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

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.
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> ― 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

yeh, that's nice!

wish i'd manage to persuade someone to go to this

P.s. Routes Not Roots = would acquire.

wow, love these tracks. Anything house with an intro that talks about 'what house is' I love. Someone should do a mix of only these.

even better than midtown 120 blues

if this is true, hot damn. need to find a copy

I'm not sure it's better but it is as good. In fact, it's basically the same record.

Thanks for the tip on Routes on Roots, I didn't know about that one. Looks like you can get it cheap from Amazon.fr (at least if you live in the EU), so I ordered it right away.

A rare perfect rating on Resident Advisor.

Haven't gotten a copy yet (I'm hoping this review means local stores will actually stock it), but I can't say I'm surprised.

LOVE this. i can see why brotherlovesdub would say its the same record, but really while the sound palette is similar, i find it less langorous/ambient and more... well, idk if i would go as far as to say banging, but it finds a wonderful balance between melancholy and straight up rhythm+bass exhilaration. its not as fragile or wispy as midtown 120 blues and a few tracks really build up some momentum. i could def do without the 6min long interruption of "Stand Up", tho, i mean its interesting to hear it once, but i'll be skipping it from now on.

omfg B2B when the lush synth pads roll in ((((d-_-b))))

So, I'm thinking I prefer Midtown 120 Blues to this, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers...

it finds a wonderful balance between melancholy and straight up rhythm+bass exhilaration. its not as fragile or wispy as midtown 120 blues and a few tracks really build up some momentum. i could def do without the 6min long interruption of "Stand Up", tho, i mean its interesting to hear it once, but i'll be skipping it from now on.

agree on all of this - think this is why i prefer it to midtown 120 blues...

I was wondering, has Thaemlitz actually released much house music (or dance music in general) before these records? I bought one of his experimental electroacoustic albums on Mille Plateaux back in the 90s, and while the liner notes had some interesting queer polemics, the music was mostly boring as hell, which made me write him off for years. Looking at Discogs, most of his records are classified as "experimental" or "ambient", are there any gems among them? I really like "Between Empathy And Sympathy Is Time" as an experimental piece, but is the rest of Lovebomb as good?

The "You? Again?" compilation has a lot of dancier stuff that he released under other pseudonyms. It's great.

lol at that apache sample in the mix of june's lost area. works tho!

fav sprinkles thing (and one of my fav tracks of last year) was the remix of low point on high ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTApQIZU-U

"lovebomb" is largely more, uh, 'conceptual' pieces, not very much house action there. i second the 'you? again?' comp (those two tracks that sample "see line woman" especially)

very excited to hear this k-s.h.e. album

the video version of "lovebomb" available through comatonse is the one to get (and it comes with an audio cd, too). the visuals bring it together.

the "lost area" remix is so awesome

sprinkles' latest remix! the people doing these skylax videos are absolutely insane, haha!

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oops - sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOZK0GQ4aU

Just got Routes not Roots. Cross Town is so fucking marvelous. Is there an important distinction between the new release and the original 2006 version? There seems to be a new mix of Fuck the Down Low and Double Secret (Dub) instead of Double Secret. Is it worth tracking down the old one instead?

does the new double secret have a talk talk sample on it? if not then you should def get the earlier version.

No. it doesn't....hm. ok.

Oh no wait. Maybe it does.

saw him dj at love fever on 2nd of april. he was really really good. hardly anyone there had heard of him though, which was a bit strange tbh. was hoping to meet some homo house thugs.

ah how was that? - I went to Sud instead - quite a few people there seemed to have been at sprinkles beforehand

deep as you like! terre really got into it, was great to hear tracks from midtown on such a big system... would definitely go again. lost my phone at some point and one of the organisers called my friend the next day to say they'd found it :)

This love fever night - its a new thing, right?

that's the one i went to the other week. even the venue was quite nice!

http://www.lovefever.org/

Oh it was those that had the Larry Heard party - I went to something else that night as well:/

I really wanted to go to DJ Sprinkles thing a few weeks ago but had a load of tix for Schmulletover.. frustrating. He was good when playing records at RFH last year w/ Matmos and Moritz von Oswald etc...

Not sure of these are known about but;
Here's a great mix (if someone can spot the track coming in at 49 mins, please!) - http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/2-CB-002-DJ-Sprinkles-a-k-a-Terre-Thaemlitz/

Another I haven't heard yet - http://www.madelikeatree.com/Pages/grrl.html

mmmm; sounds a lot like one of his own.

by the way, for anyone who likes midtown, also check out Terre Thaemlitz presents... You? Again? if you haven't already.

Love the parallax bros track in the clubberia mix - not sure what the 49 min one is - theres a moodymann amp fiddler track in there toward the end tho

> There seems to be a new mix of Fuck the Down Low and Double Secret (Dub) instead of Double Secret. Is it worth tracking down the old one instead?

the changes are not big. "fuck the down low (what's your secret mix)" literally only adds 30 seconds of a nice break within what otherwise sounds like the original, and "double secret (dub)" is just a bit more straight forward then the origina, which had a few more ambient breakdowns (but still always within dance range). but i guess the idea was just to make the old vinyl-only tracks on cd, and vice versa... more for hard fans.

re: clubberia podcast
> Here's a great mix (if someone can spot the track coming in at 49 mins, please!)

i love that record, too! b-side to manoo & francois a's "traffic ep"!!!