Sonar Calibrado

"Super good gear for the pan global bass travellers and fans of everyone from Radioclit to Ghislain Poirier or Dj Rupture to Diplo. Mighty Twelve." -- Boomkat

Sonar Calibrado Sound System: Maga Bo vs. Filastine
(Post World Industries - Barcelona/Rio de Janeiro/Copenhagen/Seattle)

Sonar Calibrado, is the production and performance team of Filastine and Maga Bo - a borderless conundrum of gritty street beats, voices, and bass. Having each separately built audiences on multiple continents, releasing productions and mixes to world wide acclaim and playing hundreds of gigs, their collaborative history is more anarchic: guerilla sound system concerts on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with pirated electricity, appearances at Burning Man in North America, a tour in Australia, a field recording project "Do Not Spit Here & There; A Noise Primer on the Indian Subcontinent," and traipsing around the Rif mountains recording some of Morocco's best rapper. Their music can be heard on labels like Shock Out, Jarring Effects, Ninja Tune, Sound Way Records (among many others), and, of course, Barcelona's own Post World Industries. Transnational dirt, bass and treble.

Irrepressible pan-global ghetto bass music from Soot music's two brighest talents Filastine and Maga Bo in collaboration for the ressurected Shockout sublabel from Tigerbeat6. Filastine was the last name to show up on Shockout way back at the beginning of 2007, and has previously appeared as Sonar Calibrado, also the EP's title, with Maga Bo on their 2005 mixtape for Post World Industries, demonstrating their unique ability to mash and blend bass music and street beats from a variety of cultures and countries into a heavyweight whole primed for soundsystem deployment. 'Os Asassinos' sets up the EP for the club with a Diplo styled 808 snapping B-more/Miami bass pattern interspersed with Bollywood string slashes and a furious MC delivery from Mr Catra, while 'Se Liga' takes it down to a slower Cumbia tempo pinned down by ever descending bass drops, angular sample editing and stabbing pipes. Consistently shaping up to be one of the best records on the label, 'E Da' pushes more bass energies into intricate string samples, finding increasingly crafty grooves within grooves, and 'Alesh' feat. Jawad finishes with a Modeselektor styled robo-ragga-riddim formed from upturned gabber kicks and mechanoclaps like some hyper Timbaland production. Super good gear for the pan global bass travellers and fans of everyone from Radioclit to Ghislain Poirier or Dj Rupture to Diplo. Mighty Twelve.