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new release - february 14 2024
新リリース 〜 令和6年2月14日

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Terre Thaemlitz: Tranquilizer (30th Anniversary Restored & Expanded Edition 1994-2024 / 30周年記念復元拡張版 1994・2024年)

A double-CD commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Terre Thaemlitz' first full-length album, Tranquilizer. Originally a single-CD release on the New York imprint Instinct Ambient in 1994, this "Restored & Expanded Edition" is well over two hours long and features previously unreleased bonus tracks, rarities, and perhaps most important of all: the notably missing title track "Tranquilizer" itself. Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes two CDs in an archival vinyl pouch with two double-sided insert cards (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeves, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).

The accompanying album text is available in the Writings section in English and Japanese.
アルバムテキストは「執筆」にて英語と日本語であります。


 
new release - february 14 2024
新リリース 〜 令和6年2月14日

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K-S.H.E: Routes not Roots / ルーツではなくルート (2024 Reissue)

A reissue of the 2006 Japanese first-edition of K-S.H.E's debut album, Routes not Roots / ルーツではなくルート (JP: Comatonse Recordings, C.013.CD). This album was the infamously more queer precursor to DJ Sprinkles' Midtown 120 Blues. and is one of only a few albums to ever receive a 5-star rating from "the old" Resident Advisor. Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes one CD in an archival vinyl pouch with a double-sided insert card (100mm x 200mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeves, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


 
new text - january 26 2024
新執筆 〜 令和6年1月26日

A series of exchanges between Terre Thaemlitz and the German art journal Texte zur Kunst around issues of censorship, cancel culture, and the cultural emergence of transsexual privilege over other forms of transgenderism.

Terre's individual letters:

  • Part I: Letter to the Editor of Texte zur Kunst: In Response to "Depresentation: Mine Pleasure Bouvar Über Terre Thaemlitz In Der Halle Für Kunste Lüneberg"
    A response to Texte zur Kunst's review of my exhibition "Reframed Positions," in which the reviewer admonished curators for not actively censoring me during an exhibition-related talk. Letter sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, October 1, 2023.
  • Part II: Letter of Correction to the Editor of Texte zur Kunst: An Addendum to Terre's Previous Response to "Depresentation: Mine Pleasure Bouvar Über Terre Thaemlitz In Der Halle Für Kunste Lüneberg"
    A correction to my previous letter of October 1 (immediately below), necessitated by identification of my specific comments which led to Texte zur Kunst's call for censorship. Reading the first letter before proceeding to this one is recommended. Letter sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, November 16, 2023.
  • Part III: Letters to Texte zur Kunst: Synopsis of Events and Conclusions
    A concluding look at the exchange between Texte zur Kunst and myself regarding their review of my exhibition "Reframed Positions," in which I was accused of "echoing unchallenged arguments of anti-trans* disinformation." Originally posted on comatonse.com January 26, 2024.
     
  • The complete exchange in one file:

  • "Depresentation: Mine Pleasure Bouvar Über Terre Thaemlitz In Der Halle Für Kunste Lüneberg" by Mine Pleasure Bouvar in Texte zur Kunst (DE), September 1 2023. Followed by Terre's 'Letter to the Editor' (Part I) in response, sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, October 1, 2023; Terre's 'Letter of Correction to the Editor' (Part II) sent to Texte zur Kunste (DE) and posted on comatonse.com, November 16, 2023; Bouvar's response on behalf of Texte zur Kunste received December 6, 2023; and Terre's 'Synopsis of Events and Conclusions' (Part III) posted on comatonse.com January 26, 2024.
     

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    audio interview - november 8 2023
    オーディオ・インタビュー 〜 令和5年11月8日

    The Tale and the Tongue
    Episode 17 Not Knowing How a Dead Language Sounded - Terre Thaemlitz

    - Sonia Fernández Pan

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    In der TANK of the Institute Art Gender Nature (CH), a podcast series produced by the Institute Art Gender Nature, FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, November 8 2023.

    Not knowing how a dead language sounded-episode seventeen of The Tale and the Tongue series-follows a conversation with multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ, and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label Terre Thaemlitz, and Sonia Fernández Pan, the host of this podcast series.


     
    video interview - june 6 2023
    ビデオ・インタビュー 〜 令和5年6月6日

    In this week's episode of Playful Podcast, we're meeting with the house music producer, DJ, record label owner and public speaker Terre Thaemlitz, also known as DJ Sprinkles. Sprinkles started her record spinning journey in New York, during the 80's.


     
    audio interview - june 2 2023
    オーディオ・インタビュー 〜 令和5年6月2日

    Introducing Don't Assume, a new interview podcast from NTS, hosted by Zakia.

    Moving beyond the scope of the traditional NTS Radio format, Don't Assume is a long-form interview series: a free flowing conversation with a different musical pioneer, disruptor and innovator, where they discuss their lives and music.

    Just released, the first episode features Terre Thaemlitz, commonly known as DJ Sprinkles, an artist, producer and public speaker at the heart of club and experimental culture. The conversation covers her journey into music in her early life, from rural roller discos in Missouri to getting beaten up for his Styx record: the discussion is a reflection on the last 30 years in dance music including a pithy assessment of the wider music industry and club culture.


     
    new text - january 26 2023
    新執筆 〜 令和5年1月26日

    Terre Thaemlitz: Ukraine Club Culture's K41 Community Fund Openly Involved in Weapons Deals: ...and apparently no music press or record labels doing humanitarian relief charity releases for them find it noteworthy

    A new text analyzing the contexts around Western music media's silence on The K41 Community Fund procuring arms. Originally posted on comatonse.com January 26, 2023.


     
    global shipping resumes - september 3 2022
    海外発送再開 〜 令和4年9月3日

    - STANDARD SHIPPING HAS RESUMED -

    AS OF SEPTEMBER 3, 2022, STANDARD SHIPPING TO THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, UK & AUSTRALIA HAS RESUMED! (CURRENT EXCEPTIONS ARE FINLAND & ROMANIA - PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER.)

