Burn It by Filastine

Thankfully this hugely accomplished debut album from Filastine on DJ Rupture's Soot label is one that will stay on your playlist without fear of deletion. Taking influence from the four corners of the world; blending Brazillian funk with Jamaican riddims, Indian vocal honey with French rapping... this is a veritable world cruise (albeit without the pub-singer crooning). Filastine manages to distil his worldly influences without coming across trite or contrived, never while listening to 'Burn It' did I stop and get cynical, it's just not that kind of record. An excellent achievement and a huge recommendation - don't burn it, BUY IT.

Grey Filastine is an electronic music composer and multimedia artist working to undermine borders. Spin magazine calls his music “bass music for crumbling urban futures,” and Pitchfork says it “sounds less like `world’ music and more like music from another world.” Another world is exactly what he aims to create, using sound, video, design to express a radically different vision of the possible.

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