Midtown News: DJ Sprinkle Midtown 120 Blue

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While the notion that music is a universality or a language shared by all has some support, it would be naïve to argue that background and past experience do not shape a person’s interpretation of music. As Terre Thaemlitz phrases it in the biting introduction to his album Midtown 120 Blues

“So lets keep sight of the things you’re trying to momentarily escape from, after all its that larger context that created the house movement that brought you here. House is not universal, house is hyper specific.”

Released under the moniker DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues reflects Thaemlitz’s experiences in almost every...