Acid Anarchist, by Celt Islam

Acid Anarchist

by Celt Islam

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saleem housee eclectically seismically DUBwize meditation 🔥🔥🔥 strictly outernatinal vibz!!

DJ Aliji Great to see you back Abdullah. I'm diggin your new album - perfect timing! Good vibes your way Brother Favorite track: Vendetta.

tagster A great album that picks you up and kicks you forward. Nice to see Natasha Atlas on here too. Favorite track: Vendetta.

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1.	Vendetta 05:36	info	buy track
2.	Sonic Boom Box feat Inder Goldfinger 04:13		buy track
3.	Ignition feat Shahin Badar 04:05	info	buy track
4.	System Reset feat Natacha Atlas 05:02	info	buy track
5.	Acid Anarchist 05:00		buy track
6.	Freestyle Body Rock 05:10	info	buy track
7.	Primordial feat Inder Goldfinger 03:30	info	buy track
8.	Zombulance 05:38	info	buy track
9.	Born as an Afrikan feat Mark Iration 04:59	info	buy track
10.	Resurgence 03:52	info	buy track
11.	Rebel Cause feat Inder Goldfinger 05:59	info	buy track
12.	Dominator 05:35	info	buy track
13.	Hikam feat Aki Nawaz 05:42	info	buy track

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Uk Electronic pioneer Celt Islam emerges from lockdown with his self styled lp "Acid Anarchist’ delivers bone crunching bass driven music that takes you from dub to delirium whilst combining Islamic and world grooves
Highlights for me are where Celt islam pairs up with Prodigy’s vocalist Shahin Badar ,Shahin is recognisable from her vocals on "Smack my bitch up" she appears here on the track 'Ignition' as a haunting livicaction to the band's late great frontman Keith Flint . Another standout is the vocals of Iration steppers Mark Iration on 'Born as an African.’ its prowling reggae dub techno is equally at home in any of those genres
There are are further collaboration with well known names such as Inder Goldfinger, tabla player for Stone Roses legend, Ian Brown’s band and Winachi Tribe . Natacha Atlas features on the track System reset, nation records founder Nation records Aki Nawaz is featured on last track Hikam .
AS one of the most gifted producers in the genre\ We can trace Celt’s melodies and samples back to: Sufism,unleashing the Sufi spirits in the world of 2021 his philosophy, essentially inclusive, and borderless by default , he does this within the genre of his own creation – "Sufi-Dub “ - DJ SMart Monkey.

Album Review: Celt Islam - Acidanarchist (2021)
Sometimes when you follow an artist’s work closely for a decade or so, there is often a tendency to notice a subtle - or not so subtle - softening of that artist’s original sound. It might be due to compromises made on account of some sort of commercial breakthrough (often termed “selling out”), adapting to more recent musical trends, a change of environment, or simply a natural mellowing that comes with the irreversible passage of time.

On Celt Islam’s latest release, Acidanarchist, the opposite applies. If anything, the UK-based electro dub maestro keeps ramping things up a notch (or seven) on each and every release – and there’s been a few releases. Celt Islam’s vibe just seems to get heavier and more hardcore each time out.

The Baghdad release (here) of some ten years ago was the album that first drew me into Celt Islam’s artistic vision. It was the perfect fusion of east meets west, an album which connected so many diverse global musical strands, and it appealed as a borderless, meditative blueprint for a better world. A couple of years later, as the Analogue Fakir, he released an IDM-geared album called Worlds We Know (here), which I absolutely loved, but with the benefit of hindsight, I can now view these early works through a slightly different lens … he was just getting started, still at the simmering stage, and slowly but steadily, over the course of the past decade, as world events descend into an almost farcical state, a cesspit of fakery, false information, and twisted narratives, Celt Islam has reached boiling point. Which is where we find him on Acidanarchist.
As a Sufi Muslim based in Northern England, as a political activist and social justice campaigner, it is impossible for Celt Islam to separate his art from the environment or political climate in which it is made. That goes without saying. When forwarding the pre-release copy he noted … “this is a manifestation of our times, and where dance music needs to be, instead of the same carbon copy of everything boring, no depth, no meaning, void of any form of spirituality or real consciousness” …

Or, anger is an energy, as someone else once claimed. Etc. And so we get drenched in a relentless high-bpm form of electronic punk (minimal vocal, often buried deeper in the mix), with track titles like ‘Vendetta’, ‘System Reset’, and ‘Resurgence’, progressively building in tempo to a reach a distinct DnB-style climax on closing tracks ‘Dominator’, and the majestic ‘Hikam’.

And yet, for all of that forward pulsating electro momentum, my own favourite cut (of 13) is perhaps the most mellow of all, without being mellow at all … the Mark Iration collab, ‘Born As An African’ (“sufferer”), which for some reason taps into my love of On-U Sound/dub, and its bouncy swaggering skank would be absolutely begging for an Adrian Sherwood makeover if it wasn’t already near perfect in its current form.

Other collaborators on Acidanarchist include Shahin Badar, who, amongst other things, is well known for her vocal work with The Prodigy (‘Smack’), Aki Nawaz (Fun-Da-Mental), and of course, regular and longtime Celt Islam collaborator Inder Goldfinger (percussionist extraordinaire, producer, TransGlobal Underground, far too many others to list).
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released May 24, 2021

M A Hamzah , Inder Goldfinger , Shahin Badar , Natacha Atlas , Mark Iration and Aki Nawaz . Big shout out to Hardcore master Lenny Dee of Industrial Strength Records for the kick ass drum samples and noize factor! .

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Celt Islam Manchester, UK

Celt Islam is an English pioneering artist, producer, and peace activist performing high octane Neuro Dub Driven Electro Punk BreakBeat Drum and Bass, transnational Dubstep and Cyberpunk Synthwave electronica combined with a futurist dub attitude.

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