Truancy Sessions S03 E03: Icarus Redux

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DJ /rupture’s “Gold Teeth Thief” arrived in 2001 as one of the first studio mixtapes distributed online—a three-turntable collision of breakcore, ragga, and Arabic folk that predated Girl Talk-style mashups by years and redrew the boundaries of DJ mixes. For the latest episode of Truancy Sessions, Maryland-based selector Icarus Redux takes on the ambitious task of reimagining that landmark work for 2025.

Icarus Redux’s trajectory into DJing began at George Washington University’s radio station in Washington, DC, where his show Sampledelia interrogated the art and interconnectedness of sampling. His education deepened through the dancefloors and warehouse parties of Los Angeles during that scene’s fertile 2014–2016 era, an internship at Ninja Tune’s LA office, and immersion in scenes spanning Minneapolis, India, San Francisco, and his current home in the DC metro area. Along the way, DJing transformed from communal release into something more intimate—what he describes as “a hyperlinked audio diary” where rabbit holes of hyperspecific sounds, sentimental impulses, and radical politics congeal into autobiographical works. He approaches