Altered Zones

Last year, after returning from travel in Mali and Mauritania, Sahel Sounds released Music From Saharan Cellphones, a cassette compilation of found tracks copied from memory cards via Bluetooth wireless transfer. The tape was then ripped, uploaded, and shared through the internet (as music often is), where it quickly grew in reputation as a source for new world sounds. Now, Sahel Sounds has teamed-up Boomarm Nation to release a remix compilation, featuring a slew talented oddball producers, such as Matthewdavid and Ensemble Economique, to be distributed and uploaded back into the cellphones from which they came. --Ian Pearson, Altered Zones

MP3: Matthewdavid: "Stealing Sahara"

Music For Saharan Cellphones is available for download from Bandcamp, as a cassette from Mississippi Records, and on 30 microSD cards to be shipped back to Kidal, Mali

--Previously from Saharan Cellphones

MP3: Niger: "Autotune"