Strictly 4 My Underground Homo Deep House Thugs: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

you can hear (low quality) samples of it here http://www.wordandsound.de/article/62738

Sounds good to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEVVVlDP6yk

a dub of this^ appeared on the 'i'm starting to feel ok' comp in 2008 (credited to t. thaemlitz tho)

brilliant!

Opening chords and sine wave, sooo classic.

This album absolutely blew my mind during a cold, miserable New Jersey winter in January 2009. My neighbors couldn't have appreciated the bass.

The Kink & Neville Watson mix of "Masturjakor" is ace. The original, take it or leave it for now, but I could see it being incorporated well into an LP.

DJ Sprinkles is playing live with Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Matmos, and Henrik Schwarz at the Royal Festival Hall in London a week tomorrow. Any ILXors going along?

damn that is a ridic bill

The RFH has great acoustics, but it's a sit down venue. Even though I'm working the next day, I'm really tempted.

I'm going to the RFH night. I originally assumed Terre Thaemlitz would be playing as Terre rather than DJ Sprinkles, excited to see this. My only concern is that I will miss certain performers. They seemed to have a lot of people on for a single evening.

ah... shit, I'm working that eve at a fuking Matthew Ship gig

Shipp. and he's great... just bad conflicts

i hear DJ Sprinkles is dj-ing in the lounge (lobby?) after the stage sets are over

There's a playing favorites piece with Terre by Finn Johannsen at Resident Advisor. And there's a longer, unedited version is up at Johannsen's site.

Ha! he skips over Madonna's Vogue predictably (in the RA piece http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1134 )

The unedited version is interesting: he seems to be suggesting that everyone has forgotten that Olivia Newton-John is Elton John's daughter, and that Michael Jackson was a Mormon rather than a Jehovah's Witness. Good editing.

yeah, most people i know are surprised if i mention olivia is sr. elton's spawn... i thought michael jackson thought he WAS god...

the new single is very good. surround sound 909 open hi-hat especially.

it's all about the bonus beats, what the hell is the female hip-house tracks that mixes in towards the end?

not sure about the neville watson remix. seems like they just threw a 707 drum machine over the bassline and turned the beat up, completely ignoring the subtlety of the original. the og is like this restrained, discreet take on wild pitch or something

ok, so obv, i'm a big stan for Terre Thaemlitz and all related projects...but i kind of think this "Masturjakor" single doesn't have much going for it. it essentially sounds like Thaemlitz approximating the sound of a early mid-tempo Fingers Inc. track.

i think it sounds more like dj pierre or la williams but with delicate drums

Why didn't someone tell me there's female hip house on this!

masturjakor is much more in keeping with the old dj sprinkles releases - especially bassline.89, which was deliberately over-the-top referential. i think it's really about dj-ing, in that it's like making tracks with other tracks. kind of anti-musician.

Report on the RFH gig anyone?

Really thick question, but how does one pronounce Terre Thaemlitz?

terry tame-litz

cheers.

i'd say more like "terry temlitz"
(with english pronounciation, the "a" in "tame" is too harsh/long)

hmmm... the full RA article on finn johannsen's site says michael jackson was jehovah's witness...
i felt much of it reads like there were problems with the tape transcription, maybe done by non-native english speakers, too.

also, i didn't get why he talks about the orb and kraftwerk samples in the RA version, but after reading the full one it seems he was also talking about todd terry, who certainly sampled a lot of kraftwerk.

just finished listening to his "Solipsistic Nation" (dodgy name for a radio show IMO) podcast and it is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

starts with one of my favorite pieces of music ever: the hour long "Sex" by the Necks, and goes on to ever slowly morph and transform it into something similar yet different, but just as mesmerizing and fucking gorgeous as the original. slow arcs of shimmering tones over the most sensual of bass grooves... psychedelic digital jazz at its best. mind -- blown.

another podcast linked on RA this morning: http://clubberia.com/music/podcasts/2

deep house set this time, swirly and whispered sprinkles and twinkles. picks up steam a couple times also - anyone know what the chanting is at ~61 mins?

around here we call him dj jimmies of course.

hah ive been saying tair thehm litz

^^ I have been doing this for years too. I even asked on the 'how do you pronounce thread'!

