Terre Thaemlitz

Terre Thaemlitz is an American producer, DJ, writer and speaker, born in Minnesota in 1968, raised in Springfield, Missouri, and based in Japan since 2001. The music ranges from ambient and electroacoustic computer music to deep house and computer-composed piano solos, and deals with gender, sexuality, class and the economics of commercial media. The mid-1990s albums Tranquilizer and Soil on Instinct introduced a political form of ambient music. Thaemlitz moved to New York in 1986, studied at the Cooper Union and founded the Comatonse Recordings label in 1993.