1127 - Tqaseem Mqamat El Haram 2016-2019

Catalogue // NP-31
Genre // Electronic
Format // LP
Release Date // 16th April 2021

• Stunning, complex electronics from Cairo
• Back on a new red vinyl pressing after its initial release in 2019
• 300 Copies
• Essential listening if yr into ZULI, 3Phaz, Autechre, Arca

The unmissable, head-twisting debut LP by Cairo’s 1127 returns on red vinyl pressing for those who missed its shockwaves for the first time back in summer 2019, Huge recommendation if you’re into Autechre, Arca, Crowww, Rabit...
Getting right under the skin with its hugely variegated palette of brutalist, rhythmic power electronics and evocative location recordings, ‘Tqaseem Mqamat El Haram 2016-2019’ resembles something like a soundtrack to a Neil Blomkamp flick set it Cario, Egypt, 2050 where stifling heat and pollution means everyone wears breathing apparatus and hover cars sputter about its dusty sprawl. It’s surely one of the most shocking and transfixing sides from North Africa this side of the debut LPs by 1127’s peers, Myslma and Zuli, and should be prized by anyone with an ear for futurist rhythms and microtonal synths of a modern, Afro-futurist order.
Comprising collaged chunks from 1127’s archive arranged in a seamless, diffracted flow that recalls Autechre as well as the mutant adjuncts in Arca’s &&&& or Croww’s ‘Prosthetics MechaMix’, the results feel as though scraped from the insides of 1127’s skull, capturing and rendering the sounds of Cairo street raves ricocheting with spasms of gristly noise, strafing into pockets of cutthroat flashcore and dropping out into smoky, intimate scenes of Arabic dialogue, all threaded together with a distinctive taste for metallic microtonal synthlines and coruscating noise.

1. White Lie
2. Fragmented. Thought Train
3. Renaissance
4. Colander
5. Decondition
6. Zezinia 2 (feat. She7ta Wel3a)
7. Circumcision
8. Exploration / Fallacies
9. Uvular
10. Keep Filling in The Gaps
11. Virtual Feels / Passing Twelve