DJ OLIVE 'GROPE' from the upcoming album release 'THWIS'

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CHRISTOPHER FREEMAN, here:

New DJ Olive "Thwis" !

"THWIS" dj Olive Featuring Honeychild Coleman 

Street Date: Feb 28th 2013
Press/ DJ's:  Download the album here

 THWIS is a warm bass journey through the untravelled back streets of brooklyn's underground future dub landscape. Though you can hear the rootsy lovers feel THWIS is not a derivative dub record but a truly original reflection from one of brooklyn's loved underground producers. THWIS follows in the footsteps of Olive's classic Bodega release and his work with New York's legendary electronic trio We™. There is little distortion on the bass and the kick is soft and warm making for a velvety sunrise vibe through out. The snare is surprisingly absent but then suddenly shows up like an old friend. Smokers Delight mixed with Boards of Canada mixed with Rhythm and Sound, THWIS puts its arm around your shoulder and walks you through the party with a calm inviting smile, making you body wander around the unicorn bass while the vintage analog synth tickles your head.

"This record was a long time coming. After countless hours playing these tracks live and sculpting them in the studio i have finally organized it into one coherent record that i feel expresses the essence and vibe i was after. i would like to thank: thanks brooklyn thanks vija n roux for putting up with me through the billion different versions carolyn honeychild coleman for being so patient with this project james for all the good vibes and laughs bernardo for letting me use your old vintage sm10 daveq n dubwar & the love sound system françois k, erica n; the deep space sound system bryan, seza, the bunker massiv 3:33am noodletown salt baked squid dennis for all the showersn pasta get away from 1205 kootenay coop radio. jay, terry, zoe, john, deb, and all the cjly members who not only put up with me while i worked on thwis nights in studio c, but also made me feel at home jim for being jim and jokes for being medicine garth for sharing your "no wasted moves" clay by way of roux for coming up with naming the record thwis mum Ignacio, stefanini for the art and design of thwis" dj olive 2012

Badawi "The Axiom EP"

First release in the Agriculture's new Bass Blood Line Series.

"Dub Step? Truth is music is made from only two things: Frequencies and choices. Once you see it that way genre has absolutely no power anymore and can be mutated into any shape imaginable"
- Raz Mesinai

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Composer, producer and sound alchemist Raz Mesinai makes music at the intersection of Dub and modern composition. As a solo artist and with his ensembles, he creates mythic performances evoking ancient rhythms with electronics, acoustic instruments and turntables. His recordings as Badawi have placed him on the forefront of the experimental electronic scene for over a decade, with remixes contributed by such artists as Kode 9, Shackleton, DJ Spooky and Headhunter, and Badawi remixes of Burning Spear, Arto Lindsay and Shackleton. He’s been a fixture of the downtown New York improvised music scene as well since the late nineties, collaborating with such luminaries as John Zorn, Mark Dresser, Elliott Sharp, DJ Olive and many others.

Mesinai's music has been performed at The Lincoln Center Festival, Zankel Hall, The Kitchen, the Next, Next Wave Festival (BAM), The Whitney Museum, ICA London, Saafelden Jazz Festival, Etnafest, Tonic, The Stone, The Winter Garden, and numerous underground clubs in New York and Europe, including Love, Soundlab, and the legendary Mars, Sound Factory, Limelight and Save the Robots. In recent years, his work has been commissioned and performed by The Kronos Quartet, Ethel, VIA, and cellist Maya Beiser. In 2002 his music received an honorary award in the Ars Electronica Digital Musics category.



Mesinai is also an accomplished film composer. He was a Sundance Composers’ Lab fellow in 2004, and has scored feature films, documentaries, and short films, including Sorry Haters (official selection Toronto Film Festival), Romantico (offical selection Sundance Film Festival) and The Projectionist, for which he won the Herb Alpert Award for Excellence in Music for Film. His music has also been featured in films by Ridley Scott, Jonathan Demme and Darren Aronofsky.

Deadbeat Radio Rothko on Beatport

Check it here.


