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Fatima Al Qadiri, Asiatisch Posted: 05 May 2014 11:46 AM PDT   Imagining China requires more than easy listening. Asiatisch, the first full-length by Brooklyn-based composer, musician and visual artist Fatima Al Qadiri, opens with a familiar melody. Over a bed of female voices, Helen Feng (ex-MTV China VJ and lead singer of Nova Heart) sings in Mandarin to the tune of Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares to You.” Beneath the melody, the choir arrangement shifts and modulates, each voice sampled and replicated into chords. Feng’s words, when translated back into English, amount to nonsense.

FACT Magazine XXL Freshmen 2014 announced; includes Kevin Gates, Chance the Rapper and more @ Musique Non Stop

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1. XXL Freshmen 2014 announced; includes Kevin Gates, Chance the Rapper and more
2. Clay Rendering, Lussuria and Dual Action gear up for Hospital Productions summer tour
3. King Britt, Mister Saturday Night and more to perform at DC’s Forward festival
4. Listen to Atlanta rapper Lil Silk’s ‘I Know’
5. Watch How To Dress Well and Deadboy review the week’s singles
6. Tracklist revealed for Nightmares On Wax anniversary compilation N.O.W. is the Time
7. Stream Swans’ new album, To Be Kind
8. Rihanna reportedly leaves Def Jam for Jay Z’s Roc Nation label
9. Listen to FaltyDL’s remix of Disclosure and Friend Within’s ‘The Mechanism’
10. “File under GUNFINGERS / AIRHORN / SHIRT-OVER-THE-HEAD”: Mumdance, The-Dream, Four Tet and more reviewed in the FACT Singles Club
11. Experimental rap duo Shabazz Palaces prep new album Lese Majesty
12. Asiatisch
13. “To us, we’re normal”: Pixies talk legacy, identity and Steve Reich
14. See who has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop (hint – it’s not Drake)
15. FACT mix 439 – Lord of the Isles

XXL Freshmen 2014 announced; includes Kevin Gates, Chance the Rapper and more Posted: 05 May 2014 03:42 PM PDT The hip-hop magazine announces its rappers to watch on BET’s 106 & Park. XXL headed to BET to announce this year’s freshman class, dubbed “The Dirty Dozen.” Chicago is repped heavily with Chance the Rapper, Lil Durk, Save Money’s Vic Mensa and Free Crack street spitter Lil Bibby on the list. The list is heavy with guys that sing more than rap (Rich Homie Quan, August Alsina and Ty Dolla $ign), which makes sense in a rap scene dominated by the likes of Drake and Future. TDE’s Isaiah Rashad and newcomers Troy Ave, Jon Connor and fan-voted Jarren Benton round out the list. 2013′s Freshmen list included Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Angel Haze and Chief Keef, among others. Past classes have tabbed Kendrick Lamar, Future, YG and Danny Brown, but XXL has had their share of busts (Charles Hamilton, anyone?). As expected, there is a bit of crossover with FACT’s list of rappers to watch in 2014, with Gates appearing on last year’s Hip-Hop for Dummies list.