There's a long video interview by Todd Burns at the Red Bull Music Academy site: well worth watching.

I saw *so* many ilxorz in teh bar after this show at the Royal Festival hall when Terre was Djing as Sprinkles= I wanted to say hey but I kept seeing people across big crowds and I was honestly so drunk and jetlagged at that point that I wasn't sure of myself. I think I saw:

Ronan
the Lex
M0Mus

is it true?

Were you guys there?

i was! i was also at your (hilarious) lecture earlier in the day - was gonna say hi but lots of students seemed to want to talk to you, and i had to go meet the PR. thought i saw ronan briefly too, had to scoot off early to write the review though. terre's a great guy and his set was a+, and a brilliant way to conclude a night like that.

Were the other acts good as well?

yeah, it was a great night - somewhat truncated rvw in today's guardian

This album is unbelievable, especially House Music is Controllable Desire You Can Own

yep I was there...really enjoyed henrik schwarz and you guys set drew, didn't feel the craig/oswald/tristano thing at all...thought it was quite bad.

huh-- i thought the schwarz thing was a bit unimpressive, it felt sort of limited by 4/4 and also had a kind of dull pleasantness to it that the occasional dissonance couldn't mask; whereas the craig thing i found utterly engrossing.

limited by 4/4
Here we go again...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3821421397_54c9ec2957_o.jpg

I'm all about 4/4, but I think the deal was that if people are sitting in chairs then there's a chance for a dynamic in the music that has nothing to do with killing / not killing a non-existent dancefloor, so seated venue shows might reasonably have more playfulness about how rhythms appear and dis-appear. There's a weird transaction going on when techno is played to people sitting down in a culture-bunker like the RFH, it's an interestingly "unfair" situation.

On my part, I was referring to this Four Tet - There Is Love In You (2010)

And certainly would have loved to be there.

oh, i've never read that four tet thread, sorry. The Craig was no less 4/4 than the Schwarz - it was just that I somehow noticed it more with the Schwarz, the music seemed much more tied to the beats' structure. Also, I guess, at some level I expect that sort of vaguely improv-y piano to have a lot of rubato and messing with time/tempo and it was acutely clear that that couldn't happen. Somehow the sax was able to move more freely and more interestingly.

a lot of the audience had kind of dancefloor expectations - you'd get people whooping when the music seemed to reach a peak, and then a kind of deflation. And quite a lot of talking. Lex and I were sitting next to some utter twats who kept talking all the way through - actually they stopped talking during Matmos at some point! but they just would not stop during the Carl Craig/Von Oswald, especially at any quiet point, and when I leaned over and said something like 'if you want to talk, could you do it in the bar?' they started up this 'ooh, it's a concert, you can't talk' gigglefest and oh god blind rage. (afterwards, I got the tube home from waterloo: at embankment they got on and sat down next to me.)

IMO it's the snare on the 2 which can use much more deviation from in house and techno. Schwarz got that afro-swing sometimes... yeah, more swing.

I thought Tristano's piano was just truly dreadful throughout, like nothing to do with the music, really shrill and horrible. Craig seemed to just add a hi-hat now and again. That whole section sounded better when it was just Von Oswald's drums but overall it was like a really desperate lunge at being jazz imo.

I thought Schwarz at least had interesting and clear ideas, and just musically it stood up and really had some emotion to it. Whereas I felt Craig and co was just unrehearsed noodling, which could of course be great but I really thought it was bad as did my friend. The hero adulation at the end just mystified me too.

zoom: get thee to the funky house skeptics thread post-haste

I thought the Craig/Von Oswald/Tristano set was pretty dull, as improvised music goes it was fairly lifeless and disjointed. Hugely talented studio musicians don't always perform miracles on stage. Matmos were really fantastic, fun and the builds were amazing. Schwarz and Wesseltoft were fine enough, Bugge's jazz piano and Henrik 'matching' on the Ableton "Schwarzonator" software. I'd prefer to see Bugge + band and Henrik DJ but that wasn't what the night was about. Terre played a really neat deep house set but all I kept thinking was how good it would have been at Plastic People or somewhere else.

i thought matmos were great too...not just saying that cos drew is posting here, i've never listened to matmos before but i enjoyed it.

suck up

max i enjoy your posts over at ile...and believe me i am a harsh critic of posts