    AS BEFORE THE COVID PANDEMIC, THE COST OF SHIPPING VIA AIR MAIL FROM JAPAN IS INCLUDED IN AN ITEM'S PRICE (NO ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST).

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    audio interview - june 25 2022
    オーディオ・インタビュー 〜 令和4年6月25日

    Is it ethical to feel fantastic? On this special two-hour long episode of Bubble World, Christa Belle invites Serge Garcia and Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles to discuss their work together and apart.

    Christa Belle and Serge host the episode live from the Refuge Worldwide studio in Berlin - the first hour in conversation covering Serge’s work in film and music, his documentary with Thaemlitz, Grand Central Hotel, and a recorded interview between Terre and Christa.

    After that, SG and CB go b2b with a DJ set inspired by the chapters of the show: jizz, gender, commodified house music culture and more.


     
    video interview - april 25 2022
    ビデオ・インタビュー 〜 令和4年4月25日


    Wendy Carlos, Moog and A Clockwork Orange: hosted by Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, with Jude Rogers, Adrian Utley & Terre Thaemlitz. The British Library (UK), April 25 2022.


     
    new release - january 10 2022
    新リリース 〜 令和4年1月10日

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    DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell: Incomplete Insight (2012-2015)

    A double-CD set compiling all of DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell's collaborative 12-inches on the first disc, combined with a second disc filled with ten previously unreleased outtakes from the Complete Spiral EP sessions. As the album title suggests, listeners get an "incomplete insight" into the mixing and editing methods of these two very different electronic audio producers united by their histories with, and love of, classic deep house. (Track tip: out of this entire set, DJ Sprinkles' personal favorite for mixing on the dancefloor is "Incomplete Spiral 4.") Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes two CDs in an archival vinyl pouch with two double-sided insert cards (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


     
    new release - january 10 2022
    新リリース 〜 令和4年1月10日

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    K-S.H.E: Spirits, Lose Your Hold / 精霊、力を落とす (Route 69: 2006-2012)

    A CD compiling all of K-S.H.E's 12-inch and one-off releases to date beyond the 2006 debut album Routes not Roots (one of the few albums to ever receive a full 5-star rating from Resident Advisor, and precursor to DJ Sprinkles' Midtown 120 Blues). This is the first time for many of these tracks to be available in digital format. Includes K-S.H.E's previously unreleased original version of "Reverse Rotation," which was later dramatically re-tempo'ed and re-worked for release on DJ Sprinkles' album. Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes one CD in an archival vinyl pouch with one double-sided insert card (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


     
    new release - january 10 2022
    新リリース 〜 令和4年1月10日

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    Comatonse.000: Comatonse.000.R3 (incl. Social Material "Class/Consciousness")

    Comatonse.000 was the project name, EP title, and catalog number of Terre Thaemlitz' 1993 debut 12-inch featuring the NY Loft classic A-side "Raw Through a Straw," and the bass-heavy ambient B-side that captured the attention of producers like Bill Laswell and Mixmaster Morris, "Tranquilizer." This CD compiles all Comatonse.000 related releases to date, including that other Comatonse EP working the "Scorpio" break so important to the early Loft house scene, Social Material's, Class/Consciousness. Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes one CD in an archival vinyl pouch with one double-sided insert card (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


     
    new release - july 10 2021
    新リリース 〜 令和3年7月10日

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    Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion: Recalls

    A CD compiling all of Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion's releases to date. Includes previously unreleased and alternate versions of tracks found elsewhere (such as on DJ Sprinkles "Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits" and "Fagjazz"), so this CD will still be of interest to collectors who might already have those other items. Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes one CD in an archival vinyl pouch with two double-sided insert cards (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


     
    new release - july 10 2021
    新リリース 〜 令和3年7月10日

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    V.A.: Fagjazz (Reissue)

    A special reissue of "Fagjazz," the double CD originally released in 2000 that introduced the world to the expression 「ベリー・ファッキング重低音」. Disc 1 compiles tracks from various Comatonse releases, many of which had previously only been available on vinyl. However, the real centerpiece of the release is Disc 2 "Superbonus," an hour long ambient-jazz track in 5/4 time only found here, for which Thaemlitz received an Honorable Mention in Digital Musics from the 1999 ORF Prix Ars Electronica competition. For the collectors, the versions of "Sloppy 42nds" and "Thirty Shades of Grey" found here are different than those found on Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion "Recalls" (C.030, 2021). Self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself, the package includes two CDs in an archival vinyl pouch with one double-sided insert card (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).


     
    soundfile update - july 10 2021
    サウンドファイル・アップデート 〜 令和3年7月10日


    Twenty-four years later, audio excerpts from G.R.R.L.: "G.R.R.L." have finally been added to the Soundfiles section.


     
    documentary - june 29 2021
    ドキュメンタリー 〜 令和3年6月29日


    Resident Advisor has released a documentary called "Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes and Dreams," centered around discussions of a selection of objects related to my work with close friends and collaborators. You can watch it online in full for free.


     
    audio interview - may 21 2021
    オーディオ・インタビュー 〜 令和3年5月21日

    Listen free to "experience | pessimism and music, with Terre Thaemlitz and Seth Horvitz," audio interview by Valery Vinogradovs.

