Terre Thaemlitz

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Terre Thaemlitz
Background information
Born	1968 in Minnesota, USA
Genre(s)	Ambient Avant garde Glitch House Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician Artist Queer philosopher
Label(s)	Comatonse Recordings Mille Plateaux Instinct
Website	Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz is an award-winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. His work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production. This diversity of themes is matched by Thaemlitz' wide range of production styles, which include electroacoustic computer music, club-oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed neo-expressionist piano solos.

Accordingly, his audio projects have found release on an eclectic variety of record labels ranging from the Deleuze-influenced label Mille Plateaux, to YMO founder Haruomi Hosono's Daisyworld Discs, to Bill Laswell's Subharmonic Records, to Universal Music Germany's Classical Division, to the UK dance label Disorient, and so on. Graphic design, photography, illustration, text and video also play an important part in Thaemlitz' projects. His writings on music and culture have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals and magazines.

As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist transgenderism and pansexual Queer sexuality, Thaemlitz has participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan, as well as held numerous cross-cultural sensitivity workshops at Tokyo's Uplink Factory, near his current residence in Kawasaki, Japan.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 12" EPs 2.3 7" Singles 2.4 DJ mixes 2.5 Collaborations 2.6 Internet-only releases 2.7 Radio dramas 3 Filmography 4 Awards 5 Interviews 6 External links

[edit] Biography

A more detailed overview of the artist's life and work can be found on his self-profile, as well as a profile of Miss Take, Thaemlitz' beguiling and dangerous alter-ego.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Terre Thaemlitz presents... You? Again? Mule Electronic, 2006, MED05	K-S.H.E (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion): Routes Not Roots / Ruutsu De Ha Naku Ruuto Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.CD	Trans-Sister Radio Grain of Sound/Base Recordings, 2005, GOS018/BRCD00505	Lovebomb / Ai No Bakudan Double Disc DVD & Audio CD Re-issue Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.001
Lovebomb / Ai No Bakudan Mille Plateaux, 2003, MP117	Oh, No! It's Rubato Mille Plateaux, 2001, MPCD103/MPLP103	Interstices Mille Plateaux, 2000, MP94	Fagjazz Comatonse Recordings, 2000, C.007
Replicas Rubato Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD71 and MPLP71	Love For Sale Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD53	Means From An End Mille Plateaux, 1999, MPCD53	G.R.R.L. Comatonse Recordings, 1997, C.003
Couture Cosmetique Caipirinha Productions, 1997 (US) Daisyworld Records, 1997 (Japan)	Die Roboter Rubato Mille Plateaux, 1997, MP34	Soil Instinct Ambient, 1995, AMB:007-2	Tranquilizer Instinct Ambient, 1994, EX-283-2

[edit] 12" EPs

You? Again? 3 Unpublished	You? Again? 2 Mule Electronic, 2006, M020	You? Again? 1 Mule Electronic, 2006, M019	K-S.H.E (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion): Route 3 EP Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP3
K-S.H.E (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion): Route 2 EP Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP2	K-S.H.E (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion): Route 1 EP Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.013.EP1	Comatonse.000.R2 Comatonse Recordings, 2004, C.000.R2	The Opposite Of Genius Or Chance EN/OF, 2003, EN/OF 013
Teriko: Hystoric Trace ("Fake") Hysteric Trace, 2003, INEX-002	Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion: A Crippled Left Wing Soars With The Right Comatonse Recordings, 2002, C.010	Social Material: Class/Consciousness Comatonse Recordings, 2001, C.009	DJ Sprinkles: Bassline.89 Comatonse Recordings, 2001, C.008
DJ Sprinkles: Sloppy 42nds Comatonse Recordings, 1998, C.006	Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion: She's Hard Comatonse Recordings, 1998, C.004	Comatonse.000.R1 Comatonse Recordings, 1997, C.000.R1	Comatonse.000 Comatonse Recordings, 1993, C.000

