Midtown 120 Blues

by DJ Sprinkles

Midtown 120 Blues cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 9, 2008
  • Label: Mule Musiq
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:19:23
  • Community rating: 4.44/5 from 10 ratings

Artists on this release: Terre Thaemlitz

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As DJ Sprinkles, Terre Thaemlitz鈥檚 '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

Descriptors: dance, long-form, minimal, soulful, political

Tracklist

  1. Midtown 120 Intro (2:46)
  2. Midtown 120 Blues (8:06)
  3. Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone) (8:18)
  4. Brenda's $20 Dilemma (7:47)
  5. House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own (7:09)
  6. Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To (10:46)
  7. Reverse Rotation (7:19)
  8. Grand Central, Pt. I (Deep Into The Bowel Of House) (12:08)
  9. Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs. By Rail From Missouri) (8:24)
  10. The Occasional Feel-Good (6:40)

Credits

  • Terre Thaemlitz - design, liner notes [text], producer, written-by, voiceover, speech, Producer
  • Laurence Rassel - painting [paintings]
  • Kuniyuki - Task Misc

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