Free Download: Madonna - Into The Groove (Mark Lower Rework)

While we await new (hopefully badass) dance anthems from MDNA let's revisit the best of the best. Into The Groove is truly one of the best b-sides to never have a full release in an artists home country. Yeah, this one was the flip side to the Angel single in the US in 1985! Also, the only album to ever feature it originally was the European re-release of Like A Virgin. French house producer Mark Lower deepens the nu-disco qualities and dat classic groovy bassline sounds all kinds of HOT. The added Everybody loop from the You Can Dance remix album is real sweet too. Yeah baby, we're gonna d.a.n.c.e for inspiration! Enjoy! (The download site seems to be high in traffic but keep checking it here if you have any trouble.) 

Madonna - Drowned World/Substitute for Love (William Orbit's 2013 Reverie Mix)

Madonna's 1998 single Drowned World/Substitute for Love is one of our all time favourite singles by her. In fact, one of our all time favourite tracks period. The melancholy paired with tenderness and amazing ethereal qualities makes this such a beautiful song. Reflecting back on your life to find you've replaced love in your heart with materialistic values, pushing people away perhaps to get what you want. Regretting it. That is quite some topic! William Orbit is the legendary co-pilot behind the whole Ray of Light album project and today some 15+ years later he's offering this brand new reverie mix of it. The gorgeous pulsation of life and finding the light is just what is needed on a dark Sunday a week away from Christmas. It's almost painfully beautiful to be honest. The extended vertebral column of the song with those notes of joy and sorrow is almost too much beauty to listen to for a music lover. Amazing! 

Free Download: Madonna - Fever (Zero Experience Remix)

Hehe, it's truly Rain-ing terrific house bootlegs of classic Erotica era Madonna tracks! We're happy to discover as they truly sound like the real early 90's house deal. This time 'round it's M's take on the classic 1956 now standard Fever. She used the added lyrics as written by Peggy Lee, but completely changed the music to a house beat. The album version and the one released as the video version were also totally different from each other and both sound equally as good! We know the Erotica version was made by Shep Pettibone as an instrumental and M just started singing the Fever lyrics on top, winging it as they went along, and that they recorded it all using reel to reel. We love this classic piano driven house remix as it sounds like it could have come straight from the 'special DJ limited edition' red vinyl shown above. Back in the spring of '93 Fever helped bring the groove back to M's chart run after the whole Sex backlash. The drive in this bootleg makes us wanna dance for sure and long for a new Madonna album filled to the brim with insane beats that makes dance floors around the world boil. Listen below! Thoughts?

Lady GaGa VS. Madonna - Applause Gone Wild

Part of the internet pointed fingers a few weeks ago that Lady GaGa's Applause has a synth hook that reminds of MDNA's Girl Gone Wild. The resemblance wasn't something that screamed in our ears as they're pretty standard EDM but when hearing the two mashed they do go awfully well toghether. That's not a bad thing, but we think both tracks are a bit reductive in terms of pushing dance music forward. Both artists know how to create way more memorable songs than those two singles for sure. The videos look good together as well so these ladiez definitely share some taste! Have a look below! Thoughts?

Free Download: Madonna - Rain (Andy Fox's Nu-Disco Remix)

Um, how amazing is this?! Madonna's classic 1992 Erotica ballad Rain gets an incredible 180 nu-disco makeover by Italian house producer Andy Fox and we couldn't be happier! This is crazy good and sounds like an official 12" vinyl from the July '93 single release. Summer is still going and this will be the perfect soundtrack for the rest of August. That house piano, wet drum sound and synths are just sublime. Since only one channel of M's multi layered vocal track is used it also adds the bonus of hearing that really 'pop' in a brand new way too! Enjoy below!