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

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

new dj sprinkles/k-she thing is excellent!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJhHCThmpxw&feature=related

so good

has the routes not roots stuff been rereleased? B2B was on the 1st one.

no just "b2b". other side is "hush now" from some mp3 only compilation

I am pleased as punch that the club I'm a partner in has Terre coming for his first US show in a loooong time:

Friday, July 9th

DJ Sprinkles
Morgan Geist

U Street Music Hall
1115 U St NW
Washington DC

Really excited to see him play, really curious to see what the audience demographics are.

I bet all the 'true' heads are trapped outside by the bouncer while their white labels are being spun on the decks.

Really excited to see him play, really curious to see what the audience demographics are.

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ME

Took me so long to hear this but I absolutely love it. It greatly satisfies inner underground deep house homo thug.

MY inner blah blah

well, no. just, "i ain't you bitch *snap*. yo bitch is at home wit' your kids *snap*."

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in fact, when i give my MFA thesis reading in the spring, my friend is gonna yell 'bitch' at me from the audience, and i'm going to say just that.

― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:26 AM (5 months ago)

i wanna know if this happened

btw has anyone heard any of these?

http://www.comatonse.com/releases/deeperama.html

This is a completely intuitive and therefore bullsh1ne way of thinking about it, but this record totally does what I wanted Pantha du Prince to do before I heard him, and does it better and renders PdP unnecessary to my ears.

^^ I'm interested in those, based on his lovely dj set at RFH London earlier this year. On a Terre note I got a copy of the G.R.R.L. album. It's really hard work, the only track I like is 'Face' which is on the You? Again? comp. I guess a lot has changed stylistically between 1997 and now. The future is drum and bass??? Maybeee not.

Probably goes on the Terre thread.

i ordered one this morning so i'll let you know when it gets here

please do!

this came today btw, just listening. the one i ordered was Pastime Paradise, his website describes it as

"Dawn mix (6:30am), a little heavier on the smooth, deep New York vibe, with some male vocals."

can't find a tracklist for it anywhere but so far it is awesome. male diva vocal house.

the night in DC was great. really stretched out, languid vibe. grand central mcde bassline mix sounded incredible on the u hall system!

he should come to LA

http://www.sounds-like-me.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/1986-Self-Portrait-1.jpg

holy crap...

Mille Plateaux Back-Catalog Once Again Illegally Uploaded Into Major Distribution Channels
An Open Letter To The Press

http://www.comatonse.com/writings/milleplateaux2010.html

July 31, 2010
To all members of the press,

I am shocked to say the original Mille Plateaux back-catalog has once again been illegally uploaded into major distribution systems, including Beatport, etc. I am led to believe they have been provided the content by the distributor IODA, from whom I am attempting to get specific information about the uploader. (I will update this page as soon as I have confirmed information.) This is devastating news for myself, as well as so many other Mille Plateaux artists who struggled for years to have the works removed from illegal distribution.....

i would def never buy any comatonse stuff w/o checking hard where my money was going

I'm curious as to how often this sort of thing happens, which just makes me happy that I steer clear of mp3 sites. I can only imagine what sort of seedy things you'd find out looking at Beatport's business practices.

> ^^ I'm interested in those, based on his lovely dj set at RFH London earlier this year. On a Terre note I got a copy of the G.R.R.L. album. It's really hard work, the only track I like is 'Face' which is on the You? Again? comp. I guess a lot has changed stylistically between 1997 and now. The future is drum and bass??? Maybeee not.
>
> ― mmmm, Friday, July 16, 2010 3:35 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

In case you missed the promo-sticker-like yellow star on the back cover reading the album was "brought to you by the boardroom mentality that brought you Space Jam," or the liner notes saying "G.R.R.L. assures the audience that each track is produced with 110% cyncerity," G.R.R.L. was a parody album in which Terre sarcastically produced tracks in all the genres labels told her/him they wanted once s/he got out of her contract with Instinct Records. They were then all put onto a single album, making it un-distributable by distributors who always wanted to categorize dance releases under a single hyper-specific category (like just House or Techno or Drum and Bass). There is a kind of funny graphing of the various genres on the back cover. In some interview Terre talks about all this, and other strategies of failure as an anti-capitalist practice... kinda funny and interesting.

The inner notes also end, "In the spirit of music award show recipients, G.R.R.L. would like first and foremost not to thank God for making any part of this possible." :)

Read the "G.R.R.L.ifesto" here: http://www.comatonse.com/releases/grrl.html

Also worth noting that all the tracks are well produced - in typical Terre fashion, the sarcasm is intended to pass without scrutiny by those not in the know... as apparently mmmm's comments prove. ;) I know scanner used to sometimes DJ the minimal track (i think it's called Troll), and that China Doll (Kill all who call me...) track used to be played on the local college radio station sometimes... all the titles are kinds of sexual stereotypes or ways people might describe someone while cruising... also funny.

oh, and the beatport/mille plateaux problem seems to be over:
http://www.comatonse.com/writings/milleplateaux2010.html

so the k-she record that just came out is sick. really inspired talk talk sample

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

looks like there's a new album due next year

I hope there is more new stuff, the two recent 12s only include one track (Double Secret) I don't recognise.

Terre on NPR! http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/01/10/132765657/deconstructing-gender-politics-in-dance-music?ft=1&f=2

cool, does anybody have the LWE podcast btw?

ugh its p. tacky spamming msg boards w/ articles abt u

terre writes about the charity-marketing around japan's crises...

http://www.comatonse.com/writings/helpingwithoutrecompense.html

sooooooo terre was pretty damn awesome last night.

the new record is a re-release of routes not roots, though given that it was a japan-only vinyl release in 2006 it probably just counts as a new album, and it's AMAZING - even better than midtown 120 blues. "hobo train" is the most epic thing.

I like this:

youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdGa4Oa2MaY