Altered Zones

Even a cursory skimming of her CV will let you know that Fatima Al Qadiri is a busy woman of many talents: readying international exhibitions, writing the Global.WAV column for DIS, and releasing WARN-U-- her debut EP for Tri-Angle as Ayshay who, by the way, killed it with her DJ set at the recent AZ showcase-- are just a few of the highlights. Today, she dropped the Genre-Specific Xperience EP for UNO Records, a conceptual re-working of five different sub-genres of dance music. Unique from her vocally driven spiritual work under the Ayshay moniker, her namesake project is a totally beat-driven, dancefloor surreality.

"Hip Hop Spa" is her reinterpretation of (you guessed it) hip hop where she disturbingly casts the trademark imagery of solitary confinement in a prison cell as a source of introspection and reprieve on par with a trip to the spa. The accompanying music video-- a collaboration with visual artist Kamau Patton-- paints an equally telling hallucination where, amongst the wandering 808 subs, ghostly steel drums, and bare handclaps, we find a submerged, tropical nirvana of money, cars, and hoes… in other words, the meaning of life. --Matt Sullivan, Altered Zones

Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience sampler

Genre Specific Xperience is out now on UNO Records