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

(and tho i said it on the gay thread: alfred and eric, let's just agree to disagree. let a thousand flowers bloom, etc.)

Which gay thread, table? Clearly I'm missing out.

I have to say, this thread (which I'm somehow just reading now) warms my heart for a multitude of reasons, not least of which is how the DJ Sprinkles album spurred this much broader conversation about queer identity, etc. Good to see homos and the homo-friendlies stepping up to talk about some interesting, relevant stuff. More, more I say!

Mods: please retitle this thread Refutations of Smugness: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

3. Tim F., I've been reading agit-prop queer zines since I was that teenager you're describing, and at this point (ten years later), I'm relatively well-versed in a lot of queer/feminist theory. However, I do find that the energy and passion of queer teenagers (especially punk rockers) remains energising and invigorating to me, though I am sometimes disappointed in the myopic nature of their anger.

I'm not disappointed - they're teenagers! They're supposed to be energetic and passionate in their hatred of parents. I just think Eric is too quick to conflate that with queer theory per se.

In much the same way that anti-globalisation rallies would fall over without teenagers but we don't award those same teenagers book contracts with Verso (or do we?).

unless it's a compilation of Aaron Cometbus writings, I don't think so. (and one of those has already come out!) (well, and Aaron is more of a 40-year-old teenage at this point)

This thread is really making me want to dig up the queer-theory-informed paper on drag I wrote when I was 19.

feeling too lazy to put that in 'v much in character' thread

> at this point then i just think thaemlitz's point is based on one contradiction too many

she'd probably be really glad to read that... :)

one of my best friends "surprised" me with this disc recently. told her about it about two weeks ago and it showed it at my door about two days ago. very excited to listen it it.

I love the conversation its generated on the thread.

http://img160.yfrog.com/img160/982/capture01jan122229.jpg

*facepalm*

this record is really beautiful

yeah, it's really rockin my world.

It's become my favorite disc of last year. In perpetual repeat (or almost so) in my car.

I feel fairly confident after four or five listens in saying that it's my favorite of '09, as well.

love it. how sick is the bass all over this album?? probably my favourite of the year too.

Yeah, gorgeous. A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.

cant believe the podcast has barely been mentioned

his other house records are just as good... criminally under exposed compared to this one.

the only other thing i hve is lovebomb, what are his house-ey releases?

didn't see any mention of this yet:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7062

New DJ Sprinkles song recorded during the Midtown 120 Blues sessions!

"what are his house-ey releases"

there have been a few, like "Terre Thaemlitz presents... You? Again?" which looks like a comp but i think all his productions. tip top.

this just came out:
(mule musiq 44) Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles - Masturjakor Vinyl 2010

and i'm willing to bet there are more than a few dance numbers on this:
TERRE THAEMLITZ "DEAD STOCK ARCHIVE / 売れ残り品アーカイブ"
The wet dream collector's box, with over 600 tracks in 320kbps MP3 format.

:)

thanks i was lookin at that, also haven't managed to hear the masturkator(?) yet

masturb/k/jator is very satisfying indeed.

The Routes Not Routes 12" are great. They are expensive now though.

Routes not Roots. (as in the delusian emphasis on lateral connectivity and against deep genetic axis...) yeah i'd love to hear those as well.

what about that Fagjazz stuff? anyone know if it's house-y?

this podcast is so damn beautiful. looking forward to this masturjakor stuff

you can hear (low quality) samples of it here http://www.wordandsound.de/article/62738

Sounds good to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEVVVlDP6yk

a dub of this^ appeared on the 'i'm starting to feel ok' comp in 2008 (credited to t. thaemlitz tho)

brilliant!

Opening chords and sine wave, sooo classic.

This album absolutely blew my mind during a cold, miserable New Jersey winter in January 2009. My neighbors couldn't have appreciated the bass.

The Kink & Neville Watson mix of "Masturjakor" is ace. The original, take it or leave it for now, but I could see it being incorporated well into an LP.

DJ Sprinkles is playing live with Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Matmos, and Henrik Schwarz at the Royal Festival Hall in London a week tomorrow. Any ILXors going along?

damn that is a ridic bill

The RFH has great acoustics, but it's a sit down venue. Even though I'm working the next day, I'm really tempted.

I'm going to the RFH night. I originally assumed Terre Thaemlitz would be playing as Terre rather than DJ Sprinkles, excited to see this. My only concern is that I will miss certain performers. They seemed to have a lot of people on for a single evening.

ah... shit, I'm working that eve at a fuking Matthew Ship gig

Shipp. and he's great... just bad conflicts

i hear DJ Sprinkles is dj-ing in the lounge (lobby?) after the stage sets are over

There's a playing favorites piece with Terre by Finn Johannsen at Resident Advisor. And there's a longer, unedited version is up at Johannsen's site.

Ha! he skips over Madonna's Vogue predictably (in the RA piece http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1134 )

The unedited version is interesting: he seems to be suggesting that everyone has forgotten that Olivia Newton-John is Elton John's daughter, and that Michael Jackson was a Mormon rather than a Jehovah's Witness. Good editing.

yeah, most people i know are surprised if i mention olivia is sr. elton's spawn... i thought michael jackson thought he WAS god...

the new single is very good. surround sound 909 open hi-hat especially.

it's all about the bonus beats, what the hell is the female hip-house tracks that mixes in towards the end?

not sure about the neville watson remix. seems like they just threw a 707 drum machine over the bassline and turned the beat up, completely ignoring the subtlety of the original. the og is like this restrained, discreet take on wild pitch or something

ok, so obv, i'm a big stan for Terre Thaemlitz and all related projects...but i kind of think this "Masturjakor" single doesn't have much going for it. it essentially sounds like Thaemlitz approximating the sound of a early mid-tempo Fingers Inc. track.

i think it sounds more like dj pierre or la williams but with delicate drums

Why didn't someone tell me there's female hip house on this!

masturjakor is much more in keeping with the old dj sprinkles releases - especially bassline.89, which was deliberately over-the-top referential. i think it's really about dj-ing, in that it's like making tracks with other tracks. kind of anti-musician.

Report on the RFH gig anyone?