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DJ /Rupture Chart

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DJ /Rupture AKA Jace Clayton plays out worldwide, and has rightly earned huge respect for blazing sets which have a rare experimental quality. Here's his current selection for Mondomix.


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DJ /Rupture Chart


Is Jace Clayton really just one guy based in Brooklyn? This writer/musician/blogger/producer/DJ is behind so many projects in so many musical zones tracking his output makes your head start to spin like the three turntables he fires up as DJ /Rupture. He plays out worldwide, and has rightly earned huge respect for blazing sets which have a rare experimental quality, both musically and technically. He also loves Nass El Ghiwane and auto-tuned cumbia… His ‘strike against geography’ puts every sound on the dancefloor – not brokering a disconnect to the musical source, just a perfect storm to mash up the party. Going deeper and broader is what he also does with his label Soot - dedicated to international urban music, releasing albums by young artists like Brazilian producer Maga Bo and digital cumbia pioneer El Hijo De La Cumbia. Writing pieces for The Fader, Washington Post, Frieze and others, Jace Clayton is a thoughtful, super-lucid voice on music and culture. If the online world offers up remixed bootlegs of global beats we consume as random gems, it also gives routes in to international street culture and local pop scenes. With manifold ways to listen and connect we need new trailblazers and DJ /Rupture is surely one of the best out there. Here’s his current selection for Mondomix.

DJ /Rupture’s new album Uproot is out now [www.theagriculture.com].

Jace Clayton blogs on music, literature, maplessness at Mudd Up!


DJ Rupture – interview by Maga Bo in NYC

 


This clip for Musquito (Clubfoot mix) by DJ /Rupture was made by the kids at La Cambalacha’s animation workshop in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

 

   1. El Hijo de la Cumbia – Freestyle de Ritmos (Soot)
Instrumental cumbia from an Argentinian kid who spent years producing for the big Mexican sonidera scene. El Hijo decided to go solo and pull in his hiphop & reggae influences, and the result is hands-down the best 'nueva cumbia'/'cumbia digital' album. Deep melodies and beats that work wonders on the dancefloor. I've been playing HDC tunes in my DJ set for a year now, they always get folks bouncing.
www.myspace.com/elhijodelacumbia

 

   2. Ghislain Poirier – Soca Sound System EP (Ninja Tune)
Ghislain has been into soca for a while now, but this EP brings in uptempo dancefloor euphoria with his massive roughneck sound. It's also really great to see Mr Slaughter on here - these tunes will reach Trinidad and Brooklyn carnival for sure. The jam I'll be dropping most is the Face-T soundboy crusher tune. Who's afraid of 160bpm+?
www.myspace.com/ghislainpoirier


Get Crazy - Ghislain Poirier feat. Mr Slaughter

 

   3. Variete Amazigh/Various Artists (Fassiphone)
An amazing compilation of auto-tuned Amazigh pop music from Morocco! Lots of slippery violins, crispy bendir rhythms, and digitally-enhanced vocals.
www.fassiphone.com

 

   4. Petrona Martinez – La Vida Vale La Pena [Uproot Andy remix]
Brooklyn's own Uproot Andy did a deadly bootleg remix of this incredible anthem from Afro-Colombian roots singer Petrona. She's in the same vein as Toto La Momposina. Andy adds thumping oom-pah bass and joyous synths to push this over the top. When I Djed this in Bolivia, people recognized the melody as belonging to a local folk tune (a happy accident). Everybody cheered.
Check the remix here : www.myspace.com/andygillis


Petrona Martinez gives us the original flavour of La Vida Vale La Pena

 

   5. Omega Y Su Mambo Violento
From the Domincan Republic, Omega specializes in merengue de la kalle / mambo – his low-slung voice sounds like an ominous Tego Calderon. Speedy, urban music that kids from the D.R. listen to to annoy their parents.


Omega Y Su Mambo Violento - Paleta

 

   6. Spoek Mathambo
A musician/MC from Johannesburg, Spoek has 2 great duo projects - Sweat X and Playdoe – but lately I've been jamming to his free mixes of South African house. Often with a wild emo/melancholy slant. He says: “dark township tech house sothocore new wave zulu funky.”
www.myspace.com/spoek


Spoek Mathambo does ‘Pop Like This’ as Playdoe

 

   7. Speed Caravan – Kalashnik Love.
Imagine the space opened up by Rachid Taha's rai-rock fusions. Mehdi Haddad's latest project operates in that space, taking this a few notches further with electric oud, a backing band, electronics, and a high-velocity live show. An Algerian rock mentality working out of Paris' melting pot.


Speed Caravan live in Sevilla at WOMEX 2008 

 

   8. Master Musicians of Jajouka – Live Volume 1 (Destroy All Concepts)
A brand new album from The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar that was recorded at a Paul Bowles tribute concert . It's an impressive live document. Attar's band is at the height of their powers. "Allah Allah Habibi Galouja" - nearly twenty minutes long - lets the music develop at its own pace. This is violin-driven jabalia at its finest. Another standout moment is the delicate flute introduction to "Double Medahey", where a sustained drone (made possible by circular breathing) on one flute forms the base for a fluttery solo performed on another. Time stretches out; the listener edges towards Sufi space.
www.myspace.com/jajoukamasters


Master Musicians of Jajouka live at Aid El Kabir Festival, Morocco

 

   9. Toumani Diabaté – The Mande Variations (World Circuit)
I caught a rare Toumani solo kora concert a few months ago and was floored. Truly incredible. He played two songs from this album, but the versions were utterly different.
www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate


Toumani Diabaté playing Cantelowes from The Mande Variations



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