Badawi Quintet: Jim Black, Shahzad Ismaily, Okkyung Lee, Doug Wieselman, Raz Mesinai, Badawi, Juakali, Matt Welch.

Remixes by: Raz Mesinai, Badawi, Kode 9, DJ Spooky, DJ Rupture, Marina Rosenfeld, Kreng, hhyScumClash, Filastine, Seth Ayyaz

Raz Mesinai in his first outing using both of his monikers (Badawi & Raz Mesinai) has created a politically charged masterpiece.

Unit Of Resistance is a collaboration between a handful of NYC musicians (laying down tracks of protest in 2004) and a selection of international DJ’s and mixers interpreting these tracks two years later. After over a year of international touring Raz found a handful of DJ’s/Musicians to take the music created that one fateful day and to create their own unique tracks. Raz set up a sophisticated web of information via the internet to allow the mixers access to prima material and to do with it as they wished. Perhaps the end result is conspiratorial music raising a lone flag or perhaps it is many different flags being raised jointly. Power to the people.

Along with DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, Soulslinger & Wordsound I Powa, Raz is considered an integral member of NYC’s Academy of Underground DJ’s and founded the influential duo Sub Dub with John Ward. Raz/Badawi has released more than 15 albums on ROIR, Asphodel, Instinct, BSI, & John Zorn’s Tzadik imprint.

What the Press Had to Say

"...a musical master and a force to be reckoned with." - Global Rhythm

ABOUT RAZ MESINAI:

Composer, Musician, DJ and producer Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem in 1973 and was raised primarily in New York City.

Mesinai’s music is a unique hybrid of dance music and avant garde composition. He draws his influences from fiction, mythology, anarchist philosophy, as well as elements of alchemy and mysticism.

At the age of ten Mesinai began producing instrumental “breaks” for breakers and rappers in the early eighties. Due to frequent visits between New York City and the Middle East Mesinai developed a knowledge of both Sufi, Jewish, Algerian, Morroccon and Persian musical traditions. This combined with his se.......
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Raz Mesinai in his first outing using both of his monikers (Badawi & Raz Mesinai) has created a politically charged masterpiece.

Unit Of Resistance is a collaboration between a handful of NYC musicians (laying down tracks of protest in 2004) and a selection of international DJ’s and mixers interpreting these tracks two years later. After over a year of international touring Raz found a handful of DJ’s/Musicians to take the music created that one fateful day and to create their own unique tracks. Raz set up a sophisticated web of information via the internet to allow the mixers access to prima material and to do with it as they wished. Perhaps the end result is conspiratorial music raising a lone flag or perhaps it is many different flags being raised jointly. Power to the people.

Along with DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, Soulslinger & Wordsound I Powa, Raz is considered an integral member of NYC’s Academy of Underground DJ’s and founded the influential duo Sub Dub with John Ward. Raz/Badawi has released more than 15 albums on ROIR, Asphodel, Instinct, BSI, & John Zorn’s Tzadik imprint.

What the Press Had to Say

"...a musical master and a force to be reckoned with." - Global Rhythm

ABOUT RAZ MESINAI:

Composer, Musician, DJ and producer Raz Mesinai was born in Jerusalem in 1973 and was raised primarily in New York City.

Mesinai’s music is a unique hybrid of dance music and avant garde composition. He draws his influences from fiction, mythology, anarchist philosophy, as well as elements of alchemy and mysticism.

At the age of ten Mesinai began producing instrumental “breaks” for breakers and rappers in the early eighties. Due to frequent visits between New York City and the Middle East Mesinai developed a knowledge of both Sufi, Jewish, Algerian, Morroccon and Persian musical traditions. This combined with his se.......
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