Everlasting blossom 
Pumpernickel grotto 
Lake of metamorphosis 
Garden of chaos 
Garden of peace 
Evergreen blossom 
Angel with a shotgun
Never won the lotto
Always go the distance
Mama taught me be elite

Humbe always got em
Paint portraits like Jaco
I know the light that Jove is
Gardens of peons gardens of elites 
I welcome all, top to bottom

Learning how to bring my visions to fruition
Can’t let negativity fuck with the vision
Soon I’ll be living dreams like premonitions 
Never goin broke, forever is the mission
Left em in the dust dead silent to perdition
Can’t let premonitions fuck with my precision 
Turning tears into dues finished
Gun to their heads like gimme all the tickets
To this game, I want front row seats at the finish
Maybe I’ll be there at the end with all my other bitches 
Lookin at you flat because it was for you I really wished (I act tough but)

You needn’t join me in this tryst
I know you know you give conniptions 
When you let go of my wrists
We both borne of trauma 

We both borne of trauma
Yet the same pain we inflict
Upon each other like we’re not lovers
From other mothers, resentful of each other in a way that still
Makes me shudder, to this day
As I write these words, ‘pon this page
You are a great artist but to me you’re not the best
Because you lack self honesty, though that travesty is less
Than what you did to me when you left
Cycle of grief, fuck, how I bargained 
Because I know the havoc i wreaked upon your heart is
Unforgivable, from the anger to the guilt was jarring for me
Know I consecrate this bond with this song
But let me borrow from the inflection and belief you showed me
Before there ever was an opportunity for me to shine like I was supposed to

Wanted forever love, and though you did
I wasn’t willing to put the work in
When there was nothing you believed
When I gave nothing still could you see 
When I heard nothing music could you heed
When I lack respect from you I get deference 
Kinda love myself ‘cause thanks to you I actually manage 
You couldn’t really dance but to me rhythm you transmit
You couldn’t really sing but I heard harmony in your silence
You’ll never see but in your eyes I found solace 
You’re gone but in your space I go the distance
You‘ll never know that in your loss I found happiness 

Mercury perished delivering gods’ messages
 This lullaby you will never hear will die on graying beds
Never ever shall my siren song spellbind you again

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Albatross

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

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