[edit] 7" Singles

Chugga: A Big 7-Inch Austria: Klanggallerie, 2003, GG73

Selling Netherlands: Bottrop-Boy, 2000, B-BOY 003

A-MUSAK Germany: A-Musik, 1999, A-14

[edit] DJ mixes

DJ Sprinkles: DEEPERAMA (Module Party 5) Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2003, DCM5	DJ Sprinkles' DEEPERAMA (Module Party 8) Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM8	PASTIME PARADISE Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DPP1	DJ Sprinkles' DEEPERAMA (Module Party 9) Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM9
DJ Sprinkles' DEEPERAMA (Module Party 10) Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2004, DCM10	DJ Sprinkles' DEEPERAMA (Module Party 14) Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, DCM14

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] Internet-only releases

Below Code To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Comatonse Records, Terre Thaemlitz released a free best-of compilation CD. Physical copies are no longer in print, but MP3s are available for free download (along with a bonus track that did not fit on the original release). Comatonse Recordings, 2006, C.012

[edit] Radio dramas

Trans-Sister Radio Germany: Hessischer Rundfunk Radio, Channel HR2, Frankfurt M, 2004. Premier airdate November 17, 2004. Hörspiel, Redaktion: Manfred Hess. Also released on CD (Portugal: Grain of Sound/Base Recordings, 2005, GOS018/BRCD00505). The Laurence Rassel Show (with Laurence Rassel), (Germany: Hessischer Rundfunk Radio, Channel HR2, Frankfurt M, 2006). Premier airdate April, 2006. Hörspiel, Redaktion: Manfred Hess.

[edit] Filmography

• ffwd_mag (DVD + Magazine)

Italy: .::invernomuto::., 2005, Issue 3. Audio and photography.

• Lovebomb / Ai No Bakudan (Full-length film/music videos)

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Originally released on VHS (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2003, V.002). In English and Japanese. Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/2003, D.001.NTSC | D.001.PAL.

• Interstices (Short film/music videos)

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Commissioned by Lovebytes and funded by the National Arts Council of England. Released with "Silent Passability" on DVD (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.000.NTSC). Originally released on VHS (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2001, V.001) and DVD ("Volatile Media," UK: Lovebytes, 2002, DSP2). Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/2001, D.000.NTSC.

• Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside) (Music video)

Written, directed, filmed and edited by Terre Thaemlitz. Released with "Interstices" on DVD (Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005, D.000.NTSC). Originally released on VHS (US: Comatonse Recordings, 1997, V.000). Japan: Comatonse Recordings, 2005/1997, D.000.NTSC.

• Modulations (documentary)

Directed by Iara Lee, produced by George Gund, (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1998). Interview.

• Neue Kraft, Neues Werk (Transcodeur Express) (documentary)

Directed by Ninon Liotet and Olivier Schulbaum, (Germany: ZDF 2002). Interview and music.

• Synthetic Pleasures (documentary)

Directed by Iara Lee, produced by George Gund, (US: Caipirinha Productions, 1995). Three tracks featured on soundtrack. Sound engineering for trailer.

[edit] Awards

• Honorable Mention In Digital Musics, 1999 ORF Prix Ars Electronica
• Best Ambient/Experimental Artist 1997, 1997 Readers Poll Results in "URB Magazine" (US: March/April 1998)
• Best DJ 1991, Underground Grammy Award from the House of Magic, Midtown Manhattan drag circuit

[edit] Interviews

• "Private Studio 2002: Terre Thaemlitz" - Sound & Recording Magazine: 249, Jan. 2002
• "Terre Thaemlitz's polymorphous electronica exercises its right to be perverse" - The Wire: 206, April 2001
• "An Interview with Terre Thaemlitz" - PERFECT SOUND FOREVER, Feb. 1998
• On: "Means From an End" - AmbiEntrance, 1998

[edit] External links

• Tebbe Tubbitz - Terre Thaemlitz Official Homepage