there was a sandbox thread but
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 this EP, glad to see others do too. Well, "Vatican Vibes", "Hip Hop Spa" and especially "D-Medley" are essential, I can live without the other two tracks.
― Angrrau Birds (seandalai), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
but "How Can I Resist U" is the best one.
― fffv, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
video is totally unsettling. that song now sounds terrifying
― rob, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dunno, "How Can I Resist U" doesn't sound mind-blowingly new to me - if someone told me it was a recent track by Guido or someone like that I wouldn't be surprised. This on the other hand is a musical direction I haven't heard before:
― Angrrau Birds (seandalai), Thursday, 19 January 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Fatima Al Qadiri's 'How Can I Resist U' is a love letter to London in general and Dubstep (before it wobbled) in particular. "Lenden" as it's known has become a historic site of pilgrimage for wealthy Arabs seeking the forbidden fruits of sex, drugs and alcohol.
Interspersed with Youtube footage of Ma'alaya dances specific to Gulf countries like UAE and Oman--the super cars, dancing girls and brutalist council estates in the video are part of the down-and-dirty dream that a trip to London signifies for Khaleejis (Gulf Arabs). The color of the video is based on an infamous Arab royal's custom 'Gulf Blue' Koenigsegg CCXR that terrorized the streets of the city's posh neighborhoods."
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 07:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
can a mod fix the thread title?
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 07:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
is this the same chick who did "warm eyes"?
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Friday, 20 January 2012 07:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
no, that's just simply "fatima"
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 07:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
fatima is a swedish singer who lives in london
fatima al qadiri as a new yorker of kuwaiti heritage, and yeah she's wonderful - the genre-specific xperience ep totally blew my mind. i think "vatican vibes" is my favourite
see also her warn-u ep, under the name ayshay, in which she reinterprets traditional islamic chants (and then nguzunguzu remix them).
kind of feel that while mixing influences and cultures is commonplace right now, she's one of the few producers doing something interesting with that fusion rather than overlaying signifiers divorced from their contexts on top of each other.
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, 20 January 2012 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
(while also still making banging, gorgeous music)
oh wait, we're talking about 3 people!
there's the l.a. fatima who did "warm eyes" and works with dam funk and shafiq husayn and there's the swedish/london fatima who did the follow you ep with floating points. i didn't realize those were different people til now and assumed follow you was the work of the former.
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 09:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, January 20, 2012 12:14 AM Bookmark
otm
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 09:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
no the london fatima is the one who worked with dâm-funk and shafiq husayn
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, 20 January 2012 09:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm SURE it is anyway, i'd just happily assumed
oh wait, you are right. i had just assumed fatima was from l.a. cause she works with all these l.a. ppl.
― The Reverend, Friday, 20 January 2012 10:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
rev have you heard much ahu? if you like fatima i think you'll like her
+ this amazing mix http://www.brainfeedersite.com/2009/07/20/vida-ahu-nova/
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, 20 January 2012 10:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't want to derail the thread but this fatima tune w/ onra & pursuit grooves is really something else
― cock chirea, Friday, 20 January 2012 10:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's amazing how the genre specific xperience EP seems to have this really limited sonic palette - like it's just super clean synth sounds, a drum machine - no fade or reverb or any of the 'dirtying' effects that lots of synth players like to use. and yet the whole thing is really captivating
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I learned in 2011 that I'm kind of a sucker for the beautiful hypnotic sound of synth steel drums
― rob, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not really feeling this stuff - I sort of respect her for going for this aesthetic but I don't think the combination of the sound palette and the level of repetition does her any favours. Listening to it I just feel like I'm running around some murky underwater cave level in a Playstation game.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's the idea, basically
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
which the mv for 'vatican vibes' makes p explicit
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, was gonna say "murky underwater cave level in a Playstation game" isn't a bad description of why I like it: it's immersive but alienating.
― rob, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fatima Al Qadiri's 'How Can I Resist U' is a love letter to London in general and Dubstep (before it wobbled) in particular. "Lenden" as it's known has become a historic site of pilgrimage for wealthy Arabs seeking the forbidden fruits of sex, drugs and alcohol.
btw did y'all know that osama bin laden's niece is a dalston hipster?
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah it's just that, I dunno, if I'm going to sit down and listen to something at home I like it to bring a bit more to the table.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
(xpost)
I think it's telling and great that you used playstation and not nintendo - this is prob the first video-game influenced music I've heard that doesn't fall into the rabbit hole of chip tunes + chrono trigger midis
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
but above all her sense of melody is really refined and exquisite - like hte first time my friend sent me a youtube, I was like, that was p good, but within 5 minutes I went back to the youtube and played it again, and again, and again
like, I didn't expect myself to be taken in by such a simple sound palette (like I said above) but I was! she has a really good ear
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wonder what it says that i love this kind of music but have never played video games
― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
You approach it without baggage - see also Rustie, Ikonika etc. I find those connotations a bit problematic really.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 January 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
why problematic?
