HADJ SAMEER digger

Hadj Sameer, french Musical Explorer & Archaeologist, gifts us 80 minutes of contemporary & vintage accoustronic selections on pro-dubbed tapes. A duality in between wild natural jungle (side 1) and urban jungle or life of a modern human being (side 2)
Mixtape for new Kassem Mosse label, Ominira.

“Kassem Mosse has been a long time musical and more widely artistic influence for me, in terms of club music (dub techno and techno), but also when it was about more experimental music genres such as ambient and leftfield music. So last year, I came up with the idea of making a sort of mix mostly looking like a sonorous collage of different records I’ve been digging for the last decade with a particular thematic : a duality in between the wild jungle and the urban jungle. Along with music, I’m a scientist and a researcher and what fascinates me a lot is how human beings or animals can instinctively behave or react to songs coming from a wild environnement as a tropical jungle for example, and there is a deep imprint in our DNA in link with this. Furthermore, there is a symbiotic relationship between human evolution and its environment. The (over) urbanisation and the disappearance of natural spaces is in correlation with the exposure to new sounds, but also new sonorous stresses that we have to get familiar with. This cleavage in between what I call the natural wild jungle and the urban jungle is quite interesting, and especially all the adaptation mechanisms coming from that. So I gathered field recordings, library music, experimental, musique concrete vinyls and put them all together in a mix that pleased Kassem Mosse. I’m proud of this release especially because he directly seized the meaning of that release for me and its idea besides the musical aspect. The scientific approach and the interrogative dimension of this tape were the major points for me. I want to get people to think about all of this.”