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Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, and most 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 Sónar, in a parking lot in Borneo, or touring the US withlikes of Beats Antique or 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 bikemounted megaphones conducted by pirate radio transmitters, with recent actions in support of the Occupy Movement.
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
onstage 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}
Qúemalo 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 Bits
“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 |
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