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[DJ Rupture in Knoxville Tennessee, presumably photographed by Cooper Neill]

Wanna hear what some of the jams from New York Tropical sound like in an active setting?

Here’s a radio rip of quick mix I did for the BBC which aired on Tom Ravenscroft’s show a few weeks back.  20 minutes of Rut-pure. The weird bit in the middle (when the beat vanishes and we’re left with Moroccan violin + a bruised synthesizer) is an outtake from my upcoming Nettle album, El Resplandor: The Shining In Dubai… more on THAT in a bit. But first, THIS:

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DJ RUPTURE BBC 6 MIX TRACKLIST
Kelly Rowland — Like This (/rupture’s 33/45 mix)
Gucci Mane — She Geeked
Timeblind — Ontological Ground of Being (SOOT)
Gil Scott-Heron — New York Is Killing Me
King Abid — Yezz mel Viss
DJ Orion — The Undertow (DUTTY ARTZ)
Toy Selectah — Compay
? – Push: instrumental
Nettle — Assaiya Violin Shining (SOOT)
Rita Indiana — Los Poderes – Kingdom remix (DUTTY ARTZ)
Los Vlamers — Cumbia del Monte: Marquillos rebajada
DJ Rupture, Matt Shadetek, and Chief Boima — Elegy for Mr Peach: Rupture mix (DUTTY ARTZ)

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I have to say, at the Monterrey tribal guarachero rave I wrote about for The Fader, it was incredible to watch the DJs go from 128bpm tribal, then slam into a cumbia rebajada (crowd cheers!) then move onto crunk-en-espanol, then Cypress Hill en espanol, then back to tribal, all in the space of 10 minutes. It was the only rap moment of the night — mediated by syrup-cumbia… and the dancing never stopped! Outside the party, one kid walked around with a SWISHAHOUSE tee on.

HOUSTONE TEXAS BITCHES.!

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    • Here’s what ppl dont understand. We were raise in Texas, so screw music is what we know. But our parents raised us with traditional music like cumbias, etc. This is our music, a mix of what we know and what we grew up hearing.

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    My latest essay, on the slowed-down tempos of screw + its influence on contemporary bands, has been published in this month’s Frieze and is available online. It begins with DJ Screw and ends with interview observations from Romanian programmer Paul Nasca, responsible for the Bieber stretch algorithm.

    Ten years ago this month, one of the great, lazy American geniuses died, at the age of 29, from drinking too much cough syrup. His name was Robert Earl Davis Jr., and I believe he stole the technique that made him famous from the Mexicans. . .

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    Ok. I’m in a flood-the-market mode right now.

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    Fader just upped my Luísa Maita “Lero Lero” remix. You can grab it here.

    “The song stays sweet, he just kicks it along, quadrupling the drums, sneaking in garage bass wobble. You think it’s one thing then it reverbs out, guitars aren’t guitars anymore, chimes rain in and you burned the broccoli. We suck at cooking, she’s good at singing, he’s good at beats.”

    Luísa performs tonight at SOB’s in Manhattan. You can’t sleep on voices this gorgeous.

    & this Monday’s radio show is streamable:

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    Luisa Mata Lero Lero 0:00:00 (MP3 |

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    Chris Brown Deuces remix ft Drake Kanye TI Fabolous and (especially) Andre 3000 0:03:49 (MP3 |

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    Oneotrix Point Never Emil Cioran Rifts 0:09:37 (MP3 |

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    Natalie Storm & Redlight Bang Bang 0:12:37 (MP3 |

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    Sleigh Bells Tell ‘Em (Kingdom remix) 0:15:28 (MP3 |

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    Eskmo Trudge Willow Grail 0:19:06 (MP3 |

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    Uncle Murda & Jadakiss1 They Don’t Know Me 0:23:27 (MP3 |

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    Forest Swords Glory Gongs Dagger Paths 0:27:26 (MP3 |

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    Kanye West Monster ft. Rick Ross Jay-Z and especially Nicki Minaj Of Light 0:32:26 (MP3 |

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    Chants With You Onlooker Layered Music 0:38:44 (MP3 |

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    Kumbia Queers Te Quiero Un Chingo La Gran Estafa del Tropipunk 0:44:31 (MP3 |

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    Ceci Bastida & Julieta Venegas La Sofi Rita Indiana cover 0:47:19 (MP3 |

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    Forest Swords Miarches Dagger Paths 0:50:02 (MP3 |

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    Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan Part I The Wind

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    Radio tonight! WFMU 91.1fm 7-8pm EST. I don’t actually DJ during my WFMU slot. But sometimes I do on other people’s: check this 20minute mix I just dropped on Tom Ravenscroft’s BBC show.

    Then mark yr calendar-devices and alert yr social networks: next Monday, November 8th, I’ll be joined by guests Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Dapwell (“the funniest Das Racist”). Brilliant writer and editor Julianne will be discussing her taste in current DANCE MUSIC & divas via special selection of tunes. As for Dapwell – call him the skeptic. Gonna be good! The October show with Victor and Himanshu of Das Racist was real nice…

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    originally posted at Mudd Up!

