To space ع الفضا 

                        To space ع الفضا is the first album of BLAST بلاست, produced by the label Atypeek Music.

This work is composed of 8 tracks that delve into Industrial sounds, EBM, Dark Techno and deconstructed rhythmic structures, with a strong dancy component and a very clear harsh, genderless and unapologetic identity and discourse. 

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The concept of the album is based on converting the sounds of combat into frenetic rhythms, taking the corporal and sound memory of bombs and conflict into a dance zone, aiming to transform the post-traumatic stress of war, migration and victimization into a place of empowerment and vindication. 

The lyrics narrate a variety of emotions regarding the Arab identity, displacement, partying and queerness, and the melodies, indisputably oriental, transverse the orientalist western gaze.

 

IMPERIÁLIKA إمبرياليكا is the first single of the album. It is loosely inspired by EBM and it is the only track in this work that is in the imperial English language. 

This track talks about how colonizers romanticize the idea of the SWANA (South-West Asia North-Africa) region, by exoticing and fetishizing hairy bodies. The song confronts the hairless white man who perceives hairy, darker bodies as barbaric and inferior while at the same time desiring them. 

 

Fire Hazard خطر الحريق is the second single of the album. It is a derivation of a dembow rhythm, accelerated and deconstructed with special attention to the superposition of bass lines in polyrhythm. The track includes voice harmonies in the Arabic scale, a resource that is rarely used in Arabic music.

This song is about a melancholic heartbreak, verbalizing the frustration of not being able to live a queer love, because of imposed censoring and marginalizing restrictions.