Madonna to Release Long-Lost ‘Ray of Light’ Remix Album, ‘Veronica Electronica’

Kris Avalon
Jun 5
2 min read

Madonna is giving the people what they want. The pop icon will finally release her long-rumored project “Veronica Electronica,” featuring rare and unreleased remixes from her legendary 1998 album “Ray of Light.”

via: Variety

The eight-track LP will be released digitally and on silver vinyl on July 25. The album was previewed on Thursday with the glitchy, thumping deep cut “Skin (The Collaboration Remix Edit).”

The album will also be available as part of the “Silver Collection,” her ongoing career-spanning series of limited-edition silver vinyl reissues. It is part of the singer’s 2021 deal with Warner Music that saw her catalog returning to the company that released her first albums.

An eight-track companion to “Ray of Light,” “Veronica Electronica” was originally envisioned by Madonna as a remix album in 1998. The project was ultimately sidelined by the original album’s long string of hit singles. “Ray of Light” went on to sell more than 16 million copies worldwide and earned Madonna four Grammy Awards, including Best Pop Album.

The album’s title is in itself a throwback, as “electronica” was a loosely defined late-‘90s musical genre of hard-hitting electronic dance music, defined by Prodigy, Moby, Underworld, Fatboy Slim, and occasionally stretched to artists like Bjork and Daft Punk. Optimistically considered a successor to the multiplatinum “alternative” wave, the trend, if it ever really was one, quickly petered out with the end of the decade and the millenium.

“Veronica Electronica” features newly edited versions of club remixes by Peter Rauhofer, William Orbit, Sasha, BT, and Victor Calderone, along with the original demo of “Gone, Gone, Gone” — a previously unreleased recording produced by Madonna and Rick Nowels.