Although I’ve collated around 200 personal mixtapes to date, this mix remains my only sequenced, dj mix to date. ‘Fat Planet Arabesque’ is inspired by artists such as Mutamassik, Filastine, 2/5 BZ and dj/Rupture who take a distinctly skewed and sonically distorted approach to working with sounds from the Middle East. This mix was intended to, once again, prove the case that innovative, unique and challenging music can be found in all parts of the globe; and that attempts to blend territorial sensibilities and thus disable borders can be acheived without resorting – as is so often the case – to commercial lounge ‘remixes’ of indigneous work from Western DJs.
The mix was recorded in November 2006, was first broadcast on a ‘Fat Planet’ Special on the Australian Community Radio Network in June 2007, and re-broadcast on Dialectic, November 2007 (Edge Radio Hobart and nationwide on CRN).
FAT PLANET ARABESQUE
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Tracklisting:
2/5 BZ Anadolog [TURKEY] / CHEB I SABBAH Peace Is Found Behind Wounds – What Will Happen [ALGERIA]
RAZ MESINAI Moving Still [ISRAEL]
TONY ANKA Baladi [LEBANON]
FILASTINE Judas Goat [U.S.]
2/5 BZ Militant Oriental [TURKEY]
TURBO TABLA Turbo Tabla #3 [EGYPT]
MUTAMASSIK Babomb [EGYPT]
2/5 BZ Taham An [TURKEY]
NETTLE Uncivilertarian (Hvratski Remix) [SPAIN]
BADAWI To Be Continued [ISRAEL]
2/5 BZ Petrol 3 [TURKEY]
SULTANA Hadi Hadi Git I?ine [TURKEY]
BOIKUTT & STORMTRAP Quarat (feat. Lethal Skillz) [PALESTINE]
CHEB I SABBAH Peace Is Found Behind Wounds – What Will Happen [ALGERIA] / RAZ MESINAI Horse Dance [ISRAEL]
FILASTINE Dance Of The Garbageman [U.S.]
MUTAMASSIK M28 [EGYPT]
2/5 BZ Petrol 8 [TURKEY]
BABA ZULA & MAD PROFESSOR Su Daglar Sard Feryadm [TURKEY/U.S.]
DJ/RUPTURE Tasqim Distorsionada [U.S.]
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