dj /rupture

(i should note that i've done a complete 180 from my opinions on this thread, and i now think gtt is GRATE. i'm still not sold on 2mdj's.)

UK buyers can get most of the dj/rupture stuff from Boomkat Online.

Also this must be considered in tandem with the fact that Lil' Kim is getting that guy whose name I can't remember from Mille Plateux who does the glitch-hop (he just released an album) to do production on her next album.

It's the robo-ho diaspora!

My favourite bits of GTT were actually the Nettle (Rupture and DD) tracks. U&K: has anyone heard the Nettle LP "Build a Fort, Set That on Fire" or the "Deep Waters Still Run" 12" single that came out towards the end of last year? Opinions?

Guest: DJ/ Rupture
From: Barcelona
DJ/rupture continues to run his Soot imprint, and records for the Agriculture label under his Nettle pseudonym. His mixtapes are nothing short of legendary - hopefully he'll find some time next yearto lay down some new tracks.

1 DIZEE RASCAL
Boy In Da Corner | XL | 2LP | £ 12.99 | Vote
2 T.O.K.
Could Wha | Blaxxx | Vote
3 CAT POWER
You Are Free | Matador | CD | £ 12.99 | Vote
4 MISSY ELLIOTT
This Is Not A Test | Elektra | Vote
5 VARIOUS
Pharoah Riddim | Germaican | Vote
6 DAVID BANNER
Mississippi: The Screwed & Chopped Album | Universal | Vote
7 HECKER
2 Track | Mego | Vote
8 NETTLE
Firecamp Stories Remixes | The Agriculture | CD | £ 10.99 | Vote
9 VARIOUS
Vinyl Chill 2 | Quality Streetz | Vote
10 TONOTOPIES 2
L'Archipel Des Amibes | Oyad | Vote

Anyway, I bought this the moment I saw it yesterday at Mondo Kim's and it's pretty good, especially the tacky collision of 9/11-themed drill & bass, Lenny Kravitz, and something else I can't remember that follows it. I think rupture's bits are livelier than Mutamussik's, based on a listen at work.

And, haha, Daddino otm.

It's safe to assume that if an artist consents to have his stuff released in a commercial format, he agrees with the idea of selling albums. The artist doesn't release an album for "the suckers" (i.e. everybody who isn't YOU) and then smile contentedly as you download away, secure in the knowledge that his TRUE fans appreciate that ART MUST BE FREE etc. If \Rupture didn't wanna sell records, he wouldn't release them. If you've enjoyed his work, then ethically you oughta compensate him in some way. And not by giving him a rubber check like that guy in St. Augustine who thanked me for all the music he'd copped for free and busted out some tired line about how corrupt record companies are as he scribbled "50 and 00/100" onto a check that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

Really there is so much hypocrisy in the "music wants to be free!" camp that some fairly interested arguments get tarred by association.

haha "interesting" ones, too

also the DJ /rupture radio mix ("Pirate Style" it says on the cd) is probably my favorite of his, it's closer to a real mashup / improvisation than his others thus far.

1. Nass El Ghiwane - Qandile M’Daoui
Dabrye - Game Over

2. Styles of Beyond - Mr. Brown Biddy Bi-Bi Remix instrumental
Afghanistan Et Iran - Chant Turkemene
Seeed - Pharao Version

3..Sizzla - Obstacles
Seeed - Music Monks

4.0ve-Naxx - Warte
Burundi Walking Tune
Sabaya et Intifada - Min Al Mukhayyam Toulad Ru’aya

5. Kelis - Milkshake acappella
Ronin - Slick Pretty
Hecker - from 2 track 12”
Poporc - Momieculture

6. 113 Tonton DuBled
Craig Thompson - H&K riddim

7. Nettle GUT: Mehmet Irdel’s GUT remix
Buji. Banton - Champion acappella

8. Busta Rhymes - Light Your Ass On Fire Club Mix
Daniel Lewis - Version Egyptian
Busta Rhymes - Light Your Ass On Fire acappella

9. T.0 K. Coulda Wha
Elephant Man - Egyptian Dance
Trick Daddy - In Da Wind

10. Sickboy - Worst Trade Central
Tom - Cure Version

11. Jungle Brothers - How Ya Want It acappella
K - Murdah
Electric Kettle - Angry Rootsman

You don't know, then. It is and always was copyright infringement, same as up/downloading. They just care less about that kind of copying because it's less promiscuous.

both comments mean that i like it. haven't really heard the 2nd half yet, but the busta rhymes over the egyptian riddim is sick and i thought the drill n' bass cure song was pretty fresh.

