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‘Music is about pleasure and fluidity and endless waves of influence’

New York-based DJ, writer and producer Jace Clayton, aka DJ/rupture, has been a leading figure in the documentation and celebration of “non-Western” music ever since his Gold Teeth Thief mix became a viral internet phenomenon in 2001. Indeed, through his mixes, parties, Dutty Artz label, WFMU radio show, and his popular Mudd Up! blog, he has helped widen dance music’s discursive parameters to include everything from autotuned rai pop to cumbia and reggaeton. He has just released his latest collection, the dubstep-focused Uproot.
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“We are existing in the spaces between, where others are not, where most never look.”

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Finders Keepers Records have earned a reputation for boldly treading some of musical history’s less travelled paths, compiling and reissuing funky Anatolian rock, dusty Welsh psych-pop, creeped-out Eastern Bloc film soundtracks and primitive radiophonica. (more…)

This year’s Nightmare Before Christmas – ATP’s annual, headlong musical assault on Butlins holiday resort in Minehead – is curated by none other than brusque stooges Melvins, of Washington, USA (with a little help from his highness Mike Patton).

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