Track list:

A1 Too Much
B1 Too Much (Francis Harris Reform)
B2 Too Much (DJ Aakmael Remix)

 

Press text:
Will Long is an American artist. He curates and manages the label Two Acorns, as well as producing music since 2005, in various forms under his own name for Terre Thaemiltz’s Comatonse Recordings, and as Celer for his own label and many others.

Here he joins the perfectly aligned Scissor and Thread label of Francis Harris and Anthony Collins for the Too Much EP.

“Too Much” is a deep cut from the same grooves as the Long Trax series,” says Will Long, “a further entry for the downtrodden, the overwhelmed, and those that think change has come. A midnight meditation of intentional simplicity, strained, and on that night train.”
The title track is lush, loose deep jam that combines wistful, warm pads with an insistent groove and choice samples.
Francis Harris steps up to provide one of his signature reforms, adding a little more percussion and drive to the track, while DJ Aakmael (Greg Stewart) offers up another version that takes the track somehow even deeper, adding some additional instrumentation and raw sounds.

Track list:
1 Here To Tell You
2 That Dream
3 Do That
4 Been Lucky
5 The Only Difference
6 Pay It No Mind

Release description:
Illustrations by Tsuji Aiko

Limited edition CD, self-released and independent. Comes in a reverse board, 6 panel package including all 6 drawings.

Track list:
1 You Should Recognize
2 That’s Enough!
3 We Have To Find Some Way
4 Going On
5 It’s Always the Same
6 Make It That Way

Release description:
Illustrations by Tsuji Aiko

Limited edition CD, self-released and independent. Comes in a reverse board, 6 panel package including all 6 drawings.

Track list:
1 It Can’t Be Done, It Can’t Be Done, It Can’t Be Done
2 Stand Up For Me
3 Make It
4 You Have To Understand
5 Better Realize
6 Whether Or Not

Release description:
“It Can’t Be Done, It Can’t Be Done, It Can’t Be Done”, “Stand Up For Me”, “Make It”, “You Have To Understand”, “Better Realize”, and “Whether Or Not” by Will Long, recorded in 2017-2019, published by W. Long

Stokely Carmichael illustration by Tsuji Aiko

Limited edition CD, self-released and independent. Comes in a reverse board, 6 panel package including all 6 drawings.

Tracklist:

1 Nothing’s Changed
2 You Know?
3 The Struggles, the Difficulties
4 No More
5 That’s the Way It Goes
6 We Tend To Forget

Release description:
“As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track. “Long Trax 2” is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 “Long Trax” debut on Comatonse Recordings. The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones, but few can imagine how to apply notions of safety and equality to other aspects of society. We shouldn’t need clubs to hide from our fears and differences in the outside world. Looking ahead, we should look not so optimistically upon what we have accomplished, but with urgency and empathy upon what we haven’t.”

Tracklist:

1 That’s the Way It Goes
2 We Tend To Forget

 

Release description:
“As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track. “Long Trax 2” is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 “Long Trax” debut on Comatonse Recordings. The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones, but few can imagine how to apply notions of safety and equality to other aspects of society. We shouldn’t need clubs to hide from our fears and differences in the outside world. Looking ahead, we should look not so optimistically upon what we have accomplished, but with urgency and empathy upon what we haven’t.”

Tracklist:

1 The Struggles, the Difficulties
2 No More

 
Release description:
“As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track. “Long Trax 2” is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 “Long Trax” debut on Comatonse Recordings. The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones, but few can imagine how to apply notions of safety and equality to other aspects of society. We shouldn’t need clubs to hide from our fears and differences in the outside world. Looking ahead, we should look not so optimistically upon what we have accomplished, but with urgency and empathy upon what we haven’t.”

Tracklist:

1 Nothing’s Changed
2 You Know?

 
Release description:
“As much as is said of our current times being new lows, where things have changed for the worse and we’re unsure of the future, it’s worth returning to study the past to understand how steadily low we remain. “Nothing’s changed,” says a younger Barack Obama in a sample for the opening track. “Long Trax 2” is the second album from Will Long after his 2016 “Long Trax” debut on Comatonse Recordings. The album presents as an ongoing criticism of cultural stasis, conveyed via minimal synthesizers, sampler, and rhythm machine. Dancefloors are widely perceived by the masses as safe zones, but few can imagine how to apply notions of safety and equality to other aspects of society. We shouldn’t need clubs to hide from our fears and differences in the outside world. Looking ahead, we should look not so optimistically upon what we have accomplished, but with urgency and empathy upon what we haven’t.”

 

Tracklist:
Disc 1: YELLOW

  • A1: Pigs 10’54”
  • B1: Pigs (Sprinkles Overdub) 10’54”

Disc 2: IVORY

  • C1: Daylight & Dark 11’28”
  • D1: Daylight & Dark (Sprinkles Overdub) 11’24”

Disc 3: RUST

  • E1: That’s What They Understand 10’27”
  • F1: That’s What They Understand (Sprinkles Overdub) 10’27”

Press text:
Will Long X DJ Sprinkles’ journey to the heart of deep house culminates in the third and final volume in a series of three, offering the broadest yet most subtle, spine-tingling session of the lot, presenting the former’s raw and ‘floor-ready originals backed by the latter’s inimitably sumptuous overdubs.

Conceptually rooted in the queer, black politics of NYC’s late ‘80s and early ‘90s house scene – where Terre Thaemlitz cut her teeth as DJ Sprinkles – the series can be viewed as a vital reminder of that scene’s original values and sense of social democracy, especially when contrasted with the glut of contemporary, commodified representations of that music which sorely miss the mark, or weren’t even aware of the scene’s provenance to begin with.

Make no mistake, though; this is no lecture or snub at younger producers making deep house. Rather, it is evidence of the original form’s latent potential to still generate rare, precious feelings which have been lost or glossed over with subsequent, detached and over-produced translations of its original syntax and intent.

“Deep” is the key word here on many levels, from their poignant use of historical samples by civil rights pioneers Bayard Rustin, Jesse Jackson and Kathleen Cleaver, to the unfiltered innocence of Will Long’s productions and Sprinkles’ corresponding, pensile overdubs, which make utterly incredible use of the frequency spectrum to reveal acres of space in the upper registers and, on the other hand, an honestly breathtaking application of layered subbass tones that are just impossible to describe.

This one’s a little bit special…

Available as:

  • 3LP vinyl edition