When remixing "Good in Bed", Hoshino spent countless days in front of his computer, attempting to not waste any time. The Blessed Madonna worked on Club Future Nostalgia from her home studio in London, with a workflow that consisted of breaking down the remixes into sections, creating new versions of them, and going back and forth with engineers while waiting on features. The Blessed Madonna started by creating a list of samples and remixers that she wanted for the album, many of whom had already been approached by Lipa's team, including Paul Woolford, Jayda G, Gen Hoshino, Larry Heard, and Yaeji. From the beginning of creation, Lipa and the Blessed Madonna were on the same page for what their vision of the album was. Ĭlub Future Nostalgia was created in two months, during lockdown protocols due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She handled executive production and A&R duties for Club Future Nostalgia. The Blessed Madonna got involved in the project around May 2020, following a Zoom call between both her and Lipa's respective teams. The two of them met at the Glastonbury Festival in 2019, and the Blessed Madonna remixed Lipa and Silk City's " Electricity" in October 2018 before they ran into one and other at NYC Downlow. Intending to "take the party up a notch", Lipa enlisted the help of the Blessed Madonna to put together an "old-school" mixtape with remixes of songs from the album, alongside samples. However, she was brought much joy after seeing her fans listening to Future Nostalgia in their homes and on Zoom parties as if they were with her. The Blessed Madonna ( pictured) serves as the album's executive producer.įollowing the March 2020 release of her second studio album Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa was unable to tour for the album due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the single, a visualizer for the album was released for promotion, directed by James Papper and Will Hooper.
The Blessed Madonna's remix of " Levitating", featuring Madonna and Elliott, was released as the lead single from Club Future Nostalgia on 13 August 2020. It also includes a remix of Lipa and Blackpink's " Kiss and Make Up", with the original version of the song being released on Dua Lipa: Complete Edition (2018). The original version of the latter later appeared on Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition (2021). Commercially, the album reached number 28 on the US Billboard 200 and number 13 on the Canadian Albums Chart, while becoming both Lipa and the Blessed Madonna's first entry on the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, reaching the summit on the chart.Ĭlub Future Nostalgia marks the first appearance of previously-unreleased tracks "Love Is Religion" and "That Kind of Woman".
It appeared on best of 2020 year-end lists published by Billboard, Variety and the Los Angeles Times.
The album received generally favourable reviews from music critics, with many praising its danceability and merging of subgenres however many preferred its parent album. Guest appearances are included from Blackpink, Missy Elliott, Jamiroquai, Madonna and Gwen Stefani. The album was crafted by remixes of tracks from Lipa's second studio album, Future Nostalgia (2020), with the remixes being created by an assortment of DJs and producers, including Masters at Work, Larry Heard, Mark Ronson and Stuart Price.Ĭlub Future Nostalgia is primarily a house, pop, and soul record, with Baltimore club, dance, disco, drum and bass and piano house elements.
A DJ mix edition of it was released on 28 August 2020, with the standard edition following on 11 September of the same year. " Levitating (The Blessed Madonna remix)"Ĭlub Future Nostalgia is a remix album by English singer Dua Lipa and American DJ the Blessed Madonna.
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