https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia
Outernational electronic music producer and multimedia artist Filastine continues to trample borders and take risks with his new EP Aphasia. Delicately crafted acoustic details cascade into walls of sound. Lush vocals float above speaker-rattling bass pressure.
￼Requiem 432 opens the album with layers of harmonic vocals that pitch and slur into percussive crescendos. Requiem is also a short film, Filastine threw a funeral party for the age of materialism in Cairo’s squatted necropolis, the City of the Dead.
Sixty Cycle Drum’s pumping lo-fi organs quickly transform into the album’s most danceable track, flirting with the hyper cadences of footwork.
Listeners will swoon for Murka’s gorgeous pentatonic vocal melody and string arrangement.
The 808-propelled trap rhythm of Drone Silences may be this album’s nearest reference to any recognizable genre, albeit with a spacious dub sensibility that places it far, far, away from brostep’s yankee heartland. The title of this last track is a nod to the cover art, a Reaper drone painted in Pakistani truck-art motifs by Mahwish Chishty.
Aphasia can be ordered now as limited edition cassette tape. On the flipside is LAWANLUPA, Filastine & Nova’s mixtape inspired by the recent documentary film The Act of Killing. Downloads and the 10” vinyl are available from June 23rd. All can be had directly from the artist’s Bandcamp page. https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia

Aphasia EP

https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia
Filastine continues to trample borders and take risks with his new EP Aphasia. Delicately crafted acoustic details cascade into walls of sound. Lush vocals float above speaker-rattling bass pressure.
￼Requiem 432 opens the album with layers of harmonic vocals that pitch and slur into percussive crescendos. Requiem is also a short film, Filastine threw a funeral party for the age of materialism in Cairo’s squatted necropolis, the City of the Dead. Sixty Cycle Drum’s pumping lo-fi organs quickly transform into the album’s most danceable track, flirting with the hyper cadences of footwork. Listeners will swoon for Murka’s gorgeous pentatonic vocal melody and string arrangement.
The 808-propelled trap rhythm of Drone Silences may be this album’s nearest reference to any recognizable genre, albeit with a spacious dub sensibility that places it far, far, away from brostep’s yankee heartland. The title of this last track is a nod to the cover art, a Reaper drone painted in Pakistani truck-art motifs by Mahwish Chishty.
Aphasia can be ordered now as limited edition cassette tape. On the flipside is LAWANLUPA, Filastine & Nova’s mixtape inspired by the recent documentary film The Act of Killing. Downloads and the 10” vinyl are available from June 23rd. All can be had directly from the artist’s Bandcamp page.
https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia

Drone Silences

postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia
Outernational electronic music producer and multimedia artist Filastine continues to trample borders and take risks with his new EP Aphasia. Delicately crafted acoustic details cascade into walls of sound. Lush vocals float above speaker-rattling bass pressure.
￼Requiem 432 opens the album with layers of harmonic vocals that pitch and slur into percussive crescendos. Requiem is also a short film, Filastine threw a funeral party for the age of materialism in Cairo’s squatted necropolis, the City of the Dead.
Sixty Cycle Drum’s pumping lo-fi organs quickly transform into the album’s most danceable track, flirting with the hyper cadences of footwork.
Listeners will swoon for Murka’s gorgeous pentatonic vocal melody and string arrangement.
The 808-propelled trap rhythm of Drone Silences may be this album’s nearest reference to any recognizable genre, albeit with a spacious dub sensibility that places it far, far, away from brostep’s yankee heartland. The title of this last track is a nod to the cover art, a Reaper drone painted in Pakistani truck-art motifs by Mahwish Chishty.
Aphasia can be ordered now as limited edition cassette tape. On the flipside is LAWANLUPA, Filastine & Nova’s mixtape inspired by the recent documentary film The Act of Killing. Downloads and the 10” vinyl are available from June 23rd. All can be had directly from the artist’s Bandcamp page. postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia

