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Muslimgauze was the stage name of Bryn Jones (June 17, 1961 - January 14, 1999), an extremely prolific British electronic music artist, strongly influenced by everything to do with the Middle East. The name Muslimgauze was derived from the word “muslin,” which is a type of gauze and, somehow, it was changed into an adjective describing the area in which he was interested. He was a staunch supporter of Hamas and the PLO, and he believed Palestine should be freed from the Israelis. Born in Manchester, England, United Kingdom, he never visited the Middle East because he believed it was wrong to visit an occupied land.

He first began making music in 1982, under the alias of E.g Oblique Graph, to protest the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He released three cassettes and a 7” EP as E.g Oblique Graph: “Extended Play” (1982), “Piano Room” (1982), the 7” “Triptych” (1982), and “Inhalt” (1983). After he changed his name to Muslimgauze, he released a 7” EP (“Hammer & Sickle”), his first full-length LP (“Kabul”), and another cassette (“Opaques”) in 1983. In 1990, the Australian record label Extreme signed him, which he left in 1994 for Dutch label Staalplaat and its sister American label Soleilmoon because his releases were not being released as promptly as he had wanted and he was also not receiving payment, and since he had put forth seven releases since he signed, money was becoming a problem. His output was always very high. In 1995, he had six releases; in 1996, fifteen; in 1997, nine; in 1998, sixteen. After his death, the many record companies he had associated with released unreleased material and repressed older, out-of-print material. In 1999, the year of his death, twenty-two new (and old) albums and EPs on several media were released.

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sheikher1981 wrote:
Friday afternoon

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Abdirashid wrote:
19 days ago

Their aim, Jonathan1986, a free palestine is what I think he supported. Let's not forget that PLO appeasment stategy is a new strategy which started with the Oslo accords. Have you forgotten about Black September and first lebanese war?

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Jonathan1986 wrote:
28 days ago

Supporting both PLO and Hamas? It sounds like contradiction in terms as these organisations disagrees strongly in strategy.

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optimistic_tour wrote:
November 2009

yeah, that's what i was thinking, iacus...

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iacus123 wrote:
November 2009

Yeah he should maka new albu-OHWAITASECOND

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BunkerT-CAIN wrote:
November 2009

the new album is very quiet. the frequencies are left. he should do stuff again like he did with rootsman ^.<

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___adventGORE wrote:
November 2009

ooooo god he did so much music

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SOLOMUSIKA wrote:
November 2009

...*♫♪ ♫♪ ♥♥♥

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optimistic_tour wrote:
October 2009

thank you iacus! great stuff in there.

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iacus123 wrote:
October 2009

these two blogs have a bunch of stuff including Zul'm http://nrrules.blogspot.com/search/label/Muslimgauze http://misteriosoimpossivel.blogspot.com/search/label/Muslimgauze

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fullvestbladder wrote:
October 2009

yeah the extreme label releases are a lot more heavily produced, like citadel and intifaxa

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AppleKabukiSuri wrote:
October 2009

Zul'm isn't very harsh, it has some very high quality production for a Muslimgauze release, no distorted drums or random volume changes or anything like that.

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fullvestbladder wrote:
October 2009

zul'm... i dont remember how harsh it was, i know i didn't like it very much..

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Sneakingtrain wrote:
October 2009

We could do with a site that lists every Muslimgauze CD and rates it in terms of harshness etc... How does Zul'm fit into the harshness scale for example? (somone's selling it and I'd buy it, but only if it's not going to bust my speakers of give me a headache!)... I suppose I could search the net to find samples... Anyone know a good site for this?

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iacus123 wrote:
October 2009

Hand of fatima and vampire of tehran aren't that harsh methinks. Make sure to go for uzbekistani bizzare and souk.

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Bleach00 wrote:
October 2009

>industrial

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naunyyn wrote:
October 2009

Thank you very much! :)

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fullvestbladder wrote:
October 2009

arab quarter, deceiver, farouk enjineer, hafaz al assad, hand of fatima, lo-fi india abuse, vampire of tehran, wish of the flayed, etc. in search of ahmad shah masood is also sortof harsh; there are many albums that are halfway harsh

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naunyyn wrote:
October 2009

If I want some of his more harsher works which albums should I listen to then?

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fullvestbladder wrote:
October 2009

box of silk and dogs, i only have some of the albums on that box set, a bit of the harsher side

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