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It's been 5 years!
One of the first few projects that I shared in this forum is my remastered version of the "It's That Girl" promo cassette rip shared by @XAnon777/Rebel Hugo. I decided to revisit this project and remaster it again, this time a little better than the last time. The previous remaster was... a choice but this one is better. I decided not to correct the pitch for the songs just to give it an authentic feel of the cassette. I corrected the channel swap, balanced them out then remastered them.
This is just a little "thank you" to all of you for making this forum a home and a safe haven. I admit that whenever I feel down, I just read some topics here, talk to y'all, throw shit at Emily, and download some files. Y'all deserve a little sumn-sumn. <3
EDIT: I have replaced the artwork here with a better quality picture by @jemboy1973. :D

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up UPDATE: If you wish to listen to my remastered version with fixed pitches and tempo, now you can. Big thank you to @spinningaround for fixing it! :D

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I’ve always been a dance music snob. I had “Best of Rave” commercialized underground cassettes in middle school my first real DJ mixtape was on Tribal, Danny Tenaglia’s “Mix This Pussy”.
 
Shit blew my 14 year old mind.
I’ll add a little Madonna context, around this time I had also joined an internet mailing list MLVC.org and even met a friend on there that lived a few towns away. He would mail me stacks of customized cassettes with rare Madonna stuff like Razormaid and Hot Tracks and crazy weird stuff like Tiny Little Circles Mix. He introduced me to a lot of the DJs and remixers of that era like Love To Infinity, Tony Moran, etc. I still have them one day I’ll retrieve them from storage and show you the creative covers he would make for them just for me.
Anyway I used to pick up Mixmag at Borders bookstore (I even later worked at the magazine stand in a Borders, it was ideal as I’d get the best access). Mixmag was unique as it was full of names (producers, remixers, DJs, singers, even bootleg Madonna stuff like “Music Sounds Better on Holiday” were featured) and the mag even came with a mixed CD or compilation of often exclusive stuff. Borders music section also had imports like Renaissance, Fabric, Gatecrasher, all rare compilations in easy access.
The year was about 98/99 and Armand Van Helden had remixed Tori Amos and Sneaker Pimps both getting US airplay, in Philly there were weekend mix shows on college radio and pop radio, there was a chance an Armand version could appear on either.  I had both the “U Don’t Know Me” single and the “2 Future 4 U” album on CD. 
 
Anyway long story short I met a girl in high school that went to rave parties, we bonded over a mutual love for our tragically-broken-up-to-never-reee-unite Deee-Lite. She was lucky enough to have seen their live shows and some of their solo DJ work at local raves. I looked up to her party experiences. She showed me her flyer collection one day and then showed me an upcoming show and damned if Armand Van Helden wasn’t the headliner. She was more into Goldie and DJ Hype and that drum n bass sound, which was tertiary but essential to the rave scene. 
 
We went to this ridiculously huge, poorly secured warehouse for this later tragic (people like overdosed and/or crashed their cars and and stuff it was baaad) yet amazing rave party and I was stone cold 16 years young sober and really overwhelmed by it all until through the crowd walks that now famous Ali G. look it was Armand Van Helden with the bright tracksuit and the goggles and skull cap I had been waiting to see all night. Thankfully Sasha Baron Cohen hadn’t made the look into parody yet as it was so helpful to know I was at the right place. I got up from the corner wall cuddle puddle of drugged up kids I was sitting in and danced my freedom for over an hour to his set. If you want to see the flyer click on this ancient Angelfire page: https://www.angelfire.com/ny2/joejetta/party.html
My rave friend had gay friend that she had given MY copy of Dimitri From Paris House of Funk CD to and she forced me to meet him to retrieve it as she had asked and he refused.
 
We hit it off as he had some CDs he let me borrow and later we all went to what was my first gay club as a closeted teen. I went because they knew the DJ and knew the music was dope. No Madonna that night but I do vividly remember getting on a platform and dancing to Barry Harris & Pepper Mashay’s “Dive Into The Pool” with a local drag queen.
We went almost weekly to those bars in Philly, Woody’s and 24 for several years often after or before the local rave and rave clubs. It was such a diverse, creative scene, you’d see other party kids at either or places and we would meet up and swap stories and meet new friends. I’m forever thankful for the memories. Thanks for the opportunity to share my little memory, it always makes me smile. 

No. It’s the very rare remix edit that was only released on the 7”. Which is one of the big exclusives from this release. 

But that's the point... SHE'S FUCKING MADONNA! She's doing this for 40 years now. She should be able to perform "Music" of all songs with her arms and legs tied! And to me, that's the main point about last night.
She drew a line of quality standards, of what we should expect from her! And at some point, for whatever reason, those standards dropped, that scale changed… That happened to Janet too! And most of us (myself included) have a hard time understanding this and adapting to the new reality which leads to frustration.
It's always painful to see THE BIGGEST PERFORMERS IN THE WORLD being just average. And it's fine, I guess… they're not machines! They've done it all already... But it's hard when we look back, it's impossible not to compare them with themselves.
I said this here a few days ago... I truly believe something happened inside of her after the knee injury in 2019/2020. She spent her WHOLE life being perfect. The work out. The discipline. Rehearsals. Controlling everything... And even so, something went out of control. The 30 years of being clean and working out weren't enough, her body failed her. IMAGINE THE FRUSTRATION?! 
So I guess she's taking things less serious these days AND THAT'S FINE! But I guess THE Madonna we all know and are used to can't exist without all those layers. Maybe, without all that discipline, she's just an ok performer... And for some reason, she can't even active "muscle memory" to bring that back on stage to perform 01 song randomly.
 

