dj /rupture
If you haven't heard, dj /rupture is the hottest thing going right now, picking up rave critical reviews and being spotted on the top 10 lists of the likes of Hrvatski[1]. Go listen to his notorious mix-cd gold teeth thief right now, and check out the unbelievably eclectic tracklisting. Definitely going to have to track down a copy of his new mix, Minesweeper Suite, soon.
While we're at it, a tentative new music shopping list:
1. Sigur Ros - ( )
2. Biosphere - Shenzhou
3. Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski) - Playthroughs
4. Kim Hiorthoy - Hei
[1] Hrvatski's recent pitchfork article includes this choice quotation on the state of modern electronica:
I have visions of a traveling caravan of brutal-prog bands coming to my town, activated sterno spaying out of the tips of their instruments, laying waste to so many apathetic indie groups just keeping on keeping on (add the ones who, like, just discovered garage rock yesterday and decided to drop the samplers Radiohead told them to buy in a dream and 'get back to their roots'). Should the levels of dada-in-practice raise any higher, we all are surely doomed (nowhere to go but down). If only this would catch on like said wild fire and my PO box would suddenly become flooded with 99-track CD-R demos totaling eight-minutes instead of so many bland sexless VST-instrument preset, drumbreaks-sampled-wholesale-from-akai-library-cds, 16th-note-quantized, ableton live/aol 7.0 IDM joints with cracked architecture covers made by white multiple-computer-owning males 18-25 with little-to-no social grace and rejection issues, that would be very, very... Gratifying.
