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...Basically I’m broke,” laughs Jace Clayton ’97, a.k.a. DJ /rupture, “so I’m incredibly picky about buying records.” Thanks to the Internet, though, /rupture has quickly become a household name among fans of bleeding-edge dance music. His bootleg mix album Gold Teeth Thief, which met universal acclaim last year in staple publications such as The Wire and Vibe, has been downloaded by thousands from /rupture’s Soot Records website (www.negrophonic.com). Some consider it one of the best DJ...
Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
...junior, Clayton started an audiovisual collective named Toneburst with like-minded friends from Harvard and the Massachusetts College of Art. Though it has since fallen into abeyance, Toneburst set a precedent for leftfield electronics in Boston’s house and techno-centric club scene. The group hosted DJ and live performances that culminated in a self-produced disc of excursions into hip-hop, jungle...
True to his penchant for change, Clayton was also involved with activism at Harvard, directly targeting the outspoken Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield ’53 at one point. DJ /rupture’s mixes aren’t overtly political, but they do “make the space for political discussion to happen,” as he puts...
With three turntables and a mixer, /rupture communicates through layered grooves. An ideal selector who skirts boundaries rather than being confined within them, he builds bridges between musical cultures as only a good DJ can, articulating forgotten connections while suggesting unforeseen ones. Beats from Kingston to Brooklyn engage with seminal musique concrète; rap, ragga and spoken word are given equal voice. As dance music becomes increasingly sanitized, conveniently packaged and endlessly regurgitated for the consumer, DJ /rupture provides a slap in the face, reminding us why this music was important in the first place...