'how you want it' accapella tho! woo! yay for reminding me of andy smith's the document

(yay, for smugness - and hypocrisy!)

You might as well say that pursuing some kind of monocultural purism is inherently fascistic.

Or that putting as many big pop hooks together as possible is inherently pandering.

Sure, diasporism can be smug, usually when accompanied by pretentious rhetoric (DJ Spooky) or vapid cosmic overtones (er, remember when all the ambient people were doing musical travelogues).

But Rupture doesn't do either of these things. Nor does he bland all the musics out into mush. Nor does he pretend to any kind of "fusion." Quite the opposite. He lets everything clash against everything else, keeps the noise front and center, makes connections but never at the expense of the beat. Pretty much an ideal model for this sort of thing.

Need more coffee!

i dont buy the inherently smug thing either tho, cos i find that rupture mixes, much like perching on a pruned opinion like "fascist rap", to do nothing to increase the charm of what he uses, i'd allow like bugged out sez that he retains some vitality with the clash aesthetic but it seems a noisy grabby unsympathetic way of doing it. he seems like he thinks he's still weaving soemthing new, tearing off revealing some greater vertigo, but i find that destructive. destructive physiognomy. and no i dont find his use of more obv stuff like egyptian riddim/'light yr ass'/kelis suggests popness but a cheap eye for the most casually yeah "futuristic" blah blah. ok the german dancehall thing was a bit harsh (electric boogie riddim *retch*) but it seems indicative of something, a more peripheral rhetorical 2nd generation mutation circle

(It may well be that easier music access and a shuffle-play listening culture will make selling eclecticism increasingly difficult.)

i make absolutely no apology for this whatever. i get paid for *my* views *my* ideas *my* writing, not be or think about anyone else. my judgements are my judgements and when people know me, they either agree with me in the main and find my work useful or they think i'm a dick and don't. i don't see how this is a bad thing. re chumminess, it's not, it's just respect and a little civility. i'm not namedropping, then name's already been dropped!

Well, both really, but mainly the first one, which I was thinking might make this harder to find online. By which I mean shops, since I can't download at home and post from a cafe on my lunch break.

hey dave when i say selfcentred i mean the opinions coming distant second to your flirting. like a wise dude once said, "you only defend things cos u like em". cudgeled swine leave me be

oh to hell with it, it's evident you are either completely insane and thus i should just keep quiet, or an absolute comedy genius because this line, literally, made me bust out laughing in my office. glass houses etc.

Records speaking to eachother is not a concept I dislike actually, but I think it's more interesting when the conversation is unintentional or incidental or mercenary, and when the conversation is happening on a track to track basis, one word or sentence at a time. Something like GTT feels more like a staged play (which incidentally - and cos it supports my argument - Bakhtin says can *never* be dialogic!) with rupture as the director. Sorry Bugged Out but for me at least scenius *is* more interesting than genius. And maybe the problem for rupture is that scenes like dancehall already have the whole diaspora thingy so thoroughly on lockdown that his efforts sometimes strike me as simultaneously redundant and even crude, like someone explaining the meaning of the joke after the punchline.

That said I do enjoy his mixes so maybe I won't agree with all this tomorrow!

PS. Dave I still love you obv!

