Aaron Evans

This is a simple 7” edit of “Into The Groove” I made. I edited out 2:13-3:02 cause it made the song feel very repetitive.

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This is a simple 7” edit of “Into The Groove” I made. I edited out 2:13-3:02 cause it made the song feel very repetitive.

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This is a simple 7” edit of “Into The Groove” I made. I edited out 2:13-3:02 cause it made the song feel very repetitive.

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This is a simple 7” edit of “Into The Groove” I made. I edited out 2:13-3:02 cause it made the song feel very repetitive.

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This is a simple 7” edit of “Into The Groove” I made. I edited out 2:13-3:02 cause it made the song feel very repetitive.

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I was pretty disappointed that none of Sickick's original verse was included on any of the official releases / remixes.
I created a 7 minute edit of Frozen that includes some music video elements and the original verse by Sickick. 
Enjoy!
Version 1:

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 4/4/2022 Version 2: Adjusted transition between Sickick verse and Fireboy DML verse

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up *NEW* 5/19/2022 - Third edit of my extended mix featuring the new Frozen On Fire verses.

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Frozen on Fire: Madonna vs Sickick EP on ICE blue vinyl exclusive
TIK Side
Frozen (Featuring Fireboy DML) Frozen (Featuring 070 Shake) Frozen on Fire (Madonna vs Sickick) Frozen on Fire (Madonna's Version) TOK Side
Frozen (Featuring Swae Lee & Jozzy) Frozen (DRILL Remix) Frozen on Molly (Honey Dijon Mix)

Mmmmmm
If I could top the chart
Frozen will be the start
Remixes, one, two, three
The fourth will be the key  
 
Now there's no point in placing the blame
All of the mixes, they sound the same
Fuck it, they'll do
Leaves my fans heartbroken
 
Love is a bird, she needs to fly
When did my creativity die? 
I'm frozen
What rappers can I rope in?

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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You put the wrong file for “Australian Commercial (no narration)”. It’s a duplicate of  “US Commercial #2 (no narration)”

Somebody take my laptop away before I do regrettable things with it. 
One late evening on May 13, I stumbled across Dan K's 4K upscale of an Immaculate Collection commercial in the US with a recreated audio of that commercial. It got me thinking of recreating the 5 available IC commercials on YouTube which are:
The US commercial # 1 (the one that Dan K. upscaled and recreated) The Our Price (UK) variant of the US commercial The German commercial The US commercial # 2 The Australian commercial Why, you ask? I don't fucking know. I guess I was bored from doing nothing so I kept myself busy.
Without further ado, here's the video:
And here's the download for the audio recreations. Do what you like with them. :D

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up UPDATE (5/14/2022): Fixed the Australian commercial with no narration because the audio file is a duplicate of the US commercial # 2 with no narration.
 
EDITING NOTES:
For the commercials using the IC versions of the songs, I have a CD rip of the album in FLAC that I have since 2016. For the Dutch and the US # 2 commercials, I used the HDTrack versions of the first three albums and a WAV file for Into the Groove and Vogue. I used an AI online stem separator to get only the narrations, fixed and cleaned them and then edited them onto the recreations. I did my best but my best isn't good enough considering the US # 2 commercial and the Our Price commercial are in bad quality but know that a bitch tried.

Ok, so reading the notes from the booklet in the mock up:
Holiday is the 4:20 , LAV and Material Girl are the album versions.
Open Your Heart is the edit from TIC Video compilation, "never released as audio before."
Keep it together is the single mix (sic) “reworked to have a unique intro and outro from the 12” remix’

Fantastic news to wake up to! And the timing couldn't be more perfect after the Medellín meltdowns, haha.
I think whoever was in charge of the tracklist did a great job picking the most significant remixes. "Causing A Commotion" was already represented in the recent RSD release, so no complaints here.
As for the artwork, I'm sure both covers will look amazing on vinyl. I quite like the (intentional?) nods to Madame X and Celebration, respectively. The CD liner notes and the 12-page LP booklet are also much appreciated.
Overall, you can tell there was thought and care put into this project, which makes me anticipate the upcoming reissues even more. Finally enough love, indeed ❤️.

My complaints about this compilation are:
- No "Open Your Heart (Edit of Extended Version)"
- No "Fever (Edit Two)" (but we win the "Radio Remix" never available on CD)
- No "Like A Prayer (7'' Dance)" (Fortunately I have this version on CD)
 

A theory: did you notice how the Fireboy DML version has the acapella intro and the 070 Shake version just starts right on the beat? I’m putting my two cents on the Swae Lee version having the outro from the original sickick remix and when the Remix Compilation comes out they will be mixed into one song with Fireboy DML, 070 Shake and Swae Lee having a verse each.
I also have a feeling that the third version with Swae Lee will feature new vocals by M. It feels like she’s building up to something.

With the retrospective releases around the corner, as well as the unknown of what Madonna's future career holds, what are some wishlist items you have for her, either with past work or as future albums / singles / tours / etc. that may serve as an ideal bookend to her career?
For me, it's the following:
A completely remastered and reproduced MDNA album -- The songwriting and lyrics themselves aren't generally bad, but the mastering itself is horrific, as well as the production on some songs. The continuous mix floating around shows what potential the album may have had, and songs like Girl Gone Wild / Turn Up the Radio / hell even GMAYL would go off so much harder with revisited production.  The MDNA Tour re-edited with solely Miami footage The Confessions Tour in 4K The Reinvention Tour in 4K -- I refuse to believe there isn't Jonas Akerlund footage of the whole show sitting somewhere  A complete overhaul of the Rebel Heart album -- This would be such an interesting release for her to revisit. Maybe trim the trackless, fix the atrocious mastering issues, maybe rework production (Living for Love should have been produced by Disclosure and Wash All Over Me was infinitely better with Avicci behind the wheel), and present it with her original vision. A final over the top Greatest Hits Tour with Confessions Tour level energy and MDNA production -- Most of Confessions was "pose" choreography and she definitely has it in her still to deliver something like that. And she needs to go back to closing the show with 4-5 huge hits like RIT and Confessions. Would love if she went all in on the mega mix idea she had with the end section of Confessions and sequenced the whole show into a big club mix. Avant-garde, album-centric tours in smaller venues after the final Greatest Hits Tour where she can pick past album cuts as part of the setlist instead of focusing only on hits. Imagine -- Confessions in warehouses and clubs with disco reworking of songs like Physical Attraction, Angel, Nothing Fails, Hollywood, Beat Goes On, Celebration etc. A Ray of Light theatre tour with songs like Falling Free, Intervention, Easy Ride, etc. included and reworked as ambient electronic mixes An outdoor grungy amphitheater Like a Prayer rock tour with just her, a band, and a mic stand doing Like a Prayer album cuts, rock versions of songs, etc. A docu series focusing an episode on each of her tours and how she came up with the concepts, what initial setlists looked like, challenges along the way, etc. And really, that's just a start...but a boy can only dream... 

Into the Groove and Frozen are out! Next round starts tomorrow, bet on which M song is gonna get plagiarized next! Only here on Madonna Infinity! 

la isla bonita

The title says 2002, you had me so confused for a moment  
I have one expectation, that she begins filming her visual autobiography. I'm actually excited to see how she will interpret her life story. I wish she wasn't directing... but she seems very passionate about this project so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Any music or concert footage released would be a cherry on top. 
 

I don't know what you miserable lot are moaning about, it's raising her profile again, bringing in a younger crowd with new fans.
It's a pretty good remix, I hope it puts Madonna back in the charts, once all those crappy Christmas songs disappear.

I think it’s quality and don’t get all the hate. Anything that gives her streams a boost and wakes the youth market to her. Think of all those younger people who stream who will now have Madonna suggestions or auto play coming up on their playlists as a result of this. 
 
It’s not just an isolated song like stuff was  a decade or so ago. It’s much more closely linked to marketing / exposure and a huge dose of cool cache for a market that is largely M blind. 

I loathe the way TikTok has a stranglehold on the music market these days but we are where we are. 
 
If more of these are in the pipeline for 2022 in a year where she’ll largely be silent on the new music front I’m all for it. 
 
FYI: it doesn’t change the fact that the original exists. It’s still there if you want to listen to it hens. 
 
 

Love this record  (one of the most sampled) that inspired parts of the Girlie Show. You hear it in Deeper & Deeper - and Everybody
1:22 break 1
1:34 break 2
2:02 break 3
2:21 just the shaker
 

If anyone's interested, there's a released 'edit' for this remix included in Essential Selection '98

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I don’t like that song as the follow-up to “4 Minutes”. The instrumental sounds like it came from an early 2000s video game, and is thus too cheap-sounding (not “cheesy” cheap, but cheap cheap) for chart material. I can understand why Madonna never had a major worldwide hit after that, and don’t blame it on her switching labels for MDNA.

It's a good song but not a second single song. I agree that Beat Goes On might've worked better as second followed by Heartbeat as third. If they slightly remixed She's Not Me to hit harder like it did on the S&S Tour then it would've worked amazingly as a single with a stellar video. I imagine a mix of what she did on S&S and what Mel C did in her Who I Am video.  To be honest to me, most of the album sounds unfinished. Like they were the demo tracks for Madonna to record her vocals on but they never went back and edited them. 
Gimme All Your Luvin didn't really help ruin her reputation, it just set the wrong tone for MDNA. Now Bitch I'm Madonna didn't help her public image.