Filastine - Dirty Bomb

Grey Filastine is a producer/percussionist based in Barcelona but rarely found there. Among his 60+ gigs last year you might have caught him at a London club, on a junk raft floating down the Mississippi, at a tiny breakcore party in Osaka, or in front of forty thousand at a Casablanca festival. In any context it gets riotous- Filastine bangs out his music, jumping between a tangle of electronics, acoustic percussion, and an amplified shopping cart, firing off riddims and synchronized live video. 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 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. • Dirty Bomb comes hot off the success of Filastine's new 12" on
Tigerbeat6's Shockout label with partner Maga Bo (in their Sonar Calibrado duo project) • Filastine will be doing comprehensive touring in support: Europe, UK, US, Australia • Dirty Bomb to receive full press service in US & UK If it's otherworldly melodies with sultry female vocals you want, try tracks 5 and 17. For low-end bangers enhanced by MCs, try tracks 7, 8, and 11. For beautiful instrumentals, tracks 14 and 16.

01 Singularities
02 B'talla (ft. Rabah)
03 From The South To The West
04 To The Motherfucking East
05 Fitnah (ft. Jessica Skeletalia Kenney)
06 Marxa
07 Con Los Manos En La Masa (ft. Malena D'Alessio)
08 No Lock No Key (ft. DJ Collage)
09 Blung
10 Bitrate Sneers
11 Hungry Ghosts (ft. Wire MC and ECD)
12 Desordenador
13 Stereofonic Streetscape Blowout
14 The Sinking Ship
15 They Move Like Somnambulists
16 Strategy of Tension
17 Como Fugitivos (ft. La Perla)

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