fatima al qadiri ILM edition, (+ ayshay + future brown)

Fatima Al Qadiri ‏ @FatimaAlQadiri
@[me] yup, may 22 is the release date!

okay dennnnn

http://soundcloud.com/unouno/fatima-al-qadiri-corpcore-kingdom

REMIQSIS. I LIKE THE REMIQSIS.

yeah, it's a pretty solid collection

Wish I still had all my Bryce 3D turquoise iMac .jpegs.

Apparently the next Fade to Mind release will be by Fatima al Qadiri?

!

http://www.thefader.com/2012/10/03/stream-fatima-al-qadiri-ghost-raid/

I wish I hadn't read the blurb : (

ameliorative coos

that's some "synth gurgles" shit

Oh, looking forward to this. Only thing I could say that about on Fade to Mind.

Nodding my head @ that post.

:/

those nguzu/mikeq/rizzla eps are 100% classics

Didn't know Mike Q had a release, will check this out!

lol some people seem to go out of their way to state how much they don't like fade to mind

really good interview with her in the fader

http://www.thefader.com/2012/11/12/interview-fatima-al-qadiri/

she is awesome

I wanted to get more profesh.

<3

Does the Desert Strike EP count for 'albums' in the EoY poll?

Also, there wasn't any stuff out as Ayshay this year I missed, was there?

sure; no

tbh I'm not as impressed with Desert Strike as GSX :/

I like it a lot more, but then I never listened to GSX as much because I was too busy listening to 'Warn-U' on repeat when I found out about her.

GSX is very much my favorite thing she's done.

Fair play, I think she's awesome in general - I guess my favour lies with the less beat-heavy stuff? I dunno, could be talking out of my ass there, I should go back and give it more of a chance now I'm not just rotating the one track.

I live and die for the beat :)

Not beat-centric here but the vibrant lushness of tracks like Hip-Hop Spa are my favourite thing about FAQ's music. I do like Desert Strike but I suspect I'll find 25 other things I prefer.

tbh I'm not as impressed with Desert Strike as GSX :/

― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah same here - I think desert strike is supposed to be more 'reserved' and 'meditative' but unfortch for me that just means 'more boring'

did anyone check out the EP of remixes of GSX?

Fair play, I think she's awesome in general - I guess my favour lies with the less beat-heavy stuff? I dunno, could be talking out of my ass there

― emil.y, Friday, November 30, 2012 1:42 AM (19 hours ago)

m8 what ever happened to the traditional english 'arse'

Anything new?

https://soundcloud.com/future-brown/wanna-party-ft-tink/s-zjDxm

yessssssssssssssssssss

:)

Album announced, on Hyperdub.

http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/11/fatima-al-qadiri-signs-to-hyperdub-for-debut-album-asiatisch/

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Whhop whoop!

looking forward to this, saw her dj a couple of weeks ago and she was terrific

weirdly not into any of the future brown stuff so far tho

Yeah, I saw her as well. Amazing. Wasn't expecting it to be so good.

‘Asiatisch’ is a provocation which asks more questions than it answers. The title is the German word for Asian. Unlike its title, however, the music on ‘Asiatisch’ revolves around the fantasies of east Asia as refracted through pulpy Western pop culture, in particular, Hollywood, literary fiction, music, cartoons and advertising. Fatima asks what is meant by the term ‘Asian’ in a digital age of viral interchange and the hi-speed trading of cultural bytes, the concept of ‘shanzhai’ proves pivotal, a term whose meaning stems from a wild, out of control zone of banditry, but which has come to be used to refer to the Chinese counterfeiting of Western brands and goods.

While ‘sinogrime’ has had many copyists over the last few years, ‘Asiatisch’ is really the first record that attempts to articulate this weird complex of sonic interchanges between the West and China. With the exception of the opening track, ‘Shanzhai’, a haunting cover of ‘Nothing Compares to You’ with nonsensical Mandarin lyrics, and the shimmering ‘Loading Beijing’, ‘Wudang’ and ‘Jade Stairs’ which sample and distort classical Chinese poetry staging an epic confrontation between China’s ancient soul and the onslaught of the industrial factory machine, most of the tracks blend mallets, bells, gongs, flutes, steel drums and choral atmospherics with the searing synth-brass and the skittering drums of grime, playing melodies that are inflected as much by classic R&B as to synthetic versions of traditional Chinese music. On “Dragon Tattoo” for example, stereotypical iconography of imagined China is slotted into a threatening, robotic R&B format. The carefree pirating of Western brands blurs into a soft-synth pirating of Chinese musical signs.

Tracklist:

1- Shanzhai (For Shanzhai Biennial) (feat. Helen Feng)
2 – Szechuan
3 – Wudang
4 – Loading Bejing
5 – Hainan Island
6 – Shenzhen
7 - Dragon Tattoo
8 – Forbidden City
9 – Shanghai Freeway
10 – Jade Stars

not sure what i think about this album. it's certainly...interesting?

I like that writeup

http://i.imgur.com/cMqCrFi.jpg

Maybe she should have just called it China tho

lol the "write-up" is the press release

It's a good write-up

Or called it shanzhai - remember seeing a talk about this ages ago, it originally means fortress or stronghold - referring to the secured places where counterfeit goods were produced by crime/black market syndicates, often in the countryside. Since then it's being broadly associated with pirate cultures and parodies, etc.

I like the idea of having a "fortress phone" tho.

really want to hear this

You can hear 'Shanghai Freeway' as the first track on Benji B's show here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03whf88

Sounds alright, similar to the EPs, but I'm really keen to check out this "haunting cover" of ‘Nothing Compares 2U’!

Someone's excited about the new FA-Q stuff...

http://distilleryimage8.ak.instagram.com/d16c4d62a78f11e3b2e912fba4e20b68_8.jpg

the explanation of the title & concept is interesting but this - most of the tracks blend mallets, bells, gongs, flutes, steel drums and choral atmospherics with the searing synth-brass and the skittering drums of grime, playing melodies that are inflected as much by classic R&B as to synthetic versions of traditional Chinese music - sounds horrendous. was thinking this morning how in the 90s people would put Hip Hop Beats over everything, & how dated that sounds now, & this sounds like it might the equivalent. I will give this a go though, she always comes across well even though none of her music has clicked yet

This is really quite marvelous: https://soundcloud.com/hyperdub/fatima-al-qadari-szechuan

This album is reliably great and weird.

More and more with FAQ I feel like my original, perverse-at-the-time flash on Bel Canto's White-Out Conditions is the correct critical framework.

What I heard of Medieval Femme sounded great tho maybe more to admire than something I'd go to repeatedly.

Someone did a video edit of the strikingly eerie 'Malaak' over clips from the Dune remake and it did work all too well.