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DJ /rupture is the pseudonym of Jace Clayton, a New York-based American DJ, writer and interdisciplinary artist. In addition to his music, Clayton has established a blog identity with musical and non-musical posts on his website, "mudd up!". His book, Uprooot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture, was published in 2016.

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If there's anything I have learned, it's to sort of be sensitive to what - to how much - to how creative the act of listening is and to how powerful the act of listening is.

Act, Creative, Listening, Powerful, Sensitive, Sort

Music is a conversation between people and their community, you know, people and - and deejaying, it is a way of amplifying that conversation and kind of putting that conversation on blast in a way. But at a very basic level, it's records talking to records.

Community, Kind, People, Talking

So much of what deejays like myself do is, I'm very interested in - I'm constantly looking for new music, constantly digging, but then also I am thinking about how to present it in a way that kind of makes sense to people who are less - sort of less with their hands in it than I am.

Hands, Interested, Kind, People, Thinking, Way

I'm looking for the surprises, you know, and the unexpected moments of technology, the unexpected moments of musical creation.

Looking, Moments, Musical, Surprises, Technology, Unexpected

I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.

Makers, Taste, Think, Thinking, Yes

I'm one of the people who will hear a song in a taxi and be like, stop, stop the car. Like, let's go back. What was that?

Car, Hear, Like, People, Song, Stop

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

Cities, Foreign, Moving, People, Time

I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.

Conversation, Look, Musician, Side, Technology, Tools

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