    Terre Thaemlitz/DJ Sprinkles (Comatonse Recordings) and Seth Horvitz/Rrose (Eaux) discuss pessimism, their contrasting philosophies of music, and other curious things. To appreciate this hybrid podcast, please ensure you have the appropriate equipment!


     
    new release - april 5 2021
    新リリース 〜 令和3年4月5日

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    DJ Sprinkles: Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits: 1998-2017 12-inches & One-offs

    A double-CD set compiling all of DJ Sprinkles' solo releases to date besides "Midtown 120 Blues." Includes the long out-of-print "Sloppy 42nds: A tribute to the 42nd Street transsexual clubs destroyed by Walt Disney's buyout of Times Square" and "Bassline.89," along with all of her one-off compilation tracks, self-remixes related to Terre Thaemlitz projects, and more.

    For the Sprinkles collectors out there looking to scratch an itch, the Comatonse Shop offers a specially priced three-item collector's bundle of Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits, "Midtown 120 Blues" and Will Long's "Long Trax," giving you Sprinkles' complete solo catalog plus a hefty dose of remix work filling the entire second disc of Will's album. (For the hard-core queer deep house enthusiasts, scroll down the order form and add a copy of K-S.H.E's "Routes not Roots" French Skylax edition while we still have copies - another one of Sprinkles' aliases - to further flesh out the underground faggotry.)


     
    audio interview - march 17 2021
    オーディオ・インタビュー 〜 令和3年3月17日

    AQNBArtist Statement podcast - (Unlocked!) Episode 20: The Culturally Minor with Terre Thaemlitz

    "Divestments of power are the ways in which people could actually structurally change systemic violence," says music producer, artist and DJ Terre Thaemlitz, discussing her critical stance on pride culture in contemporary LGBT activism. "But instead it's all about power sharing, it's all about being recognised for inclusion within the already existing, and ever expanding, humanist framework of categorising identities for who qualifies as human under the law." Speaking with associate editor Jared Davis on notions of non-essentialism and the socio-economics of music distribution for AQNB's bi-monthly Artist Statement podcast, this latest episode with Thaemlitz is available exclusively to subscribers of our Patreon.

    Raised in Missouri before moving to New York in the late 1980s, Terre was a resident DJ at storied queer nightclub Sally's II in the early '90s. Since then, Terre has released music, critical writing, and video via her own Comatonse Recordings, as well as independent labels including Germany's influential Mille Plateaux. Based in Japan since the early 2000s, he also continues to perform and record under the deep house alias DJ Sprinkles, releasing the acclaimed Midtown 120 Blues in 2008.


     
    video interview - february 18 2021
    ビデオ・インタビュー 〜 令和3年2月18日


    Terre Thaemlitz: All the World’s a Stage: The Endless Tyranny of Live Performance in the Age of Digital Audio from Never Apart on Vimeo.


     
    new release - february 14 2019
    新リリース 〜 平成31年2月14日

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    zeitkratzer & Terre Thaemlitz: Deproduction (Live)/不産主義(ライブ)

    RELEASED ON VALENTINE'S DAY, 14 FEBRUARY, 2019: A double-CD featuring live renditions of my 2017 multi-media album "Deproduction/不産主義," recorded with zeitkratzer at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, March 19, 2018, at MaerzMusik: Festival for Time Issues 2018.


     
    digital reissues - november 28 2018
    ディジタル・リイシュー 〜 平成30年11月28日



    Select out-of-print items now downloadable from Bandcamp

    As a bit of an experiment, Comatonse Recordings/Terre Thaemlitz now have a page on Bandcamp: comatonse.bandcamp.com. It features digital downloads of older releases that we have sold out of, but there is not enough interest for a physical repress. Many of these are Terre's older ambient and electroacoustic projects, including a few items previously only available on 7-inch vinyl. Releases include:

    There is also Comp x Comp, a digital exclusive compilation of electroacoustic and ambient tracks I had released on compilations over the years. It contains the previously unreleased "Mille Glaces.000-009," a series of ten audio shorts intended for release in an anniversary compilation for the label Mille Plateaux (DE), which I believe was cancelled during the 2003 bankruptcy. In keeping with the "Mille Plateaux" theme, "Mille Glaces" (or "One Thousand Layers") is generated using one thousand 1-minute audio excerpts from the Mille Plateaux catalog. "Mille Glaces.000" is a digital mix of 1000 layers of audio heard simultaneously. "Mille Glaces.001-009" are recordings of my computer crashing as it attempts to play the same files in realtime (a Power Macintosh 7100 with Sound Designer II card).

    Meanwhile, our emphasis remains on physical formats and "offline digital culture." Please continue to get the latest Comatonse releases - as well as a few of Terre's older items still in stock - through the Comatonse Shop.


     
    new release - december 28 2017
    新リリース 〜 平成29年12月28日

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    8GB Class 4 SDHC card in poly-sleeve, with 10 insert cards (B9: 64mm x 45mm) printed on 220kg matte paper.
    Design of digital elements includes +75pp. PDF text (plus translations in JP/GR/DE), Full HD MP4 video (EN/JP) and 48k/24bit AIFF audio.






