{"id":304,"date":"2006-11-14T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/ramallah-underground-palestine\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:14:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:14:14","slug":"ramallah-underground-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/14\/ramallah-underground-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMALLAH UNDERGROUND [PALESTINE]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nmp3:<\/strong> BOIKUTT & STORMTRAP qararat (feat. lethal skillz)<\/a>
\nmp3: <\/strong>BOIKUTT sabe3 nomeh<\/a>
\nmp3:<\/strong> ASWATT VS BOIKUTT dameer mustater 73<\/a>
\nmp3:<\/strong> BOIKUTT feat THE UNPEOPLE, ILLAMAN, UNCLE WILL, ROXY & JHON subversive elements<\/a>
\nthe first palestinian post for fat planet – a visit that was long overdue. the ramallah underground collective was originally formed by artists boikutt and stormtrap many years back, and now houses a further eight members. once again, we see hip hop as the defacto protest genre* – although, ramallah are quick to assert their politcal position.
\nbranding themselves “producers, mcs, photographers, visual artists and freedom fighters”, dj sotusura insists that they’re “not using the palestinian cause as a platform for our music”, although boikutt offers the key caveat: “90 per cent of what i rap is political because 80 per cent of life in palestine is political. if you live in palestine you breathe politics, you live politics… i don’t watch the news anymore. i just look out the window.”
\nramallah sit in a broader arabic hip hop culture that includes mwr, dam and jenin-based producer rami – founder of online label, mmd. their recent e.p. “no borders” was a timely collaboration between european & arab producers & mcs – sixteen musicians represented across the eight tracks.
\nof the tunes available above, ‘qararat’ is the most recent – a minimal beat production rife with plucked strings and local instrumentation, overlaid with scratches from lethal skillz. boikutt’s solo production ‘sabe3 nomeh’ drafts outside of hip hop for a downtempo sample-based excursion that has a long tail in the idm camp. similarly, his collab with aswatt, ‘dameer mustater 73’, leaves the polemic far behind for a mid-tempo percussion workout. the selection rounds off back, squarely, in the hip hop camp, with the collective swapping war stories over a soundclash rub down.
\nmore info at ramallahunderground.com<\/a>.
\n(* the life-draining event that was the australian recording industry awards the other week saw one member of midnight oil – this year’s ‘hall of fame’ inductee – claim that australian protest music was dead. i humbly suggest that he pulls his head out of his rock’n’roll arse and takes a crash course in australian hip hop. local protest music is in fact alive and kicking – it just doesn’t play guitars.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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