oh, just that
― it's darn and ielle is hot (and what), Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha well I was meaning that it isn't some crazy blend. That said there is a tune on the same mix that uses a significant portion of a Joanna Newsome vocal.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
ah so this is where the mutamassik talk is. her new free album is really awesome so far - http://www.roughamericana.com/publicfiles/MUTAMASSIKThatWhichDeathCannotDestroy___.zip
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
this is beautiful http://www.negrophonic.com/2010/rembetika-solace-hour/
― rahni, Monday, 10 May 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah, has DJ /rupture been looking at this thread? He just mentioned the raptor child rave scene gif on twitter.
― mh, Monday, 10 May 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it's just one of his favorite gifs. The link above is from his site.
Excited about the Moor Rembetika show tonight.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 May 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh that right, it's on WFMU tonight. The Ex go Greek?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 May 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lex upped the new/recent mutamassik lp that which death cannot destroy a couple months back, but no one picked up on it. it's weird stuff, intriguing, though not likely to increase her profile much. fragmentary, dubbed-out sound collages built around middle eastern folk and dance music (as per usual). mostly low end throb and a few ragged surface repetitions, all shifting constantly, woozy, psychedelic. lots of hand percussion, "ethnic" instrumentation and turntablism drifting in and out. which is to say that it might have come out on wordsound in the early 00s, aka illbient. like a punk badawi maybe, or spooky gone bedouin vampire. zombie dance mix assembled by christian marclay from broken adrian sherwood records. something oddly gothic about it, too, in the understated menace and crepuscular spookshow vibe. it sounds like music not of the revolution, but of its smoldering aftermath. tent city shit, despairing techno primitivism. relentlessly anti-pop, no repurposed hits, rhythms all crippled and bent, intentionally (?) awkward sounds and transitions. i.e., art school political punk all the way, but charming for that. while i can't say it invites or commands attention, it easily holds my interest from beginning to end. recommended if you were ever interested in any of the above referenced.
― contenderizer, Monday, 10 May 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"Oh that right, it's on WFMU tonight. The Ex go Greek?"
Not really. More like noisy rembitika.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"it's weird stuff, intriguing, though not likely to increase her profile much."
Especially since as far as I can tell she's only releasing as 160 mp3s for free on her website.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, too bad about the sound quality. if you're gonna release it mp3 only, might as well give us decent files, right? and her myspace page bums me out. play counts range from 500 to like 2. :,,,(
― contenderizer, Monday, 10 May 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Think I am going to buy this Andy Moor Rebitika thing. Sounds great.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
does ilm still care for dj/rupture
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 01:53 (ten years ago) link
my first thought was 'fairtrade diplo' but that feels unfair
― ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 02:02 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
his wfmu show was so great.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
i heard massive amounts of music from everywhere
I still care about /rupture. Early mixes are still among my favorites.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
GTT is so burned into my brain now that it is sorta dull when i go back.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
i'll always love about half the uproot album (and the whole thing is compelling).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 25 April 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
Would like to read the books his Mudd Up book club is reading
http://www.negrophonic.com/?s=mudd+up+book+clubb
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 April 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
i still care but he's working on a book more than music these days.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 25 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.jaceclayton.com/gallery/enkutatash/ Ethiopian New Year's and 9/11 event
Enkutatash is a large-scale public choral work by Jace Clayton commissioned by the 5x5 Festival. It will premier in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2014. The score for Enkutatash is based on the Homeland Security Advisory System, the U.S. government's 5 level color-coded terrorism threat alerts which ran from 2002 to 2011. Enkutatash treats the changing threat-level data as a musical score, which will be sung by local choir groups and the audience, using the five-note (pentatonic) musical scale of D.C.'s Ethiopian community. Each note corresponds to a threat level color, and each day is a second – allowing us to sing the nine years of Threat Level Advisories in 45 minutes. Accompanying the sustained choral tones, an Ethiopian vocalist and masinqo (one-string African violin) player will perform a composition by Clayton based on a traditional East African harvest song. During the performance, the score will be indicated by light bulbs and colored flags. This simple visual system lets non-musicians participate, and will remain installed for duration of the festival. The slowly-changing US Threat colors constituted a song of fear, war, and suspicion. Enkutatash seeks to transform that it into its opposite: a song of planting, harvest, sustenance and seasonal time. Ethiopia has a unique calendar system whose New Year occurs on September 11th. This holiday is called ‘Enkutatash’, and is a celebration of family, neighbors, and yearly cycles. Clayton’s Enkutatash takes its name and premier date from this as an alternative to the geopolitically fraught connotations of 9/11 -- transforming a political warning into communal music.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
There's gonna be a NY sneak preview too
― curmudgeon, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I think tomorrow the 5th bit I am not seeing the details anywhere
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/djrupture/enkutatash-preview-excerpt-free-performance-in-dc-thurs-sept-11
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 04:44 (nine years ago) link
Might get rained out
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 September 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
No rain. A mix of minimal avante-classical choral vocals with Ethiopian instrumentation and vocals...Kinda interesting though dull at times
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 September 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
Just pointing out the 2015 Mutamassik (Giulia Loli) release, Symbols Follow is out and its the best thing I've heard of its kin in some while.
Most if not all, in disjointed order, in this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWlVGWCwsc&list=UUGCKxBp-vrR_wiLlkXV8IFg
― gate gate paragate parasamgate (Sanpaku), Thursday, 1 October 2015 04:31 (eight years ago) link
He's got a book, and is talking about it in NYC tonight with J Shep. I'm curious about it, but haven't read it.
Jace Clayton With Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Travels in Twenty-First-Century Music and Digital Culture is the debut book by Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture. The book takes readers around the world to investigate how a broad spectrum of cultures have responded to and incorporated new technologies into their musical forms.
7 pm at McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 September 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link