10 minutes? i waited all night and didn't sleep just to witness this mess 😭🤣

10 minutes of my life i won't get back

I swear to God I was looking for that exact Nene gif!!! 2 seconds of a Titty, 20 years ago, that brought us YouTube. That titty is legendary. What happened tonight is sad and not comparable in any way. 

This is me AFTER watching the performance. 
 

My mother asked why I stayed up all night. While telling the whole story I started crying.

no no please dont share this 

how can i go to sleep after this

Hi everyone! To celebrate the success of the last megarates I've organized, here is a download link for something I've made some time ago.

As you probably now, Madonna initially recorded Be Careful for Ray of Light before it was transformed into a duet and given to Ricky Martin. However the version that appears on his album has Madonna's vocals pitched down. In this version, the pitch of her vocals are as recorded.

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Use the CUE file to play the WAV file.

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Note: Borderline is recreated from the 12'' version because the edit is unique in this promo. It's not available on 7''. The rest are from the official 7'' vinyls.

I made these when I created my upscales of the remixed videos 
Only the unique edits made by Dan, recreated from lossless digital audio:
Frozen (Calderone Video Edit) 
Frozen (Stereo MCs Video Edit) 
Ray Of Light (Calderone Video Edit) 
Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Video Edit)  
GHV2 Megamix (Johnny Rocks Video Edit) 
GHV2 Megamix (Tracy Young Video Edit)

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I added the full guitar riff in the beginning and the Prince guitars at the end.

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Madonna should reply to her:
 
 
SOON

Isn’t this the girl whose caused so much trouble at concerts? forging tickets and taking other fans seats so she can be front row? If it’s the same person she doesn’t appear to be genuine ?‍♂️

The 50#1 will all be Frozen remixed with a different rapper each time.

Yes, but we still have the same problem, these masters are not the original, these master were made for vinyl. They can sound almost the japanese pressings but the problems are still there (Surface noise, high frequencies a little distorted, the tracking goes and going...) Anyway, with the japanese EQ the tracks sounds really OK:
Open Your Heart (Dub) [With JP EQ]:

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Causing A Commotion (Yellow CD) [With JP EQ]

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Lol that the most outrageous statement ever

Here's all the mixes I've made over the last few days for I'd Rather Be Your Lover:
I'd Rather Be Your Lover ("It's Your Thing" Mix) I'd Rather Be Your Lover ("It's Your Thing" Instrumental)
(Extended version with saxophone solo and guitar solo sampled from  “It's Your Thing” by Lou Donaldson)
  I'd Rather Be Your Lover (2 Rap Mix) I'd Rather Be Your Lover (2 Rap Instrumental)
(Extended version with both the Tupac and the Meshell Ndegeocello rap parts)
  I'd Rather Be Your Lover (Tupac Clean Mix) I'd Rather Be Your Lover (Tupac 'Illegal' Mix) I'd Rather Be Your Lover (Tupac Rough Clean Mix - no backing vocals) I'd Rather Be Your Lover (TV Backtrack with Tupac) I'd Rather Be Your Lover (Instrumental)
(Recreations of the album version with the Tupac rap) Enjoy!

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We are in 2021. People wants louder files for their cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc. We are slaves of the "Loudness War" in music.

In all this "negativity" I want to remind that the blame should rest firmly on the people around Madonna.
I have been close enough to that inner circle several times and it is deranged. Like rabid dogs protecting their bitch, it changes people. Being that close to her orbit sends people into another reality. They feed off of it. Turns people nasty. Not a fun place to be.
So less blaming other fans for contrary opinions, less blaming M herself, more blaming the REAL enemies...her hangers-on and dingle-berries.
Make-up artists, dancers, investment bankers, Kabbalists, personal trainers, and "social-media videographers" who follow her everywhere with a light and have to "archive" every little moves she makes. The world around her is a circus and anyone that survives it will tell you they never want to experience that again.
Celebrity makes prisoners of people who then lose touch. It's a vicious monster.
I hope at least she is happy and truly doesn't give a shit, she has lived harder and better than anyone else on the planet-she deserves not to give a fuck. 
And fans also have the right to not like things sometimes, after all the star/fan relationship is one of consumption. Give me a shitty product, I will complain. Give me quality and I will lick your asshole and sing your praises.

That's not the point... and she certanly knows many (most) of her fans won't bid. We've been in the know that her talk about "wanting to get closer to the fans-theather intimacy" was lip service anyway.  She's more and more becoming an elitist "artist" than a pop star.