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

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.

Tremendous interview, Lex - must have been a lot of prep considering Terre's rigour.

http://lmgmblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/terrethaemlitzinterview/ another recent one (i haven't had a chance to read it yet).

thx for nice words everyone

Tremendous interview, Lex - must have been a lot of prep considering Terre's rigour.

she was intimidatingly intelligent tbh

Look forward to setting aside an afternoon to reading this in full. Terre's interviews and articles are always really great.

I was surprised that midtown 120 became so scarce. How much were copies going for online?

he's very generous with his intelligence though. I spoke to him in a bar after a queer festival and it's no-bullshit but inclusive at the same time. a pretty unique trait, i think.

great interview Lex, I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

Great line.

How is uploading tracks to YouTube and Soundcloud any different from dumping a box of 100,000 CD-R copies of your favorite track at the biggest shopping mall in town and just walking away?

How does this album keep getting better every time I listen to it, even years after release?

otm

otm otm, i keep bringing it back into the car with me. such a warm comforting vibe. and "the inevitable comedown" last track is the perfect closer, it's like BOOM ~~LIFT OFF~~~~ you are more powerful than you were before you pressed play.

lol by "the inevitable comedown" i meant "the occasional feelgood"

haa

wtf tickets to her july show at dance tunnel (london) sold out in TWO MINUTES.

this album got reissued by comatonse a couple weeks ago, if anybody needs a copy

Got the reissues and oh god they are good

not a single mention of this?!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjU_6yw2Gs

It was in everyone's EOY ballots last year.

my mistake.

no mention on this thread is what i meant.

Thanks for mentioning, amazing track.

She's in the Guardian today - http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/25/dj-sprinkles-terre-thaemlitz

“Audio consumption is always about a gap between producer and listener,” she said. “When I was growing up in the Midwest, I twisted things like Gary Numan, or Depeche Mode, or Kraftwerk to fit my experience. That’s a precondition of music, from the consumer side. And the fundamental relationship between me and audio is still as a consumer. It’s not as a performer; it’s not as a trained musician. I’m a consumer who’s basically making collages, and playing my record collection for people,” she said. “In the end, I’m suspect of all of it. I’m not turning to these genres because I think they’re so capable of expressing the issues at hand. In a way, I’m trying to point out that the real issues aren’t getting dealt with by simply enjoying the music.”

http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/depth-dance-floor-music-dj-sprinkles

Finally bought a copy of Midtown 120 Blues from the Comatonse website. If you're looking for a copy, they're cheapest here: http://www.comatonse.com/releases/shop_currency_usd.html#c022

Ho-ly shit. That New Yorker piece.

Got me listening to Sprinkles' remix of Oh, Yoko's 'Seashore' all day. What an amazing track! Didn't know Will Long/Celer was involved, let alone knowing about the existence of this remix. I feel so much richer than before having heard this. Truly amazing.

immediately always read the thread title as "Strictly 4 My Underground Home Depot House Thugs..."

Ho-ly shit. That New Yorker piece.

Got me listening to Sprinkles' remix of Oh, Yoko's 'Seashore' all day. What an amazing track! Didn't know Will Long/Celer was involved, let alone knowing about the existence of this remix. I feel so much richer than before having heard this. Truly amazing.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:25 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh cool, i really love that track.

and learned much more about it from the new yorker piece (thanks one way street).

two new singles w/Mark Fell.

really dig 'fresh,' haven't heard sprinkles' alt mixes yet

I've been enjoying the Sprinkles' Deeperama remix of Simon Fisher Turner's "Shishapangma" over the past few weeks. It's been on 12" only, but someone on SoundCloud has opened their mix with it, and you get almost the full track: https://soundcloud.com/vikink/vik-kabinet-club-04122015-warm-up

(That's Cosey Fanni Tutti playing cornet towards the end of the track, by the way.)

"fresh" is one of my tracks of the year. tony benn!

Mine too. Such an beautiful thing.

While googling Dave berg recently, I found a cool article terre wrote about him. I know it's childish but I still get off on "wow this artist I love loves this totally unrelated other artist I love" thing

just sent this album to a friend today!

The audacity of the Simon Fisher Turner remix is that (as far as i can tell) he lets the original play from start to finish. completely unedited, and lays his beats straight over the top.

Yes, both the original and the remix have an identical playing time, and I can't discern any tweaks other than Sprinkles adding beats, plus the deepest, most booming/all-enveloping bass I've heard in possibly forever.

sprinkles' vinyl-only insistence is her only flaw

There's even a URL to that effect on the label of the 12" - it points to http://comatonse.com/popup_youtube.html - in which the issue is explained in some detail (as you might expect!)

she isn't vinyl-only. maybe you mean that she is insistent on maintaining her own distribution chain. you can see that as a flaw but she has some well-thought-out arguments for it. xp

lol killing joke more like homo gays

remember a (more expensive than i could afford) flashdrive release of a superlong ambient piece on Terre's website a while back so definitely not vinyl only.

even if she didn't release the most incredible music she would be one of my favourite current writers on music and cultural theory i think

yeah that's how i feel pretty much. i'm not head-over-heels in love with everything she's involved in, but the writing has really stuck with me.

on the other hand, the remix collection that came out a few years ago has really grown on me. when i listen to it i always remember this thread title and think about how appropriate "strictly 4 my underground homo deep house thugs" is as a descriptor for the dj sprinkles stuff.

Does anyone feel like it's a big oversight that Terre does not address the clear financial motive for an artist not to want streaming? Talk about an elephant in the room in those multiple long essays.

wait, you mean to make a living for your work? she mentions it explicitly somewhere i'm pretty sure but i thought it was pretty clear that is where she's coming from.

http://comatonse.com/writings/2013_social_media_content_removal_fail.html

"I do have concerns with file sharing, but they are not about economics, nor authorship rights. Rather, they are about an eradication of any specificity of context and audience that occurs when information is shared through populist models of making all information available to everyone."

seems like addressing it to me

Was gonna say

I guess... maybe I just disagree with the argument