Bleep

Algerian beat-smith El Mahdy Jr.'s latest EP Gasba Grime - released via Danse Noire - is another fantastic slice of his unique brand of fractured and hazy beat-making. El Mahdy Jr. uses Middle Eastern music samples to haunting and very idiosyncratic effect, yet his work is the very opposite of solemn. Tracks like 'Gasba Grime' mix in smatterings of playful old-school rave horns, contrasted with harsh and opaque vocal samples, and the rest of the EP remains just as unpredictable. El Mahdy is an extremely exciting producer whose work sounds like very little else.