Dirty Bomb by Filastine
Filastine's 2006 debut album Burn It made inroads among music fans from the hiphop, world, electronic, and experimental scenes. The album peaked at #15 in France's national independent radio charts, and it received airplay from Mary Anne Hobbes & John Peel. The CD was snatched up and re-released by French label Jarring Effects, Japanese label Romz, and US anarcho-collective Crimethinc.
With his sophmore album, Dirty Bomb, Filastine's gritty transnational soundclash of urban rhythm returns. Freely splicing dubstep with balkan brass or hiphop with bollywood, Dirty Bomb parties in the mud puddle of our increasingly polluted world. Kick drums beat out rapid patterns for dances yet to be invented. Rich acoustic strings merge with programmed synths. Listen to "Fitnah" for proof that a song doesn't need to be in English nor in 4/4 to be a mesmerizing pop wonder. Each vocal here resulted from an on-site collaboration. Aboriginal Australian Wire MC and Japan's ECD (indy hiphop icons of their respective countries) rap over the contorted crunk of "Hungry Ghosts". Closing the album is teen gypsy La Perla, recorded in a squatted cave in
Granada.
Tracklist
| 1. | Singularities | 3:53 |
| 2. | B'talla | 3:12 |
| 3. | From The South To The West | 1:15 |
| 4. | The Motherfucking East | 2:42 |
| 5. | Fitnah (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney) | 3:12 |
| 6. | Marxa | 4:10 |
| 7. | Con Las Manos en la Masa (feat. Malena D'Alessio) | 2:47 |
| 8. | No Lock No Key (feat. DJ Collage) | 2:43 |
| 9. | Blung | 3:20 |
| 10. | Bitrate Sneers | 3:39 |
| 11. | Hungry Chosts (feat. Wire MC & ECD) | 3:33 |
| 12. | Desordenador | 3:14 |
| 13. | Stereofonic Streetscape Blowout | 0:59 |
| 14. | The Sinking Ship | 3:14 |
| 15. | They Move Like Somnambulists | 0:47 |
| 16. | Como Fugitivos (feat. La Perla) | 2:06 |
| 17. | Strategy of Tension | 3:44 |
Credits
All sound built and produced bt G.Filastine .Collaborating musicians:
B´talla: voice/words:Rabah.
To the motherfucking east: keys Tho Tho
Fitnah: voice: Jessica Skeletalia Kenny, words: Lagu Melayu Klasik.
Con las manos en la masa: voice/words: Malena D'Alessio.
No lock no key: voice/words Dj Collage.
Blung: ney flute: Seth Ayyaz.
Bitrate sneers: keys: Tho Tho
Hungry ghosts: voice/lyrics: Wire&me ECD
Desordenador: rhaita flute: Seth Ayyaz, scratching: Ben Green
The sinking ship: guitar: Calvin Hazen.
Strategy of tension: cello: Brent Arnold.
Como fugitivos: bass: Jherek Bischoff, words: Adapted, voice: La Perla
License
All rights reserved.
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.