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In his article "If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won't stop the interview," Tom Faber, a journalist for The Guardian, describes Shabjdeed and Al Nather's music as omnipresent in the air: "I hear them everywhere. Al Nather's sleek productions pump out of car speakers in the Jordanian desert, and Shabjdeed's raps tumble from the bars of Haifa. And, of course, you hear it all in their home -- the tumultuous city of Ramallah." In August 2019, with the title Sindibad el Ward - سندباد الورد, they released one of the most astonishing hip hop albums of the last decade. Their collective BLTNM (pronounced "blatinum") is a distinguishing voice for hip-hop in the Arab world. Shabjdeed's lyrics are unusual and abstract. Interviewed by Arab music platform Ma3azef he declares: "Why aren't we capitalizing on misery? 1) It's shameful to do so; 2) Palestinians by nature are proud of being Palestinian. [...] We are used to how things are here, I sing mainly for Palestinians, so it would make no sense -- we don't sit around saying 'look how miserable we are.' [...] The days of singing about the war are over." Sindibad El Ward has quickly reached the status of classic, with his fresh urgency and unpolished poetic is considered for many the Illmatic of the Arab world. Clear vinyl.
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Debut masterpiece finally available on vinyl. Originally released digitally by the label in 2017. Kelman Duran is a Los Angeles based DJ and visual artist born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Washington Heights, New York on 188th Street and Audubon. Duran primarily makes videos at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in collaboration with Lakota friends. Duran started DJ'ing at RAIL UP, a monthly party dedicated to Afro-Caribbean instances in Los Angeles. 1804 Kids a collection of edits conceived for the is first musical release through Hundebiss. "Solos" features Mess Kid.
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Lamin Fofana is an electronic producer and artist. His instrumental electronic music contrasts the reality of our world with what's beyond and explores questions of movement, migration, alienation, and belonging. He is from Sierra Leone, lived in Guinea, United States, and currently located in Berlin. "Fofana, who was born and raised in Sierra Leone and Guinea, runs the Sci-Fi & Fantasy label -- home to, among other things, Lotic's first releases. His own work is part of a dialogue between techno, as it's broadly understood, and more abstracted forms. With the Another World EP, he attempts to link techno back to the real world, to bridge aesthetics with socio-economics, with ocean currents, with stale bread and dirty water. It's right there in the subtitle of the third track: '(Realist Mix)'." --Pitchfork "Fofana paired techno beats and nebulous pads to create instrumentals that seek to contrast the reality of our world with what's beyond." --The Fader
Lamin Fofana on Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce: "In the face of devastating violence, how are you responding? I think deeply about the moment we're in and am searching for a response that's not blatant or overt, but more-so inviting the listener to contemplate their own mindset. The music here is an expression, my response to surviving these traumatic, unpredictable times. Most of the new sounds came out of the experience of living in Berlin and traveling around Europe. 'Brâncuși sculpting Beyoncé in gold lamé' is a line from Mike Ladd's song 'Blonde Negress' from the album Negrophilia (2005). The album was inspired by Petrine Archer-Straw's book of the same name (with the subtitle 'Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s'). The book explores the Paris art world's embrace of black American and African culture -- and its co-option of black art and culture, which played heavily into Art Deco, Cubism, jazz, etc. I read the book some years back, but I love how Mike Ladd warps it, drawing a long line between Beyonce and Brancusi, whose 'Sleeping Muse' was inspired by African masks."
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Los Angeles musician Jaws presents his third full-length album, Object Dom. The tracks on Object Dom are a sort of broken rave song, littered with open seams and loose-ends tangled amongst themselves in DIY fashion. Within that framework, it seems to intentionally mix-up positive and negative feelings through its instrumentation: familiar synth pulls and screeches characteristic of unbridled delight on the dancefloor are coated in a certain kind of messy rumble evocative of the feeling of wanting to throw up. Robert Girardin, aka Jaws, said this of the release: "The song takes tropes of Dutch rave, breakbeats, and hoover patches, squeezing them into a maximal pop-songs format of call and response, attempting to sonically recreate the dopamine rush of online notifications."
