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Paul Oakenfold on Madonna: new material is 'the sound of tomorrow'
by Adam Markovitz

British DJ and remixer extraordinaire Paul Oakenfold would like to clear something up: He has never been naked in a recording studio with Madonna. “That was a joke,” he laughs, referring to Madonna’s April 23rd tweet via manager Guy Oseary’s account (@guyoseary): “paul oakenfold is running around the studio naked.. because i wont put the air on.. its hot in here.. but the music is hotter!!!! -M.”

But Oakenfold, who recently released Perfecto: Vegas, a two-disc set celebrating his popular residency at the Palms Casino, from which he recently took a break to join Her Madgesty’s Sticky and Sweet Tour in Europe, is dead serious about getting people on the dance floor with “Celebration.” The song, which he co-wrote with Madonna for her upcoming greatest hits package (in stores Sept. 29), is he says, “meant to be positive in the respect that you can do it, let’s have a good time, let’s enjoy ourselves.”

And while the song, which leaked online in July, has a party-time feel, Oakenfold tells us that he and “M,” as he calls her, were all business during their first in-studio collaboration. “It was very focused, very professional,” he recalls. “When you step up to this level, it’s an interesting process because you’re on someone else’s time, and you respect that. And that’s really what it’s about. So I was extremely organized when I went in there with the team that I had.” And he’s pretty proud of the result: “It’s definitely the sound of tomorrow. Which always becomes the sound of today.”

[Connie Cuntcrack]

i never liked his production in the 90's, and i don't care for it now...

[Night Work]

Oakenfold is nothing but a deluded Madonna fan himself it seems.

"SOUNDZ OF 2MROW GUYZZZZ!11111111"

[Devan]

Madonna must have sucked his brains out with a straw.

[PlayBeyond]

Oakenfold has spoken

trance pop is the future

[adriyk]

I doubt there were any brains for the succubus to feast upon

[Sexor]

Maybe a similar sound, but his is stuck in the 90s

[PAUtrick]

It's the same shit he's been doing for 10 years

[NamieandUtadafan]

Stupid fucking faggot.

[!!!]

It's the same shit he's been doing for 10 years

AND he sounded dated 10 years ago!

He is the most overated producer ever! Her work with Stuart Price and Mirwais was so much better....

[Sexor]

AND he sounded dated 10 years ago!

He is the most overated producer ever! Her work with Stuart Price and Mirwais was so much better....

Yes on both points

[V3RY P05H]

I've only ever liked one Oakenfold track ("Faster Kill Pussycat") but I blame that on Brittany Murphy.

[PAUtrick]

AND he sounded dated 10 years ago!

He is the most overated producer ever! Her work with Stuart Price and Mirwais was so much better....

I love some of his work, but I agree that he's really nothing special. He's a dime a dozen or whatever the saying is

[NoDoubt]

YOU TURN Me OOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Celebration has nothing on Faster Kill Pussycat though

[V3RY P05H]

Well to be fair, "Celebration" has NOTHING on ANYTHING.

[hitomi's lad...]

Let's be fair. Celebration is EASILY better than Get Sexy and the Ketchup Song

[V3RY P05H]

EW NO!

"Get Sexy" is immensely FRESH and INNOVATIVE compared to that rotting pile of shit.

[hitomi's lad...]

Maybe in a Pharrel universe, but the sound of today is never better than the sound of ~*~*~*~*~*~TOMORROW~*~*~*~*~*~

[Cheryl Bernard]

“It’s definitely the sound of tomorrow. Which always becomes the sound of today.”

EDIT: ugh you whores getting rid of the Nadine smilie!

[V3RY P05H]

A song is in the works.