    Terre Thaemlitz: Deproduction/不産主義

    Deproduction/不産主義 (JP: Comatonse Recordings, C.027) is a new multi-media album by Terre Thaemlitz, sold as an 8GB SDHC card containing audio (48k/24bit AIFF files), video (HD 1920x1080) and texts (PDF). The project was produced with support from documenta 14 and Akademie der Künste der Welt, with the world premiere at documenta 14 in Athens on July 9, 2017. Bonus tracks include two remixes by DJ Sprinkles, and a piano solo. (Two vinyl EP's available here at the Comatonse Shop!) (English | 日本語 | ελληνική | Deutsch)


     
    new release - january 12 2017
    新リリース 〜 平成29年1月12日

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    You Speak What I Feel: My Good Friends Tell Me That

    You Speak What I Feel are Terre Thaemlitz (DJ Sprinkles), Mark Fell + Mat Steel (SND), presenting a lost house collaboration produced in 2002 and released fifteen years later by Boomkat Editions.


     
    new release - september 29 2016
    新リリース 〜 平成28年9月29日

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    Will Long: Long Trax

    The debut house album from prolific ambient/minimalist/non-categorical producer Will Long (aka Celer; Oh, Yoko; etc.). The project will initially be released as a series of three multi-disc vinyl sets (two x2 EP sets and one x3 EP set, seven discs in all), followed by a double CD release with poster. Each track is accompanied by an overdub from DJ Sprinkles, and the packaging features illustrations by Tsuji Aiko. Coming soon to comatonse.com, and Boomkat.

    ウィル・ロング(a.k.a. Celer、Oh, Yokoなど)のデビューディープハウスアルバム。DJ Sprinklesによる全曲のオーバーダッブも入ってます。辻愛子によるパケージのイラスト。リリース 2016.9.26。


     
    back in stock - march 4 2016
    在庫あり 〜 平成28年3月4日

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    CD in vertically-aligned jewel case with 12 page booklet insert with French/English texts (French vertical from front-to-back/English vertical from back-to-front/horizontal centerfold).








     

    K-S.H.E: Routes not Roots (2010 Skylax Edition)

    BACK IN STOCK: Des Routes Sans Racines - Un Projet Élaboré Pour Skylax.

    We are happy to announce the French CD edition of "Routes not Roots" on Skylax Records is back in stock! Includes 12-page bi-lingual bookles (EN/FR).

    Available now at the Comatonse Shop.


     
    new publication - december 15 2015
    新出版 〜 平成27年12月15日

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    Terre Thaemlitz: Nuisance: Writings on Identity Jamming & Digital Audio Production

    Released December 15, 2015, as part of the series "challenge GENDER - Volume 5," edited by the Gender Research Office at the University of Vienna.

    Austria: Zaglossus, 2015
    ISBN 978-3-902902-39-9
    English | Softcover | 386 pages | Color Illustrations
    EUR 19,95 (incl. VAT)

    This book compiles articles, essays, lecture transcripts, album annotations and other texts written by queer audio producer and writer Terre Thaemlitz between 1996 and 2015.

    The overall theme uniting the texts is a defense of pessimism and a critical rejection of the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media - even in the 'critical fields' themselves, where it reflects our conformity to those First World humanist and capitalist practices we wish to critique.

    Additional new commentary notes by Terre Thaemlitz explain why the texts sometimes still fraudulently use positive terminology, and break up the linearity of the reading process - thus incorporating the theme of 'nuisance' throughout the book.

    Available now at the Comatonse Shop, and the Zaglossus online shop.


     
    new release - november 12 2015
    新リリース 〜 平成27年11月12日


     

    Simon Fisher Turner: Shishapangma EP

    For the past year or so, DJ Sprinkles' sets have been featuring a private edit of Simon Fisher Turner's "Shishapangma," reworked from the soundtrack to The Epic of Everest. With encouragement from friends - including dear SFT, of course - we are thrilled to come out with this release featuring Simon's original version on the A-side, and Sprinkles' Deeperama mix on the B-side. Available here at comatonse.com, and Boomkat. Listen to audio excerpts online at Boomkat. Vinyl only!

    1. Shishapangma 11:22
    2. Shishapangma (Sprinkles' Deeperama) 11:22


     
    new publication - october 1 2015
    新出版 〜 平成27年10月1日



    "Queerness in a Situational Sense," Terre Thaemlitz in Conversation with Daniel Givens and Niels Van Tomme, in Spaces for Criticism: Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses, ed. by Thijz Lijster, Suzana Milevska, Pascal Gielen, Ruth Sonderegger (NL: Antennae Valiz, 2015) ISBN 978-90-78088-75-2.

    From the Valiz website: Is art criticism losing ground, because of the Internet and art blogs? Do people consider the authorative art critics (of newspapers, magazines) as their most important source to assess and filter what they want to see, read, etc.? Most recent discussions have revolved around the question ‘what is art criticism?’; this book wants to explore the question: ‘where is art criticism?’. It wants to explore new ways and new spaces where art critics might interact with publics, works of art, artists and scholars. This book suggests criticism has shifted to different places and different stages: it concerns a ‘displacement’, not only with regard to media (from journalism to blogs, catalogues, etc.), but also a displacement in the geographical and institutional sense.

