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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 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:32 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 05:57 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― purplefacedbadlyanimatedchief (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:47 (seventeen 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