11pm Saturday - a special one hour mix "
After This" by
Mutamassik, made on 2 turntables, a CD walkman for original tracks, and a broken mixer. Featuring tracks from the upcoming 2012, vinyl-only release "
Rekkez" on ini.itu records.
Here are her views:
"After revolutions, what do you put in place?
Destruction is easy. Construction is a b**ch.
Also, 1st world protests--*****--if you are not willing to step
down your standard of living, there can be no revolution. Period."
"I completely lost the illusion that metropolis like New York, London and
Tokyo are the ultimate hubs of activity, power points on maps, the
epicenters of life. The irony and truth is that their very breath depends
on an enormous, rhizomatic, artificial life-support system that trucks,
ships, flies in provisions from all kinds of unfashionable places to
sustain it's millions. A city cannot produce enough food for even a
fraction of its population. If people do not eat, they die..."
Track list:
1. cello intro=
Mutamassik
2. 'Not Having to Choose Between Killing and Being Killed (P.S.A.)'=
Mutamassik 'That Which Death Cannot Destroy' (Sa'aidi
Hardcore/RoughAmericana)
3. 'Elf Laila we Laila'=Oum Kalsoum & Abdel Wahab Orchestra (Sono Cairo)
4. 'Magda Mariam'='Taranim el Qadisa Mariam' (uncredited)/
'#2=Laraji & Brian Eno/'Dec 1'=Morgan Craft (Circle of Light/RoughAmericana)
5. 'Wishik'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
6. 'Fathy's Jam'=Fathy Salama and Friends
7. 'Subliminal'=Suicidal Tendencies (Frontier)
8. 'La d'Hericourt'=Cl. Balbastre 'Jos Van Immerseel plays Historic
Flemish Harpsichords' (Odyssey)
9. 'Broken Record'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
10. 'Rawa'a'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)/'Commitment=Jayne Cortez & the
Firespitters 'Maintain Control' (Bola)
11. 'Welem'=Ghada el Badeyya (Music Box)
12. 'Mothership'=Ed Rush (No U-Turn)
13. 'In Fields Near Labs'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
14. 'Dr. Aida'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
15. 'Nawal'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
16. 'In Labs Near Fields'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
17. 'Blue Bones'=
Mutamassik (Meerkat)
18. 'Franco Arab'=Fakry el Gazawy (Morifon)
19. 'Coptic Mass'=Abuna Kyrollos and attendants
20. 'Human Shield'-
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
21. 'Mestizo.Blood.Drums'=
Mutamassik 'That Which Death Cannot Destroy'
(Sa'aidi Hardcore/RoughAmericana)
22. 'The Force is Electric'= Ed Rush/Nico (No U-Turn)
23. 'Cairo Field Recording'
24. 'Bluedev mix'=Youssri & Hannaa/Concord Blue Dvs. Marching Band
25. 'Rekkez'=
Mutamassik 'Rekkez' (ini itu)
Wishik--"your face". My mother sings an old Egyptian song, "
Min ellak
teskoun fe Haretna", the words of which were intended as a love song, but
double paradoxically well as a resistance poem:
"How dare you come and live in our street
You are occupying us and you're cramping our style
We don't have any more comfort.
Find a solution for our situation,
Otherwise leave this place
And go somewhere else."
BIO: Egyptian-Italian Massik states that she's dedicated to
promoting "
the fire in creativity that incinerates obstacles and small-mindedness".
Mutamassik (= stronghold/ tenacity in Arabic)
played cello and drums in various bands, founded Sa'aidi Hardcore Productions in 1996 and label KMT BABOMB, and now runs a music-arts
studio G.G.S.S/Rocca AlMileda in Brooklyn, Cairo and Tuscany.
As a producer she pioneered Sa'aidi Hardcore and Baladi
Breakbeat and is known to throw in the occasional transcendental sonic experiment. And that's why we love her! From knuckles on the turntable, to sampled sentiments- Massik enjoys her trade. She's currently performing
with guitarist Morgan Craft as Rough Americana as well as solo. Go Massik!
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The second half of the show might be a recording of a live show by arch-soundman Xentos Fray Bentos and tech-artist Chris Weaver, but of course there's been no indication this will happen, in fact this is something I've totally dreamed up in a fleeting blink of Utopia. But dreams go on.
