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.

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