Murka

postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia
Filastine continues to trample borders and take risks with his new EP Aphasia. Delicately crafted acoustic details cascade into walls of sound. Lush vocals float above speaker-rattling bass pressure.
￼Requiem 432 opens the album with layers of harmonic vocals that pitch and slur into percussive crescendos. Requiem is also a short film, Filastine threw a funeral party for the age of materialism in Cairo’s squatted necropolis, the City of the Dead.
Sixty Cycle Drum’s pumping lo-fi organs quickly transform into the album’s most danceable track, flirting with the hyper cadences of footwork.
Listeners will swoon for Murka’s gorgeous pentatonic vocal melody and string arrangement.
The 808-propelled trap rhythm of Drone Silences may be this album’s nearest reference to any recognizable genre, albeit with a spacious dub sensibility that places it far, far, away from brostep’s yankee heartland. The title of this last track is a nod to the cover art, a Reaper drone painted in Pakistani truck-art motifs by Mahwish Chishty.
Aphasia can be ordered now as limited edition cassette tape. On the flipside is LAWANLUPA, Filastine & Nova’s mixtape inspired by the recent documentary film The Act of Killing. Downloads and the 10” vinyl are available from June 23rd. All can be had directly from the artist’s Bandcamp page. postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/aphasia

Requiem 432

Buy here

Sixty Cycle Drum

LAWANLUPA: The Act Of Killing Mixtape
Researched & curated by Nova, mixed & arranged by Grey.
DOWNLOAD FREE here http://goo.gl/V0T61h or buy the limited edition cassette tape.
Tracklist:
Act of Killing sample- welcome ladies & gentlemen
vinyl sample- "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, fire"
Yanti Bersaudara- Djangger  
Lilis Suryani- Genjer Genjer
Filastine & Jessika Kenney- Fitnah
A. Rafiq- Pantun Berjudi
White Shoes and Couples Company- Tjangkurileung
Act of Killing Sample- "that mosque singer was a communist, lucky for him I didn't know"
Euis Komariah & Yus Wiradiredia- Pengkolan
Yanti Bersaudara- Anggrek Merah
Sitompul Sisters- Solei Solei
Rully Shabara & Wukir- Senyawa
Anto Baret - Ken Arok
Artmoschestra - Madurasa
Filastine- Jakarta train station field recording 
Djuhana Sattar- Pandangan Menggoda
Mang Koko- Sabilulungan
Gamelan Ubud- Queen Mother's Funeral Procession
Act of Killing sample- "the future must not forget true history"
Lilis Suryani- Ontoek PJM Presiden Soekarno
Wukir Suryadi- Kereta Tak Berhenti Lama
Madesya Group & Aan Darwati - Sapu Nyere Pegat Simpay
Filastine & Nova- Gendjer2
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang- Kidung

Cover art by Jakarta street artist Edita Atmaja

An extended version of this mix was made in collaboration with DJ/Rupture and Anonymous (co-director of The Act of Killing). It is titled Stage Boundary Songs and features the poetry of Wiji Thukul.

LAWANLUPA: The Act Of Killing Mixtape

The Bike Bloc was a civil disobedience technique developed for the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP15) by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. To participate in the Bike Bloc I organized first Sound Swarm, a bicycle-mounted multi-channel acoustic intervention to inspire, distract or disrupt.  Anyone with a boombox and a bicycle can join the Swarm by tuning into one of the of the FM frequencies emitted by the Queen Bee.
The Queen Bee is taking a holiday this year, you can find her resting in the Disobedient Objects exhibit at the V&A Museum in London. For her stay in the museum I've composed this special soundtrack to compliment the other objects in the room. It flows like a DJ mix, blending and beat matching words, stun grenades, tin pot percussion, and street bands with my own compositions in a series of musical movements. Special thanks go out to the people featured in selected recordings, some of whom are professional musicians, others informally singing or speaking, I hope I've used your voices respectfully. Credit is given when possible. 
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/

