Album
Brown Sugar
1995 · Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Brown Sugar is a Soul & Funk album by D'Angelo, originally released in 1995. On Gatefold: 23 pressings tracked.
About
D’Angelo is a kaleidoscope of towering musicians: the founding father of neo-soul, the black Messiah, a tabloid star. But way back when he released <i>Brown Sugar</i>, his 1995 debut, he was a 20-year-old kid who'd spent several years barricaded in his bedroom in his mom’s house in Virginia with the music that mattered most to him: Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, A Tribe Called Quest. And then he came up with <i>Brown Sugar</i>, a crazy haze of sound that points in a dozen different directions but stays in tight orbit around him: a new voice, a geniu, a fan, and a geek. The album enlists a then-revolutionary hybrid of modern studio tech and defective analog cast-off. And when the computer crashed in the tiny New Jersey studio where he was recording one day, D’Angelo killed 20 minutes by pounding out some vamped keyboard chord, coproducer Ali Shaheed Muhammad programmed a beat, and then they stared at each other in shock: The record's dazzling title tune had just come into being. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Brown Sugar (Album Version)4:25
- A2Brown Sugar (Beat Version)2:24
- A3Brown Sugar (Instrumental)4:25
Side B
- B1Brown Sugar (Alternate Version)4:25
- B2Brown Sugar (Accapella)4:25
- B3Brown Sugar (Radio Version)4:02
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Neo-Soul
- warm
- swaggering
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Alex MarloweKEYBOARDS
- D'AngeloWRITTEN BY, ARRANGED BY, PERFORMER
- Ali Shaheed MuhammadDRUM PROGRAMMING DRUM PROGRAMMING, WRITTEN-BY
- Bassy Bob BrockmannTRUMPET
- Howard FrancisKEYBOARDS
- John ThompsonBASS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 23 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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