Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer EP3

Terre Thaemlitz wraps up the 30th birthday celebrations of her debut LP with a third and final 12" collecting songs from the record on the vinyl for the first time. This time around we get the triple bill of MLK tribute '040468', '2AM On A Silo' and the highly emotive highlight 'Raw Through A Straw', and with it another reminder of just how pioneering Tranquilizer was and, really, still is. As with all her work, there's the articulation of queer experience present throughout, a vital perspective matched by what is a deeply innovative take on ambient house/techno, drawing on The KLF's Chill Out and The Art Of Noise's emotional breadth and passing it through the prism of deep house, Japanese minimal electronics and Windham Hill ambience ala Mark Isham. Hard to overstate just how incredible this music remains, entirely at odds with its three-decade lifespan - you'd easily understand this as the sound of tomorrow if it were not for the future looking so bleak. Or perhaps that's entirely fitting of its crying-in-the-third-room appeal? As with all Thaemlitz/Sprinkles output, this is a physical-only situation, which makes the appearance of these tracks on vinyl for the first time even more compelling. Only-God-Was-Above kinda material.