- Artist
- K-S.H.E
- ReleaseProduct
- Routes not Roots
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.013.CD.R1
- Release Date
- November 1, 2024
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CD
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- Custom packaging hand assembled by Terre herself
- CD in an archival vinyl pouch
- Double-sided insert card (100mm x 200mm)
- Phonograph style anti-static inner sleeves
- 4x4 panel poster insert printed on newsprint (472mm x 472mm)
A reissue of the 2006 Japanese first-edition of K-S.H.E's debut album, Routes not Roots / ルーツではなくルート (JP: Comatonse Recordings, C.013.CD). This album was the infamously more queer precursor to DJ Sprinkles' Midtown 120 Blues, and is one of only a few albums to ever receive a 5-star rating from "the old" Resident Advisor.
"Today's dancefloors are wakes in remembrance of a mythological era of openness that never was. Remember where you were. See where you are.... I'm in Kami-Sakunobe." (K-S.H.E)
"Routes Not Roots" is the debut album by K-S.H.E (Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion), the newest project from internationally celebrated producer, label owner and DJ Terre Thaemlitz.
K-S.H.E "Routes Not Roots" combines Comatonse Recordings' notorious "Fagjazz" sound with the classic NY Deep House and Cross-over dancefloor sensibility of "DJ Sprinkles' Deeperama," Thaemlitz' bi-monthly event held at Club Module, Tokyo. The results are spacious, bass-heavy, epic dance mixes filled with dark humor and harsh realities.
As people have come to expect of Thaemlitz releases, "Routes Not Roots" mixes a wide range of social themes such as identity vs. immigrant status; community vs. tranny-on-tranny violence; authenticity vs. cultural decontextualization; openly gay African-American club imagery vs. gay sex on the Down-Low; innocence vs. childhood fantasies of violence; and more. From HIV drug trials to tranny and women's unemployment rates to sexually amorphous Japanese cross-dressers posing as high school girls, K-S.H.E doesn't miss a beat.
Comatonse Recordings
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9 Clips- Artist
- Terre's Neu Wuss Fusion
- ReleaseProduct
- Recalls
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.030
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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17 Clips- Artist
- DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell
- ReleaseProduct
- Incomplete Insight (2012-2015)
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.032
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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7 Clips- Artist
- DJ Sprinkles / K-S.H.E
- ReleaseProduct
- Spirits, Lose Your Hold
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.031
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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8 Clips- Artist
- Comatonse.000 (Terre Thaemlitz)
- ReleaseProduct
- comatonse.000.r3
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- 000.R3
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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11 Clips- Artist
- G.R.R.L.
- ReleaseProduct
- G.R.R.L.
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.003
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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11 Clips- Artist
- DJ Sprinkles
- ReleaseProduct
- Midtown 120 Blues
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.022
- Release Date
- February 11, 2022
- CD
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2 Clips- Artist
- Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles
- ReleaseProduct
- Deproduction EP 2
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C.027EP2L
- Release Date
- May 4, 2018
- EP
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- Artist
- Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles
- ReleaseProduct
- Deproduction EP 1
- Label
- Comatonse Recordings
- Catalogue Number
- C027.EP1
- Release Date
- April 20, 2018
- EP