For RA.1000, DJ Sprinkles' first mix in over a decade is a powerful meditation on the genocide in Gaza.
Dance music often relies on simple narratives: release, escape, unity. But as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, often they’re just "shitty."
For her first mix in 15 years, Terre AKA DJ Sprinkles challenges us to think differently: "I felt this 1000th podcast should reflect the moment in which it was made," she told us.
And what is this moment? Since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed daily. Faced with genocide, what can music really do? For RA.1000, Thaemlitz rebukes escapism with ambient fragments and jazz passages woven with Israeli media and critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. The result is protest, but also a document of our time.
Read the interview at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes at 1000.ra.co
