Terre Thaemlitz

Midtown 120 Blues was the first time I consciously went out of my way to hear a house album. I had heard house before but didn't know what the term meant, couldn't identify it, largely avoided engaging with it. I was very poor at the time and couldn't afford to buy much of anything but a friend insisted this was an album worth hearing at all costs. I ended up downloading it from a random blog, which upsets me, but it was the best I could do. In a single listen it convinced me of the importance of the movement and of the validity of the music, it made me a house fan, and taught me a lesson I will carry for the rest of my life.

might be the goat