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Playlist 29.03.26

Playlist 29.03.26

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 Quite a journey today, through genres, countries & continents, emotions and BPMs. This is how we do it in the house of Utility Fog. LISTEN AGAIN & travel with me. Stream on demand at fbi.radio, podcast here. Snakeskin – Lost Today [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp] The Bunny Tylers – Let There Be Light [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp] Akram Hajj – Day 2 [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp] SANAM – Aykathani Malakon (SAFA remix) [Tunefork Studios/Bandcamp] While the US & Israel’s misdirected, pointless, intensely damaging war on Iran continues, Israel has taken the opportunity to advance into southern Lebanon – very much not for the first time, but driven by the far right’s power in government and the impunity of the IDF & settlers’ accelerating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, this is now becoming a territorial takeover. “Greater Israel” was once just a gross fantasy of the worst elements of the Zionist right, but now they’re grabbing their chance to enact it in reality. Under the pretext of disarming Hezbollah, Israel is flattening areas of Lebanon including neighbourhoods in Beirut, and as a result there are more than 1 million displaced people in Lebanon. Over. One. Million. Beirut, as you may have noted from these playlists over the last few years, has an unreasonably rich experimental music scene, and Tunefork Studios has been a hub for musicians ranging from postpunk & shoegaze bands to noise, chaotic industrial rock and electronica. The studio was founded by the ever-present producer Fadi Tabbal, who’s also one half of Snakeskin with Julia Sabra and one half of The Bunny Tylers with Charbel Haber, and associated musicians manage (Sabra) & work there. In December 2024, Tunefork released a big compilation of amazing Lebanese music called Land 01 – A Compilation for the Displaced in Lebanon, materially supporting people with living spaces & more. The current situation has severely deepened this humanitarian crisis, and fortunately Tunefork had not one but TWO compilations of music by Lebanese musicians ready to go. Like 01, all tracks are exclusive to the compilations, totalling 58 new tracks. If you don’t already have the first, you can purchase all three at once for a discount, but however you choose, you’ll know that you’re helping raise money for Beit Aam, a community space in Beirut that’s providing housing and food for displaced people. The tracklists are extremely varied, from a touching piece by Snakeskin to the post-industrial lurch of The Bunny Tylers, the swirling noise of Akram Hajj and an unreleased remix of Beirut supergroup SANAM (now signed to Constellation) by London-based sound-artist and researcher Mhamad SAFA, and so much more. dälek – By the Time We Arrive in El Salvador [Ipecac Recordings/Bandcamp] Last year, Will Brooks, also known as MC Dälek of the eponymous noise-hop outfit dälek, collaborated with the legendary postpunk/art-rock drummer/composer/singer Charles Hayward, a project dubbed HAYWARDxDÄLEK. It was one of those things which seems completely out of leftfield, but works surprisingly well. It was also charmingly odd that it was released on renowned metal label Relapse Records, but Relapse has of late also supported Kevin Martin & JK Broadrick’s Techno Animal remasters and their newer project Zonal… And more to the point, dälek in their first incarnation (with producer Alap Momin aka The Oktopus) and their 2016 reformation (now with longtime fellow traveller Mike Mare aka Destructo Swarmbots) have always been metal-adjacent, their boom-baps and Brooks’ conscious, politically-informed raps generally supported with shoegaze-noise-drone that references the Bomb Squad’s innovations with Public Enemy but also the washed-out intensity of My Bloody Valentine. New album Brilliance of a Fallen Moon follows their other recent albums on Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings with claustrophobic environments, noise textures and social commentary. “By the Time We Arrive in El Salvador” flips Public Enemy’s masterpiece “By The Time I Get To Arizona“, itself a riff on Jimmy Webb’s “By The Time I Get Phoenix“, to reference the appalling deportation by the Trump regime of mostly Venezuelans – many American citizens – to the notorious high-security CECOT prison in El Salvador. Brooks’ lyrics poetically circle his subject matter, often buried in the mix, part of the cyberpunkish malaise. james K – N’Balmed (JASSS Purple Remix) [AD93/Bandcamp] Following her vaporwave-trip-hop album Friend from last year, james K now reaches out for some heavy-duty Friends to remix the album. Spanish producer JASSS, whose Eager Buyers album last year featured james K on one of its best tracks, takes “N’Balmed” into something equally ’90s-influenced but on a more head-noddin’ electro-pop tip. There’s a plethora of interesting artists involved here, and I look forward to further offerings. Antoine Ferris – shame’s coming ft. natacha kanga [...
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