feat. shahin badar ummah oum remixes ep feat. shahin badar ummah oum remixes ep 1. ummah oum (original mix) 2. ummah oum (glitchbeats mix) 3. ummah oum (makyo’s darbukka dub remix) 4. ummah oum (adham shaikh remix) 5. ummah oum (100th monkey remix) 6. ummah oum (kaya project’s slow hop mix) ummah oum, featuring the amazing vocals of shahin badar, is one of the stand-out tracks from the latest kaya project album ‘desert phase’. in this digital-only remixes ep, ummah oum (translated as ‘people wake up’) gets reworked treatments by the world-fusion talents of adham shaikh, makyo, 100th. monkey (andy guthrie) and kaya project. alongside the original version the 5 new mixes take shahin’s haunting vocals into distant and exotic realms, each with a distinct flavor of their own. from the outset the melodic, midtempo glitchbeats mix sets up a large, dusty tribal groove that leads to makyo’s sultry bellydance- inspired interpretation and carries into adham shaikh’s soaring gypsy dub perspective. next up comes the 100th. monkey remix, a deeper late-night variation veiled in mystique that drifts, like desert sand, into the instrumentally-rich and mellow oasis of kaya project’s slow hop mix. kaya project and shahin badar’s ummah oum remixes ep is both a percussive middle eastern feast for the senses and an audio caravan headed for faraway lands. climb aboard for the journey.... kaya project is the musical incarnation of seb taylor and natasha chamberlain. based in the uk, the duo has achieved a world renowned name via their 4 albums ‘walking through’, ‘elixir’, ‘…& so it goes’ and ‘desert phase’ released on interchill records in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010 respectively. a skilled musician, seb plays slide guitar, zheng, xylophone, tzoura, banjoud, flute, darbouka, harmonica and the fender precision bass on many of the kaya project tracks as well as adeptly handling the programming and production. natasha contributes vocals, keyboard and flute throughout the compositions. guest artists who have performed on kaya project tracks include irina mikhailova, omar faruk tekbilek, shahin badar, deeyah, johnny kalsi, randolph matthews & many more. since the release of the first kaya project album seb and natasha have performed live sets in japan, canada, the us and australia. www.kayaproject.com shahin badar is a dynamic and award winning british asian invited to perform with chart topping turkish artist mercan dede singer/songwriter who is known internationally through some in germany. of her breathtaking collaborations with the likes of the prodigy, mercan dede, ar rahman, indian ropeman, jah wobble, tim having spent 12 years in kuwait, shahin’s musical horizons deluxe, and twista. broadened to include arabic influences with her already powerful indian repertoire. her vocals have since featured in 1999 shahin scored chart success with the prodigy’s ‘smack in more than 30 hollywood and bollywood films including my bitch up’, which featured her unique spine-tingling chant on ‘academy’, ‘bafta’, the golden globe award nominated ‘closer’ their multi-selling ‘fat of the land’ album giving them and shahin and academy award nominated ‘charlie’s angels’ as well billboard and uk no. 1 chart positions and entry into the guinness as on us sitcoms ‘north shore’, ‘kevin hill’ and shyam bengal’s book of records as the fastest selling album at the time. for this zubeidaa. she has also worked with director ang lee on ‘the she received a double platinum disc and a place in music hulk’. history. prodigy’s ‘fat of the land’ album also reached number 1 in over 23 countries. additionally, shahin’s collabration with shahin has already won an mtv video music award for best tim deluxe on the house stomper ‘ mundaya’ was chosen as breakthrough video award (prodigy / smack my bitch up); a ‘essential tune of the week’ by bbc radio 1 dj pete tong. muzik magazine dance award – best video award (prodigy / smack my bitch up); best female vocalist at the asian pop one of shahin’s greatest achievements includes supporting awards; ethnic multicultural media award – best new comer; us rapper 50 cent when his tour took in lebanon with award as well as grammy award nomination for the fat of the land / winning producer guy manoukian at the biel. she was then prodigy. makyo is a tribal