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ah i'm at work. if the link expires can you gmail it to me jed??

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

the 'Feel Up' mix here is really different from the one i have. but i like it. i'll try to post mine later this week once i convert to digital.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

i will do mullygrubber, it's only 7mb so let me know if you miss it.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

uploading the Vienna mix of "Ive Seen That Face Before" now.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Vienna Libertango

great cover, i think.

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS176533-01A-BIG.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

just bumping this because i YSI'd this and then the thread died and i don't know if anyone actually got it.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

i got it. thanks. i wasn't too big on this mix. your Feel Up version is great though. I still have to post mine.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

got em both thnx jed - not listened yet.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

cool - i really like this mix.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

aw yeh!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

is that new that dj hell thing? it's got a fancy cover!

god i've ben caning the COMPASS POINT SESSIONS just lately,
especially 'living my life' which sounds like it came out yesterday
and 'unlimited capacity for love'. a litle bit of research into
the tracks i like best reveals to my horror that despite years of
thinking that grace was essentially all about the 'nightclubbing'
album and 'slave to the rythm' the best stuf was all on the
'living my life' album. total shocka i can tell you.

fuck the canon kids. just generally i mean.

― piscesboy, Monday, 15 August 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

i still have to post that other version of Feel Up. note this is not b/c i'm flaky but b/c i'm lacking equipment right now. will come soon.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 15 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Can anyone convince me to get 'Bulletproof Heart' (1989)?

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

guess not...

― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I hate the hate for Grace.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 12 February 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

oh grrrraaceeey... Sun story

Worth clicking for the rancid photo they used (Murdochatraz prevents me from direct-linking the pic). You can just taste the glee behind this quote:

A writ also claims several spoons “had been blackened”, as though having been held over a flame.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 17 August 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I can totally recommend you Bulletproof Heart, it's a very solid album. It's closer to mainstream eighties r'n'b than her previous albums, but the production is good, and most of the tunes have an edge fitting for a Grace Jones song. She mostly does her "pure" singing (which I think is underrated, she's not a bad singer at all) and not the flat talky thing, which some might find kinda disappointing. There are a few tunes which may sound sorta cheesy today: an anti-crack song featuring some lame-ass rapper, and totally over the top version of "Amado Mio". I think especially the latter one is brilliant though.

According to her Wiki entry...

Producer Ivor Guest has confirmed that Grace has completed recording her new album, due out in 2007.[4] Nick Hooker has directed the first video from the upcoming album.[5] Other participants on the new album are Sly and Robbie, Brian Eno, Wally Badarou, Tricky, Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson, Mikey 'Mao' Chung, Barry Reynolds, Martin Slattery, Philip Sheppard, Paulo Goude, Don-E and Tony Allen.[citation needed]

Does anyone have any more info on this? Sounds pretty great!

― Tuomas, Saturday, 21 April 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

heard from a very reliable source that the new stuff is 'amazing'.

― pisces, Saturday, 21 April 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

i love for this to be great but it looks like it might be a dogs dinner.

― jed_, Saturday, 21 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i'd love

― jed_, Saturday, 21 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Other participants on the new album are Sly and Robbie, Brian Eno, Wally Badarou, Tricky, Uzziah 'Sticky' Thompson, Mikey 'Mao' Chung, Barry Reynolds, Martin Slattery, Philip Sheppard, Paulo Goude, Don-E and Tony Allen

only people missing are jah wobble and bill laswell

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 April 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

A little bird dropped this into my RSS reader

And if you don't snag it all, you're no friend of mine.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have Portfolio, Slave to The Rhythm and Nightclubbing, all great records... what else of hers is worth getting?

― The Brainwasher, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

compass point sessions, yo

― sexyDancer, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Living My Life is good, as mentioned several times upthread.

― Dan Peterson, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Holy christ, I'd never seen this video of "Demolition Man" before. She's got so much balls it's almost scary!

― Tuomas, Sunday, 3 February 2008 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I managed to find a copy of Inside Story a couple of months ago, it's quite good! The song material is a bit weaker than on Bulletproof Heart (most of the songs on these two albums are co-written by Grace, and many of them are very catchy, so I don't think it's fair to think of her as a mere mannequin without any musical talent of her own), but the production by Nile Rodgers is somewhat more interesting - several cool-sounding, stripped-down electro-funk grooves there. I think both of her last two albums are kinda underrated, anyone who likes Grace or late 80's R&B/dance should enjoy them.

― Tuomas, Sunday, 3 February 2008 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Wow -- I got it at the same time, Tuomas. I got it expecting to love only "I'm Not Perfect (But I'm Perfect For You)," but "Hollywood Liar" and the title song have some weird clattering arrangements. And how 'bout the utter weirdness of "Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician"??

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdT9oURGtTc

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 3 February 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap, I've been wanting to see this one again for YEARS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTQPFDVwfA

― Dan Peterson, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Love Larry Levan's "Pull Up to the Bumper" mix. Blogged here.

― contenderizer, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

ysi?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

where's the blog, contenderizer? (you put http://www.mywebsite.com/mylink.html in by mistake)

― NI, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, sorry bout that. Several cool LL remixes in this post. From a year ago, but still active.

For reference: http://beatelectric.blogspot.com/2007/12/larry-levan_21.html

― contenderizer, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D02042008

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Where's the new album?

― moley, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't she supposedly working with Brian Eno?

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

That's a leg-pull, right?

― moley, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Achewood strip or Eno? Pretty sure I first saw the latter on an Eno thread here on ILM, and ctrl-f'ing it looks like it's mentioned up above in this very thread (which admittedly I probably should have done before posting about it)...

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Eno thing. 'Eno's producing the next album' is a recurrent refrain. I would love to hear the result if it were true...

― moley, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Eno and Grace Jones would be a good combination. But yeah, it seems the new album didn't come out last year like it was supposed to. I hope it's not gonna be one of those projects that's never gonna actually materialize.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't know that 12" mix of 'pull up to the bumper' was larry levan... it's on one of those 12"/80s compilations and is pretty much the greatest thing ever. i don't even know what genre you'd call it.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

I know nothing abt dance genres, so your guess is as good as mine. I first heard it on the Dirty Diamonds comp a couple years ago. And, yeah, it's pretty damn great!

― contenderizer, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

The word is that Eno's producing Mitt Romney's next album.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

coincidentally i just saw her last night in gordon's war. small role, mostly shirtless. she got to snarl and scowl though.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D02122008

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Glad that Strut's next comp is all about Compass Point:
http://www.amazon.com/Funky-Nassau-Compass-Point-Story/dp/B0011WMI06

― Craig D., Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

What a show last night at the RFH. Awesome. Unique.

― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:45 (seventeen years ago)