There was a pause before the crowd erupted.
Find her on Instagram.The pre-show music faded with the lights. The fact that it might expose a new generation to dance music’s rich history is only the icing on the cake.Ĭlub Future Nostalgia is out now on all platforms, or listen to it via the link above.Ĭaroline Whiteley is an editor at Electronic Beats. Love it or hate it, the scale and ambition of this project alone deserves appreciation.
Additionally, as EB contributor Chal Ravens pointed out on Twitter, this kind of pop-meets-underground cross-pollination can often become a young listener’s first foray into dance music. While the pairings of remixers may seem like a strange marriage to some-when the record was announced, an army of Dua Lipa fans took to Twitter to voice their aggravation with the choice of artists tapped to work on the project-the record harkens back to times when major label artists would entrust cutting-edge, underground dance music artists with remix duties, like Armand Van Helden’s cult takes on Janet Jackson, Aaliyah, and Tori Amos, which still continue to fire up the rave. In classic Moodyman fashion, it’s also the track with the longest playtime, its melodies wheeling around like the roller skates at his legendary Soul Skate parties. Another strong contender is the record’s closer, “Break My Heart,” where Moodyman lets Dua’s voice float casually over his deliciously stripped-back approach to beat making, funk-driven basslines, and his own infectious laugh. The record’s standout is Yaeji’s remix of “Don’t Start Now,” thanks to its unexpected spin on the viral original, with sharp, angular twists lurking just around each corner. Alternating between elements of Jersey Club and deep house, Yaeji’s signature vocals-which usually take center stage in her own productions-can only be detected through a distorted filter, echoing Dua’s voice.
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An album visualizer, published on Youtube, also accompanies the project, with each music video creating a unique world via 3D design and motion graphics per track.Īs expected on a major label project of this nature, some of the remixes indulge in the more grandiose, bubblegum-sticky veneer of pop music, such as Zach Witness and Gen Hoshino’s take on “Good In Bed” (reminiscent of the retro sounds of Lily Allen) or in The Blessed Madonna’s own version of “Love Is Religion,” which could easily score a happy-go-lucky scene in a Netflix original reality show. Still, Club Future Nostalgia is full of blissful moments dance music heads and Dua Lipa stans can surely come together on, such as Midland’s buoyant 2-step take on “Pretty Please,” blending into classic garage house beats from Masters At Work.
Special Request), Korean-American electronic star Yaeji, Detroit House legend Moodymann, and The Blessed Madonna herself. “When Dua asked me to recreate Future Nostalgia as a DJ style dance mixtape,” she says, “I was excited because I knew I was being asked to introduce not only myself, but my heroes and sheroes from both pop and club music in a whole new way.”Ĭlub Future Nostalgia takes the form of a remix album-cum-mixtape featuring fresh takes on Future Nostalgia’s original tracks by none other than house veterans Masters At Work, Godfather of house Larry Heard (A.K.A. Mr Fingers), Midland, Horse Meat Disco, Hot Chip and 2Bear’s Joe Goddard, Jayda G, Paul Woolford (A.K.A. This summer, in light of Black Lives Matter protests globally, and with increasing pressure from the electronic music community, she made the change to her new alias.Īt this point, Stamper had already been working with Dua Lipa, after initially being introduced by Mark Ronson at last year’s edition of Glastonbury. Formerly known as The Black Madonna, the Kentucky-born artist has claimed to have originally chosen the name to reflect her “family’s lifelong Catholic devotion to a specific kind of European icon of the Virgin Mary which is dark in hue,” but the name always raised eyebrows.
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