So, dustygrooves.com has this listed as a 2-CD with bonus tracks release for August 18th. I can't find a track listing anywhere. Anyone know about it?

Does this mean we can start asking, "When is D'Angelo going to release a new reissue?"

21 previously unheard original recordings selected from the archives or covers or various songs? I'm eager to see the track list, too.

Oh. Wait a minute - there's a 20-page booklet? OK, forget what I said earlier.

deebee said:

Does this mean we can start asking, "When is D'Angelo going to release a new reissue?"

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I want a tracklist STAT! This is my fave D album back in the day when you could understand what he was singing without an interpreter.

StrangeButTrue said:

deebee said:

Does this mean we can start asking, "When is D'Angelo going to release a new reissue?"

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I want a tracklist STAT! This is my fave D album back in the day when you could understand what he was singing without an interpreter.

StrangeButTrue said:

deebee said:

Does this mean we can start asking, "When is D'Angelo going to release a new reissue?"

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I want a tracklist STAT! This is my fave D album back in the day when you could understand what he was singing without an interpreter.

I wonder if it might include demos of the tracks from that album. He mentioned in the RBMA interview that he liked the sound he achieved on those, which was less "buttery" than the released versions. I'd be interested in hearing that. Maybe his original demo of 'You Will Know' will be thrown in too. This is all pure (and wishful) speculation on my part, of course.

Interesting... This is my favourite D'Angelo album after BM. Hopefully they will give us a tracklist soon.

I wonder if this'll include the original demo tape D' shipped around?

Otherwise, I'd be happy with some of the rarer remixes. The Ingonito mix of BS is amazing!

FunkGetsStronger said:

He'd have four albums if you complied his great cover versions of "Space Oddity", "She's Always in My Hair", "Red Hot Mama", "I'll Stay", "Our Love Has Died", ''Burnin’ And Lootin’, ''Black Flowers'', "Sweet Sticky Thing", "New Position" and "You Caught Me Smilin" onto 1 disc.

[Edited 7/4/17 6:26am]

AlexdeParis said:

This says there are 21 bonus tracks. It's one of my favorite albums, so I'll be getting it for sure. https://www.fatbeats.com/...cd-booklet [Edited 7/3/17 3:21am]

Wow, this is one of my all time favorite albums, can't wait to check this out!

LittleBLUECorvette said:

FunkGetsStronger said:

Interesting... This is my favourite D'Angelo album after BM. Hopefully they will give us a tracklist soon.

You said after BM like their is a plethora of D records. It's 3 to choose from.

LMAO @ "plethora of D records"

Still holds up really well since its release.

Definitely will buy this!

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

Still holds up really well since its release.

Definitely will buy this!

Yes. I listen to it at least twice a week because it´s on my Ipod, and it never gets old. Sure, it´s a 90s album but still sounds very timeless.

It´s ironic that someone who takes so long with his releases is at the same time one of the most timeless sounding artists ever.

At least that´s how I see him.

Written and produced by D.
He should've kept this funky jam for Black Messiah.

An associate at Fatbeats told me through email the web page will soon be updated to reflect the full track listing. Fingers crossed!

Identity said:

D’ANGELO’S NEO-SOUL MASTERPIECE, ‘BROWN SUGAR,’
REMASTERED AND EXPANDED FOR NEW DELUXE EDITION

2CD and Digital Edition, to be Released August 25 by Virgin/UMe,
Adds 21 Rare Remixes, Instrumentals and A Cappella Versions

Los Angeles – July 14, 2017 – D’Angelo’s platinum-certified debut, 1995’s neo-soul masterpiece Brown Sugar, is newly remastered and expanded for a 2CD and digital Deluxe Edition to be released August 25 by Virgin/UMe. Remastered by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Russell Elevado, Brown Sugar’s Deluxe Edition adds 21 rare tracks, including remixes by CJ Mackintosh, Dallas Austin, King Tech, Erick Sermon and Incognito, as well as instrumentals and a cappella versions. Of the 21 newly added tracks, 15 were previously available only on vinyl and seven will make their commercial release debuts on the new edition.

Brown Sugar’s 2CD Deluxe Edition is presented in a digipak with a 20-page booklet featuring an essay by noted author and filmmaker Nelson George, rare photographs, and lyrics for the album’s 10 original tracks. PreorderBrown Sugar (Deluxe Edition) here: https://UMe.lnk.to/BrownSugarDeluxePR

Released July 4, 1995, D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar album heralded a new direction for soul music, bridging tradition and innovation. D’Angelo, then 21 years old, wrote, arranged, performed and produced most of the album himself, inspired by classic jazz, gospel, soul, and hip-hop and using a mix of vintage and new equipment to realize his creative vision.

