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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014Not always easy to decode, but worth the effort. [Jun 2014, p.103]
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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 12, 2014If you stop trying to hear it as grime, and listen to it as a sci-fi movie of an album, a classy electronica dream journey through a high tech Orient, then that gloss becomes a strength, and it really does stand up on its own.
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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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The WireJul 17, 2014It's hard not to feel that this dense conceptual flotsam is arranged around a lucuna. [May 2014, p.67]
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May 5, 2014With such an unbending focus on intellectual ideals, Asiatisch is as erudite and wildly impenetrable as its maker.
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May 5, 2014Asiatisch, however, is even more pretentious [than two previous EPs], pairing instrumental UK grime with Asian flourishes to explore the relationship between the west and China.
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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.