Radio Rothko Tracklist:

1. Deadbeat - As We Conquer (09 Edit)

2. Various Artists - No. 3 (Debit)

3. Deepchord - Grandbend

4. Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub 1

5. Pendle Coven - Exigen

6. Deadbeat - Port of Rix

7. MLZ - Dark Days

8. Quantec - Electromagnetic Pulse

9. Marko Furstenberg - Site 312

10. Monolake - Static

11. Deadbeat - Magnetic North

12. 2562 - Redux

13. Monolake - Sepia

14. Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive

15. Intrusion - Tswana Dub (Phase90 Restructure)

16. Mikkel Metal - Stephan

17. Maurizio - M06A

18. Substance & Vainqueur - Reverberation

19. Deadbeat - Deep Structure

Deadbeat "Magnetic North" from the Agriculture on Vimeo.

iTunage

Resident Advisor Deadbeat Review

"How does this sound? Deadbeat's Radio Rothko : Scion's Arrange and Process Basic Channel Tracks :: Richie Hawtin's Decks, EFX & 909 : Jeff Mills's Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo. Easy enough, right? Yet it isn't, not least because the circumstances this one comes out into are so different.

The comparisons are between classic mix CDs and a later one with a similar template and aim. At a time when Soundcloud will absorb us all, there's something special about (weird to type this) the old-fashioned mix CD. So many mixes abound online, at so many different skill levels, that it's easier than ever to appreciate the kind of work that goes into licensing (even handshake deals take time), selecting and whittling down a fully legal mix CD. Going those extra steps tends to mean more thinking about it along the way, a refining process crucial to a mix of this scope.

What Deadbeat sets out is a kind of Whitman's Sampler of dub, techno and minimal's intertwining paths, heavy on the Basic Channel family, with dabs from debtors like Pendle Coven and 2562. The mix takes its sweet, patient time establishing itself, a radically minimalist gesture in any era; the build-up is sweetly agitating, and the way it blossoms in different directions is clearly pre-meditated, without seeming clinical." - Michaelangelo Matos

Full review here

...all the leaves are Brown...

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from the LA Times Music Blog...

We rarely go out of our way to congratulate Brooklyn-based musicians in these pages (they do enough of that themselves). But I have to hand it to the Agriculture, a Brooklyn label focused on out-there permutations of Jamaican dub run through Berlin techno, spazzy global pop and pirate radio crackle. They've put out two fantastic mixes that are a couple of the most sufficient party-in-a-box albums to cross my desk lately.

The first is "Solar Life Raft," a collaboration between DJ Rupture (who, not uncoincidentally, penned one of my favorite pieces of recent music writing) and Matt Shadetek. The record somehow finds space on the same shelf for mind-melt reggae from Jahdan Blakkamoore and Stagga's fractured dubstep as well as Luc Ferrari's noise sculpture and Gang Gang Dance's passport-stamp freakouts. Listening to "Solar Life Raft," you won't know whether to take pills and dance madly in a darkened room, write a dissertation on sonic-diaspora politics or strip to your skivvies and run through the spray from a broken fire hydrant.

"Radio Rothko," a collection of dubby techno compiled by the Canadian DJ Deadbeat, is by contrast about as pristine and focused a mix as electronica has seen lately. Rooted in the brittle, faded synth arpeggios and mechanized kick drums of the '90s Berlin duo Basic Channel, the mix ebbs along through Monolake's bleary subway-funk and 2562's creaky head-nods, while Basic Channel's phosphorescent throb binds it all together. The ever-articulate Philip Sherburne contributes some great liner notes, so I'll pass it off to him in saying it's "...a cold, reverberant thrum. The pulse of dub reggae running through Japanese-built machinery, filters frothing; the room tone suggestive of nothing so much as the untold empty structures in the recently-reunified city."

- by August Brown --

Here's the complete article.

