Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project


Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project is a remix album of recordings by American R&B/funk singer Chaka Khan, released by the Warner Bros. Records label in 1989. The compilation takes its title from a track included on Khan's 1978 solo debut album Chaka.

Overview

The album, which was released as a double-record set, on CD and as a cassette edition with one extra track, comprises remixes made in the styles of late 1980s dance music genres like house music, hip hop and acid house of tracks originally recorded between the years 1978 and 1984, including two from Chaka Khan's final album Stompin' at the Savoy – Live: "Ain't Nobody" and "One Million Kisses".
Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project resulted in three single releases; "I'm Every Woman", "Ain't Nobody" and "I Feel For You". The 1989 remix of "Ain't Nobody" became a #6 hit on the UK Singles Chart while "I'm Every Woman" peaked at #8 hit and Paul Simpson's take on "I Feel for You" peaked at #45. The album itself reached #14 on the UK Albums Chart, making it the best-selling Chaka Khan album in the UK since 1984's I Feel for You. All cuts from the album peaked at number one on the American dance play charts for one week. Life Is a Dance would mark the final time all cuts from an album would make the top spot on the dance play charts.
The Dancin' Danny D. and Frankie Knuckles remixes of "I'm Every Woman" and "Ain't Nobody" were both originally released on the B-side of the US 12" single "Soul Talkin'", taken from Khan's 1988 album ck.
The 1989 remixes of "This Is My Night" and "Eye to Eye" also appear on Warner's 2006 greatest hits compilation The Platinum Collection.
Note: the remixes of the tracks "I Feel for You", "This Is My Night" and "Eye to Eye" appearing on this album should not be confused with the original 12" remixes made in 1984 by the original producers Arif Mardin and Russ Titelman, all of which remain unreleased on CD in both the United States and Europe.
Prince's 1979 original track of "I Feel for You" is sampled shortly in Paul Simpson's remix.
Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project was transferred from vinyl to CD in 1989 and remains in print.
In 1993, Warner Bros. Records re-released the album in Germany and Japan as The Remix Project: Greatest Hits with the inclusion of a house remix of "Love You All My Lifetime", not present on Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project.

Track listing

  1. "Life Is a Dance" – 6:38
  2. * Original version appears on 1978 album Chaka
  3. "I Know You, I Live You" – 7:46
  4. * Original version appears on 1981 album What Cha' Gonna Do for Me
  5. "This Is My Night" – 5:07
  6. * Original version appears on 1984 album I Feel for You
  7. "Eye to Eye" – 8:32
  8. * Original version appears on 1984 album I Feel for You
  9. "Slow Dancin'" by Chaka Khan and Rick James – 5:55
  10. * Original version appears on 1982 album Chaka Khan
  11. "Fate" – 5:38
  12. * Original version appears on 1981 album What Cha' Gonna Do for Me
  13. "I'm Every Woman" – 8:24
  14. * Original version appears on 1978 album Chaka
  15. "One Million Kisses" – 5:59
  16. * Original version appears on Rufus & Chaka Khan's 1983 album Stompin' at the Savoy – Live
  17. "Ain't Nobody" by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan – 4:42
  18. * Original version appears on Rufus & Chaka Khan's 1983 album Stompin' at the Savoy – Live
  19. "Clouds" – 7:49
  20. * Original version appears on 1980 album Naughty
  21. "I Feel for You" – 8:51
  22. * Original version appears on 1984 album I Feel for You
  23. "Clouds" – 6:12
  24. * Bonus track cassette edition

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