DJ Sprinkles - The DJ that hates DJing

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.
A red thread within Terre’s work as an artist is the ongoing critique and pessimistic view on society’s norms, such as capitalism, gender, sexuality and class for example; something that also comes through within the music she’s making.
In this conversation we speak about her approach to
- Society at wide and teenage years feeling as an alien
- How her approach to society at large took shape
- Her musical journey
- Why house music is named that way
- Social Media OF COURSE
- The Tompkins Square Park Riots in 1988
And so much more,
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[@vogelvogeltje]

Terre is fucking awesome. I love her. He is one of the reasons I got into producing house music. Her style is immediately recognizable. ❤❤ I would love to see him live one day.

[@shivamuraleedaran730]

he's fuckin insane live have seen her twice, both times have impacted my life so significantly. saw her at Inner Varnika 2023 and they had some technical difficulties, entire sound system got killed by the rain and so there was a bit of a lull with people not knowing whether the set would continue, before she brought us back in with this warm angelic orchestral number that gently but swiftly beckoned the crowd back in. I've never seen a DJ so effortlessly get the crowd churning again after a hiccup without it feeling cheap or rushed. Highly HIGHLY recommend spend money, FLY if you have to, go see her.

[@sanpellegrino1607]

The track after the power cut at IV was Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up (Part 2) from about 12 mins in. Incredible moment

[@shivamuraleedaran730]

​@@sanpellegrino1607 man appreciate it. never thought I'd get an ID for that track. What a set!

[@IvanPolyansky]

Yea boi, such a cool person. We used to chat a bit via email during my days at uni and he sent me perfumed Deeperama CDS & vinyls to the snowy Siberian city of Novosibirsk. COMATONSE rules !

[@aaroninky]

very candid and open interview, here, really good to see. i'd be terrified to interview terre! it's also deeply, deeply funny that you seriously asked 'bros or cats', considering their entire body of work.

[@technolover5406]

Love Terre!! 😍

[@anastasiakristensen5783]

legend

[@user-ul3jm2qb7y]

Legend of electronic music

[@rediscoveryrecords1348]

Long time Terre fan. He kindly said no to me asking if I could put his early ambient pieces on vinyl my reissue label. And he also said no to be asking him for a remix. Which kind of sucks. But I understand. I just wish she was a bit more receptive of the fame part and maybe working with people who have been big fans of hers.
But its all good. I still enjoy her music and her opinions and viewpoints.

[@IvanPolyansky]

kudos for asking him man

[@IvanPolyansky]

34:51 story of my life

[@violencefm]

who are the composers and players of "Soleil Mauve"? I know that dj sprinkles hates djing, I'm pretty sure he hate playing music too. That's why his friend is hardrock striker.

[@See5harp]

Honestly, have never even known what dj sprinkles looked like. I don't need to know tbh, the music speaks for itself. Glad you got this interview, nevertheless..

[@vitaliyd.8861]

Терри красава!

[@gbxgbxgbx]

Not really about the term 'House music' - it derived straight up from Haceinda club - which was the warehouse, or short for House - hence House music - music that was played in the House - or the Warehosue, or the Hacienda.

[@Creative.B]

Not sure how familiar Terre is with the UK electronic music culture but I’d love to meet her and perhaps collaborate. However, I feel like without any social media or contact it’d be almost impossible 😅. Maybe we would bump into each other on the streets of Tokyo. Nice interview tho, very laid back, also nice to see it wasn’t censored.

[@ratherrazz4798]

Your really proving Terres point if you think its "impossible" to make contact outside of social media tho

[@CossRooper]

...... she has a website

[@yardmanharris]

She has collaborated with Mark Fell, who is a British producer, several times. I'm assuming her collaborations are based on existing personal relationships with peers though.

[@violencefm]

@@yardmanharris ah ah ah

[@petersfds]

ein klasse looser , ich bin auch ein looser , wurde auch immer verhauen und wehrte mich nicht , dafür provozierte ich danach noch mehr . ich wurde nie in clubs gelassen ,und wnn ,dann wusste ich warum man mich nicht reinliess , weilich ein schwarzes schaf war mit dem keiner sielen wollte , alle wollten mit dem dj stehen... ah , das ist ein toller typ und ich nicht , hm ... und ein handy hatte ich nie , und ich bin gerne schwarzes schaf und liebe die musik von Terre Thaemlitz .