Altered Zones

Ayshay is the solo project of one Fatima Al Qadiri, a Senegal-born, Kuwait-native, New York City-based electronic artist who writes a world music column for DIS, and who first came to our attention last year via a guest post from Oneohtrix Point Never's Dan Lopatin. Ayshay means "whatever" in Arabic, and Warn-U is the title of her forthcoming EP on Tri Angle Records. According to the label, the EP's four tracks are built entirely from her own voice, and inspired by the Islamic religious songs that have been floating around her auditory environs since childhood. On the exquisitely bizarre title track, which happens to be the same track that OPN spotlighted, Fatima layers repeated, pitch-shifted vox snippets into what sounds like a community of Lemmings on a group hypnosis tip. --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

Ayshay: "WARN-U"

WARN-U drops September 26th via Tri Angle in LP, CD, and digital formats. The EP includes a 12-minute remix (of the entire release) by Los Angeles' Nguzunguzu. Below, an excerpt, showcasing the production duo's treatment of the title track:

MP3: Ashay: "WARN-U (Nguzunguzu Remix)"