    Available now at the Valiz online shop.


     
    new release - january 29 2015
    新リリース 〜 平成27年1月29日


     

    DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell: Fresh Insights EP 2 (Sprinkles Alt. Mixes)

    DJ Sprinkles and Mark Fell are back with a pair of old-school flavored house EP's. EP 2 released January 29, 2015. Available here at comatonse.com, and Boomkat. Vinyl only!
    DJスプリンクルズマーク・フェルによるハウス・コラボ! リリース:2015年1月29日. ディストリビューション:comatonse.comBoomkat。ビニールのみ。


     
    new release - january 22 2015
    新リリース 〜 平成27年1月22日


     

    DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell: Fresh Insights EP 1

    DJ Sprinkles and Mark Fell are back with a pair of old-school flavored house EP's. EP 1 released January 22, 2015. Available here at comatonse.com, and Boomkat. Vinyl only!
    DJスプリンクルズマーク・フェルによるハウス・コラボ! リリース:2015年1月22日. ディストリビューション:comatonse.comBoomkat。ビニールのみ。


     
    new release - august 1 2014
    新リリース 〜 平成26年8月1日



    ファーベン2014 Ltd版(テーリ・テムリッツの7インチレコード付き)

    販売中!: 持ち歩ける音楽として浸透した、データ化された音楽。 一方でレコードがコレクションとして見直されています。 雑誌「ファーベン」は、レコードに倣って、 長く手元においておきたい雑誌、 紙面から音楽を感じられる雑誌を目指して制作された、 レコード型(10インチ)の雑誌です。 10インチサイズのレコードジャケットの中には、 各企画ごとの冊子が封入されています。 このLtd版はテーリ・テムリッツの7インチレコード付きです!(世界中100枚のみ)。

    今、コマトンズ・レコーディングスのオンラインショップに販売中!

    Farben 2014 Ltd. Ed. (w/Terre Thaemlitz 7-inch)

    NOW SHIPPING: Farben is a new Japanese cultural journal conceived and curated by renowned cinema scene writer Takashi Ujita. A series of texts and art prints are presented in the physical format of a 10-inch double vinyl sleeve. Includes 27 pages of bilingual Japanese/English text and illustrations by Terre Thaemlitz. We only carry the special collectors edition with a 7-inch record by Terre Thaemlitz (limited to 100 copies world wide, 30 of which we have!).

    Available now at the Comatonse Shop.


     
    new release - may 31 2014
    新リリース 〜 平成26年5月31日

    DJ SPRINKLES "MIDTOWN 120 BLUES"
    2014 COMATONSE RECORDINGS EDITION
    CUSTOM CD PACKAGING INCL. POSTER
     
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    CD in archival vinyl pouch with double-sided insert card (100mm x 100mm), phonograph style anti-static inner sleeve, and 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm).







     

    DJ Sprinkles: Midtown 120 Blues (2014 Comatonse Edition)

    NOW SHIPPING: DJ Sprinkles is please to announce the reissue of Midtown 120 Blues, self-released on Comatonse Recordings with custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself.

    The audio on the 2014 CD is identical to the 2008 first edition and subsequent represses on Mule Musiq. There are no plans for a vinyl edition because the bass spatialization effects that give many of these recordings their sonic character are incompatible with vinyl mastering techniques.

    Available now at the Comatonse Shop.


     
    new release - may 31 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年5月31日


     

    DJ Sprinkles: Queerifications & Ruins - Collected Remixes by DJ Sprinkles

    A double CD compiling the bulk of DJ Sprinkles' remix work produced between 2006 and 2013. Sprinkles' subjects include woozy Real Estate offshoot Ducktails, Leftroom boss Matt Tolfrey, Berlin-based Acid House practitioner June and Japanese producer Kuniyuki. Of the 14 tracks on the disc, four are previously unreleased, whereas the remainder have cropped up on labels ranging from Simple Recordings to Ojo De Apolo. The double CD edition also features additional exclusive remixes of Chicago producer Area and French DJ Hardrock Striker.

    クィアリフィケーションズ&ルインズ(クィア化とその残骸)〜DJスプリンクルズによるリミックス集

    世界中で絶賛された傑作アルバム「midtown 120 blues」、自身のアイデアソースとなった90年代初頭の貴重なアーリー・ハウス・トラックを満載したDJミックス作品「Where Dancefloors Stand Still」のリリース、ヨーロッパ・ツアー&パノラマ・バーでのDJプレイと現在精力的に活動する川崎在住の世界が認めるアーティスト、テーリ・テムリッツのプロジェクト、DJスプリンクルスのリミックス作品集がリリース!本作で初披露となるリミックス作品や初CD化音源満載の意欲作!


     
    new release - may 29 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年5月29日

    Radio Web MACBA
    Interruptions #12
    Lost Techno-Pop Weekend in Rural Midwestern America
    Curated by Terre Thaemlitz

    A free audio broadcast and text available from Radio Web MACBA that takes a listen to techno-pop of the seventies and early eighties as a brief yet deliberate interruption into the realms of pop, rock, soul and R&B.

      By the time mainstream pop music really became electronically based in terms of synthesizer/sampler instrumentation and editing (first with R&B and hip-hop, then mainstream pop), the techno-pop synth sound would be utterly abandoned by both pop and underground electronic cultures (techno, house, etc.). In this sense, techno-pop constitutes an isolated and rarely discussed 'lost weekend' from standard pop practices. Techno-pop is most often dismissed as a shade of new romanticism, punk or electro. However, I believe its strict emphasis on electronics and critical rejection of rock culture (at least in the beginning) make techno-pop in and of itself one of the most important, albeit short-lived, genres of the last century. Then again, my views are admittedly warped by an upbringing in the rural Midwestern US, where electronic music was not only scarce, but phobically abhored by most people.

