Veronica Electronica

''Veronica Electronica'' is an upcoming remix album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, set to be released on July 25, 2025, through Warner Records. Album track "Skin" ( The Collaboration remix edit) was issued as an early release along with the announcement of the album on June 5, 2025.

Background

Envisioned by Madonna as a remix album accompanying her seventh studio album ''Ray of Light'' (1998), the release never came to fruition due to the album and its accompany singles' ongoing commercial success at the time and remained a long-rumored project. It features rare and unreleased remixes from producers Madonna worked with at the time, including Peter Rauhofer, William Orbit, Sasha, BT, and Victor Calderone. Most of the remixes feature on the singles. However, some have been merged together to create a new edit for the remix album. It will also include "Gone Gone Gone", a previously unreleased demo that was recorded during the ''Ray of Light'' sessions with producer Rick Nowels and streaming services and on a limited-edition silver vinyl on July 25, 2025.

Title and artwork

Throughout the original album's campaign, Madonna commented that ''Veronica Electronica'' is the nickname to the alter-ego she gave herself during the recording of the ''Ray of Light'' album. Additionally, the name is one of her middle names, originating from her Catholic confirmation when she was a child. During the album's promotion campaign, MTV journalist Kurt Loder interviewed Madonna and she stated that the alter-ego is medieval. According to spokesperson Liz Rosenberg, Madonna considered titling the original album ''Mantra'', which she thought was a "really cool title", and she also considered calling it ''Veronica Electronica''; however, she discarded both of those ideas and called it ''Ray of Light'', as her studio albums up to that point were always titled after one of the songs from each album's tracklist. Thematically, the first five edits were created after the idea of a trippy DJ set performed in an underground club, Veronica being a girl dancing to it with the music progressively putting her into a trance. The last three could be described as the after-hour segment you chill to before leaving the dance floor and going back to the real world.

On Instagram, Madonna stated that "Making my ''Ray of Light'' album was a seminal moment in my life as an artist. I was going through a huge metamorphosis. I had given birth to my daughter Lola. I had found my spiritual path and I was ready to shed a new skin and take a road less traveled by I ventured into electronic music with William Orbit and I created an alter ego, taking one of my middle names- and Veronica Electronica was born," her statement continued. "Meet my other half". Photographs originally created by Inez van Lamsweerde for the April 1998 issue of ''Spin'' are used for the album's artwork.

Promotion

On June 5, 2025, Madonna released the Peter & Victor's Collaboration Remix Edit for ''Ray of Light'' album track "Skin", followed by "Gone Gone Gone"—a previously-unreleased original demo from the ''Ray of Light'' sessions—about a week later; the song reached the top of the US iTunes Songs chart.

Track listing

Notes

* signifies a primary producer and remixer
* signifies a remixer

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.
* Madonna – vocals
* Fergus Gerrand – drums (track 1)
* Sasha – engineering (2)
* Pat McCarthy – engineering (2, 3)
* Marc Moreau – guitar (2)
* Matt Silva – engineering (3, 6)
* David Reitzas – engineering (3)
* Jon Englesby – engineering (3)
* Mark Endert – engineering (3)
* Ted Jensen – engineering (3)
* Georg O. Luksch – keyboards, programming (4)
* Craig Armstrong – strings arrangement (6)
* Patrick Leonard – additional arrangement (6)
* Mac Quayle – keyboards (6)
* Sean Spuehler – technician (6)
* Niven Garland – engineering (7)

References

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Madonna remix albums
2025 remix albums
Rhino Entertainment remix albums
Warner Records remix albums
Upcoming albums