Mutamassik + Morgan Craft in NYC by Arthur Jafa
I was pretty much beside myself when I read on Wayne&Wax that Mutamassik had a new (”not to be bought or sold”) album out - download it. I, like Wayne, am a huge fan of her work. Although we have many friends (and even releases on the same label - Soot Records) and colleagues in common, I’ve never actually met her…..I’ve only heard things like, “oh, she left NYC…she’s in Cairo now. or Dubai. Or she said, fuck all of this, I’m not working in this business anymore.” I suppose part of that, at least, is true. According to her website, she has indeed, left Brooklyn and ventured off to Cairo and now to a cave in Tuscany.
I’ve been hugely inspired by her visceral organic sounds that are cut up and manipulated like only digital audio can be. Cut up and reconstructed, respectful to the source, but utterly destroying it at the same time. Einstuerzende Neubauten. Collapsing new buildings. Destroy to create again. Rhythms that trick you into thinking that you understand it and can predict it and then just totally flips it on you. Thick yet minimal textures describing new and unknown (or not so unkown) sonic spaces. This is not the latest “yebo” track from Jozi or Lagos Town or wherever. There is no remix competition. Nor does it have anything to do with being a heavy dance-floor slammer or big, bad banger. Sit up. This is some seriously fucking heavy Transnational Bass.
and she also does art too….
ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY G.LOLI AKA MUTAMASSIK:
Pissing Money and Shitting Bullets (Americans still are)
Self-Auto-Jinn(x) +++
New Filastine mix - “We Are Experiencing Turbulence”
Mr. Grey Filastine, one of the hardest working dudes in the bidness, comes correct. again. with a killer mix. Everything flipped and twisted. get it here. or via the DUTTY ARTZ podcast series.
Infernal Noise Brigade- live in Mexico at street protest
Jazzsteppa- ??
Filastine/Cardopusher – Discontinuities (Singularities remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Fnaire- Lalla Mennana
Filastine/Jahcoozi- Opium Den (Desordenador remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Beats Antique- Oriental Uno (feat. Fanafara Kalashikov)
Oro 11- El Cangrejo
Arena & Etian acapella- Voces RebeldesXXXXX
Filastine/Ill Gates- Pharma Sutra (Fitnah remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Filastine/Maga Bo- Batalha Cotidiana (B’talla remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Chancha Via Circuito- Calzada
Foxdye- Foxdyechek Collision
Frikstailers- Sudaka Invasor
Tego Calderon- Diento de Oro cameo
Sonik Omi- Ye Jawani Hai Mera Jaan
Simbad- Airport Beat 1008
Modeselektor feat. Matt Shadetek- Beirut
Amir Sulaiman- Danger
Sunship feat. Warrior Queen/ Sinden(remix)- Quits
Filastine/Deep Throat X- Con Las Manos En La Masa (remix, from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Madera Limpia- La Lenta (Schlachthofbronx remix)
Bassnectar- Cozza Frenzy
Venetian Snares- Sabbath Dubs
Kray Twinz feat. Twista- What We Do
Suckafish P. Jones- Caribbean Nightmare Agent
Dubchild- Can’t Keep Me Down
Caving- Slimthug
Dog Murras (feat. Propria Lixa)- Vai Levar Galheta
Brasil 96- Batucada
Lightning Bolt- On Fire
Rhythm Collision featuring- Indian Street Music #3 / Sein Sah Thin / Tabuh Winangun Marga / Venetian Snares / Filastine / Drumcorps
Filastine- Como Fugitivos (instrumental version)
with words lifted from:
UK newscasters
Carl Sagan dubbed into castilian spanish
ANC Radio Freedom Broadcast, South Africa, 1969
a US Military Commander
Waking Life
The Century of Self
Spectres of the Spectrum
Slavoj Zizek
and more sources of lost origin
Okay. 1-speed Fukin’ Bike is one of my mostest favoritest artists. Not just because he has bike in his name (or that he’s modest enough to ride a bike with only one speed and call your fukin attention to it), but because he makes songs like, “We Trade You Sting For A Toyota Pick-Up Filled With Weed,” and “I Wipe My Ass With Your Yellow Ribbon.” He lives somewhere outside of Montreal in a plantation of maple trees. he passes the winters making syrup, chopping fire wood and wading through snow that’s too deep for me to even imagine.
He just doesn’t give a flying flip about what anybody thinks - he has arrived to express what’s going on in his head. Period. And, what’s going on in his head is a fantastic riot of information and speed of light association that’s equally as wisely insightful as it is just silly and stupid funny.
On the flip side, his beats are made with the same throwing caution to the wind vibe. anything goes, choruses and verses are far from sacred inventions. He plays drums and distortion pedals and anything electronic mayhem.
He wrote to me and said,
“hello mr maga bo
how are you?
im just hiding out in the woods trying to raise a baby right…
its a good life…
la petite vie i think they call it…
hey i made a record about afghanistan and canada.”
The record is called “Pashto Translator Needed” and it’s free and you should go there right now and download it…..because “Take The Red Out Of The Canadian Flag And You Get Surrender.”
