Cairo/Detroit Label HIZZ Drops Debut EP for Chicago’s ARRAKK

Helmed by producer/singer/cinematographer, MshSalma, and producer/sound engineer Adlir [Smiley], ARRAKK’s debut EP Ma2ali dropped quietly on Cairo/Detroit experimental label, HIZZ, earlier this week. Blending distorted post-club textures and trap percussion with gritty spoken word and avant-rap, Ma2ali certainly makes for a refreshing change of pace from the plethora of ambient releases HIZZ has been putting out recently.
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Dropping alongside the EP is a hypersexualised, edgy music video for the lead single ‘GANG27v2’. Like Mad Max with better fashion sense, its all guns, sex and violence in ARRAKK’s dusty post-apocalyptic dystopia.

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Clocking in at around nine minutes, the four track release is an incredibly brief listen. The tracks are to the point and don't waste time introducing new ideas slowly. Rather, a DIY-punk inspired rapid-fire approach seems to be taken in crafting the audiovisual aesthetic of ARRAK, as seen on the cover art designed by Dutch Saunders.

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