EP132: Trackademicks on Sade’s “Lovers Rock” (2000)

Episode notes

After the amazing success of Sade’s previous album, Love Deluxe, fans were eagerly awaiting the band’s next album. Fans had to wait for 8 long years before Lovers Rock dropped in the fall of 2000. And the wait was most definitely worth it. As the title suggests, the band moved more towards  soul, R&B, and, well, lovers rock.

Producer/Remixer Trackademicks sits down with us to discuss Lovers Rock on its 20th anniversary. We get into the crazy amount of Sade remixes, (including Trackademicks’ own remixes), Sade’s impeccable voice, and the space and patience throughout the album.

More on Trackademicks

• Trackademicks on Bandcamp
• SF Weekly’s Interview with Trackademicks
• Twitter | Instagram

More on Lovers Rock

• The Making of Lovers Rock
• The Fader’s 2000 cover story on Sade
• A Peek Behind Sade’s Veil of Heartbreak (The New York Times)

Song Tracklisting (all songs from Lovers Rock unless otherwise indicated):

• By Your Side
• 2 Player Co-Op:  No Ordinary Love
• Every Word
• Immigrant
• Droop-E: I’m Loaded
• Slave Song
• Sade: No Ordinary Love
• The Neptunes: By Your Side (Remix)
• Cottonbelly Fola: By Your Side (Remix)
• Naked Music: By Your Side (Remix)
• Ben Watt: By Your Side (Remix)
• Trackademicks: Give It Up (Remix)
•  Lovers Rock
• Slave Song
• Every Word
• All About Our Love
• King of Sorrow
• It’s Only Love That Gets You Through
• Somebody Already Broke My Heart
• Flow
• Lovers Rock
• Massive Attack: Better Things
• Massive Attack: Five Man Army
• Astrud Gilberto: Beber de Agua
• Esthero: Breath From Another
• Alex Isley: Into Orbit
• Alex Isley: Road to You (Trackademicks Remix)

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there
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