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
Queerifications & Ruins is insanely good. Loving this.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but: Terre Thaemlitz is the best and most important producer of the last 10 years.
― ed.b, Saturday, 3 August 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, you're definitely out on a limb...
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 3 August 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
careful!
― maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Saturday, 3 August 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
i got no respect for philosophers + the music is mostly boring so no i wouldn't say terre is that important
― the late great, Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
terre is very good at acting self important though
― the late great, Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Saturday, 3 August 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Saturday, 3 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
theo is kinda insufferable in interviews esp w/r/t what constitutes real dj'ing
― the late great, Saturday, 3 August 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Touch of Death, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99yPUgvDhdY
― Touch of Death, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ed.b, Sunday, 4 August 2013 01:37 (ten years ago) link
wowowowow that remix comp is pretty special huh
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
Posted in the Bobbins thread, but if ya missed it here's my interview with Terre:http://crackmagazine.net/music/dj-sprinkles/
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
dudes, for real, do you know this one? with the dialogue in the middle? is something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoO0X0oXyLA
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 October 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
also stuff like this what the hell. ambient remix. i dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGUZ4kkGdwM
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 October 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
i heard terre is on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nls3MXiBdXM
― the late great, Thursday, 10 October 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
oh actually it turns out it's a remix of this
http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Sprinkles-Mark-Fell-Complete-Spiral-EP/release/3611534
― the late great, Thursday, 10 October 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
xxxpost yeah the Oh Yoko remix is excellent.
― Tim F, Thursday, 10 October 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
love complete spiral ( tho the remix of adultnapper is my fav sprinkles)
― cog, Thursday, 10 October 2013 06:21 (ten years ago) link
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.
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 06:58 (ten years ago) link
This thread has one of the best titles.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
*THIS IS THE WAY ~WE~ JACK THE HOUSE*
― autogoon collective (The Reverend), Sunday, December 27, 2009 1:32 PM Bookmark
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
This record is SO expensive! I really want a copy but I am not rich/crazy.
― Kornblud (admrl), Sunday, 6 April 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
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/
― Rotating prince game (I am using your worlds), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
awesome
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
tremendous as always, can't wait for the rest of it.
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
eh fact still stuck in 2003 with the enforced multipage articles to boost page views
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
think you mean 2013, the same year many had similar complaints about the heavy burden of clicking extra times because ad money pays salaries
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
h8 clicking
if thaemlitz had any political integrity at all she'd take a stand on this but no, not one EP. OVERRATED.
― paolo amusing eclectic revivals (wins), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
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
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
I read on mobile devices, so.. it's a pain in the ass.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
Oh man sorry, I had no idea :-(
― dickbait (wins), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
thaemlitz's website has no ads and some similarly great pieces.
xp rmde
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
I've been listening to this record as much as ever. Can't wait to read this.
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
That's ok dickbait
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
FromWe Are Not Welcome HereAddress for "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness,"Tate Modern, February 2, 2013http://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.
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.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
err dickbait is his user name
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link
anyway, I didn't mean to derail the thread. Was just pointing out that I'm surprised fact are still sticking their head in the sand with such a redundant style layout, especially for an online magazine with articles.
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
sorry mattresslessness, that didn't occur to me I was just going off of "clickbait"
― wins, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
sorry for the misunderstanding micarl.
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
He seems like a really intense interview subject.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
Another recent excellent interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbA_1CoGJQ
Looking forward to reading Lex's later today when I have a sec.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 30 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Tremendous interview, Lex - must have been a lot of prep considering Terre's rigour.
― etc, Friday, 2 May 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link