House isn't so much a sound as a situation. There must be 100 records with voiceovers asking 'What is house?" The answer is always some greeting card bullshit about life, love, happiness.... The House Nation likes to pretend clubs are an oasis from suffering but suffering is in here with us. So what was the New York house sound? The majority of DJ's, like myself, were nobody's in nowhere clubs: unheard & unpaid. In the words of Sylvester reality was less "everybody is a star" & more "I who have nothin." 20 years later major distribution gives us Classic House, the same way soundtracks in Vietnam war films gave us Classic Rock. The contexts from which the Deep House sound emerged are forgotten: sexual & gender crises, transgender sex work, black market hormones, drug & alcohol addiction, loneliness, racism, HIV, ACT-UP, Thompkins Sq. Park, police brutality, queer-bashing, underpayment, unemployment & censorship- all at 120 beats per minute -DJ Sprinkles
Recorded on November 5th, 2015.