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40 Best: Albums of 2009
17: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
[Mule Musiq]
 
- Kiran Sande


In Fact Magazine (UK), December 2009.

 

"The contexts from which the deep house sound emerged are forgotten," states Terre Thaemlitz, aka DJ Sprinkles, in a wistful spoken intervention on Midtown 120 Blues. "Sexual and gender crises, transgendered sex work, black market hormones, drug and alcohol addiction, loneliness, racism, HIV, ACT-UP, Tompkins Square Park, police brutality, queer-bashing, underpayment, unemployment and censorship - all at 120 beats per minute." Midtown 120 Blues is educational, for sure; but it's no lecture - Thaemlitz demonstrates the emotive and (believe it or not) political potential of deep house not just through rhetorical preaching, but by assured and heartfelt practice.