Re: Arabic influenced "industrial"?

Date: 20 Feb 2003 17:52:01 -0800
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email-address-deleted (Michael Johnson) wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> email-address-deleted wrote:
>
> >After watching a few different movies with arabic music as soundtracks,
> >and grooving out to some Muslimgauze earlier I was wondering if people
> >had any suggestions for arabic influenced/stylized music.
>
> Some blurb aboout it:
> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Antknu3t5andk
>
> Alternatively, a trawl through some of Jah Wobble's solo stuff will
> unearth a few gems. If you can find the albums 'Without Judgement',
> 'Rising Above Bedlam', and 'Take Me To God', all recorded with his
> then-current band, the Invaders Of The Heart, you'll have the best of
> his 'eastern' stuff (although there are many other influences in there
> too).
>
> Jah Wobble's oddly temporary-looking website:
> http://www.30hertzrecords.com
Jah Wobble's recent release with his "Temple of Sound" (the Shout at
the Devil CD on the 30hertz label) is probably the one most influenced
by Arabic sounds.
One that same note, releases by Natacha Atlas (she appears on the
aforementioned Wobble record) might be of interest to the original
poster. She has several albums available including some electronic
influenced remixes, and she has been present on many recordings by
Transglobal Underground.
You also might want to look into works by Sussan Deyhim. She has an
amazing voice and she has some recordings under her own name and some
great collaborations with Richard Horowtiz. She has been compared to
Diamanda Galas at times for her dynamics and intensity. As a side
piece of trivia, she has also worked with photographer/filmmaker
Shirin Neshat, a name that may be familiar to the original poster as a
listener of Muslimgauze (several releases have included her
photography).
Also, since the original poster had mentioned Muslimgauze, it would be
shame not to mention The Rootsman, an artist that had worked with
Muslimgauze. He is well known for mixing Arabic sounds with dub.
Then, on the same tip, we come to Badawi (also records as Raz
Mesinai), another artist that has is well known for integrating Arabic
sounds and timbres into his dubscapes. Generally, the later the
release, the better (and you will also find the Arabic influence to be
much heavier in presence).
Next, in order to provide more clarification, I should talk about an
artist that several others have other mentioned - DJ /rupture aka
Nettle . Releases under the name DJ /rupture are not going to suit you
as well as the full-length CD (or 3 12"s) under the of Nettle. DJ
/rupture does, however, include several tracks by Nettle on his mix
CDs along with several other artists that integrate Arabic timbres
into their music although the mixes also include a large number of
artists that have no Arabic influences whatsoever. Besides the mix
CDs, and his split 12" with Config.sys on his own Soot label, I don't
remember anything else I've heard by him under the DJ /rupture name
that would fit.
Speaking of the Soot label (http://reliq.net/soot/sounds.html) be sure
to check out Mutamassik's War Booty 12". You can also check out
samples on that site: "The source material for this EP was a
limited-edition promo CD--when Mutamassik repatriated to Egypt,
customs officials confiscated all remaining copies! No joke. That's
how serious her sound is... MUTAMASSIK (meaning 'stronghold' in
Arabic), is an Egyptian producer and DJ currently based in Brooklyn.
War Booty draws on Mutamassik's background in Sa'aidi folk music from
the upper Nile valley, classical Arab song, and Coptic culture
(Egypt's Christian minority)... as well as the streetwise schooling in
hiphop & breakbeat poetics she received after moving to America as a
youngster. "
Finally, as I had one point mentioned The Rootsman, another artist
that has had ties to Muslimgauze is Andrew Diey aka Black Faction or
Foreign Terrian. I saved him for last as his releases tend have less
of an influence, but it's still worth checking out his stuff. The
first Black Faction CD, Internal Dissident Part 1, will probably be of
most interest.
Rob