Tigerbeat6
2004
Special Gunpowder
About This Album
Although he made his name with a pair of dense, chaotic mix albums, DJ /rupture's full-length production debut, Special Gunpowder, has holes wide enough to drive a mixing desk through. That's capable of upsetting most /rupture fans, who have looked to the man for the most grinding, fast-paced records to come out in the new millennium. Jace Clayton has interests beyond digital hardcore, though, and most of his listeners have followed him as he's added influences ranging from the most polished of commercial rap to the hardest of ragga dancehall to the most exotic of Middle Eastern music. With all sorts of fans in his pocket, /rupture could have produced any one of a dozen different records, while still satisfying at least segments of his audience. Oddly, Special Gunpowder isn't any of those records; it's no rewrite of Minesweeper Suite with his own productions substituting for those from his crate, it's not a continuation of his fusion mix with Mutamassik from earlier in 2004 (Shotgun Wedding, Vol. 1: The Bidoun Sessions), and it's not even a strictly ragga record -- though he spends more time here with ragga-influenced music than any other form. Special Gunpowder is different because it reflects all of Clayton's widely divergent interests.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,7,8,10,11 and 13)

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