”A declaration of Love to Disco”
Italian newspaper La Stampa features an interesting interview with dee-jay and producer Benny Benassi today, where he briefly discusses how he met the Queen of Pop and what she asked for when she contacted Team Benassi to work on the new album tracks.
“Madonna’s management contacted us to open her 2008 concert in Rome, in every city they used a local DJ. On that occasion I gave her one my CDs with some demos I created in our studio in Reggio Emilia. We didn’t hear anything back from them. Then a few months ago Madonna asked one of her producers to call us. She asked us to work on two tracks for her new album. She wanted dance sounds, sharp rythmes that would fit the audience of a pop star. After a while we were in the studio with her in London, for an entire week, working 10 hours a day, to produce the final versions of those two tracks.
We were amazed by her dedication. Though she’s the mastermind behind an entertainment business empire, she tries everything first hand, she tests every single sound.”
About the new record, Bennassi told La Stampa: “She explained she wanted us because this record is meant to be a declaration of love to the world of disco, in which she was born. An album that gathers together all the styles and atmospheres that have characterized international night life over the last ten years. And to her, we represent Italian Dance music, immediately recognizable, the one “made in Reggio Emilia” in which melody is the vital element. In Girl Gone Wild, which opens the album, harsh and sintetic sounds and distorted rhythms are put together with a central part which is more dreamy and easier to listen to, more pop/disco.
As we explained to her, all the Benassi produced tracks are made of three parts, a very danceable intro, a part devoted to dream and a finale that is once again very danceable. All the records we produced were made keeping in mind these three moments.”
Check out La Stampa, March 16 issue, for the complete interview.
Translation by MadonnaTribe.
