https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_pFkO9Qep8
maybe this aesthetic is 'in' right now
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
heh i didnt realize she had her album release party at the new museum, which, of course
― max, Friday, 20 January 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
is that the one on the bowery?
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Friday, 20 January 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://dismagazine.com/blog/global-wav/
― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 January 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
:o
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
what happened to
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
ikr?
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/unouno/fatima-al-qadiri-corpcore-kingdom
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
REMIQSIS. I LIKE THE REMIQSIS.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's a pretty solid collection
― Number None, Thursday, 24 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
Wish I still had all my Bryce 3D turquoise iMac .jpegs.
― errant flynn, Friday, 25 May 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently the next Fade to Mind release will be by Fatima al Qadiri?
― The Reverend, Sunday, 23 September 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
!
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 23 September 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I wish I hadn't read the blurb : (
― barthes simpson, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
ameliorative coos
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
that's some "synth gurgles" shit
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, looking forward to this. Only thing I could say that about on Fade to Mind.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Nodding my head @ that post.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
:/
those nguzu/mikeq/rizzla eps are 100% classics
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't know Mike Q had a release, will check this out!
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
she is awesome
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
I wanted to get more profesh.
<3
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Anything new?
― brimstead, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/future-brown/wanna-party-ft-tink/s-zjDxm
― max, Friday, 2 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
yessssssssssssssssssss
― suggest bando (The Reverend), Friday, 2 August 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
:)
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Album announced, on Hyperdub.
http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/11/fatima-al-qadiri-signs-to-hyperdub-for-debut-album-asiatisch/
― emil.y, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
Whhop whoop!
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
looking forward to this, saw her dj a couple of weeks ago and she was terrific
weirdly not into any of the future brown stuff so far tho
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 February 2014 09:06 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I saw her as well. Amazing. Wasn't expecting it to be so good.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 14 February 2014 07:48 (ten years ago) link
‘Asiatisch’ is a provocation which asks more questions than it answers. The title is the German word for Asian. Unlike its title, however, the music on ‘Asiatisch’ revolves around the fantasies of east Asia as refracted through pulpy Western pop culture, in particular, Hollywood, literary fiction, music, cartoons and advertising. Fatima asks what is meant by the term ‘Asian’ in a digital age of viral interchange and the hi-speed trading of cultural bytes, the concept of ‘shanzhai’ proves pivotal, a term whose meaning stems from a wild, out of control zone of banditry, but which has come to be used to refer to the Chinese counterfeiting of Western brands and goods.
While ‘sinogrime’ has had many copyists over the last few years, ‘Asiatisch’ is really the first record that attempts to articulate this weird complex of sonic interchanges between the West and China. With the exception of the opening track, ‘Shanzhai’, a haunting cover of ‘Nothing Compares to You’ with nonsensical Mandarin lyrics, and the shimmering ‘Loading Beijing’, ‘Wudang’ and ‘Jade Stairs’ which sample and distort classical Chinese poetry staging an epic confrontation between China’s ancient soul and the onslaught of the industrial factory machine, most of the tracks blend mallets, bells, gongs, flutes, steel drums and choral atmospherics with the searing synth-brass and the skittering drums of grime, playing melodies that are inflected as much by classic R&B as to synthetic versions of traditional Chinese music. On “Dragon Tattoo” for example, stereotypical iconography of imagined China is slotted into a threatening, robotic R&B format. The carefree pirating of Western brands blurs into a soft-synth pirating of Chinese musical signs.
Tracklist:
1- Shanzhai (For Shanzhai Biennial) (feat. Helen Feng)2 – Szechuan3 – Wudang4 – Loading Bejing5 – Hainan Island6 – Shenzhen7 - Dragon Tattoo8 – Forbidden City9 – Shanghai Freeway10 – Jade Stars
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 March 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
Annoying Fade to Mind producer quote from article "L.A. record label Fade to Mind looks to expand its cultural reach"
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83234482/
We may have missed some opportunities because we want to control everything,” Rubin said. “Our brand’s really complicated, it’s not just a bunch of boys in hats playing trap music. But we’ve always been influenced by pop music, and if someone came to us to do a Britney record, of course we would try it.”
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 May 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
Elysia Crampton's American Drift is really scratching the itch for me that the Future Brown album failed to.
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 09:37 (eight years ago) link
lol I forgot about lex vs FAQ high-quality stuff
― boring alt-reality reverend (The Reverend), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
lol yah prime filet mignon for those w/ long memories
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
i regret nothing except not doing it to pc music as well due to lack of time/unwillingness to endure their output
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
all things considered i think future brown is happily on course to be the turkey of the decade
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 09:44 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's why i think pc music might have been more worthwhile to go in on
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 11:25 (eight years ago) link
did anyone write anything on ilm about the fatima al qadiri album, brute? finally listening to it now
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
as far as I can tell it's just completely normal faq instrumental music content with little news clip samples occasionally at the beginnings of tracks, for uh, conceptual reasons?
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
asiatisch was much better
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 15 August 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
*hits a gong*
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 27 February 2015 18:20 (two years ago) Permalink
classic thread! also, good interview in pitchfork
― the late great, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
critic Isabelia Herrera twweeted her fave 2023 albums on Spotify so far and included Fatima Al Qadiri's Gumar ep
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 June 2023 14:45 (eleven months ago) link
What I heard of Medieval Femme sounded great tho maybe more to admire than something I'd go to repeatedly.Someone did a video edit of the strikingly eerie 'Malaak' over clips from the Dune remake and it did work all too well.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 June 2023 15:46 (eleven months ago) link