Headin’ north this weekend… Toronto on Friday, Buffalo on Saturday.
The Toronto event forms part of the Music Gallery’s “Transforming The Network” series. We begin with a panel discussion on World Music 2.0 at 7pm. Details. A few hours after that the music kicks off.
Then on Saturday, I’ll be DJing a party in Buffalo with Brainfeeder artist Alex B @ Soundlab. I’ve never been to Buffalo! Come on through and say what’s up.
Pechiche = showing love + human exchange + comradery + laughter + sharing in a moment with friends + giving each other what you want with celebratory disregard + going hard at the party. It’s an energy my set has been reflecting lately and its very much a latin vibes ting. I’m happy to announce my first gigs in London this weekend longside Cal Jader/ DJ Arias/ and celebrating the release of Axel Krygier‘s album Pesebre with the man himself.
Ten years ago today, a man who redefined the grind passed away. You can read more about him and his influence in Jace’s article for Frieze magazine (mentioned here last week), as well as in a couple of other pieces that are mentioned in the comments section. I’m just gonna add the following love song for the occasion.
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Eightball & MJG – Reason for Rhyme (screwed by DJ Screw)
I’m on a bus right now heading to Boston! Monday night Beat Research party with residents/kind hosts wayne&wax and DJ Flack, guests John Barera and me! Yep, this is my Boston debut! Do come out and say hi!
Enormous Room
567 Mass Ave
Central Square
Cambridge
9pm-1am
FREE!
In some DUTTY BIZNESS, XLR8R unleashed a track by Matthew Shadetek + Lamina Fofana. Matt works fast! He has three tracks on our recently released New York Tropical compilation. The man is a production wizard.
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It’s Monday and Monday means Mudd.
On tonight’s radio show: brand new material from Paddy Johnson/Art Fag City’s battle DJ inspired LP (one side features sound from Manhattan art projects, the other, Brooklyn), BananaClipz exclusives, a few vintage Khaled jams, and – as always – more more more.
Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture – WFMU 91.1fm wfmu.org Monday nights 7–8pm EST
And last week’s show with Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Das Racists’ Dapwell is now streaming:
tracklist:
Kim Ann Foxman
Julianne Shepherd + Dapwell
Subtrkt
Julianne Shepherd + Dapwell
Ms Dynamite
Julianne Shepherd + Dapwell
Julianne Shepherd + Dapwell
Paleface & Kyla
Julianne Shepherd + Dapwell
[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)
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.!
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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After almost a year of work, New York Tropical is finally hitting digital shops today, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. 12 dope tracks, almost all unreleased, and styles from Funky to Cumbia with a little bit of ambient/Rupture in between for the subway ride home. If you didn’t already pick up the ringtone (.mp3 and iphone compatible) edit of the album- grab it– I highly recommend DJ Orion’s Undertow Inst for early morning wake ups. Expect a few tracks to start leaking out into the internet and a new mix from me next week.
Until then, grab a copy
itunes, boomkat, amazon, turntable lab, etc
1. Knight Magic – El Baile de la Cumbia
2. Rita Indiana – Los Poderes (Kingdom remix)
3. Matt Shadetek & Lamin Fofana – Sunshine City
4. La Ola Criminal – Sin Gas
5. Maga Bo – Analys D’Amour (instrumental)
6. DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek – Sunset B35
7. DJ Orion – The Undertow (instrumental)
8. KG – I’m Feeling Funky
9. Nguzunguzu – El Bebe Ambiente (new mix + master)
10. DJ /rupture, Matt Shadetek, & Chief Boima – Elegy for Mr Peach (Rupture mix)
11. Lido Pimienta – La Minga (Sonora remix)
12. Matt Shadetek – This Is Love
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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. . .
Chief Boima held down the dopest African night in San Francisco at Little Boabab. Now that he has relocated to NYC there’s talk of a new African music night in collaboration with Lamin Fofana…… until then, you’ll have to settle for rare guest appearances at parties like Old Money Massive’s Van Setima at Panda this Thursday in NYC.
You know that feeling, when you don’t hear much from your favorite artists for a while, but you know its not caus they fell off, but caus they’re cooking some next-level shit. That’s how it is for Boima right now- but just hold tight, CAUS THE INTERNET CAN WAIT for B. That’s how ahead our mans game is. Some people are “right on the zeitgeist,” but Boima is zeitgeist producing. Africa is the future, and you’d be stupid not to try and grab a glimpse on Thursday.
