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I waited for half an hour, and nothing happened. She’s gonna call you tonight at 9:00.” I remember going out to dinner with some friends and walking outside with my mobile phone at 9:00, waiting for the call. Caresse said, “Madonna wants to talk to you about it. I was absolutely blown away, I rang Jono and Paavo immediately to say, “She loves it.” Then the kind of interesting, weird part of the story took over. wakeup time, around four in the afternoon, I get an email from her - and it simply said, “This is the best remix I’ve ever heard.” Warner had never sent music over the internet at the time… because we were so scared of stuff getting stolen. And I did a thing for the first time: I emailed it to her. I remember we sent it off by courier in a Jiffy Bag to to Madonna’s manager in L.A. I think we took about two weeks to do it, maybe longer - working weekends and evenings, as that was all I could do at the time. There’s a lot of things in that remix, looking back on it now, that were really good.

We hadn’t spoken to her directly I’d only spoken to Caresse. I really want to do ‘What It Feels Like For a Girl.’ And she was like, “Well that’s not the next single, and I don’t know if it’s going to be a single.” So I said, “Nonetheless, that’s the one that we want to do.” So she said we could have a go of it. I was like, “That doesn’t really work for me. She said the next single was “Music,” from the album Music.

How did you land on “What It Feels Like For a Girl”? How about you do it, and if we like it, we’ll pay you ‘X’? And if we don’t like it, we won’t talk about it ever again.” I was like, “That sounds great.” But she listened to a couple of remixes and said, like, “They sound competent. She’s got no idea whether we’re good or not.

So I went into her office and said, “I want to do a remix for Madonna.” I was Marketing Director at Warners at the time, so this is coming out of left field. I think Caresse liked talking to me, because I was quite funny and irreverent with her, and I think a lot of people weren’t like that with her, because she worked with Madonna. She was a lovely lady, and we got on really well. working with William Orbit and I went to see Caresse, Madonna’s now-dead, sadly, manager. I think our story is probably different from everybody else on the record, because I was working at Warners on Madonna’s music at the time… At the same time Jono and Paavo and I are building a bit of steam as remixers… I was in L.A. Above & Beyond, the trance trio made up of McGuinness, Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamäki, appear on Finally Enough Love via their remix of “What It Feels Like For a Girl,” from Madonna’s 2000 album, Music.