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didn’t need to hear that
guess i’ll go fuck myself
but it’s honey off a duck back
didn’t even really care that much
it’s just the way you said it
like you don’t give a fuck 

cos i know you can see right through me
when i don’t feel myself
and i don’t wanna change if it’s not me anyway
but i’m the only one to blame so i’ll never be the same again

fuck life feels so good with a little suffering 
there ain’t nothing that god damn hard
and it’s all me so i got no one to thank
where the fuck did i park my car
you give me whip lash
i’m growing out another bad hair cut
i think my shits trash
you say i’m not trying hard enough

cos i used to be a weak man
but now i am so strong
so i carry all of the memories 
of that weak man along

and lately idgaf
given up believing in luck
preoccupied with the past tense
living life half dressed
i cant get past it
cos i fucked up at 19
now i live in hiding
and time heals all wounds 
so i pray time is timing

fuck life feels so good with a little suffering 
there ain’t nothing that god damn hard
and it’s all me so i got no one to thank
where the fuck did i park my car
you give me whip lash
i’m growing out another bad hair cut
i think my shits trash
you say i’m not trying hard enough

honey off a ducks back

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Sympathy is a knife by charli & ari but lonelyspeck flipped it

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Creme de la Creme ft LUCY / prod @darkworldghost

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 those narratives can often feel inadequate, and even at times, hollow. Or, as Terre Thaemlitz might bluntly put it, just "shitty."

For her first mix in around 15 years, Terre Thaemlitz 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 in her Q&A.

And what is this moment? Every day since Israel's 2023 assault on Gaza began, an average of 28 children have been killed. That's an entire classroom, every day, for over 600 days (at the time of writing). It's a staggering figure that only captures a fragment of the listless cruelty imposed on the strip.

Faced with such a genocide, what can music really do? How political can it truly be?  For their RA.1000, Thaemlitz gives us an unflinching rebuke to the idea that music should provide escapism. The mix weaves ambient fragments and jazz passages, woven around samples from Israeli media and the voices of outspoken Jewish critics like Gabor Maté and Norman Finkelstein. 

The result is not just a protest, but a document of our time. For Terre Thaemlitz, music is never just music. Her RA.1000 serves as a reminder that in an age of relentless suffering, the most political act is to reject the illusion of escape, and search for something greater.

Read the interview and find the tracklist at ra.co/podcast/1013. Listen to all RA.1000 mixes, as well as the complete history of the RA Podcast, at https://1000.ra.co

RA.1000 Terre Thaemlitz / DJ Sprinkles

Bilby takes the universally human and wraps it in the quintessentially Australian. His fresh sound subverts the Aussie Hip Hop status quo, injecting a tenderness to the genre without compromising on swagger.

"A Genius.." - Triple J

“…equal parts catchy left-field hip-hop silliness and striking poignancy, echoing the frustrations of young adulthood much more than first appears.” – Rolling Stone

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