― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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!
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/160429-02.htm
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
:-(
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.
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I got mine from the Kompakt records store when I was buying from 12"s from them. Worked out pretty cheap.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah I may as well give the Kompakt store a try (I see now the page to which you're referring).
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 12 February 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 12 February 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― dh, Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
But bah for only playing for an hour, and bah for no "Lovelace".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 February 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 09:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 8 May 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― purplefacedbadlyanimatedchief (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link
The peak moments of her set for me were "Lucky Charm", "The Red Shoes" and "Each & Every One".
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
pretty, too
― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
5 years since 'Blondie'?!
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow. Lovely LP.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 June 2009 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
new compilation (adaptations) reviewed on pitchfork today!
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― W i l l, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i spoke too soon...but that's ok
― W i l l, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
coincidentally, i played blondie earlier this week. still great. must check out the mix
― willem, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, adaptations is lovely
― braveclub, Thursday, 9 July 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Friday, 17 February 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
What ever happeend to her? Blondie still holds up
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 March 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
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
― nashwan, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link