Filastine is a Barcelona-based sound artist and musician, whose first full-length is an effort of years spent gathering sounds and samples, building beats, and orchestrating what Remix Magazine called a record “dripping with an intelligent and worldly panache.” In his own words, hes “a specialist in counter-hegemonic brown sound, world’s only luddite laptopist, on a mission to jam their signal with my noise.”
For the last two years Filastine has brought his soundclash to clubs, squats, festivals, and underground spaces across the globe, peforming with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart, sometimes joined by a guest MC or vocalist. The shopping cart bit is a riff on consumerism; the symbolism, he claims, helps avoid him becoming didactic: “I try to make it easy to understand without using words. I don’t want to sit there on a bullhorn during my set telling people my politics or why I feel the way that I do, but I do want to make it clear through the sounds themselves.”
Filastine began making music with the live ensemble ¡tchkung!, then founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece anarcho marching band, and now composes music for the butoh ensemble P.A.N., performing with them in Asia and North America. He conducts guerilla audio interventions and has been assaulted or arrested by police of many uniforms in the course of his work.
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