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
like the whole DIS/nguzunguzu visual aesthetic so far has been really corny maya 3d renderings circa 1998 reappropriated for hipster use, don't see why appropriating the sound of that is off limits
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess the "sounds like a videogame soundtrack" works a bit like how the Ghost Box aesthetic mines sounds that were buried in your subconscious in your childhood. I can understand being wary of music that draws on childhood nostalgia for its power, but i don't think that's really happening here. but i'm 33 so this doesn't really sound like the games i played as a kid. so while i got your playstation comment, i didn't really think "this sounds like playstation" when i first heard this.
― rob, Friday, 20 January 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's problematic for me for the same reason I wouldn't put on an orchestral film soundtrack when I could listen to a symphony, it just feels kind of naff. Also when I play video games I usually turn the sound down and put other music on.
Also (and I know this is a bit unfair on Al Qadiri since she obviously knows what she's doing with her source material better than most of these losers) I'm getting a bit of a naff 90s hippie smoking compilation vibe from the whole aesthetic. Possibly the album art isn't helping here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 20 January 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
that could be a really good poll, actually, to see how many film soundtracks ILM owns
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk if I would call it 90s hippie smoking compilation, more like purposeful hipster 'I don't care' transposed onto computers
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe this aesthetic is 'in' right now
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
heh i didnt realize she had her album release party at the new museum, which, of course
― max, Friday, 20 January 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that the one on the bowery?
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
which, yeah, of course
it's worth noting that FAQ has written the global.wav column for DIS for a couple years
― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://dismagazine.com/blog/global-wav/
― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Genre-Specfic Xperience remix package set for release on March 27, which will include reworks from Kingdom, Girl Unit, Ikonika, DJ Rashad, and more.
o_o
― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
:o
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I approve of this mining of my geeky heritage
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
this "corpcore" remix is pretty wild! not sure if this is part of the release that's coming out on the 27th but very excited to hear the rest of them.
http://soundcloud.com/shockdiamond/fatima-al-qadiri-corpcore
― handy ban (lou), Saturday, 4 February 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
what happened to
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 02:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ikr?
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 10:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fatima Al Qadiri @FatimaAlQadiri@[me] yup, may 22 is the release date!
okay dennnnn
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/unouno/fatima-al-qadiri-corpcore-kingdom
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
REMIQSIS. I LIKE THE REMIQSIS.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, it's a pretty solid collection
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wish I still had all my Bryce 3D turquoise iMac .jpegs.
― errant flynn, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Apparently the next Fade to Mind release will be by Fatima al Qadiri?
― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 September 2012 21:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
!
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.thefader.com/2012/10/03/stream-fatima-al-qadiri-ghost-raid/
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
I wish I hadn't read the blurb : (
― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
ameliorative coos
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
that's some "synth gurgles" shit
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
Oh, looking forward to this. Only thing I could say that about on Fade to Mind.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 21:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
Nodding my head @ that post.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
:/
those nguzu/mikeq/rizzla eps are 100% classics
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
Didn't know Mike Q had a release, will check this out!
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
lol some people seem to go out of their way to state how much they don't like fade to mind
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 4 October 2012 01:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
really good interview with her in the fader
http://www.thefader.com/2012/11/12/interview-fatima-al-qadiri/
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
she is awesome
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 08:26 (6 months ago) Permalink
I wanted to get more profesh.
<3
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
Does the Desert Strike EP count for 'albums' in the EoY poll?
Also, there wasn't any stuff out as Ayshay this year I missed, was there?
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2012 01:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
sure; no
tbh I'm not as impressed with Desert Strike as GSX :/
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
I like it a lot more, but then I never listened to GSX as much because I was too busy listening to 'Warn-U' on repeat when I found out about her.
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2012 01:32 (5 months ago) Permalink
GSX is very much my favorite thing she's done.
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:36 (5 months ago) Permalink
Fair play, I think she's awesome in general - I guess my favour lies with the less beat-heavy stuff? I dunno, could be talking out of my ass there, I should go back and give it more of a chance now I'm not just rotating the one track.
― emil.y, Friday, 30 November 2012 01:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
I live and die for the beat :)
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:44 (5 months ago) Permalink
Not beat-centric here but the vibrant lushness of tracks like Hip-Hop Spa are my favourite thing about FAQ's music. I do like Desert Strike but I suspect I'll find 25 other things I prefer.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Friday, 30 November 2012 02:04 (5 months ago) Permalink
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah same here - I think desert strike is supposed to be more 'reserved' and 'meditative' but unfortch for me that just means 'more boring'
did anyone check out the EP of remixes of GSX?
― 乒乓, Friday, 30 November 2012 02:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
Fair play, I think she's awesome in general - I guess my favour lies with the less beat-heavy stuff? I dunno, could be talking out of my ass there
― emil.y, Friday, November 30, 2012 1:42 AM (19 hours ago)
m8 what ever happened to the traditional english 'arse'
― Phenomenology of Spirit Animal (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 30 November 2012 21:11 (5 months ago) Permalink
Anything new?
― brimstead, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:43 (2 months ago) Permalink