compressor/utils/__init__.py
@@ -63,44 +63,6 @@ def walk(root, topdown=True, onerror=None, followlinks=False):
                     for link_dirpath, link_dirnames, link_filenames in walk(p):
                         yield (link_dirpath, link_dirnames, link_filenames)
 
-
-# Taken from Django 1.3 and before that from Python 2.7
-# with permission from the original author.
-def _resolve_name(name, package, level):
-    """Return the absolute name of the module to be imported."""
-    if not hasattr(package, 'rindex'):
-        raise ValueError("'package' not set to a string")
-    dot = len(package)
-    for x in xrange(level, 1, -1):
-        try:
-            dot = package.rindex('.', 0, dot)
-        except ValueError:
-            raise ValueError("attempted relative import beyond top-level "
-                              "package")
-    return "%s.%s" % (package[:dot], name)
-
-
-def import_module(name, package=None):
-    """Import a module.
-
-    The 'package' argument is required when performing a relative import. It
-    specifies the package to use as the anchor point from which to resolve the
-    relative import to an absolute import.
-
-    """
-    if name.startswith('.'):
-        if not package:
-            raise TypeError("relative imports require the 'package' argument")
-        level = 0
-        for character in name:
-            if character != '.':
-                break
-            level += 1
-        name = _resolve_name(name[level:], package, level)
-    __import__(name)
-    return sys.modules[name]
-
-
 class AppSettings(object):
     """
     An app setting object to be used for handling app setting defaults