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- Summary: The debut release for the Senegal-born and now Brooklyn-based artist is a concept album of a futuristic China.
- Record Label: Hyperdub
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 10 out of 18
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Mixed: 8 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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May 5, 2014Al Qadiri doesn’t just walk the line, she strides.
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May 9, 2014It's immersive and transgressive, if you care about this stuff.
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MojoMay 15, 2014At Asiatisch's heart is bass, gargantuan and window rattling, around which she builds an elaborate framework of complex rhythms and melodies using analogue hardware. [Jun 2014, p.93]
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May 5, 2014The ambition is staggering and for Fatima Al Qadiri to have made Asiatisch both a coherent listen and a sensible comment on western perception it means we’ve not only got a talented musician on our hands but also an extremely wise cultural commentator.
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May 13, 2014Tuning out the conceptual aspect is close to impossible, but there are some moments--as in the hypnotic "Shanghai Freeway"--that can be enjoyed on a purely musical level.
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May 5, 2014There is still much to admire and enjoy, not least Al Qadiri’s pursuit of an individual, politicised, socially-conscious path that never lacks ambition or self-confidence.
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May 8, 2014Asiatisch mixes repetitive industrial noises, poetry samples, Asian synth motifs and vaguely menacing atmospherics into tepid, listless and melodically bland soundscapes that serve the concept more successfully than they do the listener.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jun 10, 2015
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