      Terre Thaemlitz, 2013

    Free Download: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/terre_thaemlitz_lost_techno_pop/capsula


     
    new release - may 16 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年5月16日


     

    Terre Thaemlitz: A/VM 8

    NOW IN STOCK: A lost rarity uncovered while attempting to re-organize my book shelves: my anonymous contribution to the 1999 Alku microcassette series "AV/M." This microcassette contains a single, exclusive, untitled track made in an ambient/collage/plunderphonic style, with a duration of 4'14" (four minutes, fourteen seconds). I believe it was an edition of 20 - of which I have 10! In terms of quantity produced, this is beyond a doubt the rarest of all my releases - hence the stupid price. Limit one per customer. Available here & now at the Comatonse Shop.


     
    new release - april 10 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年4月10日


     

    Chugga: Memphistophelis

    NOW IN STOCK: Terre was digging in her closet and found 20 copies of this rare, cassette-only album by Chugga, released by The Tapeworm. These copies are part of a limited edition of 250 tapes that have long been sold out everywhere else! This is Chugga's full-length album produced in 1996, from which the two tracks featured on their sexily titled 7-inch vinyl, "A Big 7-Inch," released in 2003 by Klanggalerie (limited to 200 copies, of which we still have 10 or so copies available through our shop as well). For anyone who has that vinyl and wanted more, this is your (probably last ever) chance!


     
    new release - april 10 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年4月10日


     

    DJ Sprinkles: Sally's II Tribute Tape 2012 DJ Mix Compilation

    Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles presents the latest installment of the Deeperama Mix Series on 90 minute cassette tape for Field Records.

    This mix was recorded in 2012 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of DJ Sprinkles' resident DJ days at the long defunct Midtown NYC transsexual sex worker club Sally's II, but was delayed from release until 2013 due to various manufacturing issues. Both the track selection and mixing style reconstruct the early days of DJ Sprinkles.

    1. For Sally
    2. For Jimmy

    Strictly limited to 30 copies here at Comatonse Recordings, with insert cards hand stamped by Field Records. Includes Field Records sticker. One item per person!

    Release date: April 10, 2013.
    Sorry, sold out.


     
    new release - february 17 2013
    新リリース 〜 平成25年2月17日


     

    DJ Sprinkles: Where Dancefloors Stand Still DJ Mix Compilation

    A CD compilation mixed the style of live recordings captured in the DJ Sprinkles' Deeperama Mix Series. All tracks were personally selected by Sprinkles (a.k.a. Terre Thaemlitz) for their frequent-play status in his DJ sets over the years. The title Where Dancefloors Stand Still is primarily a reference to the Japanese police's recent enforcement of longstanding-but-inactive 'fuzoku' laws that prohibit dancing. It is not uncommon for club staff to ask patrons not to dance. The titles is also a reference to the stylistic stagnation of DJ Sprinkles' sets which continue to focus on records originally collected in the late '80s and early '90s, as well as the fact that many people complain they cannot dance to Sprinkles' sets because the tracks and mixing style are too slow and anti-climactic.

    Beams Records, February 2013:

    「日本在住アーティスト、テーリ・テムリッツがDJスプリンクルス名義で初となるミックスCDを<Mule Musiq>からリリース!トラックを制作する上で彼のアイディアソースとなっている80年代後半〜90年代初頭のレアなハウスクラシックスを使用してのミックスCDは、今では手に入れることが難しい貴重な楽曲が多数収録されています。現在の風営法によるナイトクラブの規制に対する彼なりのレスポンスを提示しつつも、純粋にダンスミュージックの素晴らしさを体感できる楽曲に仕上げてしまうセンスはさすがの一言。恍惚感溢れるトラックに踊りださずにはいられない。」

    1. Braxton Holmes: 12 Inches of Pleasure (Ron's Foreplay)
    2. Alex Danilov: Deep S
    3. Sound Mechanix: I Can't Forget
    4. The Rhythm Slaves: The Light You Will See (Trentemoller's Deep Dub Mix)
    5. Lectroluv: If We Try (Ambient Dub)
    6. Manoo & François A: The Deep
    7. Classic Man: Rapid Winds (75 MPH Mix)
    8. Understars: Forestfunk I (No DAMKKB Mix)
    9. Gene Farris: Good Feeling
    10. The Rude Awakening: The Dip (5 AM Dipsco Mix)
    11. MyMy: Everybody's Talkin' (Original Mix)
    12. Choo-Ables: Hard To Get (BT's Massive Groove)
    13. Fingers Inc.: Never No More Lonely
    14. Keys & Tronics Ensemble: Calypso of House (Paradise Version)

    Japanese release date: February 17, 2013.
    Worldwide release date: March 25, 2013.
    Sorry, sold out.


     
    writings - february 6 2013
    執筆 〜 平成25年2月6日

    We Are Not Welcome Here: Address for "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness," Tate Modern, February 2, 2013.

    Transcript to my presentation at "Charming for the Revolution: A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness," organized by Carlos Motta at The Tate Modern, London, UK, February 2, 2013; along with a few endnotes...


     
    new release - december 1 2012
    新リリース 〜 平成24年12月1日

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    Oh, Yoko: Seashore EP featuring "Sprinkles' Ambient Ballroom" remix by DJ Sprinkles.

    Seashore is the debut release by Oh, Yoko, the duo of Rie Mitsutake (a.k.a. Miko) and Will Long (a.k.a. Celer). It features an instrumental b-side mix by Terre Thaemlitz, and a remix by DJ Sprinkles. It is packaged in a classic Maxi-single case, with a glass-mastered compact disc. Edition of 500 copies.

