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Album Review: Compost Regrowth by Ziyad is a lush soundtrack to infinity
The debut album from Karachi producer Ziyad is a confident record that shines in it’s layered production and softer moments.
Mosiki Mixtapenews
July’s Mosiki Mixtape features Wooly and the Uke, Smax, Those Retards and more…
July’s Mosiki Mixtape is for those hot summer nights.
Mosiki Mixtapenews
Listen to some fresh new Pakistani music in this month’s Mosiki Mixtape
Eid Mubarak! Celebrate with a playlist of some alternative Pakistani gems.
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‘Making the floorboards shake’: In Conversation with Slowspin
‘You used to call me on my cellphone.’ It’s about halfway through our chat with Slowspin’s Zeerak Ahmed that I wonder, how did we get onto quoting Drake lyrics? But rather than ringing hotlines, Slowspin is more interested in the quiet power of the first person in music. ‘YOU used to call ME on MY…
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Collections Vol. 4 – Foreversouth
The Foreversouth Collections thus far have tended to favour the more accessible side of the Karachi electronic artists that come under its roster. In many ways this is beneficial, creating a more cohesive collection and challenging the artists to create in a more constrained, ‘poppier’ environment. Under some circumstances, this can lead to stagnation - artists that…
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Hotcues 1-7 – Foreversouth Artists
Unlike previous Forever South Collections, the Hotcues series is manic, frenzied and relentless. While FXS Collections Vol.3 was a colourful experience, Hotcues occasionally moves into trap territory and, while it sounds massive and exciting, there’s a niggling worry that trap is already somewhat out of date, a rigid percussive genre that is running out of places to go. Like EDM, trap occasionally…
