Arabic Hip Hop & Old Skool Industrial Music...



Shotgun Wedding Vol.1 - DJ /Rupture vs Mutamassik - The Bidoun Sessions

OK, I'm going to start with Mutamassik first as I've gone on about DJ /Rupture before. Mutamassik is a female DJ of Egyptian origin, she's all about the beats really, on her mix she throws down hip hop, drum and bass and plenty of seriously bad ass beats from the middle east with some mad DJ skillz - I read an interview with her where she was talking about punching her decks to play bass or percussion and tapping the needle head to get other sounds, I love that sort of shit! Anyway, I'm well impressed with her mix - must hunt down some of her other stuff... OK, now onto the DJ /Rupture mix. if there is such a thing as a typical mix from him this is it: North African hip hop? - check! Ragga riddims? - check! Odd bit of relentless noise? check! Modern RnB thrown in to mix at inappropriate moments? check! Yep, it's all there - a good old fashioned DJ /rupture party album. ;-)



Throbbing Gristle - The Taste of TG (A Beginner's Guide To The Music Of Throbbing Gristle)

Not quite as terrifying as I was lead to believe, tracks such as 'Distant Dreams - Part Two' are in fact quite pleasant in a minimal electro type way as is 'Hot on the heels of love' - although the whip cracking throughout does give that song a fairly sinister edge. However you can't be lulled into a false sense of security with the band, they seemed to enjoy treating there audience with contempt back in the day: as witnessed on the track 'We Hate You (Little Girls)' which was apparently written because they didn't like teenage girls standing at the front of gigs, and the scream at the end of 'Cabaret Voltaire'. Anyway, very interesting album - a sort of pre-electro history lesson I guess.