DJ / Rupture - UPROOT

"Cosmopolitan Bass"

Legendary DJ pioneer DJ Rupture aka Jayce Clayton returned after 7 years in Spain back to the States, to release his new album "UPROOT" on The Agriculture. Well-known for his turntabelism skills and his profound knowledge of hip hop, ragga, eclectic fusion and global sounds, he now defines the word rupture in a new way.

"Uproot" goes straight into the dubstep direction, defining itself by dark basslines, harmonic piano interludes, string sections, breaking beats and a very unique way to bring artists from different musical backgrounds together. It's not one of the usual soft, ever same sounding mixtapes. "Uproot " needs some special attention, to reveal it's own logic to you and Claytons way of bringing things together. "Uproot" is a two-piece release with the original tracks on one CD and the DJ mixes on the other one. That's special. Furthermore, the "Ingredients" are free to download, so that you get to see what happened with them after they went through the hands of a sound architect. All in all t"Uproot" is made of several unreleased tracks by artists such as Filastine from Ruptures Soot label, Ghislain Poirier, Maga Bo from Brazil, Prof. Shehab, 77 Klash and Team Shadetek from Brooklyn and Breakcore-Freak Istafari Lasterfahrer from Hamburg. However, as DJ Rupture states himself, "Uproot" is an album to "sink in", obviously not to dance the night away, as his live actions or his first mix "Gold Tieth Theef" were before.

And that's the point. I just remember this crazy party in Barcelona's La Makabra (which has been torn down by now), where people were piling all the way down to the place to get in. I've never seen La Makabra so crowded, and therefore expected "Uproot "to be more partying. But things change, La Makabra doesnt exist anymore, the party was like three years ago and we are in the era of dubstep. So Uproot is not comparible to DJ Rupture turntablism and live actions, it's a kind of it's own. But as interesting as well. May it be the Spanish squat scene or dubstep or the global sound investigations that lead Jayce Clayton to "Uproot", it's certainly very remarkable and not to be mixed upt with any other release of any other DJ.

DJ Rupture
Uproot

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