The Groove That Defined an Era: Revisiting D’Angelo’s Released on January 25, 2000, D’Angelo’s second studio album,
In 2012 and again in 2015, Voodoo received digital remasters. However, most hardcore collectors argue these later versions suffer from the "Loudness War." The dynamic range was compressed to sound "punchier" on earbuds. In doing so, the ghostly, reverberant space of the original mix was flattened. Dangelo - Voodoo - 2000 -FLAC- -RLG-
: Produced primarily by D’Angelo himself, with contributions from DJ Premier , Raphael Saadiq , and the Soulquarians collective. The Groove That Defined an Era: Revisiting D’Angelo’s
To the uninitiated, “RLG” looks like a typo or a random tag. In collector circles, it stands for —specifically, the original 2000 CD mastering handled by RLG/BMG (BMG’s RLG label group). However, the term has evolved into shorthand for a specific mastering engineer’s signature found on certain pressings of Voodoo . However, the term has evolved into shorthand for
Yes, the famous video song. But listen to the delay feedback on the vocals. The analog tape echo repeats into the right channel. The 2000 FLAC gives you 30 seconds of analog decay at the end of the track where the silence is actually brown noise from the studio monitors. The RLG rip captures that "studio bleed."
Why? Because of metadata integrity .