If you don’t know about Old Money this is a good place to start.
AFRICAN KIDS! by Old Money
Ok. I’m in a flood-the-market mode right now.
Fader just upped my LuÃsa Maita “Lero Lero†remix. You can grab it here.
LuÃsa performs tonight at SOB’s in Manhattan. You can’t sleep on voices this gorgeous.
& this Monday’s radio show is streamable:
tracklist
Luisa Mata Lero Lero 0:00:00 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Chris Brown Deuces remix ft Drake Kanye TI Fabolous and (especially) Andre 3000 0:03:49 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Oneotrix Point Never Emil Cioran Rifts 0:09:37 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Natalie Storm & Redlight Bang Bang 0:12:37 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Sleigh Bells Tell ‘Em (Kingdom remix) 0:15:28 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Eskmo Trudge Willow Grail 0:19:06 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Uncle Murda & Jadakiss1 They Don’t Know Me 0:23:27 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Forest Swords Glory Gongs Dagger Paths 0:27:26 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Kanye West Monster ft. Rick Ross Jay-Z and especially Nicki Minaj Of Light 0:32:26 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Chants With You Onlooker Layered Music 0:38:44 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Kumbia Queers Te Quiero Un Chingo La Gran Estafa del Tropipunk 0:44:31 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Ceci Bastida & Julieta Venegas La Sofi Rita Indiana cover 0:47:19 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Forest Swords Miarches Dagger Paths 0:50:02 (MP3 |
Pop‑up )Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan Part I The Wind
…or better than that, a JPG of chickens in hats.
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http://chaos985.com/minecraftmap/ h/t ADRIAN (btw guest post from Liturgy’s drummer Greg Fox on minecraft coming soon)
I played a sprawling illegal party last night in São Paulo called Voodoo HOP. The promoter warned me that middle class people in SP just dont listen to hip-hop and that I would have to avoid it for the night (I havn’t heard rap anywhere here except at a brothel where the bartender/dj was playing a bunch of DJ Quick along with Funk and international club hits). Maybe disco and (american) funk he suggested, like it was just some fallback that all djs have up their sleeve. So I spent last week torrenting in directions I haven’t normally fucked with- finally grabbed the rest of the nightslugs catalog, a bunch of funky, some older house, and a lot of gorgeous dark post-dubstep(BUT DONT TELL KODE09) FACT approved late night jams.
Safe to say I wrecked my first ableton performance- then I got bored and played the Beamer Benz or Bentley Inst running half time with different juke over it until all the hands in the air people stopped whistling, then we had a private listening party for the new nettle. Walking home through downtown SP at 7:30 AM is apocalyptic. Zombies from the night still following you with empty eyes while secretaries try not to notice how much blood the man slouched over in the doorway next to their building has dried across his face and chest.
Now that I have a grip of New/Old mp3s from Anthony Rother to Aslope I’m going to post some of my favorite jawns- most of which have been out for months or years or decades.
This first one from VRONSKY couldn’t be fresher though-Â flipping new GirlUnit with UGK.
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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…
Games, “Strawberry Skies” from That We Can Play (Hippos In Tanks) 2010
I never got around to posting “Everything Is Working,” the first track I heard from Games earlier this year/in late-Spring if I can clearly recall. If you were at a party where I played/”DJ” or listened to Rupture’s Mudd Up radio show on WFMU over the Summer – specifically episodes I guest-hosted/filled-in for Jace, you probably heard that track and me going on about how effortless, charming, and amazing it sounds. Needless to say, I was looking forward to hearing more. During the wait for their mini-album That We Can Play, which is out now on Hippos In Tanks, Games (Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never and Joel Ford of Tiger City – two producers currently based in Brooklyn – one of whom we’ve been listening to all year!) released a series of fantastic screwed-retro mixes/mix tapes, steeped in 80s synth-pop-mystic and nostalgia (taking forgotten, obscure songs from the 80s, slowing them down, and in that process transforming them into murky, cinematic, dreamscapes). You can grab those mix tapes over at their Tumblr WAY SLOWER. Some of the characteristics (dreamy, woozy, etc.) are found on those mix tapes bleed into the five tracks on That We Can Play, especially on the opening track “Strawberry Skies,” with excellent vocal contribution from Laurel Halo, whose “Something I Never Had” we’ve played out/and on Mudd Up too, .
