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

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"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."
...Governor George W. Bush, Jr.

"ayshay??"

Fatima Al Qadiri aka AYSHAY is a musician and designer who was raised in Kuwait and spent much of her post-Gulf War adolescence indoors reveling in all modes of a/v. Her music, which you can check out here, operates on a post-rave anxiety in the chillout room level; Fatima melts the candy down until it becomes pure, evenly distributed androgen synth goop. She does this all by cleverly navigating krautrock, b-music, hypnagogic world, and proto-techno through digital lo fi channels and the composite is intoxicating and acutely scarier than witch step, trypt hop, goths in hot weather etcetera. Do a search and steep yourself in her overall internet presence (her DIS Magazine posts are incredible) and you'll pick up on the sincerity and why-the-rawness. Fatima's a multitalent and I really hope she drops a record soon.

MP3: Ayshay: "WARN-U"