The Blessed Madonna (aka Marea Stamper) has linked up with Chicago home producer Jamie Principle for a collaborative new single titled ‘We Still Believe’.
It’s an previous minimize made new once more with the assistance of Principle, with Stamper taking part in and recording the unique some years again that includes her personal warped voice. Pulsing with a deep undulating beat and playful digital accents, the brand new model options Principle’s clean vocals weaving throughout the music as he croons: “It doesn’t matter about your colour/your sexual identity/it’s just about being free/we still believe.”
Check it out beneath.
“I wrote and recorded a version of this alone in my attic over a decade ago, writing the lyrics on the back of a record sleeve and recording them into a blackberry under a blanket. I distorted my own vocals on the original, but imagined that the song would someday be performed by Jamie Principle, arguably the first real writer in house music and my hero,” Stamper stated in regards to the monitor in a press launch.
“Jamie had recorded the unique demos of ‘Waiting On My Angel’, ‘Your Love’ and so forth as an adolescent at house within the ‘80s. Later on they’d be reengineered by Frankie Knuckles and firm, turning into worldwide smashes and basic items of the story of Chicago home.
“Eventually, years later, Jamie and I met, sitting next to each other at Frankie’s memorial and we’ve been beloved friends ever since. “We Still Believe” by no means felt accomplished accurately, so I purchased the rights to it again. Jamie kindly agreed to re-record the music I wrote for him earlier than I knew him and right here we’re, writing the following chapter collectively and doing it the best way I imagined all of it these years in the past.”
‘We Still Believe’ marks Stamper’s first launch of the 12 months and follows on from her 2022 minimize ‘Serotonin Moonbeams’. Back in 2021, she was sampled by good friend and fellow producer Fred once more.. for his lockdown-inspired pandemic anthem ‘Marea (we’ve misplaced dancing)’.
Stamper additionally launched a remix album of Dua Lipa‘s ‘Future Nostalgia’ in 2020. Dubbed ‘Club Future Nostalgia’ the file featured reworked songs with Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Missy Elliott, Mark Ronson, Yaeji, Jayda G and extra.
Speaking in regards to the album in a four-star evaluate, NME’s Hannah Mylrea wrote: “It was a savvy decision to recruit The Blessed Madonna: the result is a collection exciting, genre-splicing remixes that you could genuinely imagine hearing in the club. It may not have been the album celebration Lipa was planning, but ‘Club Future Nostalgia’ feels like a party all the same.”