1. Sound Swarm classic (Filastine) - Drone Harmonies
2. Sound Swarm classic (Filastine) - Glitch Cascades
3. Karnataka State Farmers Association (KRRS) chants: http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/disobedient-objects/signs-respect-karnataka-state-farmers-association
4. Helicopter at G8 Scotland beats overhead while the Infernal Noise Brigade horns blast dissonance
5. Murga procession, Buenos Aires 2001
6. Street chant battle- "Mic Check" at Occupy Wall Street 2011 alternates with “Peace Now” at Chicago 1968
7. EZLN collage- singing in Mexico City at end of Zapatista caravan & shouts from outside WTO meeting in Cancun
8. Bullhorn distortion from antiwar protest
9. Excerpt from black panther speech by Rap Brown, at a Free Huey P. Newton event
10. Stun grenades and tear gas canisters from Brazil protest 2013
11. mayor of Nashville, TN, threatens activists from the civil rights movement.
12. 2009 Climate Camp in the City, London, "this is not a riot"
13. Filastine- Sidi Bouzid refix, featuring a phrase by a poet (Mahmoud Darwish?)
14. Spray paint can in the act of graffiti & a sing-a-long against Bashar al-Assad
15. Song from Tahrir square, by Ramy Essam. See it with subtitles!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9VKz5ZnIk
16. Foley sound of Molotov Cocktail light, throw, and explosion
18. Infernal Noise Brigade- Nanafushi
19. Selections from South Africa''s ANC pirate radio broadcast
20. Synthetic bombs and bass drops
21. Newscasters compilation from the shut down of San Francisco on first day of the US Invasion of Iraq
22. Korean farmers at WTO protest in Mexico lead charge on the barricades, 2002
23. Filastine & Nova- Gendjer2. DJ Delay’s remix of our version of this polemic leftist anthem, banned in Indonesia since 1968
24. Filastine- Swarm & Sabotage Collage
25. Filastine- Skirmish
26. Chants from Plaza Catalunya, 15M / Indignado movement, 2011
27. City Group Singers- chant from London Anti-Apartheid non-stop picket line, 1987. https://soundcloud.com/tags/city%20group%20singers
28. Kardes Turkuler- Tencere Tava Havasi. See it with subtitles- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-kbuS-anD4
29. Filastine- Marxa remixed, featuring police scanners recorded during Seattle 1999, an Iraqi crowd shouting "Americans out", a few words from Subcomandante Marcos (que fuertes nosotros, y cuantos somos =  we are so strong, and so many)
30. Cacerolazo, the tin-pot percussion as principal tool of revolt in Argentina 2001
31. Filastine- Como Fugitivos instrumental remix
32. Fragments from Mario Savio’s bellwether speech against the machine

Special thanks to Shibz, Robb Kunz, Isa, JJ, Chris, and everyone that has contributed or participated in the Sound Swarm

Sound Swarm / A Mix Soundtrack for Disobedient Objects, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

OPA! I DIDN'T KNOW SOUND CLOUD CAPS DOWNLOADS AT 100. I WON'T BE LINKING TO THIS FILE ANYMORE: THE PERMANENTLY DOWNLOADABLE VERSION IS&nbsp;<a href="http://www.duttyartz.com/podpress_trac/web/4383/0/Filastine-We_Are_Experiencing_Turbulence_(DUTTYARTZ.COM).mp3" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); text-decoration: none; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; ">HERE</a>

Infernal Noise Brigade- live in Mexico at street protest, 
 
 Jazzsteppa- AmeriCa B, 
 
 Filastine/Cardopusher  Discontinuities (Singularities remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb), 
 
 Fnaire- Lalla Mennana, 
 
 Filastine/Jahcoozi- Opium Den (Desordenador remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb), 
 
 Beats Antique- Oriental Uno (feat. Fanafara Kalashikov), 
 
 Oro 11- El Cangrejo, 
 
 Arena &amp; Etian acapella- &nbsp;excerpted from Voces Rebeldes project, 
 
 Filastine/Ill Gates- Pharma Sutra (Fitnah remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb), 
 
 Filastine/Maga Bo- Batalha Cotidiana (Btalla remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb), 
 
 Chancha Via Circuito- Calzada, 
 
 Foxdye- Foxdyechek Collision, 
 
 Frikstailers- Sudaka Invasor, 
 
 Tego Calderon- Diento de Oro acapella cameo, 
 
 Sonik Omi- Ye Jawani Hai Mera Jaan, 
 
 Simbad- Airport Beat 1008, 
 
 Jahdan Blakkamoore- Dem A Idiot (instrumental – prod. by Matt Shadetek &amp; Modeselektor),

