***Born near Boston, based in Madrid, DJ /Rupture captured the world's imagination with Gold Teeth Thief, a "stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix" that embodies "the spirit of the best bootleg mixes - bumping, brash, and without borders," according to Vibe's four-star review in their April 2002 issue. With similar hyperbolic raves in The Wire, Urb, and German magazine De:Bug (which named /Rupture "best DJ in the world"), it is close to impossible to ignore the powerfully syncretic musical imagination at work here, nurtured on the one hand by New York's legendary illbient scene and by notions of the African diaspora on the other. Minesweeper Suite is DJ /Rupture's first full-length statement and response to the world since it swallowed the delicious Gold Teeth Thief mix with a thump and a booty-shake, and uses the forum to tear some of hip hop's most familiar battle breaks into arguments that reconstruct "the missing links between Dead Prez and Middle Eastern dub selector Muslimgauze," to quote Vibe again. Mahmoud Fadi, Aphasic, Disc, Cul De Sac, Rotator, Cex, Gregory Whitehead, Bubba Sparxxx, Kid6Ø6, J-Boogie, DAT Politics, Borbetomagus, Alliyah, DJ Scud, So Takahashi and Donna Summer all find a home in DJ /Rupture's realm, where squalls of noise and dub concrète are the sand in his mixer, scouring away the listener's previous associations with music they thought they knew, forcing them to confront cultural differences in a manner that neither essentializes nor orientalizes, but honors them within a deeply rooted, humanistic vision. Minesweeper Suite extends DJ /Rupture's mission of dissolving the boundaries between artistic genres and scenes; the result is a post-colonial, post-apocalyptic work that the world needs now more than ever.
* The follow-up to one of 2001's most acclaimed releases by an artist with consistent support from labels like Tigerbeat6, Kool-Pop, Peaceoff, Brooklyn Beats, BSI Recordings, and Toneburst Collective
* Summer and fall tour dates in the USA and Europe, including an appearance at 2002 SONAR Festival
Tracklist
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#1 A01 Jibal Al Nuba, Gemini Dub
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#2 A02 High Resolution, Tectonic
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#3 A03 Rumbo Babylon, Limb By Limb, Latoya, Tables Will Turn
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#4 A04 Untitled From A1 "nubus", Ruff Enuff, Tables Will Turn
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#5 A05 So Takahasi, Akrobatic, Foxy Brown/baby Cham - Serranita, Froggy, Maffe Rhythm
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#7 A07 Bad Man Lighter, Drums Conductor, Angels
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#9 A09 Fallen Angels, Same Time, 3.37, I Remember Nothing More
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#10 B10 Ballad Of Jimmy Hollin, Dub Warning
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#11 B11 Untitled B2 From "docile #4", I Don't Invite
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#12 B12 Ziggurat, Plain Gold Ring
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#13 B13 Untitled B1 Form "nubus", Crossing Kingston Bridge
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#14 B14 Babomb, Police State, Tanzila, Sorath
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#15 B15 Apna Sangheet Sings Apna Sangsheet, Ruled By The Mob
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#16 B16 Up From The Underground
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#17 B17 Up From The Underground, Enemy
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#18 B18 Trash N' Ready, Discipline Of D.e.
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#19 B19 Show To Show, Untitled From "l'atlas Des Galaxies Etranges", Assosiation Libres, From Allright Reverse Vol. 2
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#20 B20 Rough & Rugged, Bloody Nora
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#21 B21 Masturbator, Killing Me Softly
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#22 B22 Are You That Somebody?, Brother Hunter, Other Voices 1, Dandy, Defragmentaion
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#24 B24 I Am Soundboy, We Started This, Big Work, Everlasting Life
