Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture

Series produced by WFMU

Caption: Mudd Up!
Mudd Up! 

New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghrebi. International exclusives.

Jace Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. Performing as DJ Rupture, Clayton has toured internationally, DJ’ed in a band with Norah Jones, done two John Peel Sessions, and was turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Recent collaborators include guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and filmmaker Jem Cohen. He has lectured at Harvard University and other educational institutions in Europe and South America. Clayton’s essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Bidoun, and n+1, and he contributes regularly to Frieze, The Fader, and The National.

As DJ /rupture, Clayton has released several critically acclaimed albums and mix CDs, starting with 2001?s influential & groundbreaking live mix CD, Gold Teeth Thief, which earned a 4-star review in VIBE. Clayton maintains a busy international schedule performing in clubs around the world as well as venues such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA’s PS1, The Apollo Theater, the Pitchfork Festival and Spain’s SONAR. His album Uproot was named one of the 10 Best Albums of 2008 by Pitchfork. He maintains a blog, Mudd Up!, and hosts a weekly radio show on WFMU, which is re-broadcast on several European stations. Hide full description

Jace Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. Performing as DJ Rupture, Clayton has toured internationally, DJ’ed in a band with Norah Jones, done two John Peel Sessions, and was turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Recent collaborators include guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and filmmaker Jem Cohen. He has lectured at Harvard University and other educational institutions in Europe and South America. Clayton’s essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Bidoun, and n+1, and he contributes regularly to Frieze, The Fader, and The National. As DJ /rupture, Clayton has released several critically acclaimed albums and mix CDs, starting with 2001?s influential & groundbreaking live mix CD, Gold Teeth Thief, which earned a 4-star review in... Show full description


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Part two of a special two-hour Mudd Up! special. This hour features a live mix by DJ/Rupture himself at the turntables.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Part one of a special two-hour edition of Mudd Up!, featuring live mixes from DJ/rupture and guest DJ NK.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Diaspora, identity, and electronically-assisted traditional sounds from the Global South and beyond.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Mudd Up!
Six tracks to free your mind with DJ/Rupture

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
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Six feet -- or is it two meters? -- under, with DJ/Rupture.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghre...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Mudd Up!
New bass and beats with an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghrebi. International exclusives.

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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Music that is always new and always fresh: international exclusives, new bass and beats. Informative and passionate commentary from one of the most...

  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: DJ Rupture
International exclusives. New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta syn...

  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: DJ Rupture
International exclusives. New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta syn...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: DJ/Rupture
DJ Rupture talked to Daniel Hernandez, author of new book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century about...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:06
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New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghre...

Bought by KMXT and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2