 
 Amir Sulaiman- Danger, 
 
 Sunship feat. Warrior Queen/ Sinden(remix)- Quits, 
 
 Filastine/Deep Throat X- Con Las Manos En La Masa (remix, from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb), 
 
 Madera Limpia- La Lenta (Schlachthofbronx remix), 
 
 Bassnectar- Cozza Frenzy, 
 
 Venetian Snares- Sabbath Dubs, 
 
 Kray Twinz feat. Twista- What We Do, 
 
 Suckafish P. Jones- Caribbean Nightmare Agent, 
 
 Dubchild- Cant Keep Me Down, 
 
 Caving- Slimthug, 
 
 Dog Murras (feat. Propria Lixa)- Vai Levar Galheta, 
 
 Brasil 96- Batucada, 
 
 Lightning Bolt- On Fire, 
 
 Rhythm Collision featuring- Indian Street Music #3 / Sein Sah Thin / Tabuh Winangun Marga / Venetian Snares / Filastine / Drumcorps, 
 
 Filastine- Como Fugitivos (instrumental version),&nbsp;


 with words lifted from:

 
 UK newscasters, 
 
 Carl Sagan dubbed into castilian spanish, 
 
 ANC Radio Freedom Broadcast, South Africa, 1969, 
 
 a US Military Commander, 
 
 Waking Life, 
 
 The Century of Self,&nbsp;

 
 Slavoj Zizek, 
 
 and more sources of lost origin



get Extra Dirty Bomb here <a href="http://www.addictech.com/store/product_info.php?keywords=filastine&amp;amp;use_keywords=true&amp;amp;products_id=44313">download</a>, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/extra-dirty-bomb/id350894029">iTunes</a>, or on <a href="http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/10882">12" vinyl</a>.

We Are Experiencing Turbulence (Insurrectionary Bass Music Sin Fronteras mixed by Filastine)

Huacal (by Tremor) Filastine Remix

Mixtape made in the aftermath of the failed 2009 UN Climate Summit. 
It was reviewed for The Fader magazine by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd:
"Ayyy mama, this mix is MAJOR. Barcelona's Filastine flipped this podcast for our friends over at Dutty Artz after a year-long world tour that is better described as an expedition, and it fully reflects his globetrotting. With a tracklist that includes Cuban rap, reggaeton, completely off-the-charts-crazy dubstep, vintage Bollywood songs, banda-brass-section-augmented drum & bass, Slavoj Zizek samples and "Carl Sagan dubbed into Castilian Spanish," it's impossible to know what is going on inside dude's brain but it's obviously so good it hurts. Also, we swiped the above pic from Filastine's MySpace and he had captioned it "dawn descent from many drugs, Autonomous Mutant Festival." The photo album was called "misc glamour shots." This dude gets it all the way the hell down. After having to google half the stuff on here, we are honestly humbled. (worth checking out even if you don't download it... but if you don't download it, we might have to break up with you). "

Infernal Noise Brigade- live in Mexico at street protest

Jazzsteppa- ??

Filastine/Cardopusher – Discontinuities (Singularities remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)

Fnaire- Lalla Mennana

Filastine/Jahcoozi- Opium Den (Desordenador remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)

Beats Antique- Oriental Uno (feat. Fanafara Kalashikov)

Oro 11- El Cangrejo

Arena & Etian acapella- Voces RebeldesXXXXX

Filastine/Ill Gates- Pharma Sutra (Fitnah remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)

Filastine/Maga Bo- Batalha Cotidiana (B’talla remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)

Chancha Via Circuito- Calzada

Foxdye- Foxdyechek Collision

Frikstailers- Sudaka Invasor

Tego Calderon- Diento de Oro cameo

Sonik Omi- Ye Jawani Hai Mera Jaan

Simbad- Airport Beat 1008

Modeselektor feat. Matt Shadetek- Beirut

Amir Sulaiman- Danger

Sunship feat. Warrior Queen/ Sinden(remix)- Quits

Filastine/Deep Throat X- Con Las Manos En La Masa (remix, from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)

Madera Limpia- La Lenta (Schlachthofbronx remix)

