We Are All Immigrants

Just in time for the Arizona events, M.I.A. releases a new single: Born Free. The sound is decidedly more electro-punk than anything she has done before (think Suicide, ATR, Kap Bambino), but the true bomb is the video directed by Romain Garvas of the Kourtrajmé collective. Romain Garvas is previously responsible for the Justice Stress video controversy, which in France touched on some uncomfortable memories of the banlieue riots of 2005 that started in Clichy-sous-Bois (triggered coincidentally by the death of two teenagers in a police chase to avoid identity check). He continues his tactical mix of violence, resistance and the global urban condition but detonates it into a universal slogan:

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

Mutamassik is back (finally)!

After five years of silence Mutamassik is finally back with a new album:
That Which Death Cannot Destroy




What earlier was Sa'aidi Hardcore & Baladi Breakbeats, has now become

"AfrabiQ BaroQ.+Martial MelanQ.+DarQ PunQ Qubti FunQ.+

Musically motivated by funk & apocalypse - before, during and after which is the Soul.

always the SA'AIDI MARTIAL SOUND (blood unable to be washed out with high-tech detergents), MELANQOL BAROQUE parq dunq ARABIFIED SWAMP MUSIC darq punq QUBTI BEATS.
a.k.a. pioneer of Sa'aidi Hardcore & Baladi Breakbeats: Egyptian & Afro-Asiatic Roots mixed with the head-nod of hip-hop & the bass and syncopation of hardstep. RELENTLESS RHYTHMS FROM THE PAN-AFROARABIC IMMIGRANT SOUND SOURCES. (afro-oriental punk roots in a rich broth of hip hop; garnished with junglistic bass and syncopation: first-generation punk jaw electronic hip hop roots raggamuffin pan-african derivatives) in addition to transcendental sonic experiments."

The album is a free download from her website.

Also buy a digital copy of her previous album Definitive Works.




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