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Born near Boston, based in Madrid, DJ /rupture captured the world’s imagination on the strength of Gold Teeth Thief, the “stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix" that "captures the spirit of the best bootleg mixes--bumping, brash, and without borders,” according to the album's four-star review in the April 2002 issue of VIBE. Previously available only on mp3 and cdr, now available in a strictly limited edition bootleg re-release from Violent Turd, Gold Teeth Thief is a work THE WIRE called "so fabulous that you need to beg, borrow, remortgage, and steal...so you can go to the Website and download it post haste." Declared one of the year's 50 best albums by THE WIRE, Gold Teeth Thief has made DJ /rupture one of URB’s Next 100 Artists to blow up in 2002 and earned hm the title “best DJ in the world" from German magazine DE:BUG. For once, the hype is not hyperbole but the just reward for a powerfully syncretic musical imagination, nurtured on the one hand by New York's legendary illbient scene and by notions of the African diaspora on the other. And Minesweeper Suite is DJ /rupture's first full-length statement and response to the world since it swallowed the delicious mix with a thump and a bootyshake.

On Minesweeper Suite, DJ /rupture tears some of hiphop's most familiar battle breaks into arguments that reconstruct "the missing links between dead prez and Middle Eastern dub selector Muslimgauze," as VIBE described his mission. MAHMOUD FADI, APHASIC, DISC, CUL DE SAC, ROTATOR, CEX, GREGORY WHITEHEAD, KID606, J-BOOGIE, DAT POLITICS, BORBETOMAGUS, DJ SCUD,SO TAKAHASHI and DONNA SUMMER all find a home in DJ /rupture's realm, where squalls of noise and dub concréte 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 and the result is post-colonial, post-apocalyptic work that the world needs now more than ever.

Full Tracklist:
Part A:
1 MahmoudFadi - Jibal Al Nuba (Piranha), J-Boogie- Gemini Dub (BSI) (637kb mp3 sample!) 2 DJ /rupture - High Resolution (koolPop), Heat Sensor - Tectonic (Sound Ink) (637kb mp3 sample!) 3 DJ /rupture - Rumbo Babylon (Brooklyn Beats), Cutty Ranks- Limb By Limb: Acapella (Fashion), General Degree- ? Version (Penthouse), Foxy Brown/Baby Cham - Tables Will Turn: Bubba Mix (Fire Fraternity) ( 638kb mp3 sample!) 4 So Takahasi - untitled a1 (Carpark), Akrobatic - Ruff Enuff: instrumental (Brick), Foxy Brown/Baby Cham - Tables Will Turn: Mega Mix (Fire Fraternity) 5 Nettle - Serranito (Soot)
Kazamix - Froggy (Kazamix), Rober Kimou - Maffe Rythym (Mixing Lab) 6 Mr Faycal featuring Mad Killah - 62 Ouf (Mixing Lab) 7 DJ Rush Puppy - Bad Man Lighter: jump up mix (Firm Handed), Elastic Horizons - Drums Conductor (Amputate), Wax Poetic - Angels (Doublemoon) 8 DJ /rupture - In Front Of You (Tigerbeat6) 9 Mentol Nomad - Fallen Angels (TheAgriculture), Missing Linx - Same Time: Acapella, Dat Politics - 3.37 (Tigerbeat6), Disc - untitled (Deluxe), Cul De Sac - I Remember Nothing More: DJ /rupture's needlepoint mix
Part B:
10,11 Nettle - Ballad of Jimmy Hollin: disco mix (BSI fall '02), Fish & Goat at the Controls - Dub Warming (Shiver), D. Wulle & A. Garcia - untitled b2 (Docile), DJ 007 - I Don't Invite (Logic promo), 12 Gregory Whitehead - Ziggurat (Staalplaat) Nina Simone – Plain Gold Ring, So Takahasi - untitled b1 (Carpark), 13 Joshua Abrams - Crossing Kingston Bridge (Lucky Kitchen), Mutamassik - Babomb (Soot), Dead Prez – Police State: acappella (597kb mp3 sample!) 14 Music of the Pearl Divers - Tanzila (VDE), Igbal Jobi and Party - Sorath (Olympic), Sardara Gill - Apna Sangheet Sings Apna Sangheet: Speedy Gonzalez mix (Multitone) 15 Bodysnatcher - Ruled by the Mob (Ambush) (607kb mp3 sample!) 16,17 The Temple of Hop Culture - Up From The Underground (Reprise Promo), Rotator - Enemy (Damage) (703kb mp3 sample!) 18 Rotator - Trash N Ready (Fraktion) 19 Mutamassik - Show 2 Show: DJ /rupture remix (Soot), Gilles Gobeil - Associations Libres (Digital Imprimes), Borbetomagus – untitled from ‘L’Atlas des Galaxies Etranges’, BlackJewishGays - from Allright Reverse Vol. Two (BlackJewishGays), Shinehead - Rough & Rugged (African Love Music) 20 Aphasic - Bloody Nora (Ambush), Macronympha - High Velocity Resistence Components (Igloo) (721kb mp3 sample!) 21 Eiterherd - Masturbator (PeaceOff)
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly (Atlantic) (810kb mp3 sample!) 22 Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?: instrumental (Atlantic), Djivan Gasparyan - Brother Hunter, Rik Rue - Other Voices 1, Kid 606 - Dandy (555 of Leeds), Nettle - Defragmentation (BSI fall '02) 23 The Kat Cosm - MmHh 4 (Klangkrieg) 24 CEX - I am Soundboy (Tigerbeat6/ 555 of Leeds), Eightball & M.J.G. - We Started This: Acapella (Suave), Donna Summer - Big Work (Cock Rock Disco), Jingles - Everlasting Life (Gyasi) (581kb mp3 sample!)