First 2010 Release: Deadbeat "Radio Rothko"

AG-052 Deadbeat "Radio Rothko" March 1, 2010

Deadbeat will release a new mix CD called Radio Rothko on Brooklyn's The Agriculture imprint later this year.

Comprising artists such as DeepChord, Monolake, Quantec and Pendle Coven, Radio Rothko presents a healthy mix of dub techno's classics and contemporaries, with a notable emphasis on the work of Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald. The mix takes advantage of the music's spacious and atmospheric nature, bubbling up into a more dance floor-friendly centre before showcasing the dubbier end of the dub techno spectrum.



Radio Rothko will be Scott Monteith's first venture into the world of the commercial mix CD, and also marks his debut release for The Agriculture, the Brooklyn-based label that gave us dubby genre-benders like DJ Rupture's Uproot mix. He's also seen fit to include three of his own compositions, including new track "Port Of Rix" as well as a special edit of "As We Conquer" from his 2001 debut album Primordia.

Here's the rest of the Resident Advisor article.

Sounds Cloudy

Latest tracks by the Agriculture

Solar Life Raft now LIVE on last.fm

For all you last.fm heads, the new album by DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek is now on last.fm here.

One Step Beyond Wrap Up: "Twisted Cumbia, Latin Gabba, and Space Steppers Delight"

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

Here's the complete article.

New Solar Life Raft Music Video

directed by Sara Taigher. Medley of songs from DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek's mix CD 'Solar Life Raft', out now on the Agriculture. http://www.theagriculture.com. itunes: http://is.gd/4TEqi | Amazon: http://is.gd/4TErV

We also are happy to announce our youtube channel full of fun content: here.

XLR8R Review for Solar Life Raft.

Thanks to Justin, Andrew, Toph 1 (for the early support) and the whole XLR8R team in the Western Addition.

"From two of today’s most uniquely fascinating producers, Solar Life Raft arrives as less a mix than a statement of purpose: a repositioning of experimental bass music into the context of contemporary avant-garde artwork, as worthy of a gallery as the club. DJ /rupture has a storied history of meshing poets and sound artists with skull-crushing bass, but when joined with Dutty Artz compatriot Shadetek, Solar Life Raft relegates boundaries to irrelevance with surprising accessibility. Here experimental composers old (Luc Ferrari) and new (Nico Muhly) can meet dubstep’s finest (Shackleton, Stagga) while avant-poet Caroline Bergvall sits happily beside Gang Gang Dance. The result is strikingly exciting—something equally triumphant for dancer, smoker, or Tate Modern chin-stroker."

Here the link.

New York Magazine's Brooklyn Music Special

/Rupture included in the New York Mag Music special on Brooklyn.

Jace Clayton, a.k.a. DJ /Rupture, is a one-man musical Venn diagram, linking up genres, people, styles, and beats. After seven years in Spain, he felt the call of “the land of caffeine and stress” and returned here, where he’s fallen for cumbia (something you’re more likely to hear in Nueva York than Barcelona). He also co-founded the Dutty Artz D.J. and production crew, hosts a show “Mudd Up!” on WFMU, and last year released the acclaimed Uproot mix tape. His follow-up, Solar Life Raft, with producer Matt Shadetek, is a homegrown affair, featuring everyone from Brooklyn art-rockers Gang Gang Dance to composer Nico Muhly.

Read more: Brooklyn's Sonic Boom - Q&A With Jace Clayton, A.K.A. DJ /Rupture -- New York Magazine here.

DJ /rupture’s Favorite Cities and Songs via Flavorpill

On his Twitter profile, DJ /rupture, aka Jace Clayton, lists “dj * writer * jetlag king” as his occupations. And though he’s best known as the turntable mastermind behind albums like Uproot and Special Gunpowder and his latest release with Brooklyn producer Matt Shadetek, he wouldn’t be much of a DJ without the latter gigs. All three are intertwined: he’s written regularly for magazines like The Wire and N+1; and his recent piece for the latter, which landed in the 2009 Best Music Writing compilation, begins “I’ve DJed in over 20 countries…”

Access to music from the third world may be easy via the Internet, but Clayton’s discovery is often firsthand. In addition to DJing in over 30 countries now, he has spent much of the last decade living in Barcelona. It was his desire to be “caffeinated” that brought him back to New York City, and that brought him to make his new album with Shadetek, Solar Life Raft, with local musicians like Gang Gang Dance, Telepathe, and Nico Muhly.

