Let's give Ada's "Blondie" it's own thread...

Track #5 is wicked drug music.

I haven't heard the FF5 yet, but will check it out asap.

Might convince me of an actual purchase because at the moment I'm not sure about Blondie, most of the tracks are really good but as with Here Comes Love there's a bunch of tracks in the middle that sort of ruin it (never liked Lifedriver, don't like Who Pays The Bills at all, like the original Blindhouse better.)

not sure if it's actually worth linking to reviews when there are so many critics/industry heads already on this site, but there it is!

fwiw.. i've only heard little samples (www.juno.co.uk) but I half-like it so far. I think the good bits might actually be amazing enough that I can overlook the more cringeworthy housier parts. Not a trade off I'd usually be prepared to make but 'Eve' is just damn special. And the next few tracks sound just as good.

This strikes me as another Wuzzlebud KK somehow, another record that seemed incredibly tempting, but I just couldn't quite justify parting with the cash to myself for yet more of 'this kind of thing'. Damn I need my 515k working again badly :X

who really cares if I buy it or not? :O
jesus mouth, shut up already.

"On the eve before the 25th anniversary, her life's dream became true: she was on her way to the castle wearing the red shoes. She was not sure if they were awaiting her, but the flames of fire were burning within her and she really was longing for the cooling. Her only wish was that she would reach her destination before the lifedriver could decide on her future destiny. 'Our love never dies!!!' she shouted again and again at the autumn treetops while driving through the avenue of trees. The taxi-driver tried hard to ignore her. Unusual enough that this young lady he had picked up at the blindhouse wanted to go to the castle. His only concern, he thought secretly, was who was paying the bill in the end. Finally, they reached the castle, the car stopped in the yard and suddenly, each and everyone standing around was awestruck, just staring in silence at the car and indeed, it was the women in the red shoes getting out of the car. Everyone knew why she came here and even before they could think further, she started singing: 'Les Danseuses'...and everyone knew before she started singing that it would have been this song. The song is about the place where you belong, a place you won't find on a map, because your heart does not read any maps, it simply goes upon a journey until it will arrive at its destination. Ada, the going-beyond-all-genres romantic rocker, came up with her first release on Areal in January 2002. With utmost sense and sensibility, Ada perfectly knows how to rock the house and the dance-floor: wicked rhythms, full of melancholic deepness and weirdo saw-tooth sounds. And finally, after three maxis, all released on Areal, and many remixes, here comes her first smashing album: Blondie with ten most entertaining tracks."

Which scratch 'n' sniff sticker should be put on it? Cream soda?

not the best record of 2004, but the one that will always rermind me of it nonetheless.

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!

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/160429-02.htm

:-(

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.

I got mine from the Kompakt records store when I was buying from 12"s from them. Worked out pretty cheap.

yeah I may as well give the Kompakt store a try (I see now the page to which you're referring).

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.

The peak moments of her set for me were "Lucky Charm", "The Red Shoes" and "Each & Every One".

pretty, too

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.)

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

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.

or

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

"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

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

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.

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...

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!

5 years since 'Blondie'?!

Wow. Lovely LP.

new compilation (adaptations) reviewed on pitchfork today!

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...

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

lol

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

yeah, adaptations is lovely

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.

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

What ever happeend to her? Blondie still holds up

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