muslimgauze vs species of fishes – An Essential Extraction

Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze, the controversial “ethnic electronica” musician from Manchester whose work largely dealt with the Israel-Palestine conflict, meets the IDM and glitch of Russian duo Vitaly Stern (Виталий Стерн) & Igor Kolyadniy (Игорь Колядный) aka Species of Fishes. An anomaly in the Muslimgauze discography, An Essential Extraction pulls back Jones’ typical percussion-heavy Arabic industrial production and instead favors a more synthetic sound utilizing samples from Species of Fishes’ Songs From A Dumb World and Trip Trap. The result is an enthralling journey through abstract dubwise glitch that ranges from the deeply hypnotic “sh-sh-sh v1.0” and “sh-sh” to the sharp machine funk of “init v1.0” and the drone of “init v2.0.”