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

love him/her

wow

classic thaemlitz. love the lady gaga take down, lol.

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

yeah, really really enjoying it. That Gene Farris track ('Good Times') is particularly delicious.

Loving this mix, and also this track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_37o7I9sV8

That Gene Farris track ('Good Times') is particularly delicious is exactly what I came to say.

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.

really into the ducktails remix

Queerifications & Ruins is insanely good. Loving this.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but: Terre Thaemlitz is the best and most important producer of the last 10 years.

Yeah, you're definitely out on a limb...

careful!

i got no respect for philosophers + the music is mostly boring so no i wouldn't say terre is that important

terre is very good at acting self important though

i'm interested in philosophy and what terre has to say, but i don't think it's particularly "important." i'd be curious to hear why someone does think so, though.

hard for me to accuse anyone of that (xp). i don't know about "importance" but i actually like the mix cd more than his productions, several of which i really like and am incredibly impressed by but i always feel like the sum is a little less than it should be given all of the stuff going on in his tracks, that there's something i'm looking for that isn't actually there. i sort of feel like he misses a basic benchmark of funkiness. in general. for me, personally. it isn't where he's at. there's an attitude, a softness, and a hallucinatory vision i hear in his tracks that i find really appealing but i just need more funkiness than that, it's what pleases my body, i'm too much of a sensualist to do without it.

i mean the bass is really fierce and trippy, but it doesn't have the kind of perpetual motion that's just there in, say, a theo parrish track. someone else you could accuse of being self-important if you wanted to.

theo is kinda insufferable in interviews esp w/r/t what constitutes real dj'ing

A bona-fide genius. The real deal. He's a really smart dude and isn't shy about offering his (informed) opinions. I can see why that might be offputting to some, but it doesn't make his music any less sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99yPUgvDhdY

Perhaps because I was kind of veering towards the "challops" side of things, I don't think I actually meant anything by important (since I have no idea how "important" s/he is in the grand scheme of things), but good lord have I fallen hard for Terre's work in the last 5 years.

wowowowow that remix comp is pretty special huh

Yup, I'm more psyched about it than the mix personally. There are cool things about 'Where Dancefloors Stand Still,' but I feel it works more in the mode of anonymity Tim IDs upthread.

Posted in the Bobbins thread, but if ya missed it here's my interview with Terre:
http://crackmagazine.net/music/dj-sprinkles/

dudes, for real, do you know this one? with the dialogue in the middle? is something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoO0X0oXyLA

also stuff like this what the hell. ambient remix. i dig it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUZ4kkGdwM

i heard terre is on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nls3MXiBdXM

oh actually it turns out it's a remix of this

http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Sprinkles-Mark-Fell-Complete-Spiral-EP/release/3611534

xxxpost yeah the Oh Yoko remix is excellent.

love complete spiral ( tho the remix of adultnapper is my fav sprinkles)

sprinkles' remixes, for example the stunning june - lost area (sprinkles' lost dancefloor), often remind me of holy ghost, inc. (most obviously their "a walk on air") - very atmospheric, with unsettling vocal fragments and active tribal percussion including the occasional breakbeat.

the remix comp is absolutely wonderful; the music is so beautifully detailed.

This thread has one of the best titles.

*THIS IS THE WAY ~WE~ JACK THE HOUSE*

― autogoon collective (The Reverend), Sunday, December 27, 2009 1:32 PM Bookmark

This record is SO expensive! I really want a copy but I am not rich/crazy.

It's being reissued soon so hopefully you can pick it up.

Here's a great interview with Terre by Lex

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/29/deeper-underground-fact-meets-terre-thaemlitz-part-one/

awesome

tremendous as always, can't wait for the rest of it.

eh fact still stuck in 2003 with the enforced multipage articles to boost page views

think you mean 2013, the same year many had similar complaints about the heavy burden of clicking extra times because ad money pays salaries

h8 clicking

if thaemlitz had any political integrity at all she'd take a stand on this but no, not one EP. OVERRATED.

i was so disgusted i worked out the wear and tear on my mouse for 4 clicks, multiplied over the projected 4 parts of the article and sent FACT the bill

I read on mobile devices, so.. it's a pain in the ass.

zoom in on next button, click, oops, fat fingers clicked the wrong thing. go back start again. Flag. Lots more articles on mobile friendly sites since agggggges ago.

Oh man sorry, I had no idea :-(

thaemlitz's website has no ads and some similarly great pieces.

xp rmde

I've been listening to this record as much as ever. Can't wait to read this.

That's ok dickbait

a person who complains about a non-mobile-friendly website layout re a terre thaemlitz interview in an online music mag and then makes vague suggestions that they are being persecuted for being called out on how idiotic this is and then resorts to a homophobic slur is basically the blonde woman in the following story, which i really hope you'll read, it's edifying.

From
We Are Not Welcome Here
Address for "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness,"
Tate Modern, February 2, 2013
http://www.comatonse.com/writings/2013_we_are_not_welcome_here.html

Later that evening, while DJ-ing at the after party, I was harassed by a drunk, middle-aged, standardly attractive heterosexual woman with long blonde hair who had apparently walked through life without hearing the word, "No!" At least not in a night club. While I realize that may sound like a mysogynistic generalization, my years of experience as a DJ have shown the two types of people who never fail to give me trouble are heterosexual long-haired blonde women, and heterosexual middle-aged German men in casual blazers.

She began by asking me to play something by Madonna. I joked that she clearly did not know who I was (ref. my anti-Madonna tyrade in "Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone)"). She persisted, moving on to request Billy Bragg and the Pogues. As I was in the midst of playing a deep house set, I asked why she would even imagine I had such music with me. She continued with her requests, and I kept explaining I didn't have the type of music she wanted to hear. It is amazing how people presume DJ's always carry an arsenal of mainstream pop records. Sorry, I don't play at coming out parties or wedding receptions.

After what must have been at least ten minutes, I finally said, "I guess my answer to your requests is, 'No!'" This did not go over well.

"What?!!"

"No! My answer is no!"

Total shock-face. "How dare you!"

I pointed to the day's curator Stuart Comer, who was standing a few meters away, and suggested she complain to him. Her response was, "Who's that? Your boyfriend? What are you, faggots?" I pointed once again to Stuart and she repeated her insult, at which point I began screaming at the top of my lungs, "Yes, that's right! We are all faggots! This is a faggot party! Where the fuck do you think you are? We - are - all - faggots - here! This - is - a - faggot - party!"

At this point, the staff and people on the floor began to realize what was happening, and moved her away - but she remained on the dancefloor flipping me off until closing time. The most disturbing thing was that she was accompanied by a WGM friend who could have been an attendee at the symposium. If so, and if you read this, get a new fag hag because your old one is broken. She clearly despises you - probably because you are the only person with a penis offering her the vapid emotional understanding she craves but cannot find in the drunk, heterosexual men with blonde hair she attempts to have meaningful relationships with. Both of your lives have been lived a million times.

err dickbait is his user name