Former Seattle/current Barcelona sonic rabble-rouser Grey Filastine is set to release his latest full-length on DJ /rupture’s Soot label in early 2009. Expect another (very) rough guide to underground world music full of unsanitary bass frequencies and a Muslimgauze-like knack for rhythmic Esperanto by the ex-Infernal Noise Brigade member. (The track “No Lock No Key” features local vocal magus DJ Collage.)

Hear a megamix of Dirty Bomb at Filastine’s MySpace and check the full press release after the jump.

Filastine Drops His Dirty Bomb to Devastate the Music Landscape
The nomadic producer uses worldly influences and bass for his new full-length physically on DJ /Rupture's Soot label; Dirty Bomb out on Soot/Post-World Industries in February.

Grey Filastine is a producer/musician based in Barcelona but rarely found there. Among his 60+ gigs last year you might have caught him at a club in London, on a junk raft floating down the Mississippi, at Shambhala festival in British Columbia, at a tiny breakcore party in Osaka, or in front of forty thousand at the Boulevards festival in Casablanca. In any context it gets riotous- Filastine bangs out his music, jumping between a tangle of electronics, acoustic percussion, and an amplified shopping cart, firing off riddims and synchronized live video.

In 2006 Filastine dropped his debut release, Burn It, to much critical acclaim. Vibrant and original, Burn It made inroads among music fans from the hiphop, world, electronic, and experimental scenes; it was snatched up and re-released by French label Jarring Effects, Japanese label Romz, and US anarcho-collective Crimethinc. Tracks from the album received airplay on the radio shows of Mary Anne Hobbes & John Peel, and in France peaked at #15 in national independent radio charts. Less visible are the spins on pirate stations across Latin America, or the more than fifty thousand downloads of his dj mix commissioned by Blentwell.com.

Other releases include pirate mixtapes and a selection of sold-out vinyl. Look for his latest 12" on Tigerbeat6's Shockout with partner Maga Bo in their duo project Sonar Calibrado.

With his sophmore album, Dirty Bomb, Filastine returns with a gritty transnational soundclash of urban rhythm. Freely splicing dubstep with balkan brass or hiphop with bollywood, Dirty Bomb parties in the mud puddle of our increasingly polluted world. Kick drums beat out rapid patterns for dances yet to be invented. Rich acoustic strings merge with programmed synths. Bits of field recordings and radio static degrade the signal. Each featured voice is sourced from an on-site collaboration. Over the contorted crunk of "Hungry Ghosts" rap aboriginal Australian Wire mc and Japan's ECD, underground rap icons of their respective countries. Closing the albums is teen gypsy La Perla, recorded in a squatted cave in Andalusia.

If it's otherworldly melodies with female vocals you want, try tracks 5 and 17. for low-end bangers enhanced by MCs, try tracks 7, 8, and 11. For beautiful instrumentals, tracks 14 and 16. To see how this album was made go to www.filastine.com/dirtybomb

Before focusing on solo work Filastine founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece marching band that was the soundtrack of the globalization protests that opened this century, starting with the blockade of the Seattle WTO summit. The Infernal Noise Brigade was purpose-built to bring music to political movements in the street. Filastine is a project to do the reverse, pumping the immediacy of the street through sound systems.

Filastine will spend 2009 touring the world along his DIY trade routes. Expect to find him everywhere.

"Filled with both with jagged edges and moments of sad sweetness. Filastine is sure to win fans across multiple scenes" -XLR8R

"Worldly field recordings, sound collages and electro burners line a tracklist with concealed explosives that loom in the splitting beats and
impending ruin of cuts." -Remix Magazine

Tracklist:

1. Singularities
2. Btalla feat. Rabah
3. From the South to the West...
4. To the Motherfucking East
5. Fitnah feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney
6. Marxa
7. Los Manos En La Masa feat. Malena D'Alessio
8. No Lock No Key feat. DJ Collage
9. Blung
10. Bitrate Sneers
11. Hungry Ghosts feat. Wire MC & ECD
12. Desordenador
13. Stereofonic Streetscape Blowout
14. The Sinking Ship
15. They Move Like Somnambulists
16. Strategy of Tension
17. Como Fugitivos feat. La Perla