DJ Foundation - Paradise

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4...according to our Brian on Thu 12 Mar, 2009.

More funny old noise courtesy of the intriguing Metal Postcard folks. Well 'Paradise' is actually the debut full length LP from DJ Foundation, who as an Iraqi born mash-up DJ/sound "terrorist" of some repute (and obvious talent) has been making both his elders, the religiously pious & prejudicial apoplectic with confusion & rage for a few years now, whilst simultaneously delighting the open minded electronic music lover. We also gave him SOTW in 2006. He's a bit of a cynical prankster, mixing some fabulous religion-baiting sound snippets up with some ghetto electro & deliciously funky breaks that actually stand up on their own as quality chunks of electronica & dancefloor genius. Then everything's skillfully spliced with politically acidic/astute sampledelica that tears the worlds devious moralising apart with a hearty grimace! He may be stepping on some toes here but he's obviously seen just how much power, religion & greed have ravaged his homeland & how much of a cure-all music & intelligent humour is. Excellent, a lovely gatefold double, limited to 500 copies only. Don't leave this contro-baby on the steps of your local mosque for Allah's sake though! Stand out track for us all is 'G-Had' on side 2. Let us know your thoughts......

"Paradise" is loaded with uncleared
samples including extracts of several
world-famous recordings. Arriving
alongside the decline of copyright
music as a protectable asset, this
album represents the vanguard of a
new era of sampling. Unburdened by
the need for clearance, which
previously restricted sampling to labels
with the buying-power to acquire
rights, DJ Foundation and like-minded
artists are free to advance soundcollage
and musical quotation to a
new level of creativity.

DJ Foundation is a 23 year-old resident of Mosul, still one of
Iraq's most troubled cities. From a battered PC he plunders
global music and tv sites, fusing his love of arab pop and
western disco with acute news sense and dungeon humour.
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Two years after finding Foundation on Myspace, Metal Postcard
brings you his debut double-vinyl "Paradise", the first major
musical account of the 'War On Terror' and the early 21st
century. The album laces addictive dancepop with a huge vocal
cast of religious leaders, politicians, pop stars and the public.
It’s one mad planet under God's groove - from the bullet-stomp
of "All Night" to "Alaluyah"'s religious bedlam, through
culture-collisions "God Is Dead" and "GHad", to the final 18-
minute masterpiece "Going Out In Style".
DJ Foundation's approach is fearless and grimly ironic. His
recent singles "God Is Dead " and "USA" provoked outrage and
admiration in equal measure and from all sides:
"as ballsy and provocative as one could imagine, rich in humour
and fearless critique" (Drowned In Sound, "God Is Dead")
"as funky as it is subversive. totally outrageous but totally cool"
(Rough Trade Shops, "God Is Dead")
"this big dumb tune/mix/boot/cultural phenomenon 'USA' is what
i call an anthem" (Eddy Temple-Morris, DJ magazine)
Myspace comments:
"i fukin hate your musik you terrorist" Killa KPG
"you should be ashamed of youself... i think you must be
DICK... CHEYNEY & friends" U-CEF
"why would you clown on someones religion get a fucking life"
Bboy Dopey
"I Muslim but I renounce and call on all brothers, stop fight and
dance you are porns in there game - DJ foundation yu wicked
save the yooth" Sernine
Besides war/religion, Foundation also addresses the collapse of
capitalism in his infectious track "Hot Girls Hot Guys", voiced
by a fellow 23 year-old, a New York 'financial analyst' called AJ.
Foundation says: "he's 23 like me but our lives are different! He
has a lot of money for his bottles and girls."