Above & Beyoncé: Dance Mixes
Beyoncé
You gotta give Beyoncé and her thighs some props for this, she’s shown some serious commitment to her gay fans and her crossover appeal to the clubs. Generally speaking remixes are just a marketing tool used to record labels to promote their artists’ material in another context through an altered format, so it’s nice to see an artist of her stature acknowledging the remixes as material worth celebrating for its own merit. And even though their name is absent from this particular collection, you can bet that some of the fuel for this release was how thrilled she was with all the remix treatments the Freemasons did for her previous album. All the big singles from the “I Am Sasha Fierce” album are present, “If I Were A Boy,” “Single Ladies,” “Diva,” “Halo,” and “Ego,” along with “Broken-Hearted Girl” and “Sweet Dreams,” and have been reconstructed by Maurice Joshua, DJ Escape & Tony Coluccio, Karmatronic, Dave Audé, Catalyst, OK DAC and Harlan Pepper & AG III.
