"Momma's Place" is a song by Irish recording artist

Róisín Murphy Róisín Marie Murphy ( , ; born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer, songwriter and record producer who first became known in the 1990s as one half of the Pop music, pop duo Moloko alongside the English musician Mark Brydon. After the breakup of M ...

, released as a

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on 18 January 2010. On 5 January 2010, after finding out the song had leaked to the Internet, Murphy commented on it via

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, saying: "I hear there has been a leak of Momma's Place. Oh dear, I am all for the freedom of the internet, it's just that the quality control is sometimes a little amiss... and I'm funny about stuff like that. The rip that is available is not up to scratch." She later uploaded a high-quality version of the track onto her own

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and Facebook pages, making its official premiere. On 25 March 2010, it was announced that

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would be teaming up with Murphy and

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for a "Momma's Place" remix contest. For the contest, fans were allowed to download multiple stems of the song in order to create their own version.

Track listing

#"Momma's Place" – 4:27 #"Momma's Place" (Bongo Boys Remix) – 6:16 #"Momma's Place" (Kanji Kinetic Remix) – 4:50 #"Momma's Place" (Shake Aletti Remix) – 4:06

Charts

References

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