Posted on February 1st, 2012 by HighVoltage in Chris Dave, D'Angelo
If you haven’t heard by now, you clearly must have been living under a rock, but D’Angelo is back. This past week, he resurfaced, doing his first live performances in over a decade. Judging from the first couple shows on his European tour, his music is just as strong, performing old classics and debuting new music (yes, we finally have new music from D’Angelo). The internet went into a frenzy this past week with visual evidence of D’Angelo’s return flooding YouTube and many music blogs. When he first announced his comeback tour, I was cautiously optimistic a full audio recording may surface, and it didnt take long for our prayers to be answered. Big thanks once again to the great folks at Funk It, here is the full audio of D’Angelo’s set @ Le Zenith in Paris from a few nights ago. Setlist and download are after the jump, as well as a stream of one of the new songs.
Setlist:
- Playa Playa
- Feel Like Makin’ Love
- Ain’t That Easy
- Devil’s Pie
- Chicken Grease
- The Line > The Root
- The Charade
- I’ve Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)
- Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
- Solo medley (Brown Sugar, Jonz In My Bonz, Spanish Joint, Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine, Cruisin’, Higher, One Mo’Gin, Untitled (How Does It Feel)
- Another Life
- Sugah Daddy
- Space Oddity
- Brown Sugar
DOWNLOAD LINK (Click “Low Speed Download” in the grey box, fill in the captcha code, hit “Submit” then look for “Start Downloading Now!” It can be confusing with all the cluttered ads.)
Here’s a sample of one of the new songs performed:
D’Angelo & The Testimony – Sugah Daddy – January 29, 2012 Paris, France – Le Zenith
Once again, big thanks to Funk It for coming through with the recording. Check out their site for your daily fix of funk!
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Mixtape Mondays: Sam Champ x Okayplayer – D’Angelo Live! [Mixtape]
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cover art by Jenn Kaye
UPDATE: this mix is now downloadable! Go crazy:
You may have noticed me using the header Mixtape Mondays on a few posts recently–something we intend to make a semi-regular feature here at Okayplayer. We figured we would kick it off properly with an actual OKP mixtape; something official, something original, something exclusive. Something worthy to place alongside DJ Soul‘s incredible Best of Common and Dilla mixtapes. And then we was like, Hmm what’s happening the last monday in January that we could use as a theme? Superbowl? Newt Gingrich? Or MAYBE the phoenix-like reemergence of our beloved D’Angelo, who is currently spreading his fiery musical wings across the waters in Europe.
Accordingly, we asked super-thorough DJ/producer and Soulquarian obsessive Sam Champ (you may remember the tough remix of “Left & Right” from his remix LP) to cut together this official OKP D’Angelo Live mix for us. Most of these amazing live renditions of classic D’Angelo material have surfaced online in one form or the other before but Sam Champ has skillfully compiled them into one seamless blend to create the ultimate OKP fantasy concert for those of us not blessed enough to have been born Scandinavian. So without further ado, please find below one hour and twelve minutes (and some seconds) of streamable D’Angelo, recorded live on various stages across the world (and with a young Anthony Hamilton clearly audible on background vox in quite a few)–enough to keep all fly girls’ nipples and toes tingly with excitement until the arrival of a PURPORTED NEW D’ANGELO ALBUM SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR. D’Angelo is back, baby. Mixtape Mondays is here. Get happy.
Tracklist:
1. Fantastic Intro
2. Brown Sugar
3. Devil’s Pie
4. Crisco
5. Left & Right
6. Chicken Grease
7. Lady
8. Left & Right (Reprise)
9. Feel Like Making Love
10. Can’t Hide Love
11. Things You Do (Fall in Love)
12. One Mo’ Gin
13. Me and Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine
14. S.D.M.
15. Untitled (How Does It Feel)