Bassnectar- Cozza Frenzy

Venetian Snares- Sabbath Dubs

Kray Twinz feat. Twista- What We Do

Suckafish P. Jones- Caribbean Nightmare Agent

Dubchild- Can’t Keep Me Down

Caving- Slimthug

Dog Murras (feat. Propria Lixa)- Vai Levar Galheta

Brasil 96- Batucada

Lightning Bolt- On Fire

Rhythm Collision featuring- Indian Street Music #3 / Sein Sah Thin / Tabuh Winangun Marga / Venetian Snares / Filastine / Drumcorps

Filastine- Como Fugitivos (instrumental version)

with words lifted from:

UK newscasters

Carl Sagan dubbed into castilian spanish

ANC Radio Freedom Broadcast, South Africa, 1969

a US Military Commander

Waking Life

The Century of Self

Spectres of the Spectrum

Slavoj Zizek

and more sources of lost origin

We Are Experiencing Turbulence (Mixtape, 2009)

Reviewed in XLR8R
Filastine’s mix, "The Mud, The Blood, & The Beer: A Fistfight with the Near East," finds the newcomer mashing up Gypsy rhythms, field recordings from Budapest and Istanbul, and dubbed-out Balkan beatscapes. Add to this the layers of Eastern instrumentation (lots of horns and tom percussion) and looped female vocals, and Filastine may have already reached cult status.
https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2007/05/dj-rupture-and-filastine-battle-in-shotgun-wedding-vol-6/

The Mud, The Blood, And The Beer:  A Mixtape Fistfight With The Near East (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-XcKvIKE_E
Filastine presents Abandon, a series of four video singles profiling dances of liberation from work. Each video profiles a cathartic dance in a unique, often starkly beautiful, location. An episode of Abandon, featuring a new song by Filastine, will be released quarterly throughout the year. The songs of Abandon will be form part of Filastine's next album, Drapetomania, out in spring of 2017.
Release Dates: 
MAR 29 The Miner (Borneo & Java, Indonesia) escape from extraction
MAY 26 The Cleaner (Lisbon, Portugal) a maid sheds her invisibility 
SEP 22 The Salarymen (Seattle, USA) a day at the office hits a glitch 
Dec. 21 The Chatarreros (Barcelona, Spain) choreography of migrant scrap collectors

Spring 2017 Drapetomania album

Miner

See the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsD4ojmkINw
Abandon is a quarterly series of audiovisual singles by Filastine. Each video episode profiles a cathartic dance of liberation from work staged in a unique environment. Abandon explores how we use the human body,  how we sell our time on earth, and how we can dare to escape.
March 29 The Miner (Borneo & Java, Indonesia) an escape from extraction
May 26 The Cleaner (Lisbon, Portugal) a maid sheds her invisibility
Sept. 22 The Salarymen (Seattle, USA) a day at the office interrupted by a glitch
Dec. 21 The Chatarreros (Barcelona, Spain) a choreography of migrant scrap collectors

The songs of Abandon, together with other new tracks, will be available in spring of 2017 on Filastine's next album.

Abandon

DOWNLOAD

Cleaner

Atavistic office breakdown: see The Salarymen go wild in third episode of Filastine’s Abandon video series- https://youtu.be/5Al3sjPa_9M

It is morning in the office of an anonymous startup at the dawn of the digital age, circa 1996. Beige walls entomb data serfs pecking at workstations, unaware that the world is about to flip upside down. Welcome to the latest episode of Abandon, a video series on liberation from work by the artists Filastine. 

Filastine are an Indonesian and American duo based in Barcelona, who combine bass-heavy electronic music with, image, movement and ideas to trespass borders. They have earned a dedicated international following for their otherworldly music and intense live performances. 

Their current project, Abandon, fuses video art, documentary, and music to explore how we sell our time on earth, and the ways we imagine getting free. Each of the four episodes profiles a unique personal revolt against low-valued work: an Indonesian miner, a Portuguese maid, American office workers, and Spain’s scrap metal salvagers. 

‘Salarymen’ brings Abandon into the office, at the very moment in history when computers first began to dominate our lives. But the dreams of a frictionless technocracy quickly hit a glitch: “the CRT screens are taken over by hypnotizing video feedbacks, triggering seizures in the workers,” explains Grey Filastine.  “The data serfs reject the machines, seek out anything natural, from the potted plants to the animals within themselves.”

