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Artist: DJ RUPTURE Title: Minesweeper Suite
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW045CD
Price: $9.25 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/26/02
***Born near Boston, based in Madrid, DJ /Rupture captured the world's imagination with Gold Teeth Thief, a "stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix" that embodies "the spirit of the best bootleg mixes - bumping, brash, and without borders," according to Vibe's four-star review in their April 2002 issue. With similar hyperbolic raves in The Wire, Urb, and German magazine De:Bug (which named /Rupture "best DJ in the world"), it is close to impossible to ignore the powerfully syncretic musical imagination at work here, nurtured on the one hand by New York's legendary illbient scene and by notions of the African diaspora on the other. Minesweeper Suite is DJ /Rupture's first full-length statement and response to the world since it swallowed the delicious Gold Teeth Thief mix with a thump and a booty-shake, and uses the forum to tear some of hip hop's most familiar battle breaks into arguments that reconstruct "the missing links between Dead Prez and Middle Eastern dub selector Muslimgauze," to quote Vibe again. Mahmoud Fadi, Aphasic, Disc, Cul De Sac, Rotator, Cex, Gregory Whitehead, Bubba Sparxxx, Kid6ye6, J-Boogie, DAT Politics, Borbetomagus, Alliyah, DJ Scud, So Takahashi and Donna Summer all find a home in DJ /Rupture's realm, where squalls of noise and dub concrEete 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; the result is a post-colonial, post-apocalyptic work that the world needs now more than ever.
  • The follow-up to one of 2001's most acclaimed releases by an artist with consistent support from labels like Tigerbeat6, Kool-Pop, Peaceoff, Brooklyn Beats, BSI Recordings, and Toneburst Collective
  • Summer and fall tour dates in the USA and Europe, including an appearance at 2002 SONAR Festival

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Artist: DJ RUPTURE Title: Special Gunpowder #1
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 MEOW107
Price: $4.00 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 11/1/04
***Taken in by raggamuffins, punk technoids, indy hipsters, junglists, peers, and austere critics alike, DJ Rupture is the new face of urban music -- the potent sound of genrebending and overcrowded city life, a post-cultural broken mirror that mashes hiphop, techno, reggae, Afro-Cuban, spoken word, bohemian rhapsodies, folk music, chansons, breakbeats, avant-garde noise, and jazz through the strainer of a DJ's mentality. Concentrated and exhilarating, Special Gunpowder is a declaration of musical independence, an intimate and complex work where pop sensibility leaves the comfort zone to explore new directions. In short, Rupture has traveled a world of sound to create one of the most soulful albums by an electronic producer in years. With guest appearances by Ghislain Poirier and Kit Clayton, vocals by Sister Nancy (the cut "Little More Oil" has been licensed to SoulJazz for a 12-inch), Max Turner (Puppetmastaz), Arnaud Michniak (of French cult experimental rock band Programme), ragga heavyweights Junior Cat, Wayne Lonesome, and Wicked Act, Eugene Robinson (of Bay Area avant-metal group Oxbow), and poet Elizabeth Alexander, Rupture brings together connections only he could have foreseen. Special Gunpowder is a major statement from one of the most forwardlooking producers and DJs around.

Track listing:

1. Little More Oil (feat. Sister Nancy)
2. Leech Wisdom
3. Overture: Watermelon City (feat. Elizabeth Alexander)
4. Leaves
5. Musquito (Club Foot Remix)
6. Bonechip
7. Flop We (feat. Junior Cat)

  • Tracks from CD released September 27 '04, spread over two discrete 12-inches
  • With twelve guest vocalists including reggae legend Sister Nancy, and guest musicians including Kit Clayton and Ghislain Poirier

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    Special Gunpowder

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Artist: DJ RUPTURE Title: Special Gunpowder #2
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 MEOW108
Price: $4.00 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 11/1/04
***Taken in by raggamuffins, punk technoids, indy hipsters, junglists, peers, and austere critics alike, DJ Rupture is the new face of urban music -- the potent sound of genrebending and overcrowded city life, a post-cultural broken mirror that mashes hiphop, techno, reggae, Afro-Cuban, spoken word, bohemian rhapsodies, folk music, chansons, breakbeats, avant-garde noise, and jazz through the strainer of a DJ's mentality. Concentrated and exhilarating, Special Gunpowder is a declaration of musical independence, an intimate and complex work where pop sensibility leaves the comfort zone to explore new directions. In short, Rupture has traveled a world of sound to create one of the most soulful albums by an electronic producer in years. With guest appearances by Ghislain Poirier and Kit Clayton, vocals by Sister Nancy (the cut "Little More Oil" has been licensed to SoulJazz for a 12-inch), Max Turner (Puppetmastaz), Arnaud Michniak (of French cult experimental rock band Programme), ragga heavyweights Junior Cat, Wayne Lonesome, and Wicked Act, Eugene Robinson (of Bay Area avant-metal group Oxbow), and poet Elizabeth Alexander, Rupture brings together connections only he could have foreseen. Special Gunpowder is a major statement from one of the most forwardlooking producers and DJs around.

Track listing:

1. Taqasim
2. Can't Stop It (feat. Max Turner)
3. Osaka-Ku Memory Depot
4. Je Suis Le Peuple Sans Visage (feat. Arnaud Michniak)
5. Lonesome Side (feat. Lily)
6. Mole In The Ground (feat. Sindhu Zagoren)
7. The Book That Can't Be Opened At Either End (feat. Eugene Robinson)

  • Tracks from CD released September 27 '04, spread over two discrete 12-inches

    If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the iTunes button immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to the iTunes Music Service page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

    Special Gunpowder

    For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
Artist: DJ RUPTURE Title: Special Gunpower
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW105
Price: $9.25 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 9/27/04
*** After countless compilation appearances, remixes, and DJ mix CDs, it's startling that DJ /Rupture has arrived at his debut album only now. Taken in by raggamuffins, punk technoids, indy hipsters, junglists, peers, and austere critics alike, he is the new face of urban music-- the potent sound of genre-bending and overcrowded city life, a post-cultural broken mirror that mashes hiphop, techno, reggae, Afro-Cuban, spoken word, bohemian rhapsodies, folk music, chansons, breakbeats, avantgarde noise, and jazz through the strainer of a DJ's mentality.

Concentrated and exhilarating, Special Gunpowder is a declaration of musical independence, an intimate and complex work where pop sensibility leaves the comfort zone to explore new directions. In short, Rupture has traveled a world of sound to create one of the most soulful albums by an electronic producer in years. Rupture is as confident with studio gear as he is behind the turntables, and not one to shy away from multi-culturalism; the album contains lyrics in three languages (English, Spanish, and French). He sessioned with Western and Arabic musicians in his Barcelona studio. There isn't a turntable in sight. (A little known fact: before he left NYC for Spain, Rupture played in a band with eight-time Grammy winner Norah Jones.) With guest appearances by Ghislain Poirier and Kit Clayton, vocals by Sister Nancy (the cut "Little More Oil" has been licensed to SoulJazz for a 12-inch), Max Turner (Puppetmastaz), Arnaud Michniak (of French cult experimental rock band Programme), ragga heavyweights Junior Cat, Wayne Lonesome, and Wicked Act, Eugene Robinson (of Bay Area avant-metal group Oxbow), and poet Elizabeth Alexander, Rupture brings together connections only he could have foreseen. Special Gunpowder is a major statement from one of the most forward-looking producers and DJs around.

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