Gold Teeth Thief is an influential mixtape by DJ and producer DJ /rupture, self-released in 2001 as a CD-R and internet download, and then re-released by Violent Turd (a sublabel of Tigerbeat6) in August 2002. It was named one of the "50 Records of the Year" by The Wire in 2001.
This live recorded DJ mix crams 43 tracks into 68 minutes, mashing together a wide range of styles from breakcore and ragga to Arabic folk music and even some Paul Simon.
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“I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them but once they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)