A 30-minute mix of “cumbia cumbia, not nueva cumbia” from January 2013. My man Talacha gets on the mic as sonidero. 

I used all cumbias purchased in Brooklyn , so it skews heavily towards cumbias poblanas, mexican cumbias, tunes made in the States. Shoutouts include: Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, New Jersey, Virginia, Baltimore, Las Carolinas, Ellay… kinda functions as a map of where Mexicans are strong in the US! There’s no tracklist but that’s OK because everyone is always shouting out their name anyhow...

This mix was originally available as a physical-only CD at a taco shop in the East Village, along with another 30minute mix by Sonido Martines:  http://www.negrophonic.com/2013/new-cumbia-mix-rupture-vs-sonido-martines/

MORE INFO

Enero 2013 Cumbia Mix (desde la ciudad de Nueva York!)

STAGE BOUNDARY SONGS: a mixtape inspired by The Act of Killing 

Initiated by DJ /rupture, Stage Boundary Songs is a musical response to Joshua Oppenheimer's award-winning Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing (2013). Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture) and Oppenheimer collaborated on a series of art-activism works in the 90s. Following that spirit, Clayton decided to produce Stage Boundary Songs, inviting Filastine and Indonesian vocalist Nova Ruth to curate the musical mix.

Nova digitized gems from the rare vinyl collection of the Museum Musik Malang. She selected psychedelic folk, rock, and soul made in the decade surrounding Indonesia’s 1965 coup. This is rounded out with Filastine's own productions and other contemporary strains of Indonesian music, along with samples of dialogue from the film, and field recordings.

Rupture worked with TAoK co-director Anonymous and researcher/translator Richard Curtis to choose a selection of poems by Wiji Thukul, incorporating them into the mix in Indonesian and English. Wiji Thukul, a dissident people’s poet, is an icon of the country’s leftist democracy movement. Only a handful of his writings have been translated. Several are heard here in English for the first time. Thukul was disappeared by President Suharto’s anti-Communist 'New Order' regime in 1998. "I'm not a news-making celebrity," begins one of Thukul's poems, "but am, to be sure, bad news for those in power."

The cover artwork is adapted from a woodcut by Thukul’s daughter Wani, herself a poet. It was confiscated by government security forces in 1996 during a raid on Thukul’s home. 

 tracklist:
The Act of Killing audio excerpt- TV Talkshow host: "Ladies and Gentlemen we meet again"
Pattie Bersaudara - Pergi Ke Bulan (intro)
Yanti Bersaudara- Djangger 
Wiji Thukul – Stage Boundary
Akito – Metamessage (Alternative mix)
Lilis Suryani- Genjer Genjer (aka Gendjer-Gendjer)
Filastine & Jessika Kenney- Fitnah
A. Rafiq- Pantun Berjudi
White Shoes and Couples Company- Tjangkurileung
Wiji Thukul – Alive and Well
Throwing Snow - Summus
Holly Herndon - Chorus
Euis Komariah & Yus Wiradiredia- Pengkolan
Yanti Bersaudara- Anggrek Merah
Sitompul Sisters- Solei Solei
Wiji Thukul – An Odd Puzzle
TCF – 0759c576bab5de79719bb6c332364dbf92c189de
Nettle - Nakhil
Rully Shabara & Wukir- Senyawa
Anto Baret - Ken Arok
Artmoschestra - Madurasa
Filastine- Jakarta train station field recording 
Djuhana Sattar- Pandangan Menggoda
Mang Koko- Sabilulungan
Gamelan Ubud- Queen Mother's Funeral Procession
The Act of Killingaudio excerpt- a paramilitary group leader accidentally speaks the truth "it's very important 
that youth can remember, that the future not forget this history"
Lilis Suryani- Ontoek PJM Presiden Soekarno
Wukir Suryadi- Kereta Tak Berhenti Lama
Madesya Group & Aan Darwati - Sapu Nyere Pegat Simpay
Filastine & Nova- Gendjer2
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang- Kidung
The Durutti Column - Opera
Wiji Thukul – Don't Forget My Love

Stage Boundary Songs - a mix by DJ Rupture, Filastine, & Nova Ruth

a summer mix by DJ /rupture

twitter @djrupture |  negrophonic.com


LOOPS IN THE 24-HR NEWS CYCLE

FROM January 2011

Once, a group of tourists were asked what came to mind when they heard the word “Harlem”: some said “music” and the others said “riots.” The connection between the two is a story for another time. This Harlem mixtape is born of our own free associations: For DJ Rupture, Francophone songs sold by scowling Africans along 116th, or old soul and R&B memories being hawked alongside the now-thing bootlegs across 125th; for Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, church sounds tumbling onto the streets and distorted strains of jazz heard from a boombox carted around by a wandering neighbor.