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    Questlove + I will be DJing at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum’s 15th anniversary gala party this Saturday. Big times! Free zombie facepainting! Big tunes! Seriously, I’m a huge Warhol fan and ?uestlove is a living legend who also embraces weird punctuation in his name and Halloween means you can dress extra crazy, so let’s end with a choice Andy quote:

    I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

    …followed by a picture of me and a video of Joanne watching some guy watch Andy Warhol eat a hamburger (there are a lot of these ):

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    Last Monday’s radio show: Monday October 25th – Rumors. A few Gregory Isaacs tribute songs, neo retro Peruvian chicha alongside vintage reissue Peruvian chicha, some ethereal Glasser, British people remixing each other, 16-ton cumbias rebajadas, and more…

    Subscribe to the Mudd Up! podcast if you prefer downloadable versions, issued a week after FM broadcast: , Mudd Up! RSS. And don’t forget WFMU’s free iPhone app.

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    Gregory Isaacs – Rumors
    DJ Nate – Fade Da Black
    Wiley – It’s Wiley
    Gregory Isaacs – Gone A Jail (DJ C remix)
    Los Chapillacs – La Cumbia Delincuencial
    Chacalon y la Nueva Crema – A Trabajar
    Rita Indiana y Los Misterios – Da Pa Lo Do
    Mordant Music – Where Can You Scream?
    Jamie Woon – Night Air (Ramadanman refix)
    Los Vlamers – 16 Toneladas (rebajda)
    Glasser – Home
    Emsikta – autotune (Gulls edit)
    Lamin Fofana – What Elijah Said
    Glasser – Tremel
    Orquesta Santa Martha – Amores de Mayo (rebajada)

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    tHE sECOND aLbUm BY thE kUMBIA qUEERS, “La Gran Estafa del Tropipunk” (The Great Tropipunk Swindle) is fantastic! Following up on their covers LP, this is a record of primarily original material from “six girls who play tropical punk,” easily one of the albums of the year if you live within earshot of my world.

    I can’t find a purchase point at the moment, so I’ll hold off on further notes until I can link to magic you can buy. Suffice to say I’ve been waiting for this ever since producer-wizard Pablo Lescano of Damas Gratis played material from it over his SUV’s incredible soundsystem as we swerved around Buenos Aires (an optimal listening experience if there ever was one).

    Also note their correct spelling of ‘kumbia’.

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    So there’s this thing called the Internet but here at Dutty Artz we are mostly focused on bodies. Preferably sweaty ones. What moves them, what brings them together or forces them apart, trying to create spaces where we can melt our boundaries or learn useful ways of navigating each other and The World Around Us, which is part Mr + Mrs Internet but part walls and metal and dirt and apartments and streets and jet fuel and mostly plastic products which is why we’re doing a ZINE. To spread this talk into a physical format, the kind of thing you can leave behind or fold up and take with you, because everything circulates differently offline — call it distributional aesthetics — and nowadays it’s not knowledge so much as vectors of connection, context, and collapse, plus or minus corporate sponsorship and/or access to potable water. Like I tweeted: the future will be bad. but its music will be good. #CrisisManagement.

    The zine will be out in time for Kwanzaa/Christmas/Reyes/Hanukka and if you’d like to submit a piece of “content” for it, email it to zine@duttyartz.com. If your “content” is, like, physical, email us and we’ll send a passenger pigeon to pick it up.

    Guidelines? Nope. But there is a theme. And that theme is PIRACY. Or maybe it’s a method. There is a deadline for submissions: 4 weeks from now. End of November.

    I am kinda occupying the editor position and Taliesin is kinda occupying the graphic designer position & that’s about all for now. The Dutty Artz Zine will be available as a PDF for our disembodied massive but the physical thing will come with an audio CD containing some of the best music you’ve ever heard. But this is not about the music. It’s about killing trees & inking up the world. Xerox sponsors, holler.

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    So I’ve been thinking a lot about cellphones lately. Portland’s Gulls just did an edit version of one of the tracks from ‘Music From Saharan Cellphones’ which I’ll be playing on the radio show tonight. Along with a Rita Indiana exclusive, new Stuff From Europe, tribal guarachero, superdeep cumbia rebajada, and, as always, more.

    More is my favorite type of music, actually. Then comes 128kbps, one of my favorite musical genres. We are releasing a compilation called New York Tropical in a few weeks. Lots of new material by myself + Matt Shadetek, Lido Pimienta, DJ Orion, Kingdom remixing Rita Indiana, and more! You can download the entire album as ringtones (iPhone, etc) right now.

    moral of the story: tune in to Mudd Up! Wfmu.org 91.1fm nyc, 7-8pm TONITE.

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    Emsitka – autotune (Gulls edit)

    In ‘Music From Saharan Cellphones’ the original tune is labeled ‘Niger – Autotune’. Chris from Sahelsounds has found out a bit more: the band is called Emsitka. They are indeed from Niger but live in Nigeria.

