Habibi
UKAEA feat. Dali de Saint Paul
| Formats | Tracks | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download Single (MP3) | 2 tracks | £1.98 | |
| Download Single (WAV) | 2 tracks | £1.98 | |
| Download individual tracks | From £0.99 | ||
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UKAEA feat. Dali de Saint Paul - Habibi
UKAEA releases Habibi, ft. Dali de Saint Paul - out now via The state51 Conspiracy.
UKAEA is the singular musical vision of Dan Jones, who is part of a thriving DIY scene centred around New River Studios, in Harringay, London. UKAEA is in part a response to the emotional and intellectual stresses of geopolitics in 2023, mixing various strains of hardcore electronic dance music, with deep, often long-running collaborations with musicians from across the world, complimented by his studies of musical forms including gamelan.
'Habibi' features one of Europe’s most important young experimental musicians, Dali de Saint Paul, who is currently based in Bristol. Dan says: “I’ve been a fan of Dali’s for years. I sent her a percussion loop I made with [Chris Cunningham collaborator] Tom Blackburn and a drone and she came back to me with this incredible vocal performance, that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. So I smashed the track apart and then reassembled it around what she had created.”
Musically, the original context of the music – an Indian raga – has become completely lost in Dan’s obsessive process of breaking apart and rebuilding at the granular level, which happens about one hundred times in the making of each track. He explains: “Habibi ended up being totally different to how I originally conceived but when I heard Dali’s vocal I knew the song really needed to be widescreen.”
The lyrics concern women’s liberation in traditionally repressive societies. In the video, made by Derek Stormfield, eagle-eyed viewers will be able to see Dali is sporting an Arabic symbol which means ‘Let’s fuck!’, reclaimed by the Tunisian LGBTQ+ activist group called Mawjoudin [We Exist]. Dali adds: “I received Dan’s music at the start of the Feminist Revolution in Iran, after Mahsa Amini's death in custody, after she refused to wear the hijab, on 16 September 2022. This inspired me to sing something in [the Moroccan dialect] Darija with lyrics about women’s liberation. It is about time women can do what they want, and that is what the song concerns: “Let me go around the world. Let me be free.”
The track was completed with violin by Dan’s partner and Abstract Concrete member, Agathe Max. The single comes complete with a techno remix by rising star DJ Rommek [Blueprint Records], which sets controls for the heart of the dancefloor.
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UKAEA is the singular musical vision of Dan Jones, who is part of a thriving DIY scene centred around New River Studios, in Harringay, London. UKAEA is in part a response to the emotional and intellectual stresses of geopolitics in 2023, mixing various strains of hardcore electronic dance music, with deep, often long-running collaborations with musicians from across the world, complimented by his studies of musical forms including gamelan.
'Habibi' features one of Europe’s most important young experimental musicians, Dali de Saint Paul, who is currently based in Bristol. Dan says: “I’ve been a fan of Dali’s for years. I sent her a percussion loop I made with [Chris Cunningham collaborator] Tom Blackburn and a drone and she came back to me with this incredible vocal performance, that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. So I smashed the track apart and then reassembled it around what she had created.”
Musically, the original context of the music – an Indian raga – has become completely lost in Dan’s obsessive process of breaking apart and rebuilding at the granular level, which happens about one hundred times in the making of each track. He explains: “Habibi ended up being totally different to how I originally conceived but when I heard Dali’s vocal I knew the song really needed to be widescreen.”
The lyrics concern women’s liberation in traditionally repressive societies. In the video, made by Derek Stormfield, eagle-eyed viewers will be able to see Dali is sporting an Arabic symbol which means ‘Let’s fuck!’, reclaimed by the Tunisian LGBTQ+ activist group called Mawjoudin [We Exist]. Dali adds: “I received Dan’s music at the start of the Feminist Revolution in Iran, after Mahsa Amini's death in custody, after she refused to wear the hijab, on 16 September 2022. This inspired me to sing something in [the Moroccan dialect] Darija with lyrics about women’s liberation. It is about time women can do what they want, and that is what the song concerns: “Let me go around the world. Let me be free.”
The track was completed with violin by Dan’s partner and Abstract Concrete member, Agathe Max. The single comes complete with a techno remix by rising star DJ Rommek [Blueprint Records], which sets controls for the heart of the dancefloor.
UKAEA
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The state51 Conspiracy
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