This mix is titled “Harlem Is Nowhere”, after Sharifa’s book which, in turn, borrows the phrase from a 1948 essay by Ralph Ellison. We decided not to limit ourselves to music made in Harlem; the book is in part concerned with the metaphorical power of the place, as well as what it means to live in a place that is a metaphor – “the Harlems of America,” as the old saw goes. Excerpts from Harlem Is Nowhere are interspersed throughout the mix, along with African rap, disembodied phone calls, and Gil Scott Heron’s time-damaged voice. (He made his debut with an album set at the black Mecca’s crossroads: “Small Talk at 125th and Lenox.”) Some of the songs are super-local: Timeblind’s “Rastabomba” is built around a back-to-nature rant broadcast on a Harlem pirate radio station; others go far afield, like the elegiac atmospheres from Richard Skelton of Lancashire, UK. Certain songs reference Harlem directly, with Jennie C. Jones’s sound collage, “You Make Me Feel Like 100 Billie Holiday Songs,” evoking the speakeasies and buffet flats of West 133rd Street’s “Jungle Alley,” where the singer got her start. NYC rappers Das Racist play the dozens like nobody’s business, and the panoramic storytelling of Seattle-based Shabazz Palaces conjured up one of the many vibes we’ve felt this neighborhood transmit over the years. We first arrived in Harlem through books and poetry and music; a Harlem of dreams. The street-level view came later. Listening to and walking through this city-within-a-city requires having one’s ears to the ground and eyes to its expansive sky. If Harlem is a “nowhere” in the sense of a utopia, we hope to slip – via the music – into that location.

DJ Rupture and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 

1. DJ Rupture, Matt Shadetek, and Chief Boima – Elegy for Mr Peach (Rupture mix)
2. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "It's a Long Story"
3. Shabazz Palaces – kill white t, parable of the nigga who barrels stay hot
4. Maga Bo – Saye Mbott feat. ALIF
5. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "Change Your State of Mind"
6. DJ Rupture, Matt Shadetek – Don't Give It All Up feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore and Aku (mudd mix)
7. DJ Rupture – Schomburg Approach / Congress Hiss
8. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "Searching for the Underground City"
9. Pursuit Grooves – Pressure
10. Superfront PSA – English version
11. Rev. Johnny L. Jones – I Got Drunk for the Lord / Train is Moving on
12. Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
13. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "The Magnitude of the Current Crisis"
14. Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor – School Burnt Down
15. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "Everything is Gonna Be Alright"
16. Jennie C. Jones – You Make Me Feel Like 100 Billie Holiday Songs
17. DJ Rupture, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Timeblind – "Rajah Rabo's 5-Star Mutuel Dream Book"
18. Timeblind – Slow Conv Stryder 2
19. Nettle – Ballad of Jimmy Hollin (Leafcutter John remix)
20. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "Why Are You Scared of Reparations?"
21. Lamin Fofana – What Elijah Said
22. Das Racist – Puerto Rican Cousins
23. Superfront PSA – Spanish version
24. Sekreto – Gota (El Hijo de la Cumbia remix)
25. Jahdan Blakkamoore - Dollar Van (skit)
26. Timeblind – Rastabomba
27. Richard Skelton – Threads Across the River
28. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "Even the Dead Will Not Be Safe"
29. DJ Rupture, Matt Shadetek, and Chief Boima – Elegy for Mr Peach (Rupture mix)
30. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts – "See You Next Year At the Parade"

Harlem Is Nowhere feat. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

found an unmixed radio show from 2 years back -- no voice-over, no DJing, just great music. Mudd Up!  

