Stream: Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (DJ/Rupture Remix)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Guy Martin (F49)
Last week Yeasayer officially released sophomore album single “Ambling Alp,” and today DJ/Rupture’s version popped up on the internet in what feels like record turnaround time. The remix makes sense too: live, Yeasayer have always approached a more intense club thump, and Rupture furthers that idea, pushing “Ambling Alp” from spacey inspiration into deep bass tones and manipulated vocals. Both versions are great, it just depends if you want to feel happy about the world or like you’ve been swimming in thick mud for a couple hours. Stream it over at Stereogum.
DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek, “Track 20 From Solar Life Raft” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
- photo Jason Nocito (F63)
That’s not the official title. That would be “Matty G, ‘Layin in Bed,’ DJ/Rupture f. Elizabeth Alexander, ‘Overture: Watermelon City (Acappella), Lloop, ‘Autumn Rain.’” Because a song’s no good unless it has every form of punctuation worked in there. Elizabeth Alexander, now most well-known for reading a poem that a lot of people did not like at President Obama’s inauguration, is the base of this track, from Rupture and Matt Shadetek’s upcoming mix, Solar Life Raft, calmly reading her poem “Overture: Watermelon City” about making decent lives in Philadelphia. Shadetek and Rupture rework Rupture’s original production from his collaboration with Alexander, give it some electronic pep that is not un-DJ Shadow-ish. The entire mix, in fact, is often reminiscent of Shadow’s darker moments. Except for the moments filled with various global drums, the international presentations of dance music Rupture and Shadetek’s Dutty Artz collective has been so wildly entranced with. They have a fair match, then, in Gang Gang Dance, whose “Bebey” they also remix for the album—a bunch of New York artists who are suckers for Middle Eastern percussion.
Download: DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek, Track 20 from Solar Life Raft
Download: Gang Gand Dance, “Bebey” (DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek Remix)
La Yegros, “Trocitos” MP3
We’ve been waiting for the La Yegros since we saw her destroy NY Tropical a few months back… and at last, the Trocitos De Madera EP landed in our inbox. Her voice is amazing: somehow she conveys a raw urgency while sounding completely relaxed and conversational. Maybe it’s world-weariness? The lyrics are about a girl who cries out “little pieces of wood” in the jungle, so that could do it. “Trocitos”’s cumbia swang was produced by King Coya, who also co-composed the amazing-looking waterworld dance performance Fuerza Bruta, so obviously this is on another fantastical level, but on the EP it also gets treatments by dj/rupture, Matt Shadetek, El Remolon (he of ZZK blood) and Marcelo Fabian. So anyway, when are we all moving to Buenos Aires?
Download: La Yegros, “Trocitos”
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posted on Sep 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags cumbia, dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, El Remolon, King Coya, La Yegros, Marcelo Fabian, Matt Shadetek
Taliesin, “Heavy Sick Mixtape” MP3
The Dutty Artz fellas rack up the global airline miles more than most DJs—seems like DJ/Rupture is always jetting off to Mexico to perform with the dude from the Ex or mixing records in far flung locales, while Matt Shadetek delves into the netherlands of his studio to finish up more Jahdan Blakkamore stuff for fall. And DA affiliate Taliesin just sent us a dispatch from Eastern Europe, where he’s on a DJ tour but still has the grindtime to crank out three rather banging mixtapes in as many weeks. “Heavy Sick,” the latest, was made especially for a new Budapest-based bass blog called Ghetto Bazaar and feels crazy exuberant for its illegal levels of low-end and spastically happy vocals on most tracks—a Dionysian party-zone of sub-levels, shout to your fave maenad Tracklist after the jump, and feel free to read Taliesin’s thoughts on the tape if you are fluent in Hungarian.
Download: Taliesin, “Heavy Sick” Mixtape
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posted on Jul 13, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags caribbean, dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, electronic/dance, Matt Shadetek, Taliesin
