Instructor Spotlight : DJ Rupture "Uproot" NY Times Review

NY TIMES November 23, 2008 DJ/Rupture - "Uproot"

With his sporadic albums like the new “Uproot” (The Agriculture), his weekly radio show and podcast (“Mudd Up!” on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on WFMU, wfmu.org) and his blog (negrophonic.com), not to mention his record label (Soot), collaborations and disc-jockey gigs, Jace Clayton, a k a DJ/Rupture, is a thoughtful pipeline for music from countless distant and obscure outposts. “Uproot” is a mix CD made not for dance-floor propulsion but for private absorption: music as an endless abyss and a bottomless (but bass loving) well. The tracks are midtempo or slower, with the steadfast and lugubrious pace of the dubstep, derived from Jamaican dub reggae. The 23 interwoven tracks are sourced from Brooklyn, England, Barcelona, Finland and points beyond, with passages of strings, flutes and voices — both Western and Eastern — amid the electronic throb and ooze. DJ/Rupture knowledgeably traverses a world of ominous meditations, complete with anxiety about his entitlement as a curator. Early in the album a reggae song by Clouds issues a warning: “You’re too young to play that sound.”

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