Tracklist for this episode: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/43452   &  for my full radio show archives: http://wfmu.org/playlists/dr



Mudd Up Radio Show (no voice) Jan. 11, 2012

punky mix I did for back in 2004 when GW Bush got re-elected. For broadcast on Resonance FM.   http://www.spannered.org/553/

Resonance FM Post Election Mix (2004)

Here's remix I did for Architecture in Helsinki, released on their 'Heart It Races' EP (2007). I brought on the vocal stylings of Mr Lee G for this one.

Architecture in Helsinki  Heart It Races (DJ Rupture's Ital Hymn Mix feat. Mr Lee G)

Composition by Jace Clayton. Performed live by the Bang On A Can All-Stars and Jace Clayton, on February 26 2015 at The Merkin Concert Hall in NYC.

Jace Clayton - Lethe's Children

Jace Clayton - Enkutatash (live excerpt)

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and pre-order here: uprootbook.com.

Dolce Production

Saadia Tihihit - Sawal Azzin Awal Ilhnnan

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com.   

Fatima Tihihit - Sawal Azzin Awal Ilhnnan

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com.   

Musician & song title unknown.  Image is a photo I took in Hamra, Beirut.

Mudd Up Unknown - lovely flute dabke

This mix forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com.

gold teeth thief

Gold Teeth Thief - part b

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com.

Sawt Nassim presente - vol 2

Adil el Miloudi - title unknown

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com/

Photo by Jace Clayton. Downtown Cairo.  Instagram.com/djrupture

مقضيها  حسين غندى دى جى فيجو 2012

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com/

DJ Rupture - Mirage- Quest, Brooklyn Anthem (acapella)- Team Shadetek

Hafida - Youchkad Zin

Los Kumbieros - La Cumbia Ilimitada - Sonido Kumbala compilation

KUMBALA - OYE MUJER - FIESTA PATRONAL SANTA CATARINA DE AYOMETLA TLAXCALA - NOV - 29 - 2106

Sonido Kumbala will perform at the book launch event on Monday August 15, at Rough Trade in Williamsburg NYC. 7pm.  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uproot-by-jace-clayton-aka-dj-rupture-book-launch-tickets-26593681417

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com/

KUMBALA EN LA FIESTA PATRONAL SANTA CATARINA DE AYOMETLA TLAXCALA-NOV-29-2015

Norteño St-EP

Cadetes de Linares - No Hay Novedad(Javier Estrada Remix)

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com/     This song is available over at Javier Estrada's Bandcamp https://djjavierestrada.bandcamp.com/album/prehispanic-moombahton-gods

Pre Hispanic Moombahton Gods

DJ Javier Estrada - Pre Hispanic Moombahton Gods

Dj Erick Rincon - Cumbia de Nuevo Leon (Private Tribal 09)

Wary - Sallama

Auto-Tune Reggada (VA Nojoum Wislane)

tracklist: http://www.thefader.com/2016/08/23/dj-rupture-book-nrg-mix

my new book!! http://uprootbook.com

BOOK NRG MIX

This song forms part of the Listening Guide to my new book, 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture' - you can learn more and order here: http://uprootbook.com/

"She’s talking about love for her land/country, the water. She addresses a traveler who is going to Ramallah, she says take my soul with you.

The second half she says:
Oh mother, there’s a knock on our door it’s our beloveds
There’s a strong knock on our door, it’s the fedayeen, the ones who long for/love freedom
They knock on our door

And then some love for a dark palestinian woman

It sounds like a folk song or a combo of a few folk songs"

negrophonic.com

Shatila Camp mix track 9

Shatila Camp mix - Track 7

Rob Da Bank asked me to make a cumbia mix back in January 2009 for broadcast on his BBC1 show.  Enjoy!

you can download the mix here: http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/DJ_rupture_Cumbia-Mix-for-BBCRadio1.mp3

