Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz (* 1968 in Minnesota ) is an American electronica musician, essayist and owner of the record label Comatonse Recordings, also known as Miss Take or DJ Sprinkles . In his work he deals with a wide range of socio-political and socio-economic issues.

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His work often critically includes socio-political issues such as gender , sexuality , classes , linguistics , ethnic groups and races . Likewise, he often illuminates socio-economic aspects of the commercial music industry in his music or in his lectures and essays . This diversity is reflected in the many production methods of his music - as electroacoustic music , club-oriented deep house music, digital jazz , ambient or glitch as well as neo-expressionist piano works composed by computers. Graphic design, photographs, illustrations and video works also play an important role in Thaemlitz 'work. In 2017 he took part in documenta 14 .

activism

As a chronicler and educator on non-essential transgender topics as well as pansexual , queer homosexuality, Thaemlitz took part in many discussions and lectures in Europe and Japan. Among other things, he organized transcultural workshops in Tokyo's Uplink Factory.

The albums Soil and Tranquilizer released in the early 1990s introduced a "political" form of ambient, which was continued in later releases such as Couture Cosmetique and Means from an End . These albums want to redesign the often passive artist-listener-environment formula. His colleagues included activists from the Ultra-red group . They remixed Thaemlitz's album Still Life with Numerical Analysis (1998) and followed Thaemlitz to the German label Mille Plateaux for the group's first two albums: Second Nature: An Electroacoustic Pastoral (1999) and Structural Adjustments (2000).

Thaemlitz has been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Cologne, which opened in October 2012, since 2013 .

He lives in Kawasaki, Japan .

Discography (excerpt)

Albums

1994: Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer
1995: Terre Thaemlitz - Soil
1997: Terre Thaemlitz - The Rubato Robots
1997: Terre Thaemlitz - Couture Cosmetique
1997: Terre Thaemlitz - GRRL
1999: Terre Thaemlitz - Means From An End
1999: Terre Thaemlitz - Love For Sale
1999: Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato
2000: Terre Thaemlitz - Fagjazz
2000: Terre Thaemlitz - Interstices
2001: Terre Thaemlitz - Oh, No! It's rubato
2003: Terre Thaemlitz - Lovebomb / Ai No Bakudan
2005: Terre Thaemlitz - Trans-Sister Radio
2006: KS.HE (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion) - Routes Not Roots / Ruutsu De Ha Naku Ruuto
2006: Terre Thaemlitz presents - You? Again?
2008: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

Singles and EPs

1993: Terre Thaemlitz - Comatonse . 000

1997: Terre Thaemlitz - Comatonse.000.R1

1998: Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion - She's Hard

1999: Terre Thaemlitz - A-Musik Presents A Program Of ... A-Muzak

2000: Terre Thaemlitz - Selling

2001: DJ Sprinkles - Sloppy 42nds

2001: DJ Sprinkles - Bassline . 89

2001: Social Material - Class / Consciousness

2002: Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion - A Crippled Left Wing Soars With The Right

2003: Teriko - Hystoric Trace ("Fake")

2003: Terre Thaemlitz - The Opposite Of Genius Or Chance

2003: Chugga - A Big 7-Inch (Sound Gallery)

2004: Terre Thaemlitz - Comatonse.000.R2

2006: KS.HE (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion) - Route 1 EP

2006: KS.HE (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion) - Route 2 EP

2006: KS.HE (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion) - Route 3 EP

2006: Terre Thaemlitz - You? Again? 1

2006: Terre Thaemlitz - You? Again? 2

2006: Terre Thaemlitz - You? Again? 3

2007: Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion - She's Hard Remixes

2008: DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. I.

2009: DJ Sprinkles - Brenda's $ 20 Dilemma (Kuniyuki Remix)

2009: DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remixes)

2012: Terre Thaemlitz: Soulnessless

DJ mixes

2003: DJ Sprinkles - DEEPERAMA (Module Party 5)
2004: DJ Sprinkles - DEEPERAMA (Module Party 8)
2004: Terre Thaemlitz - PASTIME PARADISE
2005: DJ Sprinkles - DEEPERAMA (Module Party 9)
2005: DJ Sprinkles DEEPERAMA (Module Party 10)
2005: DJ Sprinkles DEEPERAMA (Module Party 14)

Radio plays

Trans-Sister Radio, Hessischer Rundfunk , premiere on November 17, 2004 on hr2-kultur , editor: Manfred Hess

Awards

Album of the Year 2009, for DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues , Resident Advisor
Honorable Mention In Digital Musics, 1999 ORF Prix Ars Electronica

Web links

Individual evidence

^ RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2009 , accessed November 8, 2010

personal data
SURNAME	Thaemlitz, Terre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American electro musician, essayist, and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minnesota

[1] RA Poll: Top 20 albums of 2009 , accessed November 8, 2010