DOWNLOAD: Filastine - Fitnah (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney) | RCRD LBL

DOWNLOAD: Filastine - Fitnah (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney)

Posted Dec 17, 2008 1:12 PM by Samuel Duke

The press release and biography for Barcelona-based producer Filastine reads like a pitch for a Current TV travel show: "You might have caught him at a club in London, on a junk raft floating down the Mississippi, at Shambhala festival in British Columbia, at a tiny breakcore party in Osaka, or in front of forty thousand at the Boulevards festival in Casablanca." Rather unsurprising then that dude isn't just peddling some stock dance rhythms for satin-shirted masses, instead working a bass-driven brew of breaks, blasts, and globally-culled melodies, exemplified here on "Fitnah" from his new album Dirty Bomb (out in February through DJ /rupture's Soot label.) After a collage of Theremin whine and handclaps, the tune brings itself to its feet with Whack-A-Mole percussion hits and coarse synth throb, vocalist Jessika Skeletalia Kenney laying Middle Eastern smoke over it all. In days when songs like "Arab Money" get dissected for their supposed intentions, it's nice to hear some globally adventurous music that isn't trying to be anything other than itself.