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Even back when she was flogging her ‘Pon De Replay’ schtick, I always suspected that Rhianna<\/strong> was hardcore – that at any moment, she would squint her eyes, furrow her brow and come on over and kick the living shit out of you. I think my assessment still stands, or at least it did until I heard AGF<\/strong>‘s cover of Rhianna’s ‘Distubia’.<\/p>\n AGF, aka East German poet, artist, musician and vocalist Antye Greie has an illustrious ten-year career behind her, with a phenomenal quantity of output<\/a>, including work with her partner Vladislav Delay, Ellen Allien<\/strong> and Monika’s Gudrun Gut<\/strong>. Her work revolves around deconstruction \/ reconstruction, blending ‘real world’ (via poetry, spoken word and installative art) and the digital world together, until such times as the component parts are often virtually unrecognisable. Her poemproducer.com<\/a> site represents a growing archive of work, including a generous volume of audio downloads.<\/p>\n AGF has always been a fascinating and uncompromising electronic provocateur, yet here she takes Rhianna’s original and crushes it relentlessly into fine shards of glass – and when that feels about done, she picks up her mallet and grinds that down further still, until we’re left with nothing but sand. Thrashing Rhianna’s lyrics through a psychotic blender, then submerged under a layer of digital distortion, AGF tweaks: ‘Am I scaring you tonight?’. Fuck yeah.<\/p>\n AGF – Distubria<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\n