WOEBOT

DJ/Rupture
Low Income Tomorrowland
TAX RECORDS

Everyone’s favourite Middle-Eastern-inflected breakcore artist and pioneer of improbable cantilevered R’n’B and sino-Techno mashups returns with a mix on a par original breakthrough standard the prescient “Gold Teeth Thief”. GTT quite simply the most accurate soundtrack to the devastation and confusion of 911 and one which succeeded in adroitly embracing the full global picture at a time when all eyes were on the USA, this long before the Middle-East’s own perspective was broadly acknowledged.

Eclipsing the excellent “Minesweeper Suite”, L.I.T. was originally commissioned by the highly-regarded Lemon-Red weblog, at once signalling blogs continuing, even burgeoning, impact on the mediascape (Rupture himself blogging at http://www.negrophonic.com/words/) and the reason for the mix’s enticing loose-limbed frenzy. As though without the pressure of delivering for CD release Jace has produced something, in the most artistic sense, personal and quietly adventurous. We find herein amongst other improbabilities a Tracey Chapman remix!

Picking highlights is at once crass, so intermeshed and multi-tiered is the mix. Add to the confusion of origin, the collection’s meta-philosophical point, of distinct tunes (Clayton opting for Grime hit “Pow” producer Dexplicit’s remix of MIA’s “Pull Up The People” above the original mix) tracks like Bong-Ra’s “Old Skool Armageddon” are revisionist Ragga-Jungle where hi-jacked Dancehall samples are spooled over skidding Amen breaks has questions of source further muddied by Rupture overlaying Junior Byles’s roots classic “Fade Away”. The “unit” becomes the focus of one’s evaluation, the fluid nimble-toed raps of David Banner’s “Crank It Up”, the still-glowing solder on the breaks of Krumble’s “Backward Country Boy Explosion”, Sizzla’s satisfyingly coarse rasp, the unfailingly enervating gunshots. The CD Inner somewhat tellingly lists L.I.T’s “Main Ingredients” for to break-out its individual components would presumably take too long.

Its particularly heartening to see Clayton embrace London’s Grime, marking him as the single globe-trotting internationalist to be alert to its undisputed power and unfazed by the (hardly overwhelming!) obstacles in the way of getting a handle on it. The under-rated East Connection’s “We’re Ready” and Jammer cohort Lewi White’s “1 & All” feature in L.I.T and the CD+ format allows Rupture sneak in a set he’s turned in for Hamburg’s BTTB FM, one heavier yet on Grime as well as taking in his usual coordinates of Crunk, Dancehall, the music of the North African Muslim continuum, and Squatcore.