even better than midtown 120 blues
if this is true, hot damn. need to find a copy
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Sunday, 3 April 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure it's better but it is as good. In fact, it's basically the same record.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 3 April 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 3 April 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― EDB, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
omfg B2B when the lush synth pads roll in ((((d-_-b))))
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
So, I'm thinking I prefer Midtown 120 Blues to this, but I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers...
― henry s, Thursday, 7 April 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 April 2011 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The "You? Again?" compilation has a lot of dancier stuff that he released under other pseudonyms. It's great.
― corey, Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― Sittin' Fran (donna rouge), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― beavis2, Monday, 11 April 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
the "lost area" remix is so awesome
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Monday, 11 April 2011 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
sprinkles' latest remix! the people doing these skylax videos are absolutely insane, haha!
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― beavis2, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oops - sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOZK0GQ4aU
― beavis2, Monday, 11 April 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
does the new double secret have a talk talk sample on it? if not then you should def get the earlier version.
― jed_, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
No. it doesn't....hm. ok.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh no wait. Maybe it does.
― Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill The Radio Star (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ride, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
ah how was that? - I went to Sud instead - quite a few people there seemed to have been at sprinkles beforehand
― colby, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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 :)
― Ride, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
This love fever night - its a new thing, right?
― colby, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the one i went to the other week. even the venue was quite nice!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.lovefever.org/
― Ride, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh it was those that had the Larry Heard party - I went to something else that night as well:/
― colby, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ride, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― colby, Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
> 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.
― beavis2, Friday, 15 April 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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"!!!
― beavis2, Sunday, 17 April 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank you Beavis!
― mmmm, Sunday, 17 April 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Just reading about the Love Fever parties. I HAVE to go to these, they sound like they could fill a void.
― owenf, Thursday, 12 May 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
So does anyone else have Soulnessless yet?
― skip, Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
There's a new album? Sweet. My boyfriend was gonna see them play in Brooklyn last week but it sold out.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
midtown 120 <3
― Crackle Box, Monday, 29 October 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
perfect hurricane music
― skip, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
great interview
http://www.sfbg.com/noise/2013/02/21/nite-trax-lost-mix-dj-sprinkles
― max, Thursday, 28 February 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
yes it is. thx
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 February 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
Very.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
love him/her
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
classic thaemlitz. love the lady gaga take down, lol.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone heard the new mix album? I d/l'd a vinyl rip while I'm waiting for the CD to arrive, it's sounding niiiiiice
― beau 'daedaly (wins), Sunday, 24 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, really really enjoying it. That Gene Farris track ('Good Times') is particularly delicious.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 24 March 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Loving this mix, and also this track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_37o7I9sV8
― toby, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
That Gene Farris track ('Good Times') is particularly delicious is exactly what I came to say.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 12 April 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Having acquired Terre's new remix comp and mix cd, I'll say both are through and through ace all around. But that's no surprise, of course.
― ed.b, Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
really into the ducktails remix
― maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Saturday, 20 July 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link