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Gancio Cielo 2 - Il Gruppo Respingi Comete is the second chapter of Gancio Cielo (H 024LP). This episode explores a world where comets and cosmic stones pour down from the sky. Half-fish half-agate creatures collect debris while others, floating on pneumatic tires, glide onto wet surfaces like on bob skates, trying to catch the ones fallen into the water. Oozing darkness and mystery, Francesco Cavaliere displays a wide array of mind-bending electronics and sound manipulation granting a really unique listening experience that submerges and puzzles the unsuspecting listener: nearly indecipherable spoken word bits that gently move inside your brain, almost like a whispered nursery-rhyme, quickly vanishing among the smell from the soft curl of fumes.
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Repressed. 150-gram LP. Gancio Cielo is the first full-length by Francesco Cavaliere, an artist whom Hundebiss had the pleasure of introducing to the public in 2010 with a legendary tape called Neverending Somersault. After years of live performance and intense studio work, Cavaliere developed a unique style using his voice as the main source of sounds alongside an incredible archive of homemade sound FX. The magical space of Gancio Cielo exists on its own, unfolding a fantastic night-time story combined with exotic electronic music from an imaginary universe in which alchemy and science fiction come together. Cavaliere has developed a veritable dictionary to catalog the strange beings that inhabit this universe, undefined by reference points: hybrids of objects, minerals, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects, and physical and perceptual phenomena.
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Jaws is a reality-based sound and performance project by Robert Girardin. Influenced by the everyday rhythmic impressions of sight and movement, it uses electronics and voice to put forth a dense and slithering sound with lyrics reflecting the labyrinthine confines and possibilities of life. In late 2011, Jaws released its first album, the crash-informed Stress Test on Hundebiss Records. This was followed by a collaboration with Milan's Dracula Lewis as the Sex Boyz, a post-analog reimagining of two sneering Germs songs, released on Ultra Eczema. In 2012 Jaws was the inaugural act for Ashland Mine's highly-praised "Blasting Voice" performance series, staged at the Suzanne Geiss gallery in downtown Manhattan. The creator behind Jaws has for years worked with New York's Excepter, touring Europe and recording three albums. He is a current member of Hippos In Tanks act White Car. Keys to the Universe is an exuberant, crushing visualization of life from the top of the heap.
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Griffin Pyn was born in 1987 in New Orleans. Second cousin of Philip Anselmo from Pantera. Started fuckin' around with noisy stuff after seeing Nautical Almanac in 2002, started Sewn Leather in December 2006 after getting really into DAF/The Normal/Fad Gadget. Released music on various formats on various labels, such as Hundebiss, Friends And Relatives, American Tapes, Night People, etc. Constantly touring since 2007, shared the stage/floor many times with various other artists and bands such as DJ Dog Dick, Narwhalz Of Sound, Laser Poodle, Dracula Lewis, Secret Abuse, Earth Crown, Video Hippos, Hoax, and more. Sewn Leather became Skull Katalog in late 2013,
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Primitive Art is the Milan-based project of Jim C. Nedd and Matteo Pit. Problems is their debut LP featuring four long tracks which bring to mind Coil playing a form of ominous Balearic Terminator music. Hypnotic and pulsing, beat-driven sound from the sunset of the 2023 global warming landscape.
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After a 12" for the Souterrain Transmissions label, Dracula Lewis delivers his long-awaited debut full-length U$e Your Illu$ion$; a title which evokes an imaginary deviant glamor which is synonymous with the teasing nature and sense of mystery that's part of Dracula Lewis' world. Working with an abundance of pop-based ideas and an abstract mentality, the record brings to mind, in manner and tone, hallucinatory avant strategies that were typical of the second wave of industrial. The material is based around a narrative of total fantasy, sometimes very dark, others a shimmering duel between light and shadow. Piercing synth tones, pounding beats, samples and effected vocals are the staples of U$e Your Illu$ion$'s sonic make-up, while each song confronts traditional song structure as well as embraces them with a certain amount of playful austerity. They also form an estranged narrative visually that ridicules the emptiness within the density of Dracula Lewis' stylistic and fantastical references. Like his contemporary Sewn Leather (who is covered here on "Smoke Ov the Punk"), it's the underlying punk attitude to U$e Your Illu$ion$ which hits home the most, using primitive electronics and dub techniques to epitomize desecration and neglect. Die-cut, fold-out sleeve.
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