In the Deluxe Edition booklet, D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar co-producer Bob Power writes: “D was one of those artists that came not just fully formed, but truly genre-bending; genre-creating is really more like it.”

D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar collaborators also included A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad for the title track and Raphael Saadiq for “Lady.” The first album to be dubbed “neo-soul,” Brown Sugar spent 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 albums chart and drew praise from music critics around the world. In his four-star album review for Rolling Stone, Cheo Hodari Coker wrote, “Brown Sugar is a reminder of where R&B has been and, if the genre is to resurrect its creative relevance like a phoenix rising from the ashes, where it needs to go.”

“Young D’Angelo was duly anointed the new musical messiah, charged with leading the culture into a new promised land,” writes Nelson George in his Deluxe Edition essay.

Brown Sugar received four GRAMMY Award® nominations. The groundbreaking album is featured in Mojo’s list of 100 Modern Classics and in Rolling Stone’s Essential Recordings of the ‘90s.

blackmessiah.co

D’Angelo: Brown Sugar (Deluxe Edition) [2CD, digital]

CD 1 (Remastered album, plus bonus tracks)
1. Brown Sugar
2. Alright
3. Jonz In My Bonz
4. Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine
5. ****, Damn, Motherf*cker
6. Smooth
7. Cruisin’
8. When We Get By
9. Lady
10. Higher

Bonus Tracks
11. Brown Sugar A Cappella (released on 12” single)
12. Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine A Cappella (released on promotional 12” single)
13. Brown Sugar Instrumental (released on 12” single)
14. Lady Just Tha Beat Mix Instrumental w/Chorus (Mixed by DJ Premier; released on CD Maxi-Single)
15. Brown Sugar Alternate Version (released on 12” single)

CD 2 (More Sugar)
1. Brown Sugar King Tech Remix feat. Kool G. Rap (released on 12” promotional single)
2. Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine Def Squad Remix feat. Redman (Remixed by Erick Sermon for Funk Lord Productions; released on 12” single)
3. Cruisin’ Cut The Sax Remix (Remix by King Tech; Released on 12” single)
4. Lady Just Tha Beat Mix/featuring AZ (Remixed by DJ Premier for Works of Mart Productions, Inc.; released on CD Maxi-Single)
5. Brown Sugar Soul Inside 808 Mix (Mix by DJ Dodge; released on U.K. 12” single)
6. Me And Those Dreamin’ Eyes Of Mine Two Way Street Mix (Remixed by DJ Premier for Works of Mart Productions, Inc.; released on promotional 12” single)
7. Cruisin’ Dallas Austin Remix (released on 12” single)
8. Lady 2B3 Shake Dat Ass Mix (Remix produced by Neville Thomas and Pule Pheto for 2B3 Productions; released on U.K. CD Maxi-Single)
9. Brown Sugar Incognito Molasses Remix (released on “She’s Always In My Hair” promotional 12” single)
10. Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine Dreamy Remix (Remixed by Erick Sermon for Funk Lord Productions; released on promotional 12” single)
11. Cruisin’ Wet Remix (released on CD single)
12. Brown Sugar Dollar Bag Mix (released on U.K. 12” single)
13. Cruisin’ God Made Me Funky Remix (released on promotional 12” single)
14. Brown Sugar CJ Mackintosh Remix (Additional production and Remix by CJ Mackintosh; released on the various artists CD collection Nu Classic Soul)
15. Lady CJ Mackintosh Mix Radio Edit (Additional production and Remix by CJ Mackintosh; released on U.K. CD Maxi-Single)
16. Cruisin' Who's Fooling Who Mix (released on promotional 12” single)

^ Woo. Remixes. Is there a Josh Welton remaster and a disc of single edits too?

bluegangsta said:

D’ANGELO’S NEO-SOUL MASTERPIECE, ‘BROWN SUGAR,’
REMASTERED AND EXPANDED FOR NEW DELUXE EDITION

2CD and Digital Edition, to be Released August 25 by Virgin/UMe,
Adds 21 Rare Remixes, Instrumentals and A Cappella Versions

Thanks for the info, Bluegangsta. Would've been better with unheard originals.

[Edited 7/14/17 18:22pm]

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I was expecting some vaulted material not 12 different remix versions of Brown Sugar.

Yeah, I was also hoping for outtakes, demos, alternate/extended versions, etc. Seems like a decent collection of remixes, which I'm sure a lot of people will like, but they're just not really my thing for the most part.

That tracklist is disappointing.

dog shit remixes..... this is horrible.

Never in the history of deluxe cd reissues has any deluxe cd reissue been worth more than
one penny as they are really just money grabs.

deebee said:

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