Genre-Specific Xperience - Album Review
After releasing a haunting EP on Tri Angle as Ayshay, the busy multimedia artist returns with another EP featuring a very different, more beat-driven sound with tropical inflections.
View Article"Corpcore (Kingdom Remix)" - Track
Last year, Brooklyn-via-Kuwait-via-Senegal experimental producer Fatima Al Qadiri (who also records as Ayshay) released a full-length, Genre-Specific Xperience, via UNO. Next week-- May 22, to be...
View Article"Ghost Raid" - Track
Popping up between sharp gun shots and the menacing bass on Brooklyn-based producer Fatima Al Qadiri's new track "Ghost Raid" are the bewildered tones of a cartoon-like organ. That surreal contrast is...
View ArticleDesert Strike EP - Album Review
Fatima Al Qadiri, who has recorded under her own name and as Ayshay, returns with a strangely beautiful album that is hard to classify. The music references her childhood in Kuwait and the first Gulf...
View ArticlePhotos: Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival - News
Above: Mykki Blanco by Will DeitzThis weekend's Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival went down in assorted venues across Williamsburg, with sets from Nicolas Jaar, Gold Panda, Baths, Kingdom, Nguzunguzu,...
View Article"The Call" - Track
South London producer Visionist is one of a new wave of young artists engaging with the ever-mutating sound of grime and taking it to new places. He’s been bobbing about since 2011, putting out...
View ArticleFuture Brown (Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, J-Cush) Present Multimedia Event...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.8642]Pitchfork is happy to announce another event at MoMA PS1's Sunday Sessions, made possible by Pitchfork's FORMS. On November 17, Future Brown, a new project from...
View ArticleReminder: Future Brown (Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, J-Cush) Present Event...
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.8712]This Sunday, November 17, MoMA PS1's Sunday Sessions hosts an event made possible by Pitchfork's FORMS. Future Brown, a new project from artist and composer...
View ArticleUpdate: Fatima Al Qadiri - Feature
This electronic artist makes music inspired by cultures from around the world while retaining a sharp, sensitive touch. She talks with Carrie Battan about her forthcoming debut album, which is based on...
View ArticleAsiatisch - Album Review
Notions of place and displacement feature strongly in the works of Fatima Al Qadiri. The Brooklyn-based producer refers to her debut full-length as a “virtual road trip through ‘imagined China,’”...
View ArticleFuture Brown (Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, J-Cush) Share "Wanna Party" Remix...
Photo by Christelle De Castro[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.10823]Future Brown—the project of artist and composer Fatima Al Qadiri, Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of Nguzunguzu, and J-Cush of Lit...
View ArticleFuture Brown (Fatima Al Qadiri, Nguzunguzu, J-Cush) Announce Debut Album,...
Future Brown—the project of artist and composer Fatima Al Qadiri, Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda of Nguzunguzu, and J-Cush of Lit City Trax—have announced their debut album. Future Brown is out February...
View ArticleFatima Al Qadiri Readies Brute, Shares "Battery" - News
[placeholder:mediastore.audiofile.13725]Artist/musician Fatima Al Qadiri released her last album Asiatisch in 2014, and in the interim, recorded an album with Future Brown. On March 4, she's back with...
View Article"Battery" - Track
Five years ago, Fatima Al Qadiri's work with the labels Fade to Mind and UNO put her at the forefront of a still nascent scene, one of rigorous electronic protest music. And the influence of her...
View ArticleLists & Guides: The Best Album Covers of 2012 - Feature
Who says the album cover is dead? Not us. Here are our favorite 20 sleeves of the year, from 2 Chainz's minimal literalism, to Sleigh Bells' blood-splattered Keds, to Andy Stott's high dive.
View ArticleLists & Guides: Guest List: Best of 2012 - Feature
Year-end lists from some of our favorite artists including: Chairlift's Top Brain-Melt Moments, Titus Andronicus' Record Company Fails, The Top 10 Partiest Things Andrew W.K. Visualized This Year, and...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: CTM Festival - Feature
Tonje Thilesen captures this year's CTM Festival, which showcases progressive electronic music and more at venues across Berlin, including shots of Sasha Go Hard, Actress, and James Holden.
View ArticleBrute - Album Review
Conceived ofas a celebration of the right of protest, Fatima Al Qadiri’s Brute is a piece of music ideally suited to a time of shadowy corporate manipulation and apocalyptic political theater.
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