Minesweeper Suite

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Total Tracks: 24   Total Length: 73:48

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04.22.11
The world's a mess, it's in his mix.
Label: Tigerbeat 6 / Revolver

Barcelona-based DJ/rupture shows off his formidable turntable skills (and frighteningly deep record collection) with a three-deck mix that spans dancehall reggae, Middle Eastern drumming, underground London breakcore and Hot 97-ready a cappellas. As a festive soundtrack, Minesweeper Suite is better suited for squat parties than a chardonnay tasting, but /rupture's knack for drilling holes through genres (mashing up Aaliyah's "Resolution" with apocalyptic drum 'n 'bass, screwing hip-hop into psychedelic glitch-folk) threads a groove that could spin any pair of hips out onto the dancefloor. The form (beat-oriented fusion) and the content (any sound you can imagine, never deracinated but instead radically re-contextualized) make the perfect icebreaker to get trainspotters talking politics, and vice versa.

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the way the reuters newsfeed makes me feel

xe

yeah this is it. the real thing. im sorry for you all you people who want things so clean clean clean...this is the sound of the world outside your gated communities. come get dirty with the rest of us.

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if your looking for idm

machinejetfire

well, its not really around. the mixzing is amuzing, but the result is a big pass. Im just more about clear/focused idm, something pop mixes just dont seem to have. I did dwnld 5 and 11, to check and it looks trakax is cominin handy. I will operate and hopefully the procedure will yield something useful of these to tiny spores, really all this mindless voice snipping and sampling is very "peculiar" to put it nicely.

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better than good less than great

humza_a_m

Title says it all...right? The album is an eclectic mix, a definite mash-up, a chaos and a madness, but precise in its procession. The album is at once so chaotic and yet so harmonious within the chaos, as one sees the harmony of single colours within the chaos of a galaxy or bursting star, soo too with this album do we see reflections of a universe tearing and re-forming. This is what gives the album a lasting appeal since one is able to listen to its different nuances and play with the notes, the ideas, the feelings, the intent, the emotions, and make different things with it as one makes different things with the same cloud.

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Genius

shazled

I've been listening to this for 6 months now. It never gets old.

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Rumbo Babylon (track 3)

gps

only got one download left? this is the track to get.

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don't be scared

PunkRockReggaeRoll

although you probably know dj rupture from his scary loud noises, this album is really good and not just for the nasty types out there. i'd describe it as dark dirty dancehall.

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Armed with three turntables, DJ /rupture devours and recontextualizes the work of artists like Foxy Brown, Nina Simone, Shinehead, Aaliyah, Roberta Flack, DAT Politics, Mahmoud Fadi, Donna Summer, Kid 606, and Cex. This relentlessly danceable collection of beats, noise, and dub concrete, DJ /rupture’s first full-length statement, isn’t just a party mix — like DJ Spooky, DJ /rupture is spelling out a political thesis. Whether mixing the Middle East-meets-Africa sounds of Nubian artist Mahmoud Fadi, appropriating a Foxy Brown lyric, or reworking Cex, Minesweeper Suite dissolves the boundaries between artistic genres and disrupts the legacy of colonialism by respectfully juxtaposing cultural differences that underlie various source material — and in doing so, forces listeners to confront their notions of genre, culture, and ethnicity. – Charles Spano

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