Uproot: Travels in 21st‑Century Music and Digital Culture

In 2001, Jace Clayton was an amateur DJ who recorded a three‑turntable, sixty‑minute mix called Gold Teeth Thiefand put it online to share with his friends. Uproot is a guided tour of this newly opened cultural space, mapped with both his own experiences and his relationships with other industry game‑changers such as M.I.A. and Pirate Bay. With humor, insight, and expertise, Clayton illuminates the connections between a Congolese hotel band and the indie rock scene, Mexican surfers and Israeli techno, Japanese record collectors and hidden rain‑forest treasure, and offers an unparalleled understanding of music in a digital age. Uproot takes readers behind the turntable decks to tell a story that only a DJ — and writer — of this caliber can tell.