One place I haven’t been is Sub-Saharan Africa,” he told us when we asked where he’s heading next. “I’d love to go to Côte d’Ivoire, I’d love to check out Johannesburg. I’ve been invited to play in Africa and all over the place, but I can’t just up and go and hang out in Dakar for a couple weeks on my own dime. I’m too busy. But that’s where my curiosity is highest. I’m been to Brazil before to do a couple shows in Rio de Janeiro, which is less surprising than going to Africa would be, but it’s still a really incredible city, so I’m psyched to be going there again.”

Some of his best travel memories and the tracks they remind him of found here.

DJ /rupture + Matt Shadetek play American Museum of Natural History

Friday, Nov 13 9:00p
DJ /rupture + Matt Shadetek are playing their record release show for Solar Life Raft (the Agriculture) at the American Museum of Natural History. Matt will do a live set with drum machine & laptop with Jahdan Blakkamoore on vocals at times, and Rupture will do a 3-turntable mix. The two will not play together, but the overall vibe of the show will be an atmospheric heavy pulse designed to move dancefloors while submerging audiences in the seductively weird future of Solar Life Raft.



Album available at Amazon, iTune, Boomkat, and local heroes Halcyon

Urb Magazine shouts "Solar Life Raft"

"We've been long-time admirers of Brooklyn-based DJ /rupture for a while now, ever since the producer dropped 2001's Gold Teeth Thief complete with hip-hop, ragga and dancehall goodness (and well before 90210 gave him their improbable yet awesome shoutout). Last year's mellower Uproot ranked as one of the best albums of the year as well. Now mark your calendars for November 11, the day /rupture and Matt Shadetek's Solar Life Raft officially drops. After the two met on tour in Europe, they came back to New York to make beats together before producing Jahdan Blakkamoore's recently released debut Buzzrock Warrior. Recorded over the course of two days at Rupture's Brooklyn home studio, Raft is the product of two producers spending months building tracks and working out the remixes that would eventually make it on the album."

Full article here.

Obama's Inauguration Poetress on new Agriculture CD.

In typical /Rupture and Shadetek stylee, the new Agriculture Release, "Solar Life Raft" includes a rainforest's ecology full of sound sources. Track 20, which is actually 3 songs in one ID includes: “Matty G, ‘Layin in Bed,’ DJ/Rupture f. Elizabeth Alexander, ‘Overture: Watermelon City (Acappella), Lloop, ‘Autumn Rain.’” Elizabeth Alexander spoke at Obama's Inauguration.

from Obama's inauguration:

"Say it plain: that many have died for this day.
Sing the names of the dead who brought us here,
who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,

picked the cotton and the lettuce, built
brick by brick the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day.
Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.

Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,
others by first do no harm or take no more
than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?"

Fader covered the free MP3 (including another drop, Gang Gang Dance, “Bebey” (DJ/Rupture and Matt Shadetek Remix) here.

Download and enjoy...

90210 loves DJ /Rupture?

90210 sites Rupture in the latest episode. The world keeps getting smaller, scratch that: weirder. Here's the link.

NPR shouts out our latest release: DJ /Rupture "Uproot"

NPR showing the love on our latest release, DJ /Rupture "Uproot."
Cool radio podcast for your listening pleasure.

All Songs Considered on NPR.

Each summer, the Pitchfork Music Festival draws thousands of fans to Chicago to hear three day's worth of performances, by more than 40 bands. It's a mix of some of the best new and largely unknown, independent bands of the year. On this episode of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen talks with freelance reporter Jacob Ganz about some of the music Ganz discovered while covering this year's festival, which ended July 19.

Here's the link.