Blog (2008-2018)
UNDERWATER HIGH RISE
The horns came from my days in Barcelona (Kurzweill K2000 in the house, I think), as did the vocal snippet – it was a group of French girls in front of the cathedral, singing, ambling. (I haven’t done any field recordings since my minidisc died.) This year Matt + I revisited those samples/sounds, built a new tune around it, and finished things off with a great live session over at DJ Kiva’s awesome studio setup out in Bburg – Kiva added guitar played through some wild filter, a bit of live percussion, the works.
This tune is on Solar Life Raft and Sara Taigher’s animation; here’s the unmixed original. Look for it on 12″ soon.
CIAFRICA FAMILY VIDEO
dissonant, content-filled rumbles from Abidjan. we need a good passport lawyer to help CIAFRICA conquer Europe.
DUPPY ARTZ TELEPATHE REMIX
Telepathe‘s Dance Mother album has been one of the year’s standouts for me; the instant I heard it I knew I wanted to incorporate some of the material in our Solar Life Raft‘s emergency toolkit. (Never face the end of the world without nice synths – solar-powered when possible – and singing).
Matt Shadetek and I did two totally different remixes of “In Your Line”. This version, where we excavated a drafty house with bass foundations and disappeared the original guitars & drums, won out.
XLR8R has it on exclusive. Duppy artz!
[audio:http://negrophonic.com/mp3/Telepathe_InYourLine(DJ_rupture+MattShadetekRMX).mp3]Telepathe – In Your Line (DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek remix) from Solar Life Raft: The Ingredients
MEXICO: MICTLAN DUB FESTIVAL
[Salon Calavera]
This weekend I’ll be performing at the 3-city Mictlan Dub Festival, alongside Adrian Sherwood, Mungo’s Hi-Fi, and various local DJs and bands in each city. Things kicked off last night with a screening of the Dub Echoes documentary followed by a Q&A with me in the incredible Salon Calavera in the center of Mexico City. SKULL SALON. Mictlan, by the way, is an Aztec concept involving the proper path taken on the way to Death.
I’m looking forward to these dates. In NYC sometimes people ask me to do ‘cumbia’ sets, so it’s quite fitting that in Mexico I’m asked to do a special set presenting my interpretation of ‘dub’. I’ll be playing out a lot of stuff I rarely play out. Dub classicists beware!: much as I love Tubby & Co., I’m hostile to canonical interpretations/reiterations of dub…
[Salon Calavera, roof view]
for info–
Nov 27 – Puebla Cholula
Nov 28 – Mexico City
Nov 29 – Guadalajara
RETINAL RASP
THE COLOR YOU WERE
There have been more than 500,000 online mentions of postraciality this year, as opposed to absolutely zero in 1982. Some say that’s because the Internet didn’t really exist back then. I prefer to think it’s because we’ve come a long way as a country.
Colson Whitehead on The Year of Living Postracially
MAGA BO LEFT BRASIL FOR EUROPE
catch him while you can – Maga Bo has several European dates coming up: WOMEX showcase tomorrow, rocking with Anti Pop Consortium in Geneva, with Filastine in Barcelona, and lots more:
Oct 23 2009 Nuremberg, Germany – Amplified Attitude at Desi
Oct 25 2009 Hamburg, Germany – MFOC at Golden Pudel Club
Oct 30 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark -Official WOMEX Showcase
Oct 31 2009 Copehagen, Denmark РBrazil Mix Showcase at Rust with Marcelinho da Lua and BNeg̣o
Nov 4 2009 G̦ttingen, Germany Рat Blue Note with Dysphemic and Dubmarine DJs
Nov 5 2009 Augsburg, Germany – Lab30 festival at Abraxas
Nov 6 2009 Zurich, Switzerland – Tam Tam from Rio de Janeiro at EXIL
Nov 13 2009 Geneva, Switzerland – Zoo/Usina with Anti-Pop Consortium
Nov 14 2009 Cologne, Germany – Tropical Electro Club at Gebaude 9 with DJs Costinha and Bam-Bou-Bus
Nov 17 2009 Barcelona, Spain – Brazelona Sessions at Sidecar
Nov 20 2009 Barcelona, Spain – at Culture Barcelona with Filastine and Ilia Mayer
Nov 21 2009 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Rebelup Sound Clash at OCCII with Process Rebel
COPENHAGEN TONITE
Finally finagled ambient wi-fi with Maga Bo here in a sunlit Copenhagen flat around the corner from Christiania… playing tonite. screenshot details below. link. also facebook. I’ll be checking out WOMEX activities for the next few days, if you’re around, twitter (@djrupture) probably the best way to get in touch.
