DJ Rupture - Gold Teeth Thief - 2001 - Part 2

Biography of DJ Rupture

DJ /rupture founded Soot Records in 1999 as a strike against geography: diasporic breakbeats meet digital-audio sound research.

His past releases have included Minesweeper Suite and Gold Teeth Thief – his debut album as producer is out now on TigerBeat6 records: Special Gunpowder. DD is a painter and multimedia artist from Madrid.

Looking at Jace Clayton’s credits, you start to understand why that slash is in his stage name. On a given day, DJ /rupture might be DJ/producer, DJ/label-owner, DJ/writer. Seems like “multi-talented” is a term people throw around nowadays to describe anyone who just does a lot of shit, regardless of skill level -- Rupture redefines the phrase by doing it all well.

Appropriate, as redefinitions are his stock in trade. Since early days with drum’n’bass collective Toneburst, Rupture’s had a knack for gap-bridging, seamlessly blending seemingly disparate genres without any of the “Hey, you got your jelly in my peanut butter!” flash of his peers. His now-signature style of alchemy first came to the world’s attention in 2001 with the mind-bending, copyright infringing Gold Teeth Thief mix. (The mix is downloadable in full, free of charge, at Negrophonic.) In 2003, Tigerbeat6 released his Minesweeper Suite, and the name DJ /rupture was in the mouths of hip-hop kids and academics alike. Some hailed it as “the ultimate post-modern music project.” Some as “a political thesis.” UK music mag The WIRE even called it one of the 10 best records of 2003.

In 2004, Rupture graduated with his first artist album. Special Gunpowder found him behind the decks, producing for (and with) exciting artists from across a wide spectrum of styles. Of course, releasing an album with ragga MC’s, sub-bass beats and an Appalachian banjo-folk track did nothing to quash his reputation as the new underground torch-bearer of “world music,” but then, torch-bearing’s never really been the goal.

Complicated but unpretentious, sometimes brutal but always beautiful, Rupture’s muddy footprints bear evidence of travels through a thousand styles. Always travels, though.

Influences:
The Hanatarashi, Nass El Ghiwane, Edgard Varèse, Mannie Fresh, Zora Neale Hurston, cities that are tangles

Labels:
Tigerbeat6 / Soot / Soul Jazz

http://www.sootrecords.com/