Midtown 120 Blues

Terre Thaemlitz slows deep house into something dubwise, intimate and politically charged on Midtown 120 Blues. 'Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone)' puts the argument in the title and then spends eight minutes making it musically. The grooves carry it's argument about house's queer roots, so history stays embedded in the music instead of arriving as commentary.

Terre Thaemlitz opens by explaining what house was for and who paid for it, then spends an hour proving it over the deepest tracks anyone made that decade. An argument and a beautiful record at once, which almost never happens, and it refuses every comfortable assumption the genre had settled into.

Terre Thaemlitz opens by explaining what house is and who it was for, then spends the next hour proving it over some of the deepest tracks anyone made that decade. An argument and a beautiful record at once, which almost never happens.