Mort Aux Vaches

Bearing a title that could be translated into English as “death to the pigs” (where “pigs” refers to police), Mort Aux Vaches continues Muslimgauze’s ongoing exploration of politically charged instrumental music based on loops, beats, and found-sound samples. The found sounds are often field recordings of people speaking or singing in Arabic; the beats are heavily repetitive and dub-influenced; the tracks, in this case, are long (the longest almost 30 minutes). But as always, there’s something deeply and weirdly compelling about the music; it’s not trance-inducing, exactly, but it’s definitely involving.