Filastine & Nova
Berlin, Berlin, Germany | INDIE
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Press
Exclaim (2012) £00T review
compelling fusion of technology and multicultural musical influences … On album number three Filastine has achieved a mature, rich expression of purpose - Exclaim
Grey Filastine works out of Barcelona, Spain, but he absorbs the world's music. He gives Bollywood-style loops a computerized glitch sheen, layers Arabic vocals over burbling bass, drops Spanish raps over chopped-up accordion music - SF Chronicle
Filastine delivers a hybrid electronic sound that could be described as worldbeat for the dubstep generation – and the result is a lot better than it sounds - MTV Iggy (2012) £00T
An uncompromising, unfettered alternative soundtrack to Life On Earth - Discontent
Filastine creates tracks so geographically and chronologically diverse that they sound less like “world” music and more like music from another world - PitchforkTV
Discography
£00TED: Circulate False Notes & Other Remixes {12- Post World Industries 2013}
£00T {CD LP- Muti/US, Jarring Effects/FR, PWI/ES, Romz/JP 2012}
Colony Collapse {digi only EP- Muti Music/US 2012)
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}
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Bio
Grey Filastine is an audio-visual artist born in Los Angeles, based in Barcelona, but most often nomadic.
He composes a dense transnational bass music that collides the low frequenciy pressure of dubstep with high-level beat science, acoustic strings and voices. His work is described as the prototype of globalized urban sound -Prefix Mag, and awesome and delicatehybrids so fluent they defy classification -Pitchfork
In 2012 Filastine dropped his third album, 00T, alongside a grip of potent videos, and a year-long world tour. Filastine uses percussion to fire off sounds and synchronized video from a heap of electronics wired to an amplified shopping cart.
The new live set for the 00T tour uses a custom software to pull off some deep AV madness, and sees Filastine expanded to tour as a duo or trio, joined onstage by Indonesian vocalist Nova or one of the collaborating cellists from the album. You may have seen them at a respected euro-fest like Snar, in a sweaty Hong Kong nightclub, playing a football stadium in Casablanca, or touring the US alongside 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 sound as a tool for political intervention with the Sound Swarm, an orchestra of bike-mounted megaphones conducted by pirate radio transmitters.
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