BOMB 125/Fall 2013 BOMB 125/Fall 2013 cover  Jace Clayton  by
Alan Gilbert  Web Only/Posted Apr 2010, MUSIC  Jace Clayton aka
DJ /rupture. Photo by Stefano Giovaninni.  Jace Clayton is an
artist of various talents and genres. He first gained
international attention as DJ /rupture with his self-released
2001 mixtape, Gold Teeth Thief. It strikingly combined hip-hop,
reggae, dancehall, breakbeat, and breakcore in a way that had
never quite been done before. I first heard a slice of it on a
late-night WFMU radio program, the station where, fittingly
enough, Clayton currently hosts a show of his own.  Originally
distributed for free online, Gold Teeth Thief became an
underground hit. Its sound was raw and jarring, yet beautiful,
smart, and intuitive in the materials it chose to brush against
each other. Over the past decade, Clayton as DJ /rupture has
released a number of mixes, as well as collections of original
solo and collaborative material. His most recent “official”
release, Uproot (2008), is more dubby-amb