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Hammer & Sickle

by Muslimgauze

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    Pre-order of Hammer & Sickle. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases April 6, 2024

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    New artwork, remastered and cut by Rashad Becker in a Bandcamp only white vinyl edition!

    Bryn Jones’ work was justly known for its excess—of tracks created, of rhetoric, of volume levels, of repetition, of length—and the sometimes indiscriminate way he produced material as Muslimgauze carried over into his approach to the part of the business that involved getting people to actually hear his music. Known for the deluge of DATs he’d share with the labels he worked with, Jones also didn’t necessarily restrict himself to just one outlet.

    Very early in his career, in the same year the first two Muslimgauze LPs came out (1983), Jones released an obscure 7” single with completely blank black sleeve art on a label called Hessian. “Hammer & Sickle” is to date the only release on Hessian (which may have just been Jones himself?). Those two LPs, Kabul and Opaques, are fascinating in the context of the full swath of Jones’ work. They’re much spacier, more drifting, and notably less interested in using the kind of Middle Eastern percussion and other instrumentation that’s such a distinct element on many Muslimgauze releases. “Hammer & Sickle” operates in a similar territory, but if anything a little further out from the main body of Jones’ work.

    The side-long title track and the three b-sides here are all cut from the same cloth, spacious productions that mainly play rounded synth percussion against echoing, ‘bag of wire’-style dub hits. After the lengthy examination of “Hammer & Sickle” itself, the other three cuts experiment with altering pitch, duration, tempo, and other elements as if testing the ways Jones could vary the effects of the title track without ever ditching its component parts. His sound was already quickly evolving (even the next year’s Buddhist on Fire is closer to what fans likely picture when they think of the “Muslimgauze sound”), leaving “Hamm

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Hammer & Sickle, No Human Rights For Arabs In Israel (The Remix), Muslimgauze Memorial Mix Part 4, Port Said audio NL, The Remix, Home demo tracks, eye for an eye, Muslimgauze Memorial Mix Part 3, and 94 more. , and , .

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a very old single from 1983 so you want to know how it started , then listen to this.

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releases April 6, 2024

Audio resoration Radboud Mens remastering Rashad Becker

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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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