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Cobra Head Soup

by Muslimgauze

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During Jones’ life, no label or collective thereof could keep up with his prolific output and his passing gave everyone a breather to release at a label pace rather than a ‘devotee’ pace. Archive releases often have pre-released material, or slight variations thereof as Jones habitually made numerous alternate versions of tracks. On occasion, the Archive series does have unreleased gems. Some tracks may be familiar to those who have "Remixs 2" and "Red Madrassa". One of my favorite tracks here 'Elect Izlamic Jihad' (from "Remixs 2"), a muscular yet menacing panther of a track on the prowl while an Arabic field recording (Quran? Call to Martyrdom?) intones in the background. The track that provoked my interest most was "Cobra Head Soup" which reminded me of the atmospheric moments on "Sandtrafikar". For lack of a better term, I would call this piece ‘Illbient’–a marketing term from the mid-to-late 90’s that describes a style of music that blends ambient, electronic, hip hop, musique concrete, and dub. "Cobra Head Soup" is a deliciously eerie haunted dub excursion (already) saturated in vinyl record crackles with spacious oud strumming, ghostly atmospherics, and rumbling bass lines.

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released May 25, 2020

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Muslimgauze Berlin, Germany

Muslimgauze occupied a strange place in the musical world. He was a powerful, prolific innovator, releasing albums that were alternately beautiful and visceral, full of ambient electronics, polyrhythmic drumming and all kinds of voices and sound effects. The recordings earned him a devoted following in underground, experimental and industrial music circles worldwide.

The New York Times 1999
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