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SOUK 012LP
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Always timely reissue of Muqata'a's first self-released EP from 2017. After years of fertile digital existence on his own Bandcamp, La Lisana Lah now gets a much-deserved tactile version through Souk, the Discrepant sublabel responsible for the already classic Inkanakuntu. One of the most prominent figures of the Palestinian electronic scene, Muqata'a's trajectory has been one of resistance and urgency, leaving a sonic imprint of his own from pretty much the beginning. Without anything tentative or vestigial about its sonic fictions, La Lisana Lah deploys an arsenal of Muqata'a's traits that would be explored on subsequent releases: the glitchy thick textures verging on noise of "Tib Al Huroof," the narcotic broken beats of "Taqdirahu Anta" and "Zyadet Naqs" or the alluring disruptive harmonic suspension of "Dijla Wal Fada," everything cared for with an essential attention to space and evoking the heritage of Palestinian resistance through his use of samples and scales. A visionary from the get go.
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SOUK 001LP
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Beat master Muqata'a, one of the brains behind the thriving hip hop scene in Ramallah, Palestine, delivers a unique instrumental album, Inkanakuntu. While Discrepant were exploring the world digging for music that exists at the edge of many genres they realized the need to create an(other) adventurous new sublabel. Souk Records aims to bring beats from every corner of the world with the divergent and discrepant taste that has been delivered since 2010. Inkanakuntu is more than an instrumental hip-hop album, with nods to classic hip-hop works and mixed with a downtempo grime feel that captures the urgency and eagerness of UK's dance culture. With these eight instrumentals Muqata'a shows how vast and deep his music knowledge is, with a refined taste and a perfect sense of melody-molding. Sometimes it's real raw, in others we can feel mellowness and jazz feeling or the perfect pop beat. Make no mistake, Muqata'a is a beats craftsman.
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