DJ Rupture mix for Rob Da Bank / BBC Radio 1 – TRACKLIST

El Hijo de la Cumbia – ‘Pista Para La Contra’
Pesadilla – ‘La Pava Congona’ (Discos El Papi)
Unknown – ‘Cumbia de la Selva’
DJ Panik – ‘Like This Like That’ (Bersa Discos)
Crunk Cumbia Bootleg
El Hijo de la Cumbia – ‘Para Bailiar Alika RMX’ (Soot Records)
La Yegros – ‘Trocitos de Madera:original mix’ (Dutty Artz)
Armando Hernandez – ‘Cumbia Doris’
Petrona Martinez – ‘La Vida Vale La Pena: Uproot Andy Remix)’
Pitbull – ‘Ya Se Acabo’
Noble Society – ‘The Swarm: Zuzuka Cumbia Klash remix’ (Klash City)
Los Destellos – ‘Elsa: Sonido Martines remix’ (Soot Records)
El Hijo de la Cumbia – ‘Cumbia Regional’ (Soot Records)
Los Daddy’s – ‘Cumbia Sampuesana’
J-Kwon – ‘Tipsy: instrumental’ (So So Def)
Julieta Venegas – ‘Eres Para Mi: Sonidero Nacional remix’
Ñejo feat Arcangel y Dalmata – ‘Algo Musical remix’
Crunk cumbia bootleg
Calle 13 – ‘Atrevetetete remix’
Crunk cumbia bootleg
Celso Piña – ‘Cumbia Poder’
DJ Rupture featuring Sister Nancy – ‘A Little More Oil: reggaeton remix feat. Pe Ere’ (Soul Jazz)
Uproot Andy vs. ODB – ‘Brooklyn Cumbia’
Maga Bo – ‘Earthshaking Riddim’ (Dutty Artz)
Jahdan Blakkamoore – ‘Earthshaking’ (Dutty Artz)
Matt Shadetek – ‘Pure Riddim’ (Dutty Artz )
Jahdan Blakkamoore feat Durrty Goodz – ‘Mesmerized’ (Dutty Artz)
Modeselektor and Matt Shadetek – ‘Dem A Idiot Riddim’ (Dutty Artz)
El Hijo de la Cumbia – ‘Conciencia de Barrio’ (Soot Records)
Grupo La Cumbia – ‘La Mulata’
Unknown – ‘Poco a Poco ‘Yes Yes’ (Discos Bones)
Celso Piña – ‘Cumbia de la Paz’J


DJ Rupture - BBC 1 Cumbia mix

DJ Rupture brings you a new mix CHANGE THE MOOD!  22 minutes of hottness.

 ****  direct download link: http://is.gd/rupt17 *****

if u want tracklist, come find Rupture at Dutty Artz's CHANGE THE MOOD! party this Friday Aug. 17, 2012, at Glasslands in Brooklyn.  info: http://www.negrophonic.com/2012/change-the-mood-august-17th-glasslands-bklyn/

    Dutty Artz presents CHANGE THE MOOD! a fundraiser party for Beyond The Block.
    Fri. August 17th at Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 11pm. $10

    Hosted by Pupa Bajah and Jasmin Cruz
    NYC debut of Chants (live from Madison, WI)

    DJ Ushka vs. a Rhino
    Chief Boima vs. a Robot
    DJ Rupture vs. an Elephant
    Taliesin vs. a Vampire
    Geko Jones vs. a Chicken-Stealing Fox
    Atropolis vs. the Euro

    visuals by Rainstick | Rupture’s birthday | silent auction fundraiser


DJ Rupture - Change The Mood

THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A SPLIT MIX I DID WITH MY AMIGO SONIDO MARTINES, WE EACH DID 30 MINUTES OF CUMBIA.  NOT "NUEVA CUMBIA" BUT CUMBIA CUMBIA.

  ALL THESE TUNES COME FROM CD I PURCHASED IN BROOKLYN, THERE'S NO TRACKLIST BUT EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS SHOUTING OUT THEIR NAME ANYHOW.

. TALACHERO DID THE SONIDERO VOICE-OVERS!!   

 THE CD IS ON SALE EXCLUSIVELY AT TACOS ZARAGOZA IN EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN, AT 14TH + AVE. A.

LIKE DJ LENGUA SAID "ASK NOT WHAT CUMBIA CAN DO 4 U, BUT WHAT U CAN DO 4 CUMBIA"

DOWNLOAD: http://negrophonic.com/mp3/DJ-Rupture-1100vs2200-mix-excerpt.mp3

DJ Rupture- 1100/2200 cumbia mix excerpt- DL LINK IN DESCRIPTION

check out my new book 'Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music & Digital Culture' -- http://uprootbook.com , published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  You can stream/DL many of my mixes here: http://www.negrophonic.com/dj-rupture-mixes-free-download//

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