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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
https://www.patreon.com/arkakinari

Thank you for listening, sharing and supporting.
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