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    wfmu

    Last night’s radio show: Monday October 18th – DAS RACIST All Tan Everything Special. Lots to hear in this one! Heems’ great selection of Desi-related tunes keeps our ears ringing between increasingly funny / muddy / smart talk (race war, equestrian accidents involving Lupe Fiasco, “internet 3.0, you can drink it”, their ongoing Hot97 takeover, the Sleng Teng Wikipedia page and spiritual advisers…) Excuse the few subtle gaps, they were literally filled with sh–, as I edited out Victor’s swears on the fly with the Red Emergency Button. You can now stream the show in its FCC-clean goodness:

    Subscribe to the Mudd Up! podcast if you prefer downloadable versions, issued a week after FM broadcast: , Mudd Up! RSS. And don’t forget WFMU’s free iPhone app.

     

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    Sajid Kahn Ha Ram
    Charanjit Singh Raga Megh Malhar
    Das Racist #realtalk
    Popo About A Boy
    Das Racist #realtalk
    Confusions Voice From The In
    Das Racist
    Jai Paul BTSTU
    Das Racist #realtalk
    Das Racist Commercial
    Das Racist #realtalk
    Das Racist Sit Down Man
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    Shiv Kumar Batalvi Maye Ni Maen
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    Aap Jaisa Koi Meri
    Das Racist
    Masta Ace Brooklyn Masaala
    Koushik Nothing’s The Same

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    It’s gonna be good: DAS RACIST has put together an amazing playlist of music from South Asia & diaspora for today’s special edition of MuddUp with DJ Rupture on WFMU 91.1fm. It starts with Queen! So tonight’s show is already next-level. Tune in live from 7-8pm EST, streaming worldwide via wfmu.org. (if this DR reminder is news to you, check this post).

    And I’m very pleased to announce that my next radio guest wil be the always-inspiring writer / editor / superhero JULIANNE ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD (with a 78% chance of Dapwell)! She’ll be joining us on Monday November 8th. Keywords: DANCE MUSIC.

    (I’m blogging this on a phone on BoltBus. Now I’m bus-sick. Dedication vs stupidity).

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    During the last few weeks, my friends and family have mistaken the work of Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui for both a broken air conditioner and a car dying outside my window. I can’t say that I blame them. Her recordings call to mind unoiled hinges, deflating balloons, asthma attacks. This Parisian alto-saxophonist, born 31 years ago to Lebanese émigré parents, plays like music does not exist. When she performs live, Sehnaoui clamps her eyes tightly shut – an expression that speaks to the intensity of focus she applies to her challenging and surprisingly diverse oeuvre. . . Sehnaoui comes from a school of improvised music obsessed with the sonic possibilities of things.

    My article on Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui for The National is now online. Ordinarily I harbor a strong dislike for the saxophone. But in Christine’s hands, it is pure weird gold. Continue reading.

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    GOOD NEWS Y’ALL! / BUENA NOTICIAS PA TO

    This is the moment in the game when Rita Indiana takes over. When she starts to win everything. Rising stars, the best celestial event, we sit back & enjoy.

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    Just months (!) after her debut release entered the world via yr favorite GIF-maker’s favorite DIY media hallucination/fuckup-garden, DUTTY ARTZ, Rita indiana has created a Modern Masterpiece, a genius-monster of an album called El Juidero. It launched this week on the same label that catapulted Aventura into bachata stardom.

    Rita’s one of those people who seem to effortlessly bend the laws of the possible… and do it in style — with content as well! The mind boggles. I tried to explain things over here… The former novelist’s way with words is incredible, so let’s just say we feel sorry for the gringo massive who can’t understand her lyrics because Rita is at the top of the lyrics game… for real. And the more you know about Dominican and related music(s), the deeper her songs & structures will reach. Context! plus Voodoo, baby! UNDARUNDEIRO 4 LIFE. (By the way, I was just talking with Ivory, he joined Rita & I to lay down some percussion on ‘Los Poderes’, and he was telling me about Garifuna musicians playing gigs up in the Bronx! Plus young, fast accordionists.)

    So. El Juidero. We love Club Fonograma’s 5-star review: “Add Rita Indiana Hernandez to the list of extraordinary individuals who carry transcendence in every step of their creative spectrum.” We love the review because it is one hundred percent accurate, a rare journalistic event!

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    [clearly, Dominican cake]

    The best part about running a DIY media hallucination/fuckup garden is watching great things happen to members of the Dutty Artz family as we explode into the world, determined to make it swing a little harder. We’re gonna make our cake and we’re gonna share our cake and we’re gonna eat that cake too, all at same time. (Cake metaphors = prepping you for our 12-part series on Dominican cake extragavance in NYC, they’re downright architectural).

    Here’s the title track from El Juidero:

    plus a deliciously funny song about ‘el maldito feisbu’ (think Zuckerberg) which she fed to the internet this winter: