Stateless beat-smith Filastine built the Quemalo riddim on a rooftop in Rio de Janeiro, welding together lo-fi Arabic violin stabs with chunky ragga tempo kiks and a syncopated ricochet of snares. On top of this, Cuban rappers Ras Mario and Timedo Flow spit wild Spanish rhymes, contra Babylon, and insist we burn it down now. This track starts the fire. On the flipside DJ Rupture, the artist who inserted the boot back into booty, kicks it again with his totally mutated remix, thick with nasty synthetic basslines and double-time drums. In the last year and half Filastine dropped his full length debut Burn It on Soot Records and delivered his transnational, shopping cart-mounted soundclash to clubs, squats, festivals, boats, and streets around the globe. Before that he was busy f*cking sh*t up with the anarcho-marching band Infernal Noise Brigade.
