From Kiya Babzani Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 17:40
From Kiya Babzani Sent Fri, Jul 10th 1998, 17:40
> > > try "veiled sisters" ... two cds of hypnotic loops that play off > > against > > each other create intricate polyrhythms. just the vaguest hint of the > > odd eastern drum or arabic voice. just had to clear it up that most of it isn't "arabic voice", it's broken up "despoolie" which is a type of farsi (persian, iranian, etc.) trust me, im the brown guy. "Vampire of Tehran" is really good - Distorted beats, chopped up bits, > dubby bass. Bluddy excellent. definitely, a good release, more inaccesable compared to his other works > "Sandtrafikar" - pretty good, haven't had time to really get into it > yet, but it's got 5 tracks (I think) and two of the tracks have two > mixes - one 'ambient' and one with beats. Recorded in Manchester's > Abraham Mosque is says on the sleeve! > > Both of these are fairly recent. I also picked up "Vote Hezbulah" which > is from 93. It's similar but the beats aren't distorted. All top > stuff. > actually he just recently started doing the "im going to run this shit through so much distortion it sounds like your sound system is gonna blow" act. i think at times it works out very nicely, with still keeping the hypnotic rhythms which he knows so well, but other times the tracks just don't go anywhere. > The web page mentions a subscription service where you get all the > standard releases and limited run stuff. Is anyone here on that? it's kinda expensive but very very worth every penny because you end up with all the releases that are really hard to find. if anybody wants a good starter go get "syrinjia", it's on 12" only, and i think it's one of the best things he's done in years, and it just came out three months ago... go to http://pretentious.net/Muslimgauze/muslim(X).htm the ultimate and only muslimgauze website