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MUSIQ 177EP
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Last sampler release from DJ Sprinkles' remix collection Queerifications & Ruins (MUSIQ 042CD). Here are three unreleased Sprinkles remixes for Hard Ton's "Food of Love." Enjoy timeless Sprinkles house.
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MUSIQ 164EP
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Volume three in a vinyl sampler from DJ Sprinkles' remix collection Queerifications & Ruins (MUSIQ 042CD). The remix of indie-rock band Ducktails is straight deep house, and it's definitely the most clubby remix. It will be an instant house classic. On the other side, the remix of Adultnapper is typical of Sprinkles' house style, and it's already a classic.
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MUSIQ 161EP
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The double CD Queerifications & Ruins (MUSIQ 042CD) features almost all the remixes DJ Sprinkles did between 2010 and 2013. This first vinyl sampler features remixes of tracks by Oh, Yoko and Parallax Beat Brothers.
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MUSIQ 162EP
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This second vinyl sampler features two previously-unreleased remixes of June's "Lost Area."
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MUSIQ 042CD
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Call it a new DJ Sprinkles album, call it a collection of his latest, most thrilling remixes -- whatever you name it: Queerifications & Ruins is a close meeting of 14 tracks that will lift your spirits. They all bring different elements into a natural flow with DJ Sprinkles' typical trippy sound signature: airy piano melodies, cool congas, echoed vocal samples, haunting chords, pounding bass lines, some hidden melancholy, some poetic spoken words as well as soft beatless ambient parts for your relaxation. Terre Thaemlitz, world-wide known and awarded writer, public speaker, multimedia producer, DJ, audio producer, and head honcho of the label Comatonse Recordings -- released under his deep house alias DJ Sprinkles the mix CD Where Dancefloors Stand Still (MUSIQ 041CD) -- a grooving house music critique on Japan's strange fuzoku law that currently is threatening Japanese clubs with a curfew. Now he spreads some timeless spiritual grooves with a collection of his own productions based on originals by artists like Kuniyuki, Ducktails, Matt Tolfrey, and Hard Ton. They are all deep as house can be and their spirit is rooted in the unique life story of the American in Japan that originally DJed in the heydays of the gay clubs of midtown Manhattan and New Jersey in the late '80s and early '90s -- a time when deep house began to take air. After the New York scene went world-wide and lost its family spirit, he embarked to Japan, where he held a three-year residency at Tokyo's Club Module from 2003-2006. In January 2009, he released his album Midtown 120 Blues (MUSIQ 009CD that was hailed as one of the most essential house albums of the last few years and was voted by Resident Advisor as the best album of the year. The 2CD Queerifications & Ruins now features almost all remixes he had done between 2010-2013. Four of the 14 reinterpretations are previously-unreleased. Two are done for the mysterious, former West-London, now Berlin-based acid house and new wave producer June, one for the queer Venice disco outsiders Hard Ton, and one for Corbie, a chilled-out newcomer from Vilnius, Lithuania. Epic reworks for such artists such as Area, Hardrock Striker, Jorge C, Oh, Yoko, Adultnapper, and Marco Bernardi have been released on such labels as Arma, Ojo De Apolo, Will Saul's Simple Records, Normal Cookie, Comatonse Recordings, and Mule Musiq. Some of them are hard to find on vinyl and now they are back on black wax and the CD edition features two more tracks full of wonderful off-kilter ideas.
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MUSIQ 041CD
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It seems like young people in Japan can't dance like crazy anymore because of the growing threats of the strange Fuzoku law -- one of the most surreal in Japan's legal system, the origins of which go back to 1948. The law deals with restrictions concerning the sale of sex and businesses of similar type. Due to the ambiguous way of reading it, the law also deals with nightclubs and related establishments that allow customers to dance. Especially in the last two years, clubs all over Japan have suffered under the authorities who often strictly enforce a 1 AM curfew deducted from an archaic adult entertainment law. Instead of moaning and stopping the dance, Mule Musiq is ready to raise a protest with DJ Sprinkles. Today, dancing is one of the most perfect ways to express emotion, social interaction, and spiritual communication and Where Dancefloors Stand Still spreads music to devoted dancers who will love to share all they have to reveal. Who knows better about revealing emotions on the dancefloor than Terre Thaemlitz -- internationally-acclaimed writer, public speaker, multimedia producer, DJ, audio producer, and head honcho of Comatonse Recordings. His deep house alias DJ Sprinkles has been beloved ever since he first started playing in the gay clubs of midtown Manhattan and New Jersey in the late '80s and early '90s -- a time when deep house began to take shape. After the scene got famous and landed hard, DJ Sprinkles embarked to Japan where he held a three-year residency at Tokyo's Club Module from 2003 till 2006. In January 2009, he released his album Midtown 120 Blues (MUSIQ 009CD), which was hailed as one of the most essential house albums of the last few years. His new DJ mix intends to free Japan's clubs from the Fuzoku law restrictions and to move your hips, too. The mix takes off with a Chicago deep house classic from 1992: Braxton Holmes' debut EP "12 Inches of Pleasure" -- here rendered in Ron Trent's super-sweet foreplay mix. His deepness merges gently into Alex Danilov's house hug "Deep S," and then dives deep into house science and swings between the decades without losing the flow. Then there are classics such as "I Can't Forget" from Sound Mechanix, "The Dip" by The Rude Awakening, and legendary trio Fingers Inc. with "Never No More Lonely." In between, are soulful arrangements like "Forestfunk I" from Understars, "Everybody's Talkin'" by Mymy, and "The Deep" from Manoo & François. The mix grooves with DJ Sprinkles' trippy mixing signature that playfully melts tracks that are built from flying piano notes, tactile bass lines, kicking drums, and layered samples. If your dancefloor stands still, too, here comes about 80 minutes of house deepness that will make it swing. The album artwork comes from Emi Winter -- an artist from Oaxaca, Mexico. Other artists include: The Rhythm Slaves, Trentemøller, Lectroluv, Classic Man, Gene Farris, The Rude Awakening, Choo-Ables and Keys & Tronics Ensemble.
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MUSIQ 009CD
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2009 release. DJ Sprinkles' debut full-length album continues with themes from 1998's Sloppy 42nds: A Tribute to the 42nd Street Transsexual Clubs Destroyed by Walt Disney's Buyout of Times Square. While the world celebrates the revival of New York house music, constructing utopian fictions about the genre as it goes along, DJ Sprinkles retreats deep into the bowels of house. This is the rhythm of empty midtown dancefloors resonating with the difficulties of transgendered sex work, black market hormones, drug and alcohol addiction, racism, gender and sexual crises, unemployment, and censorship. The title songs are real "strictly rhythm" house tracks. It's a simple 4/4 beat with a piano loop. "Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone)" is euphoric mid-tempo house. This track brings to mind Jan Jelinek or Larry Heard. Fourth track "Brenda's $20 Dilemma" is a sequel to his fag-jazz style. "House Music Is Controllable Desire You Can Own" is classic New York house style. If you like Jus-Ed, you will like this song. "Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To" is one of the highlight songs on the album. Actually, this track is not 4/4 beat house, but very emotional, powerful music. "Reverse Rotation" is a deep and madly beautiful song. When you listen to this song, you will associate it with the music of Theo Parrish or Pépé Bradock. "Grand Central, Pt. I (Deep Into the Bowel of House)" is associated with the sound of jungle wonz or virgon, but this song is also filled with something sad. This album is for real house music lovers.
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