Midtown 120 Blues

by DJ Sprinkles

Midtown 120 Blues cover art

As DJ Sprinkles, Terre Thaemlitz’s 'Midtown 120 Blues' is a work of deep house that serves as an incisive critique of the genre itself. Through melancholic, richly textured instrumental productions interspersed with pointed spoken-word monologues, the album deconstructs the commercialization of house and reasserts its origins in marginalized queer, transgender, Black, and Latino communities. It is a landmark recording that simultaneously functions as a potent example of the New York deep house sound and a corrective to the genre's ahistorical, mainstream narrative.

Genres

  • Deep House

Tracklist

  1. Midtown 120 Intro
  2. Midtown 120 Blues
  3. Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone)
  4. Brenda's $20 Dilemma
  5. House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own
  6. Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
  7. Reverse Rotation
  8. Grand Central, Pt. I (Deep Into The Bowel Of House)
  9. Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs. By Rail From Missouri)
  10. The Occasional Feel-Good