FILASTINE

Juddering hiphop/modern R&B rhythms, South American breaks, North African trance, and a grip of vocal and instrumental contributors from every corner of the world

Country: the USA, based in Spain

Label: Jarring Effects/ Muti Music/ Post World Industries /Soot Records

Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, and often nomadic. He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the lowest frequencies of dubstep with the highest-level beat science, acoustic strings, voices, and lofi street noises. The results are “Awesome and delicate… hybrids so fluent they defy classification.” -Pitchfork.

Filastine’s debut record, Burn It, was released by DJ Rupture in 2006 to much critical acclaim: “Filled with both jagged edges and moments of sad sweetness… Burn It is sure to win fans across multiple scenes”- XLR8R. The album ricocheted around the world, licensed and re-released by labels in France, Japan, and the US. The follow-up album, Dirty Bomb, dropped in 2009 through an alliance of labels led by French electro-dub imprint Jarring Effects. Prefix Mag called it “the prototype of globalized urban sound… It will devastate your subwoofer.”

Performing up to a hundred concerts per year, Filastine uses percussion to control loops and synchronized video from a heap of electronics wired to an amplified shopping cart. You may have seen him at a sweaty Tokyo nightclub, a football stadium in Casablanca, a respected euro-fest like Sonar, in a parking lot in Borneo, or touring the US with Bassnectar.

Before making electronic music Filastine played with the Infernal Noise Brigade, a marching band he founded for the Battle of Seattle. He continues to use audio as a tool for political intervention with the Sound Swarm, an orchestra of bike-mounted megaphones conducted by pirate radios transmitters.

Spring of 2012 Filastine delivers the LOOT, his third full length work. LOOT was made in tandem with a grip of potent videos, and launches with a year-long world tour with stops on every continent. The freshly re-tooled live set uses custom software to pull off some deep AV madness, and sees Filastine expanding to tour as a duo, always joined on stage by Indonesian vocalist Nova or one of the collaborating cellists from the album.

Discography

Extra Dirty Bomb (12”- Post World Industries/ES 2010)
We Are Experiencing Turbulence (mix radio broadcast AU/BE/US, free download)
Hungry Ghosts (7”- Disboot/ES 2010}
Dirty Bomb (CD- Jarring Effects/FR, Soot/US, Romz/JP, UberLingua/AU 2009)
Sonar Calibrado- w/ Maga Bo (12”- Shockout/US 2008}
La Pistola Mas Rapida (mix CD IrregularRhythmAsylum/JP, free download}
Quemalo Ya (12” Shockout/US 2007}
The Mud, the Blood, & the Beer (mix CD-Tigerbeat6/US}
Burn It Instrumentals (12”- Soot/US 2007}
Burn It (CD- Soot/ES, Romz/JP, Jarring Effects/FR, Crimethinc/US 2006-2007}
Judas Goat/Palmares (7”- Soot/US 2005}

PRESS

“Maneuvering 180 degrees away from stultifying, one-dimensional track making” -The Stranger

“Filastine’s studious approach and murderous sense of focus elevates this above the soulless clatter that so often characterizes overeager computer musicians” -Exclaim

“Will stay on your playlist without fear of deletion… an excellent achievement and a huge recommendation” -Boomkat

“With one ear to the ground but the other firmly in the gutter, Filastine has delivered a musical bombardment of an album that is fresh and uncompromising and comes highly recommended”- Spannered

“Filastine creates tracks so geographically and chronologically diverse that they sound less like “world” music and more like music from another world.” -PitchforkTV

“An uncompromising, unfettered alternative soundtrack to Life On Earth” -Discontent

LINKS

http://filastine.com

http://www.myspace.com/filastine

http://soundcloud.com/filastine

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