{"id":564,"date":"2007-11-04T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T04:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatplanet.com.au\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/raz-mesinai-badawi-israel\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:14:51","slug":"badawi-israel-knife-the-etherics-feat-filastine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/04\/badawi-israel-knife-the-etherics-feat-filastine\/","title":{"rendered":"Badawi (Israel) &#8211; &#039;Knife The Etherics (feat. Filastine)&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/razmesinai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raz Mesinai<\/a><\/strong> has been a major player in the outernational music scene since the early 90s &#8211; blending traditional Middle Eastern influences with dub, bass-heavy electronica and distorted beats. From his early experiments under the influential <strong>Sub Dub<\/strong> project, to releases as <strong>Ladyman<\/strong> and <strong>Badawi<\/strong>, and latterly through his film scores, Mesinai has long established himself as a creator of innovative, politically charged beats and soundscapes.<br \/>\nHis latest release, <strong>Unit Of Resistance<\/strong>, is the first time the combination of aliases Raz Mesinai and Badawi have come together on record; gathering together recordings made in 2004 and subsequently reworked by a team of producers over the intervening years. The original source material was recorded as a &#8220;conscious act of political protest&#8221;, laid down at a Madison Square Garden studio, directly adjacent to the Republican Party convention being held nearby.<br \/>\nDrawing from audio elements pushed back and forth over the web, the roll call of producers is impressive &#8211; <strong>DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, Kode 9, DJ\/rupture, Filastine<\/strong> and more. Whilst <strong>Diplo<\/strong> and friends scour the planet for uptempo global club and party beats, it&#8217;s producers such as Mesinai that take the darker route; pulling the international colours of sound into a deep, black pool of sounds that disrupt, agitate and disarm &#8211; a perfect brew for an unholy voice of dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Raz Mesinai has been a major player in the outernational music scene since the early 90s &#8211; blending traditional Middle Eastern influences with dub, bass-heavy electronica and distorted beats. From his early experiments under the influential Sub Dub project, to releases as Ladyman and Badawi, and latterly through his film scores, Mesinai has long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[545,445,147,930],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-badawi","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-filastine","tag-israel","post_format-video","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15768,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}