(never yours tim xx)

I stopped reading after this.

i think sometimes rupture is doing this; i don't find allowing a groove to roll to be inherently superior to setting one up only to fuck it up, or vice versa. to the first point, the first half of gold teeth thief seems to me to be completely danceable throughout, though you do have to shift the style a few times to keep up. i think on the larger level what rupture's better mixes are saying is that these extra-musical structures mirror the structure of dancing (or the dance-listener's activity) naturally; ie the crashy noisey jungly bits mirror when you hit a tune you can't help but keep turning up or the dj keeps amping things up at the crest of the night.

on the other hand i think rupture also knows and interacts with the fact that most people listening to his music are doing so while chained to their computers, driving around, sitting at home, etc; places where the implication of dance is pleasurable but the mind is also free to engage with the transitions, connections, and disconnections he creates.

that might be a bit of having it both ways but it's why i find him fascinating. the 'diaspora' stuff is a red herring, why shouldn't a dj reflect his own tastes?

on a musical note: that dabrye track is hot. it's a nice bite of dj quik's style with more bassy techno to it.

explain.

wow, is "mole in the ground" a cover (or - barf - an "interpolation") of the old folk song?

xpost.

i really liked that last thing (the Rupture / Mutamussik split), but after a few listens, didn't like it anymore. i think it mostly had to do with the Mutamussik half?

I also wish these guys (Rhythm & Sound, /rupture, Bug) would just do whole albums with forgotten dancehall singers/deejays like Cornel Campbell, Cutty Ranks and Sister Nancy. It's a win-win people! These folks are way better than most of their vocal collaborators (excepting Rhythm & Sound who get pretty good talent all around) and I have no idea what Ranks and Nancy are doing these days, but I can't imagine they would chafe at the idea at making new fans (esp. since none of these folks has torn up the charts in Jamaica in years.)

Is there anyone else out there who really likes rupture's mixes?

The mole track on Special gunpowder is also a standout.

Check out his blog:
http://www.negrophonic.com/words/

he is into sleep and doom metal now as well!

http://www.sonar.es/alacarta2006/alacarta_eng.htm#

I'm pretty excited about the Maga Bo mixtape that's supposed to be out sometime this month. I saw him at the Rickshaw a couple of weeks ago and he did an amazing DJ set (total grime/senegalese hip hop/snap/baile funk mashup.) Apparently /rupture will be doing a set there next month as well (for the same night, some Six Degrees related thing.)

I forgot how fun those early mixes are! Hi Alex!

How is /rupture doing these days and who else is currently working in a similar tradition?

and i see from his blog that he has a new mix out which I promptly bought:
http://www.turntablelab.com/cds/170/399/52098.html

luv the internet sometimes. SOMETIMES

admrl, do you know Maga Bo? His podcast recalled dj/rupture.. it's on the link below, podcast 37

http://www.weareie.com/2008/04/blogariddims-top-40.html

Maga Bo is pretty great. He has a mix out on Soot (/rupture's record label) and a new album out soon.

/rupture has a weekly radio show on WFMU which is good stuff.

sweet thanks!

That Turntable Lab mix is really great.

/rupture also has a new mix out on Agriculture which appears considerably mellower (and less pop) than most of his other stuff.

Urgh, this thing is really freaking me out...!

http://www.negrophonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/4.gif

i'm digging on uproot (although the second half is more ambient and kinda boring)

i really like it.

he played here the other night. it was fun. i wore a tie.

http://www.milechai.com/judaica/jewish-and-judaic-ties/jewish-tie-images/star-of-david-menorah-tie-S.jpg

I'm liking Uproot too, even the ambient stuff, but find myself wishing for at least a bit of the old short sharp shocking. Still listen to Gold Teeth, Minesweeper and that Mutamassik split on a regular basis, much more than the more subdued Special Gunpowder. Which makes me wonder how the new one will fare in the long run.

uproot is nice

I pulled out Minesweeper Suite the other week, still holds up nicely. Haven't heard the new one yet.

