For peak time hard drum pressure, jump straight to ‘Pyrolysis’ with its pitching hand-drum samples and swarming choral motifs, or ‘Drifting Rituals’ for a bumping sort of Jersey variant, before ‘Blame it on Sutra’ dials up the drama with sweeping orchestral strings and the atmospheric ‘El 3ataba Interlude’ reveals his talent for evocative soundscaping. There’s a clear escalation of energies spiralling from the squashed dancehall banger ‘Bass belly’, thru the jungliest ballistics of the buckshot title tune and his incendiary curtain closer ‘Ya Nasim’.
No mistake, it slams on the ‘floor, but also contains more than enough devilish, textured detail and experimental character to keep headphone and home listeners locked in, too. The album is Abadir’s 3rd solo LP after cutting teeth in the 0N4B duo with Onsy, and pays witness to his style coming into its own as a fierce blend of raucous, local percussion spliced with guttural dancehall, Jersey club, footwork-jungle and technoid hard drum dynamics. Packing drums and vibes for days, ‘Mutate’ delivers a personalised, hyperreal ambient dance perspective on the largest city in the Arab world, and its links to the global club rhizome. "Connection" is an album that sounds as if it twists and turns into different places with each collaboration, and it highlights Rostom's wide web of musical interests and allies.įresh outta Cairo, Abadir runs killlller arabic rhythms and sweltering electronics for Shanghai’s Svbkvlt - a surefire doozy for fans of DJ Plead, Livity Sound, DJ Haram, 3Phaz, Zuli But it's the collaborations with saxophonist Idris Rahman that truly get to center of Rostom's interests: the producer says he relayed to Rahman that he liked British jazz player Tubby Hayes, and you can hear that in Rahman's performance as he melts away the boundaries between big band jazz and Eastern scaling. Slippery mid-tempo bump 'Got Your Number' is an early standout, boasting a star making guest appearance from Kenyan rapper Nah Eeto, who rides the gaps between Rostom's stuttering beat and sparkles with very contemporary East African charm.Įgyptian vocalist and composer Abdullah Miniawy shows up on 'Anzilli', and adds his unmistakable tones to Rostom's schaffel-adjacent beat. This ain't party music, but neither does he shy from assembling sounds primed for soundsystems. He's been working on it for years, apparently before he started 2018's R&S-released "01deas", and the record uses Rostom's pool of influences - from Middle Eastern music to Detroit techno - to conduct a mood that's emotional and melancholy.
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Zygote and Ayman) behind him, Rostom's existence as a reliable deep house mainstay is in full swing on this bumper sophomore set. With his life as a UK hip-hop producer (under the monikers Dr. Ayman Rostom's second album under The Maghreban alias is another tight, tidy set of jazz-flecked Middle Eastern-skewed house durt, with guest appearances from Abdullah Miniawy, Idris Rahman, Nah Eeto and Omar.
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