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Sonar Calibrado

by Sonar Calibrado is Filastine and Maga Bo

Kaxambu Records · Filastine and Maga Bo – Sonar Calibrado

Originally released on vinyl back in 2008 on Shockout Records, this quickly sold out and is only now back online and available again via Kaxambu Records:

Filastine returns to Shockout in this collaboration with partner and fellow nomad Maga Bo. Together they are Sonar Calibrado. Meeting in different countries with their mobile production studios the duo built this four song EP, a collection of tracks that are not only all bangers on the dancefloor, but have a density and detail that takes them well beyond that. The three tracks at ragga tempo nearly constitute a genre of their own, defined by syncopated percussion, sub-bass, & distorted melodies, and featuring the filthiest rappers from Brazil and Morocco: Speed Freaks, Mario Z, & Jawad.  Os Asassinos jumps tempo to Carioca funk and features one of the genre’s most infamous gangsters, Mr Catra, while steering well clear of the cliches with it’s chopped up arabic strings and gunshot batucada.

Sonar Calibrado gets busy whenever these two cross paths… Amsterdam, Tangier, NYC, working by day and throwing guerilla street parties by night; during carnival in Rio with pirated electricity, or from a mobile car sound system in the States. This was recorded on rooftops in Rio and Barcelona, unheated squats in Amsterdam, a hotel room in Tangier.

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Irrepressible pan-global ghetto bass music from Soot music's two brighest talents Filastine and Maga Bo in collaboration for the ressurected Shockout sublabel from Tigerbeat6. Filastine was the last name to show up on Shockout way back at the beginning of 2007, and has previously appeared as Sonar Calibrado, also the EP's title, with Maga Bo on their 2005 mixtape for Post World Industries, demonstrating their unique ability to mash and blend bass music and street beats from a variety of cultures and countries into a heavyweight whole primed for soundsystem deployment. 'Os Asassinos' sets up the EP for the club with a Diplo styled 808 snapping B-more/Miami bass pattern interspersed with Bollywood string slashes and a furious MC delivery from Mr Catra, while 'Se Liga' takes it down to a slower Cumbia tempo pinned down by ever descending bass drops, angular sample editing and stabbing pipes. Consistently shaping up to be one of the best records on the label, 'E Da' pushes more bass energies into intricate string samples, finding increasingly crafty grooves within grooves, and 'Alesh' feat. Jawad finishes with a Modeselektor styled robo-ragga-riddim formed from upturned gabber kicks and mechanoclaps like some hyper Timbaland production. Super good gear for the pan global bass travellers and fans of everyone from Radioclit to Ghislain Poirier or Dj Rupture to Diplo. Mighty Twelve. - Boomkat
- Boomkat
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