El Mahdy Jr. "Coins & Diamonds"

The beats housed on Istanbul-based producer El Mahdy Jr.'s debut effort, The Spirit of Fucked Up Places, is described as a "melting of his native Algerian music, Turkish folk, the furious polyrhythms of West Africa, and his love of slow, low-slung rap beats." It's hard to think of a tune that better fits that description than "Coins & Diamonds." The eerie production wraps long-sustaining chords around a congregation of micro-samples which blend the strums of a grainy guitar with the re...

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