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Artist....: Muslimgauze
Album.....: Narcotic
Source....: CDDA
Type......: Album
Genre.....: Electronic
Encoder...: Lame 3.90.3
Quality...: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint
Company...: Staalplaat
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01.Medina Flight 08:46
02.Ramadan 01:56
03.Believers Of The Blind Sheikh 10:09
04.Effendi 07:25
05.Nazzareen 10:25
06.Gulf Between Us 03:49
07.Saddams Children 02:50
08.Narcotic (Version 1) 08:57
09.Narcotic (Version 2) 01:27
10.Narcotic (Version 3) 06:18
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62:02 min
98,3 MB
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Yeah...
Muslimgauze is yet another electronic artist
that I hadn't taken the time or money to
explore until recently. Admittedly, one of the
main reasons I heard about the group was
because of a fair amount of press that went
around last year when Bryn Jones (the man
behind Muslimgauze) died of a very rare blood
disease at a young age. Being on an electronic
music mailing list, I started hearing the name
over and over and finally did a little
research on the music that he created. While I
was delving into this research, I not only
found out that it was something that I would
probably like, but that Jones was also
terribly prolific as an artist. While many of
his releases are now hard to find because of
limited press runs, on average he released
over 2 albums worth of material every year for
at least the past 5. Even after his death, a
9-CD (yes, that's 9 CD's) box set is planned
for release sometime around the end of 1999.
Now I'll try to go onto the music. Although
Muslimgauze compositions are for the most part
instrumental (electronic), there is a definite
message behind the work. If you delve at all
into the catalogue of work that was produced
in such a short time, you'll find that almost
all of the releases have some sort of
middle-eastern theme, usually one of a
political nature. Although I'm by no means an
expert in the music of Muslimgauze, all the
work I've heard definitely has a message
behind it. While it's difficult to sometimes
convey a political message through songs with
lyrics (let along music without them),
Muslimgauze manages to do it well, whether
it's attacking the establishment with
industrial-edged harder tracks, or identifying
with an oppressor through a moving ambient
track.
As an album, Narcotic does these above things
and more. The opening track "Medina Flight"
bangs on with a metallic sounding looped drum
track that blares with distortion at some
points while background voices chant out
vocals nearly throughout. The track is
flavored with other harsh sounds and even a
few woodwind sounding instruments before
subsequently breaking down and starting back
in several times. "Believers of the Blind
Sheikh" is a 10-minute middle-eastern sounding
dub track sprinkled with live drum sounds and
more occasional vocal samples of unknown
conversation. "Saddams Children" leans more
toward traditional instruments, but one can
hear the gurgle of electronics lightly in the
background.
The instrumentation of the album is amazing.
When I first started seeing that Muslimgauze
released so many albums in such a short amount
of time, I naturally thought that the quality
might fall suspect, but Narcotic is a solid
piece of work that covers quite a chunk of the
electronic music spectrum, although a lot of
the rhythms tend to fall on a little harder
side. It manages to blend ethnic and
electronic sounds into quite an interesting
mix. I don't know enough of the politics to
know whether it succeeds on a political level
or not, but I guess it's probably the point of
the disc to make me want to learn.
http://www.discogs.com/release/170753
Enjoy...
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