Terre Thaemlitz performs as DJ Sprinkles and released a Resident Advisor mix that interrogates Israeli genocide, American complicity, and dance music's ability to seed change. A few hundred people gathered at the Nursery, an intimate outdoor extension of Public Records in Brooklyn, on August 3 to hear Sprinkles blend deep thoughts with deep house. Sprinkles' productions are long and hazy, favoring dubby immersion over traditional build-and-release, and layer political critique onto music including topics like Madonna's use of vogue culture, British trade union organizing, and laws restricting public dancing in Japan. The set unfolded amid a tense, fractious New York political moment and a charged audience atmosphere.
On the afternoon of August 3, a few hundred people gathered at the Nursery, the intimate outdoor extension of Brooklyn's stylish Public Records, to hear DJ Sprinkles. I think it's fair to say most of us knew what to expect: Sprinkles, an alias of queer producer and cultural critic Terre Thaemlitz, blends deep thoughts and deep house into languorous, embodied critiques of everything from Madonna's use of Vogue culture to British trade union organizing to laws restricting public dancing in Japan, where Sprinkles lives.
We needed this escape: It's been a hot, complicated summer in NYC, during which our current mayor and many of the city's largest media, art, educational, and political institutions have thrown themselves under Trump's autocratic steamroller, while a promising segment of city voters has thrown its support behind one of the only American politicians to oppose Israeli's genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, the Democratic Socialist campaigner Zohran Mamdani.
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