Let's give Ada's "Blondie" it's own thread...

That live set is great! Albeit rough recording quality, and fairly poor live singing. She squeezes so much dizzy melody out of such a minimal, tactile steady throb of a sound. Someone abouts here proposed her as being the mid-point between Ellen Allien and Barbara Morgenstern?

It feels to me closer to halfway between Ellen Allien and (in uber-insistent 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' mode) Kylie!

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/160429-02.htm

:-(

Thanks for trying though bud. I'm meaning to try importing from one of the (many, I presume) German online shops at some point in the near future. And get some others whilst doing it.

I got mine from the Kompakt records store when I was buying from 12"s from them. Worked out pretty cheap.

yeah I may as well give the Kompakt store a try (I see now the page to which you're referring).

I saw it in Selectadisc in December when I was broke though, it might still be there.

Even my dad likes this! He likes the Junior Boys too, world's least likely microhouse fan aargh.

But bah for only playing for an hour, and bah for no "Lovelace".

In my head there's a compitition going on between Ada and Vitalic. Just because they are two dance albums i got really recently. I think Ada is winning but they are both great great great.

The section where that single chiming chord comes in, followed by bass and a stuttering beat, followed by the chord transmuting into a harpsichord... is not only utterly thrilling and heartbreaking, but strikes me as possessing a quality of defiance, a challenge to how we tend to think about dance music - sort of like deliberate sonic or contextual contrasts in sample-based music but operating at a much subtler level.

The peak moments of her set for me were "Lucky Charm", "The Red Shoes" and "Each & Every One".

pretty, too

I'm still surprised that I haven't seen/heard about Ada in more places. It might be because the distribution in the US is pretty minimal outside of Forced Exposure and a handful of shops, but it's one of those albums I think *should* be carried in a lot of indie record stores. Maybe it is and I just haven't been to enough places. Everyone I've had listen to the album has expressed at least some interest in a copy...

yes, "each and every one" is my secret fave on this album (although, strictly speaking, I like the first three tracks as much or more). The organ! The snare attack at the end!

5 years since 'Blondie'?!

Wow. Lovely LP.

new compilation (adaptations) reviewed on pitchfork today!

is that getting talked about anywhere on ilm? i'm really loving it. the best part is there might not be a single handclap sample on the whole thing...

i spoke too soon...but that's ok

lol

coincidentally, i played blondie earlier this week. still great. must check out the mix

yeah, adaptations is lovely

There doesn't seem to much talk about Meine Zarten Pfoten, Ada's latest album that came out last year... I got a copy a few days ago, and I think it's quite good!

I wasn't that impressed with Blondie, but I loved Adaptations, so at first I was a bit disappointed how very chilled out the new album is; not many dance beats on it, and plenty of "girlish" vocals. But after a few listens, I really began to like it. There's a mellow, embracing, almost womb-like mixture of sweet synth sounds and acoustic guitars all through is length... "Happy Birthday" could've done without the semi-irritating vocal effects, and the last track (not counting the hidden track) feels a bit extraneous, but other than that there aren't many flaws to it.

I guess it's a bit weird that an album (not a mixtape like Adaptations) credited to Ada starts with what is essentially a remix of a Luscious Jackson tune, but listening to the original, she has only taken the vocals from it, and everything else is new, so it still sounds like an Ada tune. There a two other tunes credited to other acts on the album, but I think they are cover versions and not remixes of the original? Though it doesn't matter what the source is, Meine Zarten Pfoten still feels like a coherent whole.

yeah i liked it quite a bit - more pastoral than i was expecting, it didn't blow my mind like blondie, but always nice to hear from ada.

my favourite things she's done are the most grinding and driving - "i love asphalt" and "arriba amoeba" in partic

What ever happeend to her? Blondie still holds up

Beautiful recent comeback (only two tracks but listed as an EP?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1w76liAzIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iZsOgcKQc