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

Both of these EPs are absolutely gorgeous

xp I really like Boomkat's gushing, over the top Pseuds Corner style write ups. Essential purchase!

Can't wait for the 2cd release.

to be honest I didn't enjoy listening to the two EPs. All of the Sprinkles stuff is well done but it's too repetitive to listen to for an hour-plus, and the source material is a bit boring. The Simon Fisher Turner thing was perfect in its construction and duration and left me wanting more... but now it's here and it's too much.

So, how do people rate Skylax House Explosion, the new 2-disc DJ mix by Sprinkles and Hardrock Striker? I think it's pretty dope, a nice, kicking mix of straightforward deep house. I'm not really familiar with Skylax as a label, but the selection here is pretty awesome. I especially love the Lady Blacktronika track on Sprinkles' disc, with that wonderful choppy piano riff!

The Lady Blacktronika album last year was pretty awesome

has anyone heard the new 'deproduction' eps?
'Sprinkles' House Arrest' is probably the most beautiful & haunting piece of music I heard this year.

if i had my shit together i'd definitely be collecting everything she does

Read this review this AM and have been running through this excellent spotify playlist since.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/dj-sprinkles-gayest-tits-and-greyest-shits-1998-2017-12-inches-and-one-offs/

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5z8OEJXDqczRgZ6gTUuyUz

yes https://ra.co/news/75568?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

awesome. more excited about TT the lecturer / theorist than TT the artist these days tbh so very much looking forward to this.

https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-069-terre-thaemlitz

loved this interview

idk. i don't mean to be contrarian but i thought that was one of the worst pieces i've seen with her involved. just when it started to get interesting the interviewer sort of chickened out. once he cuts down all the usual stuff and gets to his goal, which is to minimalize violence. i would want to hear someone question him on that. i just have questions about what that means and i see contradictions in what he's saying. i find it interesting that agency is an illusion except when it comes to not causing harm. if violence is everywhere, it seems like .. a fantasy? whereas the reality might be that violence should be responsibly engaged with, whatever that means. of course i like his materialist pov and find it refreshing but i've discovered that spirituality or drugs or meditation or pleasure or power are not lazy and bad things to want, they are reasons to keep living, and one can take part in some of those things without being too much of a douchebag. in fact it's probably healthiest to do so (at least for me).

her apartment looks lovely.

also think it's worth challenging terre when he drops "cancel culture" like twice over the course of an interview, like for someone who is a very contextual thinker within her particular focus to say that, it rankles 4 me, just sayin

also, the bit about authenticity not existing. i mean i get what she's saying, but ... i can't deny the sort of reaction i experience when i hear certain rooted sounds, when they're close to some kind of folk tradition. like obviously human societies of all kinds have been a nightmare but i'm tired of questioning / denying the inner hum / spiritual reaction i get from music. granted all kinds of horrible exploitative and violent practices hinge on that. but ultimately it's why i'm still alive and why i'm going to keep on living, so i'm focusing on that energy rather than putting up purity tests for everything (spoiler alert: everything will fail).

xp yeah that stood out.

i mean i always find terre interviews alternately edifying and annoying, nothing new for me, maybe this is unfair of me but her straight edgeness extends to her thinking, so even when i'm on the same page as her 100 percent i sort of simultaneously disagree with the inflexibility? not that her thinking isn't flexible, obviously it flexes a lot within its particularly context, but it can still like... flatten other subjects for which that kind of thinking isn't entirely appropriate. not sure if i'm making sense

yes that makes a lot of sense

like it's alternatively nuanced and then just very black-and-white. straight edgeness is a good way to describe it. i thought it was funny when she was talking about how she realizes how american she still is - like, that curmudgeonly midwesterness is very much still there.

and like i get an albini vibe from her sometimes, lol, she would probably be amused to hear that.

I did roll my eyes at the LGBTGDGMROGMROGONFMwhatever joke she was trying to make. But I love that he is willing to say, fuck heteronormativity if it isn't for you, I need more of that in my life

yeah totally, his positions are often extremely righteous and i love reading them

my favorite one is his evisceration of family, that has really stuck with me.

I’d have liked the interviewer to drill down further into the seeming contradiction between: gigs are bad, because a communal response destroys the individual’s singular connection to the art vs: being a DJ, which is surely all about eliciting a communal response (even if you’re as anti-fun as TT!)

Relistening for the first time in years… god I love how MOODY this record is. It truly needs to be played LOUD so you can immerse yourself in all its MOODINESS.

When I first heard it Brenda’s $20 Dilemma didn’t stand out to me much, but listening now — man, it creates such an *atmosphere* in those eight or so minutes. A low key highlight for sure

Whats the sample in The Occasional Feel-Good? I felt like it almost came to me recently. Or maybe what came to me was The Occasional Feel-Good itself

Don't know about that, but I'm pretty sure the sample in "House Music is Controllable Desire You Can Own" is "I Know You" by Paul Williams.

god I love how MOODY this record is. It truly needs to be played LOUD so you can immerse yourself in all its MOODINESS.

cosign

Also has anyone heard the Gayest Tits complication she put out a couple years ago? Haven’t seen much discussion about it here but seems like the kind of thing y’all would like

I bought it. It's wonderful. Spent a long weekend in Palm Springs last year with only this set for music in the car. Perfectly stenciled the visit into my brain - very scenic music. The Will Long CD (Long Trax) it came with is also lovely. Hours and hours of spacy, chugging warmth.