					Born near Boston, based in Madrid, DJ /rupture captured the world’s imagination on the strength of Gold Teeth Thief, the “stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix" that "captures the spirit of the best bootleg mixes--bumping, brash, and without borders,” according to the album's four-star review in the April 2002 issue of VIBE. Previously available only on mp3 and cdr, now available in a strictly limited edition bootleg re-release from Violent Turd, Gold Teeth Thief is a work THE WIRE called "so fabulous that you need to beg, borrow, remortgage, and steal...so you can go to the Website and download it post haste." Declared one of the year's 50 best albums by THE WIRE, Gold Teeth Thief has made DJ /rupture one of URB’s Next 100 Artists to blow up in 2002 and earned hm the title “best DJ in the world" from German magazine DE:BUG. For once, the hype is not hyperbole but the just reward for a powerfully syncretic musical imagination, nurtured on the one hand by New York's legendary illbient scene and by notions of the African diaspora on the other. And Minesweeper Suite is DJ /rupture's first full-length statement and response to the world since it swallowed the delicious mix with a thump and a bootyshake. On Minesweeper Suite, DJ /rupture tears some of hiphop's most familiar battle breaks into arguments that reconstruct "the missing links between dead prez and Middle Eastern dub selector Muslimgauze," as VIBE described his mission. MAHMOUD FADI, APHASIC, DISC, CUL DE SAC, ROTATOR, CEX, GREGORY WHITEHEAD, KID606, J-BOOGIE, DAT POLITICS, BORBETOMAGUS, DJ SCUD,SO TAKAHASHI and DONNA SUMMER all find a home in DJ /rupture's realm, where squalls of noise and dub concréte 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 and the result is post-colonial, post-apocalyptic work that the world needs now more than ever. Full Tracklist: Part A: 1 MahmoudFadi - Jibal Al Nuba (Piranha), J-Boogie- Gemini Dub (BSI) (637kb mp3 sample!) 2 DJ /rupture - High Resolution (koolPop), Heat Sensor - Tectonic (Sound Ink) (637kb mp3 sample!) 3 DJ /rupture - Rumbo Babylon (Brooklyn Beats), Cutty Ranks- Limb By Limb: Acapella (Fashion), General Degree- ? Version (Penthouse), Foxy Brown/Baby Cham - Tables Will Turn: Bubba Mix (Fire Fraternity) ( 638kb mp3 sample!) 4 So Takahasi - untitled a1 (Carpark), Akrobatic - Ruff Enuff: instrumental (Brick), Foxy Brown/Baby Cham - Tables Will Turn: Mega Mix (Fire Fraternity) 5 Nettle - Serranito (Soot) Kazamix - Froggy (Kazamix), Rober Kimou - Maffe Rythym (Mixing Lab) 6 Mr Faycal featuring Mad Killah - 62 Ouf (Mixing Lab) 7 DJ Rush Puppy - Bad Man Lighter: jump up mix (Firm Handed), Elastic Horizons - Drums Conductor (Amputate), Wax Poetic - Angels (Doublemoon) 8 DJ /rupture - In Front Of You (Tigerbeat6) 9 Mentol Nomad - Fallen Angels (TheAgriculture), Missing Linx - Same Time: Acapella, Dat Politics - 3.37 (Tigerbeat6), Disc - untitled (Deluxe), Cul De Sac - I Remember Nothing More: DJ /rupture's needlepoint mix Part B: 10,11 Nettle - Ballad of Jimmy Hollin: disco mix (BSI fall '02), Fish & Goat at the Controls - Dub Warming (Shiver), D. Wulle & A. Garcia - untitled b2 (Docile), DJ 007 - I Don't Invite (Logic promo), 12 Gregory Whitehead - Ziggurat (Staalplaat) Nina Simone – Plain Gold Ring, So Takahasi - untitled b1 (Carpark), 13 Joshua Abrams - Crossing Kingston Bridge (Lucky Kitchen), Mutamassik - Babomb (Soot), Dead Prez – Police State: acappella (597kb mp3 sample!) 14 Music of the Pearl Divers - Tanzila (VDE), Igbal Jobi and Party - Sorath (Olympic), Sardara Gill - Apna Sangheet Sings Apna Sangheet: Speedy Gonzalez mix (Multitone) 15 Bodysnatcher - Ruled by the Mob (Ambush) (607kb mp3 sample!) 16,17 The Temple of Hop Culture - Up From The Underground (Reprise Promo), Rotator - Enemy (Damage) (703kb mp3 sample!) 18 Rotator - Trash N Ready (Fraktion) 19 Mutamassik - Show 2 Show: DJ /rupture remix (Soot), Gilles Gobeil - Associations Libres (Digital Imprimes), Borbetomagus – untitled from ‘L’Atlas des Galaxies Etranges’, BlackJewishGays - from Allright Reverse Vol. Two (BlackJewishGays), Shinehead - Rough & Rugged (African Love Music) 20 Aphasic - Bloody Nora (Ambush), Macronympha - High Velocity Resistence Components (Igloo) (721kb mp3 sample!) 21 Eiterherd - Masturbator (PeaceOff) Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly (Atlantic) (810kb mp3 sample!) 22 Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody?: instrumental (Atlantic), Djivan Gasparyan - Brother Hunter, Rik Rue - Other Voices 1, Kid 606 - Dandy (555 of Leeds), Nettle - Defragmentation (BSI fall '02) 23 The Kat Cosm - MmHh 4 (Klangkrieg) 24 CEX - I am Soundboy (Tigerbeat6/ 555 of Leeds), Eightball & M.J.G. - We Started This: Acapella (Suave), Donna Summer - Big Work (Cock Rock Disco), Jingles - Everlasting Life (Gyasi) (581kb mp3 sample!)

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