Irreversible Damage (Willimal - Mix)

Remix I made for Algiers.  I hope you love it.
#algiersgotshook

Algiers - Irreversible Damage Remix

This is a Transylvanian Dub for the Algiers - Irreversible Damage (ft. Zach De La Rocha) (Lil Obeah & Petru Birladeanu Transylvanian Dub) #algiersgotshook Remix Competition

Enjoy!

Algiers - Irreversible Damage (ft. Zach De La Rocha) (Obeah & P Birladeanu Dub) #algiersgotshook

Algiers have been one of the most progressive and forward thinking groups of the past years and they are a tremendous live experience. So when a band like this launches a remix competition I’m naturally interested but I was especially scared this time. How do you approach a tune like their latest single “Irreversible Damage”, a chaotic and twisted political call to arms… one that even features the legendary Zack de la Rocha? 

Luckily that pumping acid bassline provided a bit guidance for me. My remix ended up being a bit faster, louder and more twisted than what I usually do, following the disturbing character of the original. It became a good outlet for my frustration - in a similar way the music of https://soundcloud.com/algiers often provides. They got a new album called “Shook” ready which drops on February 24 … plus they are probably playing a town near you this spring so make sure to catch them live.

Irreversible Damage Remix Competition

Algiers - Irreversible Damage (Burnout Sumner's Seen Enough Remix)

Irreversible Damage by Algiers
Remixed by PURS
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg

Algiers - Irreversible Damage (PURS Remix)

The Underside of Power

The Cycle/The Spiral: Time to Go Down Slowly

A journey by train up the West half of the African continent, soundtracked by deep percussive grooves and sunny guitars.  Vocals in various dialects of English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.  Recorded directly from original and reissue vinyl recordings. 

TRACKLIST
"Like a Chicken" Witch (Zambia)
"Racubah" Ice (France/USA)
"Hedzoleh!" Hedzoleh (Ghana)
"Vizinha Ka Bale" Jacinta Sanches (Cape Verde)
"Good Father" Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz (Nigeria)
"Fè, Fè, Fè" Tina Dakouri (Ivory Coast)
"Aksaid Wili Moundanine" Rais Haj Omar Wahrouch (Morocco)
Interludes: "Railroad Sounds: Steam & Diesel" Audio Fidelity Recordings (USA)

contact dookieplatters@gmail.com for bookings or additional details on the recordings.

Photo courtesy WRP...http://www.williamrandallpotter.com/

African Railway

As the globalised economy churns in swells ‘neath our feet, suturing us together and tearing us apart, heads angled hellward, we bellow, Algiers!

Algiers is the danse macabre between here and nowhere, movement and stasis, order under hell, and chaos under heaven. The situation is excellent.

Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees.

Holed up in our perches in London, New York and a small town in France, plague up to our necks, we conjure the dead sound to life.

The click clack of the keyboard brings us to worship. The shrieks of slaves and rebels pummeling through.

Our tongues, twisted in the service of Paul Robeson, Lee Moses, Selda Bağcan, et al, slur a call in the darkness.

Algiers is the experimental gospel noise soul pulp response, slurping Francophilia - Gainsbourg and Dutronc, Saint Just and Fanon, Badiou and Baurdillard - Black Power - Nina Simone, Public Enemy, James Baldwin, Fred Hampton, DJ Premier, and Fela Kuti – and Southern Gothic - William Faulkner, Nick Cave and Flannery O’Connor - into a stew thicker than bourguignon in the Algierian sun.

Algiers is Franklin James Fisher (b. North Carolina, l. NYC) / vocals, guitar, keys, programming, and percussion; Ryan Mahan (b. Georgia, l. London) / vocals, bass and percussion; and Lee Tesche (b. Georgia, l. London) / guitar, vocals, programming, and percussion.