“Taking Future Nostalgia and reimagining it as a mixtape album was an enormous project, which had to be done in absolute secrecy, alone in my attic. And the party doesn’t stop there – there are so many more surprises to come!” Dua teased. Absolute queens Missy Elliott and Madonna joined me for an epic remix of ‘Levitating,’ and my dream girl Gwen Stefani and the supreme Mark Ronson teamed up to take ‘Physical’ to the next level. We invited some friends and legends to join in on the fun with us. During this time, I decided to take the party up a notch with the incomparable The Blessed Madonna, who secretly helped me to craft the mixtape that would become Club Future Nostalgia. It brought so much joy to my days spent at home, even though I would’ve much rather been playing these songs live for you all on the road. I’ve watched you all dance in your homes and on your Zoom parties to Future Nostalgia like you were in the club with me. The result is “an eclectic and euphoric mix of the past and present, it’s a celebration of musical worlds coming together, with 90’s house blending seamlessly with 2020’s finest pop and remixers, a splash of 80’s soul and a few noughties musical gems added to the blend.” On Friday (August 7), Team Dua dropped some additional details via press release regarding her forthcoming remix album out on August 21, which is described as “a stellar collection of brand new remixes and features from an incredible roll call of superstars, underground heroes and some of the world’s finest dance music talent,” and “has been curated and also mixed into a continuous mixtape format by The Blessed Madonna.” (You already know we stan a continuous, non-stop mix.) “It’s opened up a whole new world in terms of what I’m able to do as an artist,” she says, “and that is a gift I will never be able to repay.UPDATE: The club is nearly open – Club Future Nostalgia, that is. But what better time, when the world is on pause, to get stuck into the project of a lifetime? “Honestly, this saved my life,” she says, “to have this miracle dropped in my lap, at a time unlike any we have lived through.” A sufferer of severe asthma, lockdown hasn’t lifted for Stamper in the same way it has for many of us in the UK, but Club Future Nostalgia has offered so much more than relief. She’s been holed up in her home studio for months, “like Jack Nicholson in The Shining”, she chuckles. With a stream of ideas “flying through the internet at enormous speeds,” lockdown has been an intense time of working for Stamper. “We’re in this historic moment,” Stamper explains, “of course the word Black should go through the prism of race.” On July 20th, Stamper announced that she would cease the use of the name. The name has its roots in Stamper’s family and her faith, but urgent conversations about Black lives in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, plus a petition started by DJ Monty Luke calling on Stamper to change her DJ alias, caused her to rightly reconsider her use of the word Black, as a white artist in a world owed entirely to Black musicians. “Dua is good and smart and sharp and brilliant,” Stamper says, “everything was clicking, it felt like something very special was happening.”īack when Club Future Nostalgia was just a concept, Stamper was working under the alias The Black Madonna. “It was totally in my wheelhouse,” Stamper recalls when she first heard of the opportunity, “I asked my team to do whatever they could to make it happen.” Ahead of the initial Zoom with Lipa’s team, Stamper wondered, would they be suits? Or would they be heads? The latter, it turned out, for it was a collaboration with great synergy - many of Stamper’s initial suggestions for remixers had already been contacted. Over the last few months, Dua Lipa and Stamper have been busy transforming the pop superstar’s March-released second album into Club Future Nostalgia, a glittering, dancefloor-ready mixtape. A DJ mix for a global pop phenomenon with 13 remixers, features from three of the most successful women in contemporary music, and 11 additional samples? Check. Just like the rest of us, Marea Stamper, aka The Blessed Madonna, has taken up new hobbies in lockdown.
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