    Release date/リリース:December 1, 2012


     
    museum exhibition - october 5 2012-january 26 2013, brétigny s/orge
    エキシビション 〜 平成24年10月5日〜平成25年1月26日、ブレティニーサンオルジュー



    Terre Thaemlitz: "Soulnessless"
    solo museum exhibition as part of the exhibition series "Gender Issue"
    curated by Pièrre Bal-Blanc
    Centre d'art contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny s/Orge France.

    Info: http://www.cacbretigny.com/inhalt/TT_.html








     
    new release - december 1 2012
    新リリース 〜 平成24年12月1日


     
    Primula: Nobody's in This Classroom (Nobody Mix)" ambient remix by Terre Thaemlitz.

    Buy CD direct from Neguse Group:
    http://store.neguse-group.com/?pid=47046481

    Buy MP3 Download from Amazon.com:
    http://www.amazon.com/Youth-Center/dp/B008KNTANC

    日本のアマゾン↓
    http://www.amazon.co.jp/Youth-Center/dp/B008KNMPNE

    ぷりぷり、ムラムラ、青春テクノ。

    山梨県で独自の活動を続ける音楽レーベル、Neguse Group の最新作は横浜在住のアーティスト、Primula(プリムラ)のデビューアルバム。 これまでに SI BEGG 等のアーティストのリミックスワークや、数々のコンピレーション作品に参加し、世界中のリスナーの心を鷲掴みにしてきた彼の持ち味は「思春期とビート」である。誰もが踊り出し、同時に赤面してしまう不思議な世界観は、トラウマにも似た強い印象を残す。

    このアルバムでは、第二次性徴期、初恋、胸キュン、内面的な親離れ、自我の目覚めなど、誰もが暗喩に終始していたテーマを、煌めいた電子音で具現化している。ぶっとく無邪気に跳ね回るリズムと、郷愁誘うブルーハワイ色のメロディーが、聴く者の心に「90年代の放課後」を鮮やかに浮かび上がらせるだろう。

    ボーナストラックには 、Mille Plateaux などからのリリースで知られ、Comatonse Recordings を主宰するテーリ・テムリッツ氏による11分強にも及ぶアンビエントリミックスを収録。一聴して夢見心地な中にも、氏ならではの危うさと鋭さを秘めたトラックは、まさに超大作となっている。

    試聴や詳細は特設サイトをご覧ください。

    Info: http://youthcenter.neguse-group.com

    Primula Music Video: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdqRlMYCEUE

    Release date/リリース: September 15, 2012


     
    new release - september 15 2012
    新リリース 〜 平成24年9月15日

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    Terre Thaemlitz' +30 hour "bardus opus" Soulnessless is now available!

    The album fills a 16GB microSDHC card in order to include video and transcripts in 10 languages: Bulgarian, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

    Over 31 hours of audio. Over 80 minutes of video (per language). Over +150 pages of text and images in English alone. This is a fuckload of data...

    The microSDHC release will be supported by two vinyl EP's with remixes by K-S.H.E and DJ Sprinkles.

    Soundfiles page updated to include excerpts of all tracks, including remixes.

    テーリ・テムリッツのよる30時間以上の新プロジェクト「ソウルネスレス」ー魂の完全なる不在ーはリリースされました!アルバムがマルチリンガルになりました:英語/日本語/フランス語/ドイツ語/イタリア語/ポルトガル語/ポーランド語/ロシア語/ブルガリア語/スペイン語!(データもサイズアップ…8GBではなく16GBのMicroSDHCカードになりました…)

    上作延ハウス・エクスプロージョンDJスプリンクルズによるリミックスEPを2枚も出ます!

    サウンドファイルのウェブページに全曲の見本があります!

    Release date/リリース:May 31, 2012


     
    new release - may 17 2012
    新リリース 〜 平成24年5月17日


     

    DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell: Complete Spiral EP

    DJ Sprinkles and Mark Fell team up on an old-school flavored house EP. Released May 17, 2012. Available here at comatonse.com, and Boomkat. Vinyl only!
    DJスプリンクルズマーク・フェルによるハウス・コラボ! リリース:2012年5月17日. ディストリビューション:comatonse.comBoomkat。ビニールのみ。


     
    writings - april 17 2012
    執筆 〜 平成24年4月17日

    There are several new texts in the writings section.

    "I once got in trouble." A Ground-Zero Essay on Bullying c.1985-86, Age 17
    Coming across an old essay written in high school about my experiences with being bullied sends me down memory lane...

    Memories of St. Petersburg's Anti-LGBT-Education Law Going Into Effect: "Soulnessless" on March 24, 2012, at Save Festival, Arma 17, Moscow
    Recounting my performance of Soulnessless in Moscow on the same day St. Petersburg's anti-LGBT-education law went into effect.

    Mrs. Style Icon: Terre Thaemlitz on Akihiro Miwa
    Column for Electronic Beats Magazine (DE): "Famed actress and singer Akihiro Miwa grew up in Nagasaki, where as a child she survived the city's nuclear attack to go on to become one of Japan's most celebrated transgender personalities. Here, activist, computer musician and Comatonse label owner Terre Thaemlitz pays respect to Miwa's critical voice and uncompromising self image."

