XLR8R TV Ep. 106: DJ /rupture

3,682 views · Published 21 April 2009 · 5:22 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: XLR8R · 2009 · Music

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Influential DJ, producer, and label head Jace Clayton digs deep into the world of digital cumbia bootlegs to find gold.

Since his mixtape heard 'round the world, Gold Teeth Thief, dropped in 2001, Clayton (a.k.a. DJ /rupture) has become well-known for telling us what we should be listening to. For the past couple years, he's been knee-deep in cumbia and Latin beats. Here, he teaches us about cumbia and takes us to bootleg CD shops in San Francisco's Mission District to sort the wheat from the chaff — not an easy feat in the world of digital piracy.

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