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Monthly Archives: June 2017

LAST COPIES: MONO.ARCHIV #02

Friday, June 30, 2017

Our storage has grown into a wild and impenetrable territory that requires some climbing, balancing and rummaging on all fours. It is also uncharted territory where every now and then, a forgotten box will appear, with issues that we thought long sold out. As happened recently with our mono.archiv #02, comprising some of our most [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #03

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Your first EP was released under the pseudonym Ayshay. With Genre-Specific Xperience, you started releasing as Fatima Al Qadiri. Why did you abandon that pseudonym?
Having used Islamic a cappella as samples for my first releases, it made sense to use a pseudonym, as this project was a little edgy. I felt like the next record, [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #02

Monday, June 19, 2017

Desert Strike is a reflection on your experiences during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War in 1990/1991…’
Yes, but it is even more about this disgusting video game with the same title that came out in 1992, which I hated but, at the same time, couldn’t stop playing because it [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: BUFFALO ZINE

Thursday, June 15, 2017

In the spirit of Buffalo Zine, let’s hijack a quote by magCulture that describes it perfectly: ‘Thank god for Buffalo Zine, a magazine hanging around at the back of the classroom, chewing gum and planning another night on the laughing gas.’ A fashion magazine of sorts that, refresehingly, doesn’t take itself all too seriously, which [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI EXCERPT #01

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

‘When I was 16, I started going to the clubs in London and did all the other things that I’m not supposed to say on record. It’s funny, when you think of the transformation of cities in one decade… Like the area behind Tottenham Court Road Station in 1997 had some [...]

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FRAGMENTS 02

Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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