Jace Clayton is an American DJ, writer, and interdisciplinary artist. He was a member of the Boston collective Toneburst in the mid-1990s. Under the name DJ /rupture, he released the internet mixtape Gold Teeth Thief in 2001. The 68-minute mix was named one of the records of the year by The Wire. Clayton released the albums Special Gunpowder in 2004 and Patches in 2008. In 2013, he issued the album The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, which featured David Friend and Emily Manzo performing Eastman's compositions "Evil Nigger" and "Gay Guerilla". Clayton hosted the weekly radio show Mudd Up! on WFMU from 2007 to 2013. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in 2012 to develop the Sufi Plug Ins software suite. Clayton joined the Music/Sound faculty of the MFA program at Bard College in 2013. He published the book Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture in 2016.