To embody the salarymen, Filastine tapped the Seattle butoh dance trio P.A.N. “We have a long history of collaboration, some of our first tracks were made for P.A.N. performances,” Filastine notes. “This story was made for them: atavistic, raw.” Setting the scene for this office catharsis, Filastine sourced obsolete computers and period motivational posters to build a space of perfect spiritual emptiness.

‘Salarymen’s music also features vintage electronics, the squelching leads and lo-fi textures of classic synthesizers. “We used the same musical instruments that Kraftwerk played in their teutonic love songs to the robot, but bent the circuits for an opposite effect; the synths are harmonized with mechanical hums, and driven by percussive mouse clicks and qwerty keystrokes.”

Salarymen will be available in spring of 2017 on Filastine's coming album, Drapetomania.

Salarymen

this song inspired by visiting and performing in the Calais Jungle migrant camp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQC1k9lFRs
https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/drapetomania

Drapetomania

Download

Perbatasan

https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/drapetomania

Blockchainz

see the video- https://youtu.be/xRz6XW2uWlo
get the album- https://postworldindustries.bandcamp.com/album/drapetomania

Abandon / Drapetomania

Chatarreros

Halcyon

Senescence

Dirty Bomb

Como Fugitivos (feat. La Perla)

Colony Collapse

Shanty Tones

Lost Records (with ECD)

Outernational bass music nomad Filastine ups the ante with £00T. Fractured post-dubstep beat innovations support delicate string arrangements. Overdriven bass synths battle pentatonic gong patterns. Listen closely and listen loud.
Looting from the coffers of hip-hop, moombahton, dubstep and cumbia, Filastine keeps the bass pressure pumping and drums up front. But any similarity to club music genres ends quickly. While a growing tropical bass movement hypes a pan-global dance party, Filastine blazes a different path. Intricate polyrhythms, muted balkan trumpets, ephem- eral soundscapes, and unique vocal contributions push this album off the known map into uncharted musical territory.
Introduction No Step will test your speakers for the album that follows. Gendjer2 and Colony Collapse are the fruit of a tight collaboration with Indonesian indy rapper Nova. She contributes lush 60’s R&B harmonies and megaphone-filtered rhymes. Filastine’s time in Asia also brings a featuring from Japan’s chief rap dadaist ECD. In Lost Report hear him shouting against nuclear contamination over a dirty bass hook and the stuttered clicks of a geiger counter. These onsite collaborations were recorded everywhere from ware- houses to rainforests, then painstakingly mixed over the course of 2011 in a rooftop studio in the muslim quarter of Barcelona, with breaks to participate in the Spanish uprisings of last year.
Throughout the album Filastine leverages rhythmic expertise that he’s gathered far and wide, from the tiny Moroccan village of Jajouka to the coke-fueled parades of Rio de Janeiro. Echoes of Filastine’s old marching band, the Infernal Noise Brigade, propel the drum corp juke of Circulate False Notes and the glitch-crunk of Skirmish. Even Filastine’s years as a taxi driver are audible in the field recordings of radio static, street noises and polyglot collages.
£00T comes with a grip of videos and graphics that riff on concepts from the Arab spring to ecological and financial collapse. With a CD design doubling as utopian money, the album launches alongside a currency for a near-future network of clandestine floating cities.

Gendjer2 (with Nova)

