“DJ/rupture’s Soot label is batting a thousand for releasing records that call on Middle Eastern music, fuse the style with breakcore, hip-hop, and general beat trickery, and don’t come out drenched in schmaltz. World citizen Filastine has produced the imprint’s broadest release yet, filled with both with jagged edges and moments of sad sweetness. The music bespeaks a unique individual, one who’s visited each and every place as an active political and musical participant with a mic in his hand. Burn It is sure to win fans across multiple scenes, with bonus points awarded for Swoon’s beautiful cover art.” — Matt Earp
XLR8R

A longtime Seattle resident, Filastine has been a part of the hammering rhythm section of anticapitalist tribal-rock/performance troupe ¡Tchkung!, conceiver and founding member of radical marching band Infernal Noise Brigade, and, most recently, a sweat-inducing club DJ and composer of wildly diverse and drrty laptop music. In short, he has spent his artistic life heretofore straddling the line between unrelentingly political statement and action, and the lost-in-music euphoria of the broadest possible definition of pop music. His new proper debut, Burn It (on kindred avant spirit DJ /rupture’s UK-based Soot Records), steams with juddering hiphop/modern R&B rhythms, South American breaks, North African trance, and a grip of vocal and instrumental contributors from every corner of the world.