I've been leaving this new collaboration with Andy Moor on in the background at work.

been doin the same with that mutamassik live in dubai cd

Omani Revolutionary Army - A'aish El Shaab (Raggamuffin Mix)

^^^ headbanger.gif

Omani Revolutionary Army - A'aish El Shaab (Raggamuffin Mix)

Yeah where the hell is this from? Would totally dig more stuff in this vein.

if you google it the only ref is the dang dj/rupture mix

2004 post-election mix is the rad
also I have way too much of this wfmu podcast to consume and it is mostly educational

Anyway I actually like the Mutamassik half of that particular mix better than the /rupture half (although he's got plenty of mixes that I like better than both.) I kind of forgot about her until recently, but she has her own label and just released an EP.

i didnt know it was split i just figured it was a collabo

Yeah /rupture's half ends with the Jungle Bros remix and Mutamassik starts with the Omani Army one.

wow yeah my respect for rupture just dropped down 2 the floor all my fav shit is on the 2nd half

who is this mutamassik chick & why is she not making me eggs right now

hold up

http://www.discogs.com/DJ-rupture-vs-Mutamassik-Shotgun-Wedding-Vol-1-The-Bidoun-Sessions/release/316298

Credits: DJ Mix - DJ /rupture (tracks: 12 to 22) , Mutamassik (tracks: 1 to 11)

i'd love to hear that. i listen to the wfmu podcast on the regular too.

Discogs is wrong. His half is first and Mutamassik is second.

yeah that seems right

anything else from mutamassik i should check for?

There is a comp on Sound!Ink that's really good. The War Booty EP on Soot is her best work, I think, but it's almost all on the Sound!Ink comp.

mutamassik back end isn't any better than rupture up front. then again, no worse, and i've always kinda wondered why she dropped off the map, while he went on to not-fame and not-fortune. maybe she's just puts less stuff out? do look up war booty though.

Because she never had a mix as high-profile (or as good) as Gold Teeth Thief basically.

agree, but her half of the shotgun wedding collab suggests that she's got something going on. maybe just to me

I agree she does, it's just that like, as in many things, the world had room for one semi-famous globe trotting ethno-hip hop-dancehall-connecting dj and /rupture turned out to be it. To be fair to him though, he's really put the work in whereas she's had one released mix so far (split with him.)

yeah, i was gonna suggest "lack of dedication?" but that seemed mean. a lot of things boil down to just that though

she had a few years head start, had a night in NYC I went to a few times - when rup dropped I thought of him as a mutamassik that would drop in more handholds of familiarity.

there was a more recent shotgun wedding edition he split, with filastine I think... his stuff from that (notable for use of neko case acapella) better than the massik split I thought.

cannot process "use of neko case acapella" and "better" in the same sentence

Really? I think that half is his weakest mix (although it is better than the Filastine half.)

It's just a snippet of "Dirty Knife" IIRC.

oh, just that

Haha well I was meaning that it isn't some crazy blend. That said there is a tune on the same mix that uses a significant portion of a Joanna Newsome vocal.

ah so this is where the mutamassik talk is. her new free album is really awesome so far - http://www.roughamericana.com/publicfiles/MUTAMASSIKThatWhichDeathCannotDestroy___.zip

this is beautiful http://www.negrophonic.com/2010/rembetika-solace-hour/

Hah, has DJ /rupture been looking at this thread? He just mentioned the raptor child rave scene gif on twitter.

I think it's just one of his favorite gifs. The link above is from his site.

Excited about the Moor Rembetika show tonight.

Oh that right, it's on WFMU tonight. The Ex go Greek?

lex upped the new/recent mutamassik lp that which death cannot destroy a couple months back, but no one picked up on it. it's weird stuff, intriguing, though not likely to increase her profile much. fragmentary, dubbed-out sound collages built around middle eastern folk and dance music (as per usual). mostly low end throb and a few ragged surface repetitions, all shifting constantly, woozy, psychedelic. lots of hand percussion, "ethnic" instrumentation and turntablism drifting in and out. which is to say that it might have come out on wordsound in the early 00s, aka illbient. like a punk badawi maybe, or spooky gone bedouin vampire. zombie dance mix assembled by christian marclay from broken adrian sherwood records. something oddly gothic about it, too, in the understated menace and crepuscular spookshow vibe. it sounds like music not of the revolution, but of its smoldering aftermath. tent city shit, despairing techno primitivism. relentlessly anti-pop, no repurposed hits, rhythms all crippled and bent, intentionally (?) awkward sounds and transitions. i.e., art school political punk all the way, but charming for that. while i can't say it invites or commands attention, it easily holds my interest from beginning to end. recommended if you were ever interested in any of the above referenced.