Outernational bass music nomad Filastine ups the ante with £00T. Fractured post-dubstep beat innovations support delicate string arrangements. Overdriven bass synths battle pentatonic gong patterns. Listen closely and listen loud.
Looting from the coffers of hip-hop, moombahton, dubstep and cumbia, Filastine keeps the bass pressure pumping and drums up front. But any similarity to club music genres ends quickly. While a growing tropical bass movement hypes a pan-global dance party, Filastine blazes a different path. Intricate polyrhythms, muted balkan trumpets, ephem- eral soundscapes, and unique vocal contributions push this album off the known map into uncharted musical territory.
Introduction No Step will test your speakers for the album that follows. Gendjer2 and Colony Collapse are the fruit of a tight collaboration with Indonesian indy rapper Nova. She contributes lush 60’s R&B harmonies and megaphone-filtered rhymes. Filastine’s time in Asia also brings a featuring from Japan’s chief rap dadaist ECD. In Lost Report hear him shouting against nuclear contamination over a dirty bass hook and the stuttered clicks of a geiger counter. These onsite collaborations were recorded everywhere from ware- houses to rainforests, then painstakingly mixed over the course of 2011 in a rooftop studio in the muslim quarter of Barcelona, with breaks to participate in the Spanish uprisings of last year.
Throughout the album Filastine leverages rhythmic expertise that he’s gathered far and wide, from the tiny Moroccan village of Jajouka to the coke-fueled parades of Rio de Janeiro. Echoes of Filastine’s old marching band, the Infernal Noise Brigade, propel the drum corp juke of Circulate False Notes and the glitch-crunk of Skirmish. Even Filastine’s years as a taxi driver are audible in the field recordings of radio static, street noises and polyglot collages.
£00T comes with a grip of videos and graphics that riff on concepts from the Arab spring to ecological and financial collapse. With a CD design doubling as utopian money, the album launches alongside a currency for a near-future network of clandestine floating cities.

Circulate False Notes

Juniper (remix of Y La Bamba)

Hypnotico

Sidi Bouzid

from the album
Dirty Bomb (2009)

released by France by Jarring Effects, in Japan by ROMZ, everywhere else by Post World Industries

Fitnah feat. Jessika Kenney

Filastine’s Burn It is one of those rare debut albums that reveal an artist operating at the height of their powers. A Hip-Hop backbone supports live polyriddims, collaborating musicians, lush electronica, field-recordings, and an array of guest MCs and singers. The result is genuinely fresh, streetwise, and solid. From start-to-finish. 
Burn It redefines the term “laptop artist” as someone who uses portability to record and produce anywhere. While Burn It will satisfy beat-heads, the album also exhibits a deeper musicality. Check the upright bass, horns, and sultry French vocals of “Palmares” (track 3) or the trio of singers on “Ja Helo” (track 14). “Quémalo Ya” (track 2) was composed on a Brazilian rooftop with vocals tracked in Havana, while Filastine assembled his studio in the medina square of Marrakesh to get the snake-charmer flutes of “Judas Goat” (track 5). If you were to circle the Earth a few times, listening closely to the beats and noises of the streets, it might sound something like this album. Street artist Swoon contributed her signature cutouts to create the cover art. 
Most folks who’ve spent years studying percussion are afraid to bend live beats into computers, but Filastine uses his drummer’s skill -- along with laptop & microphone – to redraw the musical map. He has studied under tabla superstar Zakir Hussein, played with coke-fueled samba bands in Rio de Janeiro, and soaked up knowledge in North Africa. Filastine’s live performance is a clash of laptop, loudspeaker, midi triggers, live percussion, and often a vocalist. This spring he’ll tour Europe alongside DJ /rupture. 
Sound is action in Filastine’s world. He founded the 20-piece anarchist marching band Infernal Noise Brigade, conducts guerilla activist interventions with custom-built soundsystems, and has been gassed, assaulted, or arrested by police of many uniforms.

Judas Goat

Premiered on  Root︱روت  for their Rootcast  on April 23, 2020. https://rootradio.live 

Crowned: A Quarantine Mixtape was created on the ship Arka Kinari during a 14-day quarantine at anchor in the bay of Hilo, Hawaii.  Corona was just a local beer when the ship sailed from México bound for Indonesia. The pandemic caught the crew mid-Pacific, the borders quickly slamming shut for all the nations along the planned route: the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Indonesia. The ship diverted north to Hawaii, one of the few landfalls still accepting vessels at sea. Ironically AK is a project to promote resilience to the disasters of climate change, promote energy-autonomy, and bring people together. But disaster came sooner than anybody imagined, plunging us into an anxious purgatory.

We are now ruled by the crown. An invisible germ is our surprising global dictator. Like all royalty it is a parasite, and like all royalty it need to be overthrown. But as we retreated indoors we witnessed nature rebounding, the skies empty of pollution, and oil become near-worthless. This needn’t be an either/or choice, human well-being and the planets well-being aren’t mutually exclusive. Can we manifest a future of internal and external health, making this crisis into a portal? Or are we only capable of backing away from apocalypse when nature moves the battle lines inside our own bodies?

