FILASTINE (ESP)
May 20, 2009
Grey Filastine is a musician/producer based in Barcelona, but rarely found there. Among his 60+ gigs last year you might have caught him at a club in London, on a junk raft floating down the Mississippi river, at Shambhala festival in Canada, at a tiny breakcore party in Osaka, or in front of forty thousand at the hiphop festival Boulevards in Casablanca. In any context it gets riotous – Filastine bangs out his music, jumping between a tangle of electronics, acoustic percussion, and an amplified shopping cart, firing off riddims and synchronized live video.
This February Filastine drops Dirty Bomb, a gritty transnational soundclash of urban rhythm, on Jarring Effects in Europe, and simultaneously with three other labels worldwide.