"Oh that right, it's on WFMU tonight. The Ex go Greek?"

Not really. More like noisy rembitika.

"it's weird stuff, intriguing, though not likely to increase her profile much."

Especially since as far as I can tell she's only releasing as 160 mp3s for free on her website.

yeah, too bad about the sound quality. if you're gonna release it mp3 only, might as well give us decent files, right? and her myspace page bums me out. play counts range from 500 to like 2. :,,,(

Think I am going to buy this Andy Moor Rebitika thing. Sounds great.

does ilm still care for dj/rupture

my first thought was 'fairtrade diplo' but that feels unfair

lol

his wfmu show was so great.

i heard massive amounts of music from everywhere

I still care about /rupture. Early mixes are still among my favorites.

GTT is so burned into my brain now that it is sorta dull when i go back.

i'll always love about half the uproot album (and the whole thing is compelling).

Would like to read the books his Mudd Up book club is reading

http://www.negrophonic.com/?s=mudd+up+book+clubb

i still care but he's working on a book more than music these days.

http://www.jaceclayton.com/gallery/enkutatash/ Ethiopian New Year's and 9/11 event

Enkutatash is a large-scale public choral work by Jace Clayton commissioned by the 5x5 Festival. It will premier in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2014. The score for Enkutatash is based on the Homeland Security Advisory System, the U.S. government's 5 level color-coded terrorism threat alerts which ran from 2002 to 2011. Enkutatash treats the changing threat-level data as a musical score, which will be sung by local choir groups and the audience, using the five-note (pentatonic) musical scale of D.C.'s Ethiopian community. Each note corresponds to a threat level color, and each day is a second – allowing us to sing the nine years of Threat Level Advisories in 45 minutes. Accompanying the sustained choral tones, an Ethiopian vocalist and masinqo (one-string African violin) player will perform a composition by Clayton based on a traditional East African harvest song. During the performance, the score will be indicated by light bulbs and colored flags. This simple visual system lets non-musicians participate, and will remain installed for duration of the festival. The slowly-changing US Threat colors constituted a song of fear, war, and suspicion. Enkutatash seeks to transform that it into its opposite: a song of planting, harvest, sustenance and seasonal time. Ethiopia has a unique calendar system whose New Year occurs on September 11th. This holiday is called ‘Enkutatash’, and is a celebration of family, neighbors, and yearly cycles. Clayton’s Enkutatash takes its name and premier date from this as an alternative to the geopolitically fraught connotations of 9/11 -- transforming a political warning into communal music.

There's gonna be a NY sneak preview too

I think tomorrow the 5th bit I am not seeing the details anywhere

https://soundcloud.com/djrupture/enkutatash-preview-excerpt-free-performance-in-dc-thurs-sept-11

Might get rained out

No rain. A mix of minimal avante-classical choral vocals with Ethiopian instrumentation and vocals...Kinda interesting though dull at times

Just pointing out the 2015 Mutamassik (Giulia Loli) release, Symbols Follow is out and its the best thing I've heard of its kin in some while.

Most if not all, in disjointed order, in this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWlVGWCwsc&list=UUGCKxBp-vrR_wiLlkXV8IFg

He's got a book, and is talking about it in NYC tonight with J Shep. I'm curious about it, but haven't read it.

Jace Clayton With Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Travels in Twenty-First-Century Music and Digital Culture is the debut book by Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture. The book takes readers around the world to investigate how a broad spectrum of cultures have responded to and incorporated new technologies into their musical forms.

7 pm at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York