Sugar (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Sugar

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Caption = Front cover of "Sugar Packet" promo cassette single from 1996.
Artist = Khanoda
Format = CD Single
from Album = Fever +Fetish
Released = October 2007 (US/EU)
Recorded = 2007
Genre = IDM
Length = 4:55 Sugar (Ethereal Blow)
Label = Kommunion Recording Company
Writer = Khanoda/Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton/Goldman/Jovovich/Feldman/Holden/Kellett/Taylor-Firth/Colvin
Producer = Khanoda
Last single = "Sugar/Untitled"
(2001)
This single = "Sugar"
(2007)
Next single = --

"Sugar" is the first single by American pop singer Khanoda released from his forthcoming album "Fever +Fetish" with a release date yet to be determined.

ong history

“Sugar” is one of two tracks originally included on “The BLACK Bootleg” that remained after the EP was realized into a full length conceptual piece re-titled “Fever +Fetish”; the other track being “The Second Drowning.” Inspired by trip hop artists like Tricky and Massive Attack as well as Old School hip-hop of the 1980’s from the likes of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Khanoda produced several ambiguously titled mixes of “Sugar” for the CD Single, using sample driven melodies and bass heavy rhythms to translate the song’s equally cryptic lyrics that include lines in its verses like “David‘s on my case again, said I wounded his funny friend, that was last position, Matthew‘s in the lake pissin’” and “force it might ‘til the roof caves in on my tongue” before concluding in each chorus “I said my peace so love me.”

Originally recorded in 1996 with engineer Greg Wolinski, who also worked with Khanoda on the EP, 1997‘s “603 muv” (which was initially released as a precursor to “Fever +Fetish”) Khanoda took on engineering duties when in January 2002 he re-recorded and remixed “Sugar” and enlisted a female vocalist, singer/songwriter Lisa Derrick, to sing background on several of the mixes including the “Glugs +Dramour” remix which Derrick performs lead vocals.

“Sugar” had its official debut when on May 28, 2003 several mixes from those sessions in 2002 were premiered for one day over at khanodasugar.com; a single specific site which launched in September 2002 and includes an audio biography, a first of its kind for any artist website. The site received 28,922 hits by fans wanting to get a taste of "Sugar."

Since the 2002 sessions, several mixes of “Sugar” were taken back to the studio in early 2006 for “tweaking” in addition to laying down new vocals. Although not specified, it is speculated that Lisa Derrick’s vocals were removed from all the tracks and replaced by another female vocalist. The “Ethereal Blow“ mix remains at this time to be the version of “Sugar“ that will be included on “Fever +Fetish.” [http://www.khanoda.com]

Personnel

* Khanoda - vocals, background vocals, keyboards, sampling, drum programming and sequencing
* Lisa Derrick/TBD - Additional Vocals

Credits

* Written by Khanoda/Vowles/Del Naja/Marshall/Hooper/Suwoton/Goldman/Jovovich/Feldman/Holden/Kellett/Taylor-Firth/Colvin
* Produced by Khanoda
* Post-Production and Remix: Monk
* Engineers: Greg Wolinski/Khanoda/Paul Hughes/TBD
* "Sugar - Argyle +Houndstooth" contains as sample from "Sly" as performed by Massive Attack and "Gentleman Who Fell" as performed by Milla Jovovich
* "Sugar - Ethereal Blow" embodies a sample from "Miracle" as performed by Olive
* "Sugar - Cube +Kluster" embodies a sample from "Monopoly" as performed by Shawn Colvin

Official versions

CD Single

#Intro - 0:56
#Sugar - Argyle +Houndstooth - 4:41
#Sugar - Ethereal Blow - 4:55
#Sugar's Piano Interlude - 5:02
#Sugar - Cube +Kluster - 5:28

Limited Edition

#Sugar - Ethereal Blow - 4:55
#Sugar - Glugs +Dramour - 11:30
#Untitled - 9:51
#Sugar - Feed +Grain - 4:58

Promo version

12” Single

#Sugar - Glugs +Dramour - 11:30
#Untitled - 9:51

Previous version

Sugar Packet Promo 1996

#Sugar - Full Length (aka Argyle +Houndstooth) - 4:41
#Sugar - Monk's Tibetan Edit - 3:58
#Sugar's Piano Interlude - 5:02
#Sugar - The BLACK Mix (aka Cube +Kluster) - 5:28

Song facts

*Khanoda met singer/songwriter Lisa Derrick in 2001 while attending SAE School of Audio Engineering and Multimedia Production in New York City.
*"Sugar's Piano Interlude" is actually the original music written for the lyrics to "Sugar." Khanoda liked the music so much that he decided to keep it as an instrumental.

Included On

*Fever +Fetish