Cargo Records

Extra Dirty Bomb EP [ incl. Jahcoozi, Cardopusher, Maga Bo remixes ]

Barcelona-based producer Filastine dropped his second full-length release ‘Dirty Bomb’ in early 2009. It has been described as “the prototype of globalized urban sound” (Prefix), “awesome and delicate... hybrids so fluent they defy classification” (Pitchfork), and “180 degrees away from stultifying, one-dimensional track making” (The Stranger).

With this record in the pocket, Filastine circled the earth twice in a 100-stop tour that began in Jakarta, Indonesia, and ended in a cloud of tear gas outside the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. Along the road he met the producers collaborating on this new eight track re-fix release. The result is a broad collection of bottom-heaving rumblers, shot with sinister melodies, chopshop vocals, lofi dub echoes and atypical breaks, constructed with a depth of both frequency and concept. Contributors include Robot Koch’s Berlin superheroes Jahcoozi, Venezuelan exile Cardopusher, French postbreakcore genius Electromeca, fellow-traveller Maga Bo out of Brazil, Canadians Ill Gates and Phowa representing the vital North American underground, and the anarchist booty-bass collective Deep Throat X of Tokyo. 100% talent. 0% industry-fuelled hype. Rooted in dubstep, Baltimore breaks, glitch-hop, and raggacore, these tracks are influenced by all of the above - but none can be so easily defined. Genres, like national borders, rely on division and exclusivity; this is the sound of ambiguity, experimentation, and broken fences. Call it what you want, transnational bass, global ghettotech, or simply music; it is the sound of now that must be heard.