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Artist:	DJ RUPTURE VS. MUTAMASSIK
Title:	Shotgun Wedding Vol. 1: The Bidoun Sessions
Label:	VIOLENT TURD (NEW ZEALAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	TURD 009CD

"The Bidoun Sessions commemorates performances with The Bidoun Crew in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Mutamassik in 2002, Rupture in 2004). Available outside the Middle East for the first time, this CD inaugurates Violent Turd's 'Shotgun Wedding' split DJ mix series. Easy labels such as 'postcolonial party music' or 'hardcore world beat' fail to describe DJs Rupture and Mutamassik's forward-looking Diasporal breakbeats. Hip hop, dancehall, and drum'n'bass meet in Beirut while chopper blades whir overhead. Rupture's blazing half-hour Bidoun session fuses hot new orientalist dancehall and battle-grade hiphop with Arabic vocals and instrumentation, soul divas, and a dusting of break-core grit. Mutamassik's 'Bidoun Session' scratches and mashes Upper Nile Sa'aidi, old-skool rap instrumentals, hardstep D-and-B, and underground rai hits into a serious, rooted mix of relentless rhythms from pan-Afro-Arabic immigrant sound sources."

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