KKINGDOMM
with Kingdom, we don’t say ‘is this mix really worth 35 megabytes of space?’, we just download and jam, no questions asked!
Kingdom – Discobelle mix: entertaining tracklist | zshare audio
Part of the excitement is that his mixes are littered with original exclusives and refixes and female vocal power, and Poppa Ezra is one of best club beatmakers around right now, so the moral of the story is: NYC STAND UP!
SONIDO MARTINES EXCLUSIVO
Head over to RCRDLBL to get an exclusive tune from the new cumbia / cumbia digital compilation, put together by the deepest digger we know, Sonido Martines!
Los Destellos – Elsa (Sonido Martines remix feat Fefe)
the jam in question is Sonido himself remixing legendary Peruvian chicha cumbia band, Los Destellos de Enrique Delgado, with remix assistance by Fefe, a Brazilian firecracker on the mic. In one example of how Sonido Martines works, he tracked down Los Destellos, explained to them what was going on in the slippery world of ‘new cumbia’, and with their blessings got permission to flip this remix. Now-thing realness with respect for the foundational musicans!
the comp esta muy wapo… Sonido Martines presents: Nueva Cumbia Argentina! fresh heat from nu-skoolers like El Hijo de la Cumbia, Fauna, and Chancha Via Circuito, and visionary early material from DJ Taz and Damas Gratis, and more! 12″ and digital out now: iTunes / Amazon / Boomkat, etc. K VIVA LA KUMBIA!!
DUTTY AFRIKA
rounding out the event-dense CMJ week here in Nueva York: Bajah & Dry Eye from Sierra Leone, Jahdan Blakkamoore and Matt Shadetek from planet Dutty, Zakee Kuduro, and more, this Saturday, Brooklyn…
also, I just read a book called Evolution’s Shore, about an alien ecosystem near Mt Kilimanjaro. Bad cover art, good book! I’ve read some quality sci-fi set in Africa, but no sci-fi written by Africans. Any recommendations?
& remember, Africans are real! 
TV MYSTERIES
Or, Rita Indiana is taking over Santo Domingo and the Dominican Republic. We’re wrapping up a bunch of tunes, but until then, here she is injecting voodoo-mambo-punk into the television itself…
interview style
playing ‘live’ with Los Misterios in a bizarre TV studio
and the accompanying interview
NEW YORKER FEST
This Saturday I will speak at the New Yorker Festival, as part of a panel on The Music Biz: Remixing the Industry. It ain’t cheap, but with folks like lifelong industry uber-insider Danny Goldberg, Downtown Records boss Josh Deutsch, and bassist Melvin Gibbs in the mix, discussion should be lively.
I mean, there are only a few more years where we can actually sit down and talk about ‘the music biz’ with ‘record executives’ and such, so let’s make the most of it. And/or help the sick patient die faster.
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Later this month I’ll be performing in Copenhagen, and so many things are happening in November that my subconscious mind won’t let me think about it yet.
RADIO RADIO
Today is Eid, Ramadan just ended. Monday’s radio show – WFMU, 91.1 fm 7-8pm – will feature some celebratory music from Muslim areas of Africa and beyond, as well as the usual helpings of new heat & decentertainment. Kayne probably would interrupt Jesus, but that’s another story.
In addition to the Ramadan-y special, we’ll unleash some previews from Anti-Pop Consortium‘s upcoming album, Flourescent Black, (their best yet, for real), and I’m pleased to announce that NYC’s legendary rap innovators will be joining Lamin & I live on-air next Monday, September 28! We’re gonna rap about rap, music, afrofuturizm, and much more, alongside an all A.P.C. selection of exclusives and influences. Should be big!
