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haha Greg I haven't actually bought it :(

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 (twenty-one years ago)

(cd version out of press but should be available again from end of next week, apparently)

― dh, Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Just picked up the album, but my exciting news is just how amazing Ada was live in Paris. If you get a chance to see her take it - it´s awesome to watch a club full of people go mental to "The Red Shoes". There´s a thickness to her production which, while totally apparent on record, needs to be heard on a crowded dancefloor to achieve full impact. It´s hard to think of music which combines pop swooniness and dancefloor science more delightfully.

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

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Nicks meets Ada in remix video.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 February 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

oh baby!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I like "eve" a lot more than most songs I have heard this year with maybe the exception of vitalic's "the past".

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

'eve' is amazing.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

The Blondie remixes 12" should be out soon!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Koze remix of "Eve" samples Snoop Dogg!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wow!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Eve" is probably my favourite song on the album. It is so unique and thoughtful in its construction and when listening to it I can't help but imagine that Ada thinks very deeply and very seriously about what she wants her music to do.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

The "Maps" remix that some people have been talking about is by Mayer/Thomas. It's on the 2nd "Blondix" remix 12" together with a reworking of "Cool My Fire" by Erlend Oye "and his orchestra".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ada's live version of "Believer" is amazing. Sounds like the old Super Nintendo game "Secret of Manna".

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"you must leave the village FOREVER"

― purplefacedbadlyanimatedchief (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think she played "Believer" when I saw her!

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 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I'm sorry I know I'm not really adding anything of any real import but she really is great, isn't she?

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

yup

pretty, too

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

she makes me so happy

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm seeing her live again at Fabric tomorrow!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw her live, with Superpitcher.

― Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Her new Int'l Pony remix is pretty nice.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I like the Blondix 12" of remixes pretty well, too.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

it's at Amoeba in L.A. on CD now

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Areal must have repressed it. Boomkat (UK) also have/had it back in stock. With luck, this may arrive in my letterbox today! Can't believe how long I've waited to get this one.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

all of which reminds me... Ada - I Love Asphalt?

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I played this album for friends and they want it! I wouldn't be surprised if there's some more widespread interest in it eventually.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I still think Blondie's half-baked, particularly in the light of Kobol and 2rabimmel, 2rabammel, 2rabum, 2bum bum. I find the latter two stronger and much more revelatory. That is, somehow I just can't fight the feeling that Ada got lazy and/or complacent with her full-length. (Although if Blondie is, for some [or many! hurrah!], the gateway drug to the rest of Areal's catalog...well, it can't be all bad, right?)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's laziness or complacence as much as it's the idea of putting out an actual album! Blondie isn't nearly as dancefloor-playable as her other stuff because it's either lighter vocal tracks or some softened instrumentals that work better alone than in the mix. She's probably stronger on the heavier dancefloor stuff but the album is a lot more mellow and destined for more varied playing.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Dancefloor or not is not the issue I (have) pondered.

On the Areal thread I equated her repackaging of 3.5 tracks to laziness/complacency. If ever I, personally, were given the enviable opportunity to release an actual album, I hope I would have the patience to increase the ratio of "GREAT" vocal/mellower/softer instrumental tracks to average tracks rather than squander said opportunity by repackaging one third and pedestrianizing another.

(For example, Ada's two 2rabimmel... contributions alone suprass more than half the tracks on Blondie.)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I played this album for friends and they want it! I wouldn't be surprised if there's some more widespread interest in it eventually.

I know. This is one of those rare albums that makes all kinds of people stop and ask what it is.

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so the date's wrong on discogs but "I Love Asphalt" is new Ada material then?

I'd hope this will receive more 'widespread interest' when she (potentially) blows it out of the water with her next record!

This is unstoppable to the half-way mark, goes quite a bit pear-shaped after that but is so charming that it's really very forgiveable. The first two minutes of "Cool My Fire (I'm Burning)" are such sweet, unbearable tension. I feel like I've had this album a year already.

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

'Sternhagel' is amazing. I've listened to it a dozen times in the past two days.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

What label is it on? I keep reading about it but haven't found anywhere online to buy it yet.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/210894-01.htm

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1207153-02.htm

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

also see here: http://www.discogs.com/release/650885

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/A-28297-1098638320.jpg

"close your eyes and wet your lips"

http://static.flickr.com/3/6744682_7748306773_m.jpg

"yes please"

i love this album too much. cant believe it took me 2 years to buy it. both cover versions are awesome (esp the blindhouse one). i think "who pays the bills" is the only tune i dont like

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:49 (twenty years ago)

i haven't listened to blondie in a while (v wrong of me, this thread reminds me that i must dig it out again asap) but i heard a couple of older ada tracks for the first time this year - 'i love asphalt' and 'arriba amoeba' - and HOLY FUCK THEY ARE RULING MY WORLD COMPLETELY. in a completely different way to the album! much more upfront and banging.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

i mean, that rhythm on 'arriba amoeba'. and the driving drilling noises on 'i love asphalt'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

blondie is my favourite artist album this year i think. i mean, that ive heard this year. its a perfect album, in length, and song selection. it might be missing lots of good tunes, but its an album in its own right, not a greatest hits...

i wouldnt mind an ada greatest hits. i agree that the 2 rabimmel tracks are great

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

2 Rabimmel was one of my favourite albums of last year. Some propper good angry techno that made me super productive in the office. Havent been wowed by Areal this year unfortunately. The schnizelmaker was ok - but 29 forever was possibly better. Anything else worth catching?

― rchinn (rchinn), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

I think it kind of meets the criteria of a perfect album, but it isn't perfect by a long shot (before the half-way mark though it is). BUT it's got enough magic & whimsy(?) about it that it doesn't really matter so much.

If I had to choose, escaping a not very urgent housefire, a girly, songy & charming electro-techno type record from 2004 it would still be Sylvie Marks & Hal9000 "Krazeee" (also far from perfect, but wins on breadth).

But Ada is still fab, I sorta hope she breaks a bit away from the Areal sound (or takes it somewhere else) next though, she's great at what she does, but some more range in her music would be nice.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Sternhagel is actually available on itunes.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Weird, I swear it wasn't when I looked the other day. In any case, thanks for the Juno link, Michael. I probably need to listen to more of the artist albums on Areal before passing judgement, but Ada's stuff always seems like a more playful, melodic version of what the label is doing as a whole. Sternhagel has these little interjections that really set off the layers of the song.

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...

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

"i love this album too much. cant believe it took me 2 years to buy it. both cover versions are awesome (esp the blindhouse one). "

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 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

5 years since 'Blondie'?!

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:22 (sixteen years ago)

Wow. Lovely LP.

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 June 2009 10:22 (sixteen years ago)

new compilation (adaptations) reviewed on pitchfork today!

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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 (sixteen years ago)

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

― W i l l, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)

lol

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

― willem, Thursday, 2 July 2009 14:53 (sixteen years ago)

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