Live: DJ/Rupture, Maluca, Matt Shadetek & Jahdan Blakkamoore, Sonido Martines at One Step Beyond

Though lacking a cameo from Jason Voorhees, every DJ killed it (wokka wokka) at our One Step Beyond series this past Friday the 13th. FADER friends DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines took turns hijacking the makeshift dance floor at the planetarium. Whether you were way up front or sneaking into the Mammals of North America exhibit, Sonido Martines’ twisted cumbia was inescapable and Maluca’s insane party starting helped more than a few audience members get real loose. By the time Shadetek and Blakkamoore took the stage, half the audience were trading dance moves under space lights. The other half wandered the museum’s halls, indulging their grade school selves by finding out who weighed 69 pounds on Mars as DJ/Rupture closed out the night.

-Text and photo by TJ Kosinski

Video: DJ/rupture & Matt Shadetek, “Solar Life Raft Medley”

Sara Taigher directs and animates drawings by Maria Chiara Di Georgio for this video medley of songs from DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek’s mix CD Solar Life Raft, out now on theAgriculture and buyable on iTunes and Amazon. For more in-depth detail on the album’s making, check our recent interview with DJ/rupture aka Jace Clayton.

Contest: Win Tickets to This Friday’s Edition of One Step Beyond

You already know the lineup (if not, it’s on the flyer up above) and you’ve hopefully already purchased your ticket (if not, there’s still a few left here), but now is the time to throw caution to the wind and try to win your way in. Hit us in the comments and let us know why you want to go and will pick a few lucky winners. As usual, remember to use an actual email address so we can find you to let you know if you won.

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Interview: DJ /Rupture

As is the best policy, we like to let DJ /Rupture speak for himself. Under his regular name, Jace Clayton, Rupture has been a consistently fantastic writer for our magazine and many other publications, skillfully espousing on an endless spectrum of music. As a DJ, he practices similar unified diversity, as is the case for his new mix, a joint project with Matt Shadetek called Solar Life Raft, out today. We asked him about the album and how it reflects the current state of music, be it physical or spiritual. Because the internet fooled us, we also asked him about a person we thought was real but who is probably fake. Check out the smart shit he has to say after the jump.

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NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines

Not sure about anyone else, but we’re going to be spending this Friday the 13th (the rarest of days) at the Museum of Natural History for the next installment of One Step Beyond. This time featuring FADER mega favorites DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines. Insert appropriate joke about dancing near the moon here, and then go buy your tickets before they sell out right here.

DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek, “Track 20 From Solar Life Raft” MP3

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)

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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”

NYC: Ghetto Palms at Santos Party House

You read it on our site and probably have an entire playlist in your iTunes dedicated to Ghetto Palms mixes, and now the column/mix series is coming to life this Thursday, September 17 at Santos Party House. Ghetto Palms columnist and regular (like every issue regular) FADER contributor Eddie “Stats” Houghton will be joined by DJ Rekha, Uproot Andy, Geko Jones and a live set from Jahdan Blakkamoore and Matt Shadetek for a night of jams. It’s only 10 bucks, but if the recession has you down, skip dinner and read through all the Ghetto Palms archives here.

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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Freeload: 77Klash f. Matt Shadetek, “Pressure”

We’ve been following the individual trails of Brooklyn’s own power-chatter 77Klash and beatmaker extraordinaire Matt Shadetek for a real hot minute, as musical innovators of the biggest borough and as style inspirers (shout to Klash’s reversible multicolor vest and purple button-down he wore during his special live performance on FADER Radio in Austin. Individually, we sweat them, but together, they make a transcendent kind of bass-laden magic (see: ““Brooklyn Anthem“). This new Klash track with the evil grimey deez by Shadetek is the Jamaican-influenced equivalent of two fuzzy eyebrows slanted downward in a mean face, or maybe just the sound of your huge crew rolling up to the park in like, five trucks. We will roll with you, dudes!



Download: 77Klash f. Matt Shadetek, “Pressure” (via Mad Decent)

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