    Collateral Damage: Terre Thaemlitz
    Column for The Wire (UK): "Don't confuse online culture with digital culture, argues Terre Thaemlitz, whose latest project pushes the MP3 format to its absolute limits."


     
    new book - december 7 2011
    新しい本 〜 平成23年12月04日

    Fashion - Out of Order: Disruption as a Principle
    ed. Dorothea Mink

    With contributions from:
    Pamela Church Gibson | Annette Geiger | Judith Gerdsen | Hanna Heilmann über Vibskov & Emenius | Iris Maria vom Hof über Oliver Sieber | Verena Kuni | Isabel Lizardi | Thomas Oláh | Andrea Sick | Bitten Stetter & Daniel Späti | Terre Thaemlitz | Barbara Vinken | Harry Walter | Gundula Wolter

    This publication is the outgrowth of the symposium "Out of Order: A Matter of Principle," organized by Andrea Sick and Dorthea Mink at HFK Bremen (Bremen University of the Arts), Bremen, Germany, January 23-24 2010.

    It includes a slightly edited version of the text to my confrontational presentation at that event, All's In Order: "Out of Order" Fashion's Inability to Divest of Power.


     
    new release - december 4 2011
    新しいリリース 〜 平成23年12月04日

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    Get this beautiful book+cd based on the live show now from the Comatonse Recordings Online Shop.

    TALES OF THE BODILESS
    Musical Fiction Without Science

    by Eszter Salamon with Bojana Cvejic, Cédric Dambrain, Terre Thaemlitz, Sylvie Garot and Peter Böhm

    SUMMARY

    …How can you get off your body?... you are not riding a body, isn't it? It might be possible to get off the body... but how or by what are you transported then?

    Can you leave it for a while? Can you take a vacation from your body ? ...How long can you stay out of yourself ...without losing it all together...

    A composition of voices, sounds, lights and space that evolves in four tales about bodilessness.

    TALES OF THE BODILESS explore a condition that is hard to imagine before you experience it: a world without human bodies .Once humans are a past, and hence, no longer central, the world is made vacant for fantasies about nonhuman forms of existence. Four landscapes of sensations and cognitions, of sinking and dissolving, of neurosis and aggression, of joy and expansion, of explosion and dissipation. A bodiless world requires that theater send its proper body - the stage - on vacation.

    This entails that the theatrical regime of senses and faculties in this performance is unsettled: listening battles vision and sight. The spectators' bodies remain a rare live presence that gives duration to the fictions they inhabit.


     
    writings - october 20 2011
    執筆 〜 平成23年10月20日

    Terre interviews Terre: Attempting to answer common points of confusion

    "When recently compiling articles and reviews for the new website design, I noticed from comments on various blogs that the answers to a few basic questions about me remain unclear to some people. Although the answers are already out there, they are perhaps scattered among various texts and difficult to trace. So I decided to sit down with myself and get the answers to some of the recurring questions and misunderstood points about this Terre Thaemlitz person..."


     
    web radio - october 10 2011, barcelona
    ウェッブラジオ 〜 平成23年10月10日、バルセロナ

    RÀDIO WEB MACBA
    COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #4.2
    Exclusives
    04.10.2011 (35' 24'')

    Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.

    Each episode of this series is followed by a special accompanying programme of exclusive music by leading sound artists and composers working in the field. This show presents two works, the first by American composer Laurie Spiegel, followed by an excerpt of the soundtrack of a theatre play by Japanese composer Terre Thaemlitz.

    01:49 Laurie Spiegel 'A Harmonic Algorithm', 2011 (20' 24")

    22:16 Terre Thaemlitz 'Substitution (Part 3: Questions)', 2011 (11'47") from Eszter Salamon's Tales of the Bodiless.

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    new website - september 14 2011
    新しいウェブサイト 〜 平成23年9月14日

    After 12 years of Tebbe Tubbitz, comatonse.com has been completely redesigned. Over the years comatonse.com has grown to over 1000 pages, all of which had to be reorganize and manually recoded, so you'll pardon Terre for procrastinating.
    12年ぶりの新しいウェブサイトデザインへよこそ!数年間にcomatonse.comは1000ページ以上になったと、あらゆるページが再編成される必要がありましたが、テーリが手間どるのを許してください。

    Some of the new site's features include:
    新しいサイトの特徴は:

    • Completely new interface featuring background photos by Terre.
      テーリによるバックグラウンドフォトを特徴とする完全に新しいインタフェース。
    • Bilingual English/Japanese site-searching available on every page.
      毎ページにバイリンガル(日本語/英語)サイトサーチができます。
    • Soundfiles page that lets you "mix" multiple MP3's at once.
      同時に沢山のMP3をミックスすることができるサウンドファイルページ。

    There are also several new articles, interviews and album reviews in the press section (formerly "articles & reviews"), as well as a revamped and expanded collection of Terre's writings.
    また、新しい記事、インタビュー、アルバムレビューなどがプレスセクションにあります。テーリの執筆セクションもアップデートしました。

    P.S. For those of you who enjoyed the chaos of the old site, don't worry... there are plenty of easter eggs hidden throughout the site. (Did you catch the easter egg in that last sentence? No, not the link to Wikipedia, you dolt... that's just a normal link! try harder!) In fact, the old site is still hidden in here somewhere!
    P.S. 前のホームページデザインの「めちゃめちゃ」な感じが好きだった人たちへ、安心してね!新しいサイトも沢山のイースター・エッグ隠されています。(先の文の中のイースター・エッグを見つけたか?違う、ウィキペディアのリンクじゃなくて……それは普通のリンクでしょう!もっと頑張ってね!)実は、新しいサイトの中に、古いサイトはまだどこかに隠されています!