This mix reflects what I’ve heard these last weeks, filtered through the prism of the pandemic. You'll hear a lot from Mexico, the influence of the sea, and the technique of Hawaiian guitar applied to electronic music. It is a slack-key mixtape, with very little beat matching or key mixing. Because the moment calls for rhythm collisions and dissonance.

Like all media on the internet, this is free to consume but hides much labor. The track list is below, if you like a track please buy it. Get my music on bandcamp or sponsor my efforts on Patreon here:
https://filastine.bandcamp.com
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Be careful with each other, so we can be dangerous together.

Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Muutuja
Kronos Quartet & Cafe Tacuba - 12/12
Blake Skowron - Honest
Son de Madera - Las Olas del Mar
Lil Jabba - Grotto
Filastine & Nova - Glass Seagulls
Maria Arnal & Marcel Bages - Jo No Canto Per La Veu
Zuli - Vulnerbody
Y La Bamba & Filastine - Juniper (remix)
Dawn of Midi - Io
Jako Maron - An Lér Si Lo Bor
Gamelan Beleganjur - E Pemungkah
Nihiloxica - Baksimba
Dominowe & Chaotic Boiz - Bhenga Nezinja
Gil Scott-Heron - Running
Grup Ses Beats - Delidivane
Filastine & Nova - Colony Collapse (Fletcher in Dub remix)
Moon Bounce - Better Now
Filastine & Nova - Night X
Great Dane & Katya Grasso - Fog & Fear
Vessel - Paplu
Kronos Quartet & Cafe Tacuba - 12/12 (reprise)
Maarja Nuut & Ruum - Muutuja (reprise)
Nova Ruth - Macapat Pangkur

Crown Rule: A Quarantine Mixtape

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Note: Filastine is still creating music, art and ideas, but has escaped from the commercial music industry. This account is now an archive. Bio below-
Grey Filastine is a multimedia artist dedicated to undermining borders. His music collides electronic beat production with dense layers of voice, concréte sounds, and strings. Pitchfork says it “sounds less like `world’ music and more like music from another world.” Another world is exactly what he aims to create, using sound, video, and dance to express a radically different vision of the possible. 
Filastine’s higher education is limited to driving a taxi in the United States, where he also founded the Infernal Noise Brigade marching band to live score the 1999 revolt against the WTO in Seattle. In 2006 DJ/Rupture released Filastine’s premiere album, Burn It!, which relocated him to Barcelona and launched a decade of releases and tours. His latest AV effort, Abandon, is a video series profiling dances of emancipation, filmed in locations from coal mines in Borneo to office cubicles in America.
Filastine is foremost a performing artist, where sound, image, and ideas are embodied. He is constantly on tour, appearing at festivals like Sonar (ES), Sydney Festival (AU), Downtown Cairo Arts (EG), Decibel (US), Foreign Affairs (DE) and Mutek Tokyo (JP). But Filastine’s work sometimes doesn’t fit any stage or category, his off-piste interventions include an official mixtape for The Act of Killing documentary, a Sound Swarm at the Paris Climate Summit, or a concert in the Calais Jungle migrant camp.
“the prototype of globalized urban sound” -Prefix Mag
“the soundtrack to a rising heat humidity index” -Spin
“Deftly collaged cuts melding throbbing bass synths and ricocheting 808s with concréte sounds and live instruments” -The Wire
“a hybrid electronic sound that could be described as worldbeat for the dubstep generation – and the result is a lot better than it sounds” -MTV Iggy
“Filled with both jagged edges and moments of sad sweetness...sure to win fans across multiple scenes”-XLR8R
“visceral, disorienting exotica” -The Stranger
“live stage show couples virtuoso live drumming and electronic grooves with a visual spectacle that holds crowds spellbound” -San Francisco Bay Guardian
“Makes Skrillex sound as conventional as Taylor Swift” -Evansville Courier
“An uncompromising, unfettered alternative soundtrack to Life On Earth” -Discontent

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