Sade: Classic or Dud?

Lex on Sade.

hah, i came here to link that—excellent piece

Not bad for a dance party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxLKMxbIZX0

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

Re: Lex's review

Kompakt is from Cologne, not Berlin.

hey lex (or anyone else that's heard the new collection, preferably on cd):

is the mastering job alright? several amazon reviews (i know i know...) mention that the mastering is botched, overloud, full of digital distortion and clipping. i was gonna pick this up, but—confirm/deny?

elan, i know that, but thanks for nitpicking nonetheless.

ilxor, it sounded fine to me. it sounds slightly "bigger" and more detailed, but not massively so. i heard no "digital distortion and clipping" at all but bear in mind i'm also the person who doesn't believe in that audiocompression thing that nick s keeps going on about.

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

Lex that's like not believing in evolution

Ilxor just buy her albums they are all great and beautifully mastered

It's definitely closer to the brick-walled aesthetic than the prior best of if you look at the waveforms. However, I don't hear clipping or distortion, just a shift in the dynamics towards "bigger and brighter". I don't feel it is as ear-tiring to listen to as typical brick-walled recordings but your mileage may very.

deej i have all the albums! just wondering abt the collection, i want the new traxx :(

well if u want the new traxx what are yr other options

if you just want the new cuts can you hit up itunes or amazon?

elan, i know that, but thanks for nitpicking nonetheless.

do you think they are synonymous? cologne and berlin are between 5-6 hours apart: http://goo.gl/maps/EDPS

I can't find any other evidence of a DDM "Cherish the Day" cover????

From lex's article:

This year saw Diddy-Dirty Money both dedicate a whole song to her on the LoveLove vs. HateLove mixtape (the hypnotisingly sleek Sade) and cover two of Sade's own most epic cuts, No Ordinary Love and Cherish The Day.

Rev- Pretty sure that should be "Soldier of Love", not "Cherish the Day".

oh i had no idea what rev was talking about, never seen it abbreviated to DDM before and had been under the impression that i typed "soldier of love" as i obviously meant to

can you tell which bits of my articles are done at 4am lol

A "Cherish The Day" cover would be AWESOME though, I love that song so so so so so much.

Having said that the transition to "Soldier of Love" in the "No Ordinary Love" "cover" is so smooth, I don't think I even registered what they were doing until the third listen.

i'd love to see them do "pearls". recasting "hurts like brand new shoes" into the pained superstar narrative would work soooo well

You don't think that would actually be borderline icky?

I'm not the kind who hates celebrities for being rich and famous but I'm not sure Diddy is best placed to be saying what life is like for a woman in Somalia.

Or are you saying they should junk that part and make it, like, "there is a woman in Beverley Hills... who's just bought a pair of pearls..."?

That might be worse, IDK?

Yeah, that would be kind of shitty either way imo.

err, is Sade really better placed than Diddy to comment on global injustice?
Not saying she can't but I don't really see why that would be a problem if Diddy were to do it.

I just don't want that song to be any more ~pained superstar narrative~ than it already is.

Stronger Than Pride is such an underrated album. So dreamlike!

The only studio albums I own are Soldier of Love and Love Deluxe (I own the comps though). My parents owned Diamond Life. Can someone give me capsule reviews of the first three?

'sades first three albums are great and you should hear them all'

-D-40

that will be $75

lol @ not googleproofing myself

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

^^^this shit

^^^^YES. my secret fav. open dj sets w/ that

feels like its about to turn into a banger & never quite does...eternal intro

so it sounds like Stronger Than Pride is the one I should move in now, even though I love the "The Sweetest Taboo-Never As Goood as the First Time" duo more than any children I'll have.

*move in on

Move on into rent-controlled Stronger Than Pride.

Yeah, prob my 2nd fave Sade after Love Deluxe. xp

prob definitely

rev 100% otm

but that said theres no excuse for not having all of them imho

rev 100% otm

― lebroner (D-40), vrijdag 27 mei 2011 1:48 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

There is a lovely Kenny Larkin remix of Give It Up you can find on the Sade remixes collection. It's great. 11 minutes. I just start it over when it's done. Usually don't stop listening until it's time to leave the apt or whatever. Hoping for a gig soon where I can drop it.

Larkin was probably the best Detroit techno artist to do a straight beefing up of the song (as opposed to a Carl Craig style remix that would just use the original track as inspiration or a jumping off point). I mean it's basically just an extended DJ tool version of the song. Not much added. Larkin always sounds so fragile and fussy to me... he sort of fills an archetypal emotional / spacey / gentle Detroit sound for me. Like Craig's More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art. I guess Craig did it first as Psyche/BFC.

Larkin has his own niche though. I think it's the gratuitous flanging. Give It Up's percussion basically sounds like something Larkin would have arranged minus a kick drum and slower.

Eh, I'm talking out of my ass. Give It Up (Kenny Larkin remix) is just so perfect that it sounds like has to be part of some bigger order of Detroit music...

Okay here it is. On one condition: don't listen unless you can play it loud, with bass.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7f23fissujwspnz

I hope that's kosher

the rabbi says a ok

I mean linking... I am serious about my volume diktat

alfred you should get all of the first three records. work backwards into them, back in time. you can find most of 'em super cheap, check amazon used marketplace or something.

I played some sade for some of my students and they wanted to know who it was and they wrote it down in their iphones so they would remember to look for it later

That house mix of "Give It Up" is A++++ btw

what were u up to w/ ur student that u thought sade was an appropriate soundtrack dayo

that kenny larkin remix is excellent

we were playing cards and they wanted something 'light'! I put on steely dan later but it didn't go over as well xp

thanks for the Kenny Larkin, could dance to that indefinitely