redcrescent
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Madonna's You can dance (1987) is a seamless mix album of Madonna remixes, and it still holds up quite well I find. The CD has 3 dub versions tagged on at the end which are worth a listen (a lot of 80s dance 12"s have great dub versions on the flipside, often so much better and more interesting sonically than the vocal side).
What's the Stephen Bray demos and the Early Years Madonna stuff with Otto von Wernherr like, I've heard individual tracks that sound at times like a hi-energy/white funk/rock hybrid with a very stoned producer at the controls (stay well clear of 90s remixes of this material, though, it's atrocious).
Incidentially, production/remix credits on You can dance include Nile Rodgers, 'Jellybean' Benitez and Reggie Lucas, who played a mean guitar on Miles' best mid-70s sides: Get up with it, the previously mentioned On the Corner, Dark Magus, Live at the Philharmonic Hall and the amazing Agartha/Pangaea. He had previously been an MFSB session player (for The Three Degrees, The Spinners and my favorites, the O'Jays) too, and later played on albums by Lonnie Liston Smith, Roberta Flack and sometime Miles associates Carlos Garnett, Mtume and Gary Bartz.
What's the Stephen Bray demos and the Early Years Madonna stuff with Otto von Wernherr like, I've heard individual tracks that sound at times like a hi-energy/white funk/rock hybrid with a very stoned producer at the controls (stay well clear of 90s remixes of this material, though, it's atrocious).
Incidentially, production/remix credits on You can dance include Nile Rodgers, 'Jellybean' Benitez and Reggie Lucas, who played a mean guitar on Miles' best mid-70s sides: Get up with it, the previously mentioned On the Corner, Dark Magus, Live at the Philharmonic Hall and the amazing Agartha/Pangaea. He had previously been an MFSB session player (for The Three Degrees, The Spinners and my favorites, the O'Jays) too, and later played on albums by Lonnie Liston Smith, Roberta Flack and sometime Miles associates Carlos Garnett, Mtume and Gary Bartz.