dub, asian-ambient, & bellydancer breaks producer & dj based in tokyo. as a producer, makyo has released 6 albums, including the ethno-psychedelic classic ‘yakshini’ in addition to doing remixes for artists like natacha atlas, cheb-i-sabbah, omar faruk tekbilek, sheila chandra, and solace. as a dj, makyo has spun alongside system 7, mixmaster morris, karsh kale, alex patterson (the orb), haruomi hosono (ymo), pitch black, adham shaikh, dj yakuza, bombay dub orchestra, beats antique, cheb-i-sabbah and more. makyo’s latest tracks are featured on tribal matrix: 2, the latest compilation on his label dakini records, which has been releasing eastern fusion electronica for over a decade now. makyo is also currently playing live for the first time in a decade with a full 5-piece band that mixes traditional indian & arab instruments with electronics and dub mixing, fusing jam-band spontaneity with the tight grooves of hypno-electronica. www.dakinirecords.com adham shaikh has, over the years, had the pleasure to work adham will have a brand new up-tempo world fusion record with many talented musicians on stage and in the studio. entitled universal frequencies ready for a may 2010 release. recording a wide variety of world instrumentation, he has woven the sounds of india, bali, australia, africa, jamaica, the www.sonicturtle.com middle east, slovakia, scandinavia, turkey and north america into all aspects of his production. playing live, adham brings the sensibility of the global village to the stage as both a solo performer and alongside a collective of world musicians. fusing together soundscapes of the ancient and the immediate with the tribal dub groove, his renowned sets bridge the gap between the organic and the electronic. busy in the sonicturtle labs, adham has just finished remixes for nicodemus, footsteps in africa and critical beats and has just re-released the drift album with bonus material on itunes. he has a new ambient album, resonance (due out in march 2010) featuring some of the music he wrote for velcrow ripper’s inspirational film ‘fiercelight’ as well as for the documentary ‘earth pilgrim’ and a powerful native documentary ‘the sinixt - bringing home the ancestors bones.’ andy guthrie (100th. monkey) has worked as a musician, sound engineer and producer since 1985 when he started touring europe with the leamington multimedia band, jackdaw with crowbar, playing keyboards and violin. he subsequently played keyboards with bhangra artist johnny zee, reggae band tropical dawn and in 1988 worked at island records studio in hammersmith programming a reggae album for producer paul ‘groucho’ smykle. he co-founded banco de gaia with toby marks in 1989, produced the sirius sounds album by children of the bong (planet dog records) and was a sound engineer for banco de gaia and the siren. in the early 90’s, he worked with medicine drum, prana, eat static, tristan, si wild and manmademan amongst others and developed his own projects 100th. monkey and funkopath along the way. andy currently works as a teacher, composer for media and theatre and as a freelance producer. interchill is an independent downtempo label based between interchill / mariko music salt spring island and nelson, bc, canada. active since 1995, p.o. box 239 with a catalogue of 38 releases to date, interchill’s focus builds salt spring island, b.c. upon the foundation of ‘organic electronica for expanding v8k 2v9, canada minds’. having earned a solid reputation in the global electronic scene for releasing quality music that lasts, the label maintains www.interchill.com diversity while drawing a continuous thread through a wide [email protected] variety of sounds and styles including dub, world-fusion, [email protected] ambient, lounge and much in between. over the years interchill has released albums from artists across the world like eat static, gaudi, kaya project, ashtech, adham shaikh, ishq, pushmipulyu and liquid stranger. arabesque distribution all recent interchill releases can be found on major download 29-39 stirling road stores worldwide and their current catalogue is available for london license to film, television and multimedia via interchill’s parent w3 8dj, uk company mariko music publishing ltd. www.arabesque.co